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at least 26 people dead after a powerful psycho in smashes into bangladesh and india is east coast china's top advisory body to parliament is meeting ahead of what will be the largest political gathering this year the economy and hong kong are top of the agenda and then appetite for business our vendors at malaysia's ramadan bazaars are finding new opportunities despite coronavirus long time restrictions. a new standoff is brewing between the united states iran and venezuela over a shipment of millions of dollars of fuel 5 iranian oil tankers are just days away from arriving in venezuela to help ease petrol shortages but as well as on oil refining industry has collapsed because of underinvestment alexy o'brien has our report. in the venezuelan capital caracas the queue at the petrol station can last

for days. this is the richest country in the world and we should not be like this because there is wealth there is oil there is everything the shortages have plagued venezuela for years ever since its 1300000 barrel a day refining network collapsed which critics blame on under-investment and mismanagement by the state oil company now president nicolas maduro has turned to iran for help for fuel itself and chemicals to help get the oil industry back on track. those 5 ships are bringing gasoline regarding the technical support for the reactivation of the refinery what the venezuelan government asked us for in the past week was to bring input materials catalysts which iran brought through the planes ship tracking shows the 1st of the 5 tankers left the iranian port city of banda rob us and match the 1st tanker fortune as expected to arrive in venezuela in

the next few days iran is a longtime ally of venezuela and fellow rival of the united states both countries oil slick design or weedy under u.s. sanctions the white house says it's considering how to respond to the shipment this would be an example of the iranian regime taking the wealth of the iranian people and wasting it in venezuela on the dirt. the u.s. is one of more than 60 countries trying to push nicolas maduro from power recognize an opposition leader one go i don't know as president a force of u.s. vessels including navy destroyers patrol the caribbean on what u.s. officials say is an anti drug mission venezuela sees the vessels as a threat and is sending its own military to a school the iranian tankers through its territory in case the deal lies it would constitute an actual mission. and.

all but analysts say a conflict is unlikely 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 the earth and washington is clearly watching it closely i think it is in the current circumstances that probably going to be. the extent of venezuela and iran say the trade is a win win for both countries iran got much needed gold venezuela the oil and both got to send a message to the united states alexia brian el jazeera well let's get the view from tehran as robin joins us live so what iranian saying about all this. well fawley senior iranian leadership have been preempting any sort of possible military

or political diplomatic reaction from the united states to these shipments as such official letters have been sent to both the swiss embassy the liaison between iran and the united states here into iran as well as to the united nations the foreign ministry protesting any potential reaction from the u.s. and late last night iran's defense minister brigadier general amir hatami echoed a lot of the remarks that civilian leaders have already been making for several days he said any disruption would be considered piracy and as against international maritime law he also said that any disruption to this voyage will receive a decisive and crushing response familiar words from the senior leaders here in iran when it comes to dealing with the u.s. can iran do anything though to keep the u.s. from blocking the shipments. well that is really the question that is really the calculus that will be playing into whatever the u.s. does as well as what iran considers tangible reaction to any possible american

intervention here one expert writing about this issue says that in terms of the sanctions that are currently against iran there is nothing wrong with iran selling refined gasoline and so there is a large there are a lot of people here that consider this a completely legal transaction but it is still iran carrying out activity in international waterways something the u.s. is likely to take issue with what we've heard from a number of senior leaders here in the country speaking to local media writing in the press is that the united states must remember that iran still has great a 40 that it can exert in the gulf in the waterways that surround its country important oil and trade shipping lanes a lot of people have also been reiterating events of july 2019 when iran took over the stand and para a british flagged vessel in retaliation for one of its oil shipments being enter intercepted by the british in gibraltar so people reminding the global community

