try this after that we're not the enemy of the people we are the people u.s.a. the current battle ground whose truth is it anyway on. brazil's coronavirus crisis infections continue to climb but it's feared the real scale of the outbreak could be even worse. hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up libya's internationally recognized government makes new gains on the outskirts of tripoli as it battles the forces of warlords heading for have to. a momentous opportunity the u.s. welcomes a taliban ceasefire in afghanistan plus. one

british home has managed to protect its residents entirely from code 19 thanks to a cost on lockdown including staff living in tents and caravans. there's been a surge in new numbers of corona virus cases in latin america brazil has overtaken russia to become the 2nd worst affected country in the world after the united states confirmed infections are now above 330000 the death toll is more than $21000.00 it's thought the true total could be even higher infections in brazil a number expected to peak until next month allison dr petit has been monitoring the situation in brazil from neighboring colombia he says testing has been slow because president both tomorrow does not consider the outbreak to be a priority. country is truly divided on these political issues on the fact that

president wilson arrow and its core base of supporters keep downplaying the effect of the pandemic across the country but now even the government's had to admit as it has. as it did yesterday that the real face of the pandemic might be much worse than what you fishel numbers are showing the government for example is saying that there according to their account there could be a least another 11000 dead that have been unaccounted for so far that the government believes might be related to the coveys 19 but for the lack of testing there's no way to confirm if indeed these people have also died covies in 19 and under now another number that i think tells us a lot about that is the fact that the government says that this year so far there have been 5 times the number of people who have been hospitalized for wrist

response at thore issues but less than half of those have been tested to see if indeed they have a corona virus so that's the situation in brazil we also understand that a number of laborious stories are sitting idle that there is a big backlog in the testing for lack of materials but there too the role of war so narrow of the president giving the fact that this is not his priority has meant that has been difficult for brazil or more difficult to get those material and try to speed up the testing which would help to to get a more clear picture. hospitals morgues and cemeteries in ecuador have been inundated with corona virus victims and hundreds of bodies have never been identified. newman has more on the plight of families desperately trying to find their missing relatives a warning that some of the images in her report might be distressing. neha to be

your to has been sitting at home with an empty coffin for 2 months. the grandmother who brought her up died on march 27th of coronavirus you know why akil hospital and yet has been searching for her missing body ever since then. it's very hard i ask myself mommy where are you i wish i had her ashes in my house to know that she's here and that the family can all be together again i need this to be over. she's not alone who despair the family hold signs asking where is my father my husband where are human rights. other where do i lie a lie died on march 29th in hospital and the search for his body has been nothing short of horrifying. nobody at the hospital gave us an answer they just said he

was in there so i went to the container where the corpses were to search for him one by one the only thing i found was the ticket with his name on it but to this day i still have found him. the pandemic at the doors tropical problems and its capital totally unprepared bodies were left on the street others were piled up in containers at the morgue. and now after 2 months many of them have decomposed because of inadequate refrigeration making their identification more difficult. but many relatives are giving up was at least $100.00 families have joined together. on this day protesting outside a prosecutor's office. there demanding that authorities produce results and punish those responsible. for. the protocols one respected here they did as they

pleased they even charged people for the right to go look through the bodies every day more people are in the situation. daughter is one of them and. this was the death certificate they gave us and this one was to get my father out to bury him with this code the codes never existed just little pieces of paper on the body is full of blood. there's no doubt that the pandemic overwhelmed health services here. but 2 months on the best thing that mourners like marjorie can hope for is that the system that failed them will right the wrong that's been done and eventually we unite them with their loved ones remains. you see in human al-jazeera one of 5 iranian tankers delivering millions of dollars worth of fuel has entered venezuelan waters safely despite u.s. warnings tehran threatened to retaliate to the u.s. tried to stop them they deliveries are expected to ease fuel shortages in venezuela

