16 how come you didn't mention that meeting to congress and i did i don't know if i got the transcript wrong. i don't think you are that sharp that you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy or your head to head on a jersey or. benjamin netanyahu becomes the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to face criminal charges in court. during the whole you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. the police in hong kong used tear gas against protesters angry over beijing's plans to impose a new security law. china's foreign minister speaks out against meddling in hong kong warning countries to stay out of its affairs.

and muslims mark the end of ramadan subdued need celebrations under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. the long awaited trial of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has officially begun even though he asked to be excused he was required to attend the opening proceedings on sunday to hear the charges against him they include bribery fraud and breach of trust harry force it is our correspondent live for us at the courthouse in east jerusalem so harry just just walk us through how much evidence is there that the prosecution will try to bring to court against mr netanyahu. well that there is there are thousands and tens of thousands of documents of

evidence and that really dominated quite a lot of the back and forth within the court room but all of that happened after what was already going to be an extraordinary moment in israeli politics. that was turned even more extraordinary by benjamin netanyahu his decision to come and lambast the entire concept and process of the investigation and the trial and the personalities involved in bringing him to this situation at least in his telling of the story he criticized by name a senior judicial and police officials he said. that it was a delusional case that was being brought against him it was stitched up between the attorneys the investigators and the left wing media because he sees this as a conspiracy of various arms of israel's older establishment ranged against him and his right wing populism and that was the message that he wanted to bring before he

even went into the courtroom and i think it shows that we're set for a pretty down and dirty battle between benjamin netanyahu and the the whole legal establishment of the country is this trial progresses in terms of what happened inside the trial there were a few headlines one was that his defense team was arguing that they needed a lot more time to examine the piles of evidence that they said were in front of them that there were some formats which could be searched properly with the word searches it was down to that kind of nitty gritty detail there are 2 other defense benenson this is well the chief shareholder in israel's biggest telecoms company and his wife their legal team is arguing something similar neither defense team put forward any date for the 1st witness to be called and so it's looking like the strategy is try to push this through till spring next. here at the earliest and in terms of the that the appearance of benjamin netanyahu at his trial it was

confirmed both defense and prosecution agreed that he didn't need to be at every single hearing going forward perry let's pause our conversation for a 2nd because mr netanyahu was talking just at the courthouse in the past couple of hours let's play that tape for you is a very slow and marshall middle name citizens of israel what's on trial today is the wish to eliminate the will of the people the attempt to topple me in the right wing camp for over a decade the lift didn't succeed in doing so in the polls so in recent years they came up with a new pet and so says that the police in attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years harry you've explained to us and hinted to us this will in effect be a very long process anyway but if he is innocent at the end of all of this given

his accusations that he's been reheating today does that mean that other cases now have to be laid at the door of various members of the judiciary various members you know newspaper editors newspaper reporters because he seems to be saying there is a massive cold war donated web of corruption people who want him gone. yes i mean there's been no indication so far that there will be some kind of counter investigation of the investigators that would lead necessarily to an attempt to prosecute anyone at the end of all this if indeed he is declared innocent but yes there are questions and concerns that have been made by a number of commentators and legal scholars about the possibility of retribution about trying to there already been attempts floated to try to rein in the powers of israel supreme court at least and that is something that has been shelved for now

but netanyahu and his allies in in right wing israeli politics feel that there has been too much intervention in that this is historically more of a centrist left wing elitist institution that doesn't fully ascribe to their notion of israeli democracy so yes there is certainly a concern there are also more immediate concerns the fact that he has negotiated coalition deal which allows him a good deal of influence potentially over legal appointments and there are those in the opposition who say that this is a criminal who could in the long run choose his own his own judges if this were to go to another round and appeal he doesn't have to step down until all of his peels are exhausted and he is finally convicted under israeli law so there are a number of questions as to exactly what netanyahu can do to follow through on some of the extraordinary accusations that he was making on the steps of this courthouse

kyra thanks very much for staying with her story akiva eldar is a political analyst journalist and a contributor to c says the trial is being seen as a test of israel's democracy. and to punch myself to believe that i'm watching it. you know i covered so many prime minister since menachem begin and shamir and sharon and something like this never happened what really bothers me is the fact that netanyahu has managed to put the state of israel and the israeli public on the defendant's bench it's not the trial of a prime minister i think that this is the ultimate test of the pillars of the israeli democracy you know we had peter in the middle east you had the military coup the ties we had the prime minister says in ated in so called the only

democracy in the middle east what netanyahu is telling the israeli public and the world since i believe that every network is covering this trial is that the israeli police and he's ready law enforcement are corrupt nobody is asking him how come that after more than 10 years that you are in charge how did you allow this to happen so it's either when we see now is a prime minister sitting prime minister the longest as was mentioned before in our history is corrupt or something is corrupt in the system. thousands of protesters in hong kong have been rallying against a national security bill as proposed by jing it would ban all activities considered subversive and activists say it would be the end of hong kong's autonomy

a dream brown reports. the panic of protest running from police dispersing crowds gathered in defiance of social distancing rules. a familiar arsenal was deployed to clear the streets of demonstrators angry about the chinese government's plans to impose a security law on the city why the whole culture through a series of greedy critical. because the child is called his part of the week to support the people offering to press forward all the people in thailand all paid the communist party is far more dangerous than covert 19 you know and it could soon be dangerous the way flags like this calling for an independent hong kong oban is predicting the destruction of the communist party under the proposed law such sentiments could be defined as subversion. familia slogans