that iran has an ability to retaliate it has an ability to exert power in the waterways nearby and one expert told me earlier this morning that is becoming very very apparent and something that the united states will be calculating will be considering when it's looking at what to do about this is that iran's ability to retaliate in this part of the world to protect its interests that's something that no one can any longer ignore thank you for that. tehran. and venezuela has fined a legal claim to try and force the bank of england to release $1000000000.00 worth of its own gold the government says it's to help fund its coronavirus responds the bank of england has held on to 31 tons of venezuelan goal since 1900 because of u.k. and u.s. sanctions a number of nations use a bank of england to store their 1000000000 resource reserves in other world news a powerful cycle has killed at least $26.00 people and left many more homeless in

eastern india and bangladesh psycho battered west bengal in odisha states with winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour it's destroyed homes flooded streets uprooted trees and cut power to millions of households hundreds or thousands of people have shifted from low lying coastal areas tanveer chandra is in bangladesh's capital dhaka way he says the extent of the damage is still being assessed now we know for sure that hundreds and thousands of houses around delta plane have been destroyed or washed away oxfam reported the same about thousands of mud houses were washed away by the tidal wave and we also know about $5000000.00 people are out of power and this area of the southwestern bangladesh which took the biggest hit is an area where there is a large aquatic farming as well as regular farming so a lot of these people are going to suffer from this destruction of the farmland now we also know that the country is fighting through the cold with 1000 pandemic due

to the shutdown there is an economic blouse so there is a major challenge ahead this is also a monsoon season rehabilitation work is going to take time by and large we still have a lot of reports to see what comes up but the damage has been very severe this is one of the hardest gone since 10072007 so we'll know farther down the road. mozambique is aging southern african nations to help combat. fighters on 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 much as a report. as fighting in the northern province of kabul delgado intensifies mozambique's president is asking other leaders in southern africa for help to the problem wolf was. removed.

and 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 operating in parts of kabul dug out of probably 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 assumed the state's 11 of their. 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 but if there were great support for attention for spillover effect in the rest of the region we have porous borders 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 overflow 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 were 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 militant intervention is that obviously in. people start asking is it really necessary to intervene was only. able to do it by itself but said it has a history of assisting the military or the terms of liberation struggle solidarity human rights workers say what ever leaders decide that plan must include the protection of civilians thousands of them have been forced from their homes by the fighting. al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera brazil approves

a use of an untimely leiria drug despite warnings about the risks the number of koran a virus cases continues to rise why u.s. president trump is stretching to withhold funding to the state of michigan as it deals with the flooding crisis. hedda there some very nice cool weather across much of western europe it's a nice sunshine as well not quite the same across eastern regions and you'll see a band of cloud working its way across the southeast but it was a very nice day certainly on wednesday and north of macedonia look at these boys enjoying the sunshine on a cool some nice cool water now the rain coming from the skies that is so not quite as nice a day across much of the southeast that rain pushing down across into greece as well a very cloudy picture through eastern europe particular into western areas of russia look at those temperatures in moscow with the rain not bad there across the west

now look at the temperatures for the next few days in london believe it or not london and moscow their average high in may's 18 celsius well look at this the london 26 on thursday it does become cool of that system is actually heading in but it probably won't be the rain into london they want to say moscow will say 18 celsius the high but look at this not even in double figures the rain in the cloud continuing the 4 calls as we go through friday this is system coming into the northwest of the u.k. some blustery winds rain sentinel foundry will send us a staying dry in london and still pretty woman across into paris 27 on friday about 30 on thursday so cooling off a little bit and sunny and dry throughout the med with a nice high of 28 celsius in rome. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day it's a new adventure and join our global community it's up to us on how we come together

to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is me directly that's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the funny like oh nothing very quiet and keeping you up to date amusing countries beating back and beating back successfully the stream on 00. the owen to. our top stories on al-jazeera venezuela says its military will escort 5 iranian tankers bringing fuel 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

