that kind of any program can go on the. the way another point that may not be made green. is going to give you. away the khalil death story is what and make a difference. the fuel shortage in venezuela threatens new tension with the u.s. 5 iranian oil tankers are just days away from arriving in the latin american nation . i'm about this and this is obviously we're live from doha also coming up at least 22 people dead as a powerful cycling smashes into bangladesh in india's east coast. brazil because it's highest number of daily coronavirus cases and sanctions the use of an anti

malaria drug despite warnings about the risks. to changing color of antarctica how global warming is giving it a green or 10 inch. 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 venezuela 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 that as well as says its military will discount the tankers as soon as they enter its territory. ship tracking shows the 1st of the 5 tankers left the iranian port city of bundle our bus in march an a-list say they're 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 in the next 4 or 5 days venezuela's

ambassador to the un has warned that any attempts to stop the tankers will be illegal the threat of yours will be don't force against buy uranium packages with fuel that are on route to witness when in violation a modest freedom of freedom of trade and navigation in case the threat is about the realized it would constitute an actual aggression that's even iranian best and that instruments when an equal as a whole in this context i shall be childish trust that the naval blockade is an act of war or doing that national law particularly if not authorized by the u.n. security council john homans 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 star and it basically started because the u.s. has said to other countries listen if you're doing business with them as well or 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 costing around to see where it can get that 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 to 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 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 tonight is a special envoy on iran has spoken out against the shipment and iran's support of venezuelans president nicolas maduro. this would be an example of the iranian regime taking the wealth of the iranian people and wasting it in venezuela on the doura and i'm not surprised that you see. 2 countries.

that are not poor countries they're rich cunt countries that are governed by thieves and these countries are now working together to prop them up prop up each other during very difficult times now the fonz with his vice president of the council of 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 that's probably going to be the extent of the steps the been taken against been

this way that 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 to nicolas maduro remains in power in europe flora's power of 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. and he's 14 people have been killed in eastern india and 8 in bangladesh is the strongest cycle in 2

decades hit the region 2nd on poland the battered west bengal and odisha states with winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour it destroyed homes flooded streets has left millions of people without power hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from low lying coastal areas time their child raise in dhaka but the latest from bangladesh. bangladesh is very familiar with the yearly cycle on but this cycle has been one of the most intense since in a decade you know the last one was in 2007 so i can see there are now 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 as are reporting there is there's been heavy damage especially in southwestern bangladesh and shown there been mangrove forests which got the direct hit and that actually protected many of the inland areas now we also know from oxfam that thousands of houses been washed away

due to a tidal surge the rise of water people are definitely going to lose croplands fisher is 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 heat right now. brazil's government is sanctioning the use of an anti malaria drug to treat corona virus despite a lack of evidence that it works for as an injectable sinatra's support for the drug has cost ructions within the health ministry where military personnel have now been appointed to keep posts brazil has the 3rd largest number of infections worldwide and its health system is struggling to cope in america at its embassy in yemen reports. brazil is now latin america's ground 0 with coded

1000 infections spreading faster than anywhere else and president for not all has responded by getting his new health minister to approve the use of hydroxy chloroquine controversial anti-malaria drug is untested for treating coronavirus and can have serious even fatal side effects. but president bill so not all 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 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 couric 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 that. police have submitted impeachment against bill so noddle accusing him of crimes against public health a man. 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 bill scenario supporters are

out on the streets demonstrating what should critics decide to come out of their self-imposed quarantine to call for the president's 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 lebanon's banks and governments play the blame game as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in history. as the u.s. state of michigan deals with historic flooding and the coronavirus pandemic we'll tell you why president trump is threatening to withhold funding to the state. for. how the temperatures are rising now in the arabian peninsula and the levant there is cloud in the sky which always suggests there could be showers

thunderstorms one of 2 maybe in the iranian high ground and back in west and south in and yemen but it's not widespread to you there's not much breeze around so humidities up is fairly warm even hot and sticky in the u.a.e. in qatar up in kuwait dry a picture in baghdad will tempt you here 44 and still pretty warm in jerusalem representing what has been something of a heat wave in the southeast of europe turkey part of the front. south of all this now if you have a look at this cloud gathering you can't tell very much except when there is cloud gathering those thunderstorms are part of the system which of course is turning up into the southwest monsoon the rains going across the indian ocean to fall in heavily carol and that's probably it to stop the monsoon rains sitting out the war moment ask for africa was that a gap a bit of a hiatus for you think at the big shows north of like victoria nasser uganda south sudan and you see opium so they are moving north and they have to and they follow