but they are in defiance of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries the 1st because due to dock in the next couple of days. forces fighting for libya's internationally recognized government say they've captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli from wall orderly 5 top 2 of the camps are in the southern outskirts of 3rd is in the east the games are being seen as another setback after a long campaign to capture the capital. where libya has been divided by warring factions since the overthrow and killing of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago the u.n. recognized government is in control of tripoli misrata and other areas shaded here in blue stretching west towards tunisia and before half down his forces hold the red territory they include his stronghold benghazi and further to the east to brooke. will have to also controls most of libya's oil facilities an income for the government has slumped a statement issued by the national oil corporation said approximately $15000000.00

came in last month and that compares with almost 2 $1000000000.00 for the same month last year what are the why it has more now from tripoli. for have to the force is a major setback for us forces losing these military camps and the military camp that the government forces the capture today and in fact advance beyond a year more military campaign has been set by have to his forces as a kind of central command to run the battles in southern tripoli in fact it has been controlled by russian missionaries from the group to around the battles and the government to military sources say that the russian mercenaries set up a sort of valence equipment inside military camp but the government forces say that they could not stay longer inside because hospitals forces have been targeting them with mortar rockets now the clashes are going on in the vicinity of the old in

active international airport that has been under control of have put us forces for the past year ends on a neighborhood that the government forces say that they have managed to drive after us forces out pushing them back a few kilometers about insalata di neighborhood here in southern tripoli and also in an area called the project neighborhood the government forces say that 2 civilians were killed by a landmine that was set up by have to us forces meanwhile the government forces are warning civilians not to return home at least for the time being. the taliban afghanistan's president announced a 3 day ceasefire for the ied holiday ashraf ghani has called on the military to all of the cease fire the u.s. has welcomed the surprise announcement as a momentous opportunity that should not be missed. a former president of tunis is calling for the crown prince's of both abu dhabi and saudi arabia to stand trial

before the international criminal court months of monsoon clear accuses mohammad bin ziad and ahmed bin salmond of undermining countries involved in the arab spring uprisings including tunisia he also accuses both countries of war crimes in yemen. egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi has pardoned more than 3000 prisoners to coincide with the eed holiday among them is a hit man who murdered the lebanese. in 2008 on the orders of the former egyptian m.p. moustapha no activists journalists or political prisoners have been released and a reminder they are jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein remains jailed in egypt without charge or trial after almost 3 and a half years the united nations has called in egypt to end hussein's arbitrary detention and release him immediately let's bring in dalia for me she's an associate professor of political science at law and university and a senior fellow at the center for global policy in washington d.c. and she joins us via skype from new jersey dalia good to have you back on the

program so what do you make then of this move by the egyptian president 3000 prisoners pardoned but non political prisoners or journalists what's this telling us about the value of freedom and justice in egypt do you think. so the president has been using this system of targeting on high holidays or national holidays as a way to kind of signify to society that he's doing something so to say on the eve of that you get holiday we see over $3000.00 pardons again as you said not a single one of them is a political prisoner or any journalist rather they are common criminals and so if you look at for example the former police man who has been pardoned for the death of the lebanese singer who he received payment $2000000.00 u.s. dollars for this is not about pardoning those who were wrongfully convicted or wrongly held without charges these are common criminals being released now in march

on police day the president pardoned $300.00 prisoners in the same vein and also an equal on sinai to liberation day and this is something that presidency has done every year on sign language briefs and they using these holidays to pardon prisoners as a way to cause celebration among society now let's look at what's actually happening in egypt there are over 60000 political prisoners what used to be generation protests is now known of generation jail he's had to build 16 more prisons to hold the sheer volume of prisoners there are 37 journalists currently being held in egypt ok one of them you're. done let me just jump in there because it's an important point you make because it also puts the spotlight back on egypt's crowded prisons joining the coronavirus pandemic as you say last month 4000 were released against the backdrop of pressure from rights groups calling on the government to me to release the human rights defendants. well amnesty international

just released their report on egypt saying that today journalism is a crime there have been 12 journalists arrested and continue to be detained in egypt for reporting on the coronavirus for example and so we're seeing news that the adjudication of the law is not about the rule of law and protecting our society it's actually about a part of the gamble of the president speaks as how he signifies the population that he's doing something for them when in reality he isn't corona virus spreading throughout the prison system there again are there over 60000 political prisoners there are journalists have been held and continue to be held and we saw the most recently the editor of madame musser who was arrested just for being outside of tora prison to not want to know what's happening outside not you shouldn't be lost on us that 8 years ago today was the 1st 3 and their presidential election what we saw thousands come to the polls and where we are today years later is