a powerful psycho and has killed at least 26 people in eastern india and bangladesh psycho an unplanned destroyed homes flooded streets who trees and cut power to millions of households. china's biggest political gathering of the year is set to begin 3 months late because of the coronavirus and make the opening session of its top political adviser a body is now underway one day ahead of the national people's congress when china's top leaders meet the n.p.c. is expected to announce measures to kick start the struggling economy after the coronavirus outbreak caused the biggest contraction in decades as speak to katrina you in beijing for is so katrina the advisory body department meeting today ahead of the opening of the conference tomorrow every year leaders tackle a number of issues but this year it's a bit different isn't it. that's right so the 2 sessions the long way to 2 sessions began today the c.p.p. c.c. is an advisory body made up of about 2000 business leaders academics and

celebrities who advise the government they don't have any real legislative power but tomorrow the national congress will open and that includes 3000 of most powerful people in china including president xi jinping and they meet every year but as you said fully this year is different because we've spoken to many analysts and they all have the same opinion that never before has in 2 sessions met under such challenging circumstances both internal and external internally we have a slowing economy and rising unemployment and more and more businesses knocking on the government's door asking them to do more to stimulate the economy and we have the coronavirus which the country still yet to get completely under control externally china is facing a growing wave of end to china sentiment from around the world because of the coronavirus as a lot of anger and criticism and this is led by its biggest trading partner the us and tensions with the u.s. have been rising the secretary of state of the united states on wednesday katrina

hinting at reviewing hong kong special trading status with the u.s. or china's reaction to that that's right well the u.s. and china have been engaging in a war of words for months but both sides have been using increasingly harsh language in recent weeks the u.s. taking aim at china for raw a variety of things including the handling of the virus unfair trade practices and increasingly it's touching on very sensitive readline topics in beijing's opinion taiwan was raised earlier this week for the integration of president signing when and worst recently. has taken a at hong kong let's have a listen at what he said in hong kong or decision on whether or not to identify hong kong as having a high degree of autonomy from china still pending. closely watching what's going on there. this week pro-democracy legislators were manhandled while trying to stop a procedural irregularity by project pro beijing legislators leaving home from

activists like martin lee and jimmy why were hauled into court actions like these make it more difficult to assess the hong kong remains highly autonomous from mainland china well china's foreign ministry released a statement this morning on those they responding to that statement basically accusing the us of blackmailing called the hong kong government and interfering in china's domestic affairs now that mike pompei is raising the question of whether hong kong should continue to receive special treatment that allows it to function as an international financial center china has said that basically these words don't scare the chinese people and the chinese government will continue to do whatever it takes to safeguard the security in the sovereignty of its country its long held that pro-democracy law makers and activists in hong kong are basically under the influence of the u.s. and in turn part of the activists say that beijing is simply tightening its grip

over the territory and strangling some of the rights that they were guaranteed 50 years since 1970 thank you for that country you live there from beijing. now the total number of confirmed corona virus cases worldwide has passed 5000000 that's according to a tally by john hopkins university the virus has killed more than 320000 people and long downs aimed at containing it have devastated the world economy the outbreak originated in china but the u.s. and europe have been the worst affected brazil's government meanwhile is sanctioning the use of an on time an area drug to treat coronavirus despite a lack of evidence that it works president support for the drug has cost tensions within the health ministry where military personnel have now been appointed to keep posts brazil has a 3rd largest number of infections worldwide and its health system is struggling to cope a lot america at its embassy in human reports. to brazil is now latin america's

ground 0 with couvade 1000 infections spreading faster than anywhere else and president j. boss or not all has responded by getting his new health minister to approve the use of hydroxy chloroquine the controversial anti-malaria drug is untested pre-treating coronavirus and can have serious even fatal side effects. but president will say not all sense is 93 year old mother has a box by her bed. i prescribe it to all my supporters and give those left wingers to buy you know what he's referring to a soft drink popular among the poor are not his last health minister resigned because he refused to greenlight the use of hydroxy chloroquine but his interim replacement a retired general who's not a doctor has had no problem following orders or fact he's just named 14 more members of the military to keep health ministry positions brazilian epidemiology just dr julie valley badal says he's extremely concerned. indiscriminate use of