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georgia going to sit out a reminder of our top stories this hour venezuela says its military will escort 5 iranian time couriers bringing oil to ease the years of shortages both countries are under u.s. sanctions and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment. brazil now has the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world with more than 291000 the government is sanctioning new 7 anti-malaria drug to treat covered 19 despite a lack of evidence that it works. at least 14 people have been killed in eastern india and 80 in bangladesh after the strongest cycle in decades made landfall cycling on porn has battered the region destroying homes and downing power lines.

ok let's get more on the situation from burma rajaram in kolkata presumably now pretty much people are just having to wait to see just how bad the damage is. absolutely the night ms not get her willful people in and the sit on the areas because in the off the mat off the storm or the trees that have fallen on the or the woods and not just the roads even in many houses people get she's having fallen and while collapses electric lives have also come crashing down so that is what the state is grappling live apart from this in many boss of the 50 that is still in the electricity and also that article itself was being submerged in water in the basement of many buildings so a lot of luck that needs to be done by the state administration. see that the state is back on its feet and back through sometime and also the kind of money that is

required is going to be huge and they don't have to reach out to the central government for help as far as a district like can sell and sell 25 of those districts is where the saw in those lines is is and that is where the cycle made landfall and of that season maximum devastation that is what chief minister month of m.g.'s said another state not $24.00 bodyguards district is also and the maximum devastation has taken place so all the state in the station has set up a special course they will be holding a meeting today and they will see what needs to be done as far as the restoration wealthiest and so on a lot of well to be done of cause and for people grappling with overnighting situation i'd like. especially migrant workers will still trying to get to their homes the nightmare is still not for where they were not generally because a represented thinks very much very much on the failure of 2 dons is adding to a flood emergency in the u.s. states of michigan the presence of how to evacuate from their homes after days of

heavy rain and rising waters some are calling it a once in 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. in 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 as far as finding a place to stay out of the way as we would be sleeping in our vehicles in oppression warning one of the breech dams the town of middlings 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 has sent 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 in the midwest in illinois a river swept over its banks and into the town of lists out 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 the u.s. president says he's considering bringing back this year's council g. 7 summit and holding it with world leaders in person the latest development had been announced earlier by the white house press secretary kenny mckinney said that sample would prefer to hold an in person meeting to symbolize a return to normal for the u.s. and other countries. and as a number of confirmed infections in the u.s.

surges past 1500000 and secretary of state has hit out at the head of the world health organization like pump a 0 criticized what he described as china's influence over the body i understand that dr tatar is unusually close ties to beijing started long before this current pandemic and that's a deeply troubling. the number of deaths in the u.k. from coronavirus has increased by 363 in the past day bringing the total number of fatalities to more than 35700 and it comes as prime minister about his johnson told m.p.'s the track and trace system would be in place by the end of the month he said 25000 stuff would be able to track 10000 new cases a day he's been heavily criticised for failing to implement a contact tracing system at the height of the outbreak a launch would coincide with the reopening of primary schools in england for some pupils john holl has more from the house of parliament or the labor opposition

leader challenge boris johnson over some perceived government failures. in the prime minister i think coming off better than he has done over the course of the last 2 bruising encounters with the label edict here 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 speed 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 boris johnson able to reach into his bag and pull out numbers on the vastly enhanced testing capacity this country now has saying that 125000 staff have now been tested and the death toll there is for all of the real rust of labor's attack though was on test trace and