a film where the law is not for the betterment of egyptian society and all that if i may great to get your thoughts thank you very much for talking to al jazeera thank you. but also to come here al-jazeera including a time for reflection but not renew me and millions of muslims mark the end of ramadan. growing alarm in the amazon and we look at the coronavirus crisis in brazil's indigenous communities stay with us. hello there plenty more rain across southern areas of china is upon pulse of the seasonal rains and you can see here on the satellite it's actually been clearing away study of the last few hours and mostly staying to the east of japan but as we go through sunday there is a chance of one or 2 more showers and thunderstorms across the southern coastal areas and hong kong with

a high of 30 celsius but about day generally throughout much of the japan a woman a socket 28 you know that cooler up in just 20 celsius with the chance of some more rain that will be clearing the way as we go through monday but we could at that point see one or 2 more just well scattered showers across central areas of honshu but the rain back with a vengeance across these southern regions all the china and then from there down across into indonesia plenty of rain we've suddenly got one to 2 showers across northern sections of the philippines further to the south is a little bit clearer again there's always the chance of a scattered shower and more rain developing to throughout much of cambodia and also thailand the rains across fornia fairly heavy certainly on sunday and we'll see more of those scout a child in thunderstorms although not a bad day monday across much of the money plants in a more across into sumatra i'm still watching in particular northern areas of india the cloud has been carrying away of the last year as there is more rain to come there into the far northeast and in fact through monday rain across into be tan and also myanmar.

more than 10 years after the global financial crisis you've taken home more than 480000000 dollars your company is now bankrupt our economy is in the state of crisis i have a very basic question for you this is where millions lost their homes in the us alone who's held responsible i will be fabulously wealthy and i will pay in christ for thank the lord the man who still looms on al-jazeera. you're. welcome back to the top stories here this hour there's been

a surge in new numbers of coronavirus cases and lots of america brazil has overtaken russia to become the 2nd worst affected country in the world after the united states. forces fighting for libya's internationally recognized government say they have captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli from the want or need to have talks. on the taliban and afghanistan's president announced a 3 day ceasefire for the in the holiday the u.s. has welcomed the surprise announcement as a momentous opportunity that should not be missed. 7 protests across spain calling for coronavirus restrictions to be lifted more quickly spain's prime minister has promised the country will reopen to international tourism in july but there are sanchez also announced that a top flight football will we start on june 8th if you have a lockdown instructions are gradually loosening but a state of emergency is still in force mottau herrera has more now from the grid. the 50 provinces in spain are holding today the sort of on off road to the far

right party house called all these people are in there are wearing they're waving their spanish flag a symbol of the right wing parties here and. that has. to do nation send it to space while we talk about the left on the right all these people are asking the spanish government to resign they're blaming him from the mishandling of the whole poor on a virus crisis they say they are this government just taking them to the green they're ruining it spanish economy one of these people the saying that they're using this state. very. nearly 200 protesters in italy gathered outside the education ministry to demand the safe reopening of schools in september schools across the country have been closed since early march because of the coronavirus lockdown demonstrators have been urging officials to invest more in the education sector so that more teachers

could be hired to keep classes smaller and safer at least a quarter of all the u.k.'s coronavirus deaths have been in care homes some managers have had to take matters into their own hands to protect their residents and stuff jonah hill reports now from one of those homes on the on of what. there's been thousands of deaths among the elderly and frail as covert 19 tour through britain's career home sector but not here at victoria on the isle of wight 2 months ago and with no guidance from the government manager clare leggett to put the home into self isolation she reduced staff numbers with those who remained agreeing to live on the premises in tents and caravans to keep the virus out because our age range of residents here range from in their eighty's up to 103. i thought it was just about being proactive and locking the home down rene i just didn't think that