couric is trying to assess what is happening here is more political than scientific do you think. the president is militarizing the public health system though he said it's sad to see 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 submitted impeachment against bill so noddle accusing him of crimes against public health. or that the way he's managed the pandemic is putting brazilian lives at risk promoting crowds and 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 republican and absolute monarchy. right now only bill scenario 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's ouster as brazilians have successfully done before wilson had his days in office could well be numbered you see in human al-jazeera. thousands have been forced from their homes in the u.s. state of michigan after a one in 500 year flooding event the failure of 2 dams and days of heavy rain has left large parts of the state submerged john hendren reports. across the midwest days of pounding rain water swelled to historic floods that swallowed entire towns . the worst of the waterborne 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 live 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 japan wants to extradite 2 men from the u.s. accuse of helping former nissan boss carlos go an escape from the country japan issued arrest warrants for michael taylor a former u.s. special forces soldier and his son in january japan says they helped go in avoid a financial misconduct tried by fleeing to his childhood home lebannon they were arrested in the u.s. on wednesday now lebanon's leaders are struggling to find solutions to the economic crisis stalled reforms are affecting is a talks with the international monetary fund. banking association has rejected the government's 5 year rescue plan putting forward its own proposal instead as in a holder has more from beirut. protesters have certifier to banks in months of anger over informal capital controls that prevent depositors from accessing their savings that devalue 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. bankrupt every bank and then they deposit the. come on this bank a little and 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 through the eye of the i.m.f. insists on reforms which successive governments repeatedly promised to implement in the past the prime minister has said and you have 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 exercises 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 then 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. now ramadan is a holy s. month in the muslim calendar and in malaysia it's also a time when small traders and caucus make the most money but as their shops remain closed because of the corner virus pandemic many vendors have gone on line drawn story has a story from kuala lumpur. muhammad 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 form 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 street markets selling mostly food for if top the breaking of 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 from crying 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. almost everyone here whereas a mosque hardly anyone gets they pick up their food and the. it's not as lively but i'm grateful we can still buy food at the stalls 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 pandemic has changed the ramadan habits of many muslims in malaysia. but vendors are also hopeful it may have created new ones and opportunities for the future florence 3 al-jazeera. to a. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera venezuela says its military will

escort 5 iranian tankers bringing oil to easy is of shortages both countries are under u.s. sanctions and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment say invest ravi is in tehran way says iranian officials have been busy preempting any sort of u.s. reaction to these shipments official letters have been sent to both the swiss embassy the liaison between iran and the united states here into iran as well as to the united nations the foreign ministry protesting any potential reaction from the u.s. and late last night iran's defense minister brigadier general amir hatami echoed a lot of the remarks that civilian leaders have already been making for several days he said any disruption would be considered piracy and as against international maritime law he also said that any disruption to this voyage will receive a decisive and crushing response familiar words from the senior leaders here in iran when it comes to dealing with us a powerful psycho and has left

a path of destruction in essent india and bangladesh has killed 26 people destroyed homes flooded roads and cut power to millions of households china's biggest political gathering of the year is set to begin 3 months later because of the coronavirus pandemic the opening session of its top political advisor body is now underway one day ahead of the national people's congress when china's top leaders meet the n.p.c. is expected to announce measures to kickstart the struggling economy after the coronavirus outbreak caused the biggest contraction in decades. japan wants to extradite 2 men from the u.s. accused of helping former nissan boss carlos go an escape from the country japan issued arrest warrants for michael taina a former u.s. special forces soldier and his son in january they're currently in custody in massachusetts japan says they helped go on a void of financial misconduct trial by fleeing to his childhood home lebannon you have to say with headlines on al-jazeera have more news for you right after the

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