isolate mechanisms here starmer wanting to know when these measures would be in place so crucial to lifting the lock down safely without risking a 2nd wave and wanting to know quite why the government had given up all effort at testing traces far back as mid march he said this is nearly 10 weeks in a critical period without effective trace. a huge hole in our defenses he said here's how boris johnson responded 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. 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 aerospace giant rolls royces says it plans to cut at least 9000 jobs the engine maker says a global slump in demand for aircraft has forced him to undertake a major reorganization of his business most of the cuts will be our plants in the u.k. the firm's chief executive said it was terrible news for employees but insisted action was needed to keep the business afloat in the long term. lebanon's leaders are

struggling to find solutions to the unprecedented economic crisis and stalled reforms are affecting its aid talks with the international monetary fund now lebanon's banking association has rejected the government's 5 year rescue plan putting forward its own proposal instead it's in a court that has more from beirut. 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 they want to. bank up every bank and then they deposit. come on this bank and return for your deposit 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. 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. beirut. the un special envoy for the middle east says israel has to drop its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank they claim live an offset that threats of

onyx ation were not advancing the prospect of peace under a deal with the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin an exciting palestinian land as soon as july palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called for countries to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel. this is his new prime minister has been sworn in the day after his predecessor quit to over allegations he conspired to murder his former wife buckets image or old previously served as finance minister to remain in office until elections in 2 years former prime minister thomas the bunny attended the ceremony he denies any involvement in his ex-wife's death. climate change is having an unusual effect near the south pole by turning parts of antarctica green blooms of all j.s. spreading on snow and giving the world's most barren continent a splash of color rising temperatures amid the spread so prolific that they are gay can be seen from space more than $1600.00 growths have been identified over 2

square kilometers the aga can absorb more carbon dioxide but scientists say the overall impact will be in significant certainly what we're seeing is in the warmer parts of the insular. moving higher up the local glass is an ice. i think it would really be a story whether it is in nature or 'd. either iraq or further inland and i don't really see a good map to house substantial amounts of nutrients transported inland to large growth say. on the antarctic ice sheet or anything like that. but i think we will probably see more coverage on smaller islands under separate is a professor of observation at the university of leeds he says it's another indicator of a rapidly melting ice sheets. it's getting warmer and warmer there and 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 ice takes breaking off. but this is interesting because this is now showing us but 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 i 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 are we can live there and worms the algae and if they get there then something will come and eat the worms course it's a real problem for everyone around the planet because any ice that melts and so can 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. this isn't just here are these are the top stories venezuela says this military will this court 5 a rainy in tankers bringing oil to ease years of shortages both countries are under u.s. sanctions the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment the united states special envoy on iran has spoken out against the shipment and iran's support of venezuelan president nicolas maduro. this would be an example of the iranian regime taking the wealth of the iranian

people and wasting it in venezuela on the dirt and i'm not surprised that you see. 2 countries. that are not poor countries their rich countries that are governed by thieves and these countries are now working together to prop them up prop up each other during very difficult times at least 14 people have been killed in eastern india and 8 in bangladesh as the strongest cyclon in 2 decades hit the region so i can own polling that battered west bengal and odisha states with winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour it destroys homes flooded streets and it's left millions of people without power brazil now has the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world with more than 2 191000 the government sanctioning use of the 90 military a drug to treat covert 19 despite a lack of evidence that it works. the u.s.

president says he's considering bringing back this year's council to g. 7 summit and holding it was world leaders in person the latest development had been announced earlier by the white house press secretary she said trump would prefer to hold an in person meeting to symbolize a return to normal for the u.s. and other countries. the number of deaths in the u.k. from coronavirus has increased by 363 in the past day in the total number of fatalities to more than 35700 comes as prime minister about his johnson told m.p.'s at track and trace system would be in place by the end of the month he said $25000.00 staff would be able to track $10000.00 new cases a day. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera the stream provide. i sorely test treats and trace frank assessments why is it it's only struggling to cope with the number coronavirus

failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind the curve informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there is one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines india doesn't up to the spread of the one of ours in the inside story on al-jazeera. rapidly and woken to destroying all of the school yard tombstones running discussions that he needs find us and our online community today having that here back on like my laptop this is what we will often ask is those story or is she think we should cover it ski down his and you can see clovis run dunalley and why we say that in marksman of government surveillance on its.