i had any other choice to be honest with you i've been here 7 weeks now victoria house. and. 7 weeks he's very comfortable very warm. and me. joy day and we all adore and my family is it and it's as if there was our mom and dad and that's how we should there's been some tears but there's been more happy times. and if i had to do it all again. if i had to yes i would jump at the chance to do list again joel trickly hill hasn't seen his fiance in person for weeks and it could be many weeks more before the elderly and vulnerable can emerge from isolation i mean i wouldn't of a word like you're looking for looking for today and i'm sure as everyone in the world is you know the day that we can say it's safe to step outside doesn't go back to normal fairly i asked claire whether she feels the care home sector has been let down by the government i think it's really disappointing you know it's almost like

we've just been forgotten about relating you know i mean it was only last week that i received tests for the care home so i think the father waited for the government to give out some guidance on what we as a care home should do. you know i wouldn't have any residence we had done. we had some champagne didn't we began a champagne study yes i did and you know it's like eating fish and only tonight you very. much and. yet it was a show on top of the world just me and i have been. in the midst of an unthinkable crisis in british care homes as a result of covert 19 this is a very rich good news story as a result of a policy of no one in no one out since the beginning of the lockdown they've managed to keep every one of their residents here safe from the virus and that is thanks to the initiative and extraordinary dedication of the staff and their

actions may well have saved lives jonah how al-jazeera on the isle of wight. international condemnation is growing against china's plans for a new security low in hong kong the last governor of the british colony chris patten says it's a betrayal by a new chinese dictatorship and proposed legislation would ban activity that china's communist party considers something says brown reports. on the day china announced it was bypassing hong kong's parliament to push through a new security law the city's leader was putting on a brave face surrounded by her cabinet kerry said hong kong people and foreign investors had nothing to fear as she offered support for the legislation there will be protests of all sorts in hong kong as we have seen but the important thing is for the people hong kong to realize that without protection of national security many of the things that we enjoy many of the things that we treasure. will

be lost. when china regained sovereignty over hong kong from britain in 1997 it promised the city a high degree of autonomy for 50 years. but china's leadership now says those freedoms are being undermined by violent protests subversion cools for independence and foreign interference. and under the basic law hong kong's mini constitution they say they have the right to impose security legislation on the on friday the vice chairman of china's national people's congress. confirmed that china's security agents will operate in hong kong when needed words that have unsettled many people here they all feel that the one country 2 systems is there and and now the reaction is general penny people would like you and me grey and making

preparations to leave hong kong some people we spoke to said the law was long overdue others resigned to it and i think. it would have happened anyway like if the fear i think i've gotten past this stage about being afraid of thought that it all makes sense a country needs laws to protect itself people only abuse freedom if they're used to march those. business groups here fear the proposed law will threaten hong kong status as asia's leading financial center and put further pressure on its independent judicial system it is almost 2 years since protests began over another proposed law that would have allowed wanted people to be sent to the mainland that bill was eventually dropped but the prospect of more on rest this time is unlikely to deter china's government from pressing ahead with this security law adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. now you know if it is the muslim holiday marking the end of

the holy month of ramadan but this year's celebrations will be restricted by the global pandemic millions of muslims around the world won't be able to perform the holiday rituals of prayer and visiting friends and family most muslim countries are facing strict quarantine measures for travelers and social distancing and curfews most will have to celebrate from home. is the spokesman for the m.t.a. the school of islamic superzoom he says although the celebrations were strict by the pandemic it's time to give back. this is a trying time for everyone around the world and so you know with social distancing and and curbing gatherings it's a very difficult time so right now we are marking the crime where we would normally gather to honor our community our frontline heroes and so we are gathering and organizing delivering thousands of p.p.s. care packages food donations to low income senior homes to veterans to homeless

really getting back to the command the elderly seem to be having the more they're hardest hit by this pandemic and when we are making these deliveries we're knocking on their doors and they're opening and we're giving them bags of food and the tears that we've seen the joy that you know we have. experienced like there that experience is really heartwarming that these people have nothing some people are very much disadvantaged and cannot leave their homes for pandemic began our them to show most of the covert 19 relief efforts we have gathered and made and distributed thousands of p.p.s. to frontline nurses doctors to hospitals care facilities and so forth making face shield face masks down. we have. and also

with the food. we're really just. very very much grateful to be to be a part of this opportunity but the 17 people have been detained after a protest outside the office of an opposition party in ukraine. a far right group accuse the party of treason for its contacts with moscow's several demonstrators who fireworks and smoke bombs some of them forth with security personnel. well as we've been reporting the pandemic in brazil is gripping the south american nation and it's also threatening indigenous communities infections are rising quickly in densely populated amazon cities and the corona virus is now spreading to isolated villages. a small. it's a 5 hour boat ride from the amazons of largest city to the recently those indigenous village people here locked out all visitors hoping isolation will keep them safe

from the virus but it didn't cover $1000.00 is spreading to isolated villages like this one as infections rise in some of the regions highly populated cities about 100 people live here and about 16 have tested positive yes you really are 3 flare the virus is treacherous it came quietly as if carried by the wind we started dating i thought it was a bad cold but people got worse even after taking bits and made it home or taking antibiotics and antiinflammatories. many here believe the disease came from the river that connects the village to my notes that's one of the cities hardest hit by the outbreak in brazil now where there aren't enough coffins to bury the dead but testing for the virus in brazil is already behind that of other countries and these remote communities have little to work with want to do more with us about that we are in this battle to see if the virus leaves the area and to make sure no one dies

we have to advise or people so that infection stop. before the pandemic president high points were not as plans for deforestation in the amazon led to a tense relationship with indigenous communities and. health experts are now urging the government to protect such groups of this. if this were not so repetitious a very important to be able to diagnose cases so that medical protocol is of social distancing can be followed right now with testing people in several communities and towns in the amazon. many in these communities say they can only hope such measures will protect them from an invisible enemy that's now threatening the survival of their tribe. how does your. now as all u.s. states begin to reopen 2 months after the coronavirus shut down president trump has teed up fresh controversy while leaving the white house for his golf course in

virginia it marked the president's 1st trip to the court since the pandemic began trump's administration has been encouraging states to reopen their economies despite warnings by public health experts about the potential cost of reopening to soon so far more than $1600000.00 cases of coburg 9000 have been confirmed in the u.s. with the death toll now approaching 100000. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera there's been a surge in new numbers of corona virus cases in latin america brazil has overtaken russia to become the 2nd worst affected country in the world after the united states confirmed infections are now above 330000 the death toll is more than $21000.00 is still the true total could even hire 5 iranian tankers delivering

millions of dollars worth of fuel have entered venezuelan waters safely despite u.s. warnings tehran threatened to retaliate to the u.s. try to stop them deliveries are expected to ease fuel shortages in venezuela but they're in defiance of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries' forces fighting for libya's internationally recognized government say they've captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli from the warlord relief i have to. 2 of the camps are in the southern outskirts a 3rd is in the east egyptian president del fatah el-sisi has pardoned more than $3000.00 prisoners to coincide with the muslim holiday of ied among those pardoned is a hit man who murdered the lebanese singer suzanne i mean in dubai in 2008 on the orders of the former egyptian m.p. and stuff. no activists journalists or political prisoners have been released.

health ministry has reported the territories 1st coronavirus death officials say the 77 year old woman have been under quarantine after returning from egypt. the united nations has warned of a corona virus outbreak in gaza could be disastrous given the high poverty rates and weak health system the coastal strip has been under an israeli blockade since 2007. and doctors in sudan are threatening to continue a nationwide strike if their demands for better working conditions are not met by the government the main doctors union goal of 72 work stoppage on thursday was prompted by a tax on 4 doctors in a hospital they want better protection from violent patients and their relatives and more effective equipment for treating covert 19. so those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera the inside story thank you so much but.

it's the end of an era in west africa as fronts moves to scrap the current sea used by its former colonies say if a friend will now become the but is this genuine change what is to rebrand and it's really breaking its colonial on the african this is inside story. all over again on come all santa maria 8 west african countries will soon be using a new currency and it may well be.