rang through the calls way bay shopping district there was not a place for families on this sunday afternoon there were many arrests as protest has occupied some of the city's busiest roads hong kong finds itself caught in the middle of a deepening cold war between china and the united states and it could be more economic pain on the way because washington is now warning that it's going to review the special trading relationship that hong kong currently enjoys with the u.s. another sign of what china's top diplomat says is foreign meddling in hong kong's affairs whitewashing external forces are illegally interfering in hong kong the fears which is cause serious harm to china's national security interests. it is still not clear if the new law will restrict protests like the china's foreign minister insists it will only target a narrow category of x. the law is not expected to take effect until inquest but before then are

a number of sensitive anniversaries including the 1st protest that marked the beginning of this movement adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the chinese foreign minister also accused politicians in the u.s. of spreading lies about its coronavirus response katrina you has more on that from beijing china wants cooperation with other countries and world bodies but will stand up to any challenge to its sovereignty or its message that was a key theme from foreign minister one at his press conference in beijing he appeared to show a very little patience for any international criticism leveled at china in fact he appeared quite torn death to it in particular he focused on china's relationship with the u.s. he said it was important for the 2 countries to work together as the world's biggest developing country and the biggest developed country and to show global leadership and respect each other's systems whether he acknowledged the deterioration of the via latrobe relationship he said that it had been brought to

the brink of cold war and for this he laid the blame squarely at the feet of u.s. politicians he didn't name any names but he said that u.s. politicians have been engaging and anti china's smear campaign around covert 19 and had been guilty of spreading what he called a political virus. political virus used to be used about unity to attack and they discredit china some a politician's have ignored the most basic realities of the fabricated too many lies but his strongest words for the us were around taiwan he called this issue a red line and said the international community needed to respect the one ton of principle and using quite strong words he said that the u.s. was dreaming if it bought it anyway it could prevent reunification future we advice the u.s. to throw away on realistic fundus ease and the let go of domestic political calculation

which we are telling the us not to challenge china's bottom line and finally he defended china from any accusations that it had mishandled the corona virus outbreak he repeated words that we've heard time and time again from beijing saying that beijing has acted responsibly and with transparency and he also said that the world health organization needed to be supported and strengthened and not the opposite. still ahead on al-jazeera a crisis caused by coronavirus the world food program says more than 130000000 people could be pushed to the brink of starvation. indigenous communities at risk the virus is spreading fast and far in brazil's amazon region.

however we got the rains popping up once again across southern parts of china are we going to see dry weather for the time being a little further north we'll see some showers long spells of rain is this cloud makes its way through and as it sinks a little further south which in a swiss that wet weather really will set in with a vengeance as we go on through the next couple of days some flooding looks likely for many will say that what's the weather coming in across southern parts of china to the north of that nazi bad fun and dry there in shanghai on monday make the most of it because as we go on and see what she's day that wetter weather will fade in here and you can see how the intense downpours the flooding rains they continue across a good parts of the area further north of the some showers around the korean peninsula lossy dry for japan but the chance of some showers coming in here over the next day or so 25 celsius the top temperature in tokyo plenty of showers into indo-china conservation cambodia thailand seeing some heavy showers from time to time not see bad in borneo as we go through monday but the seasonal shallowest at that

nevertheless and they will be a little more live as you go through choose de la the showers continue into the southwest of india showers there into sri lanka further north into the northeast of india up towards bhutan where we will see further flooding rains. isolating times the listening. post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of this story now from the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality we have to reject the law exposing the ticks triathlon if the rhetoric and claims but they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight guide to the media on al-jazeera.

let's get you right up to date with all the top stories from al-jazeera the corruption trial of the israeli prime minister has begun benjamin netanyahu denies charges of bribery for the breach of trust he says this is an attempt actually to topple him in any way possible. thousands of protesters in hong kong have been rallying against a national security bill as proposed by beijing the police responded by using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the large crowds. and the chinese foreign minister windy has accused politicians in the u.s. of spreading lies about its coronavirus response president trump maintains the virus came from a local rotary. calls are growing for the u.k. prime minister's chief advisor to resign over claims he broke lock down rules the

government has defended dominic cummings after he drove more than 400 kilometers from london to his parents' home when he was supposed to be in self isolation a number of m.p.'s have now demanded he resign or should be sacked including a member of his own party. i think it's a question of when he has to go now not if i think his position is untenable it's because of dominic's slogans around the these rules that mums and dads grannies and grandpas across the country will have felt that they had to stay at home if covert got into their families and of course they too care about their children but they knew they had they must stay at home 7 days for the 1st person 14 days for the others and now it turns out they could have been driving around the country with symptoms perhaps perhaps for hours to get to a position of more convenient childcare this requires an extremely broad interpretation of latitude in the rules that makes it untenable for dominic to stay

in our correspondent need barkha more now from london on the rising pressure cummings and the conservative government are now facing. these allegations that he may have broken the strict lockdown rules that existed in march over also a possible dent to the entire government credibility as well the latest allegations of build upon the 1st of the geisha that he had traveled hundreds of kilometers to the northeast england when he and his wife were suffering from coronavirus symptoms in the search for help really when it came to looking after his 4 year old son he said he stayed in a good jason property on his parents' a state and now 2 more allegations that he may have left that locked down in that house on his parents the state to travel to a beauty spot several kilometers away where one eye witnesses reported that he was seen walking woodland with his wife also another claim from an eyewitness that he was seen back in the north east of england in april after having been seen here in

the capital london so many cummings's mishal claims that he was up in the northeast of england illegally and was there reasonably looking for support for his child seem now to be under the spotlight we wait to hear exactly what the government may say now what officials from the cabinet have been saying is that he will not resign and they stand by dominic cummings in all of these allegations. millions of muslims around the world are celebrating adolf that are marking the end of a month of fasting is one of the most important festivals in the islamic calendar but this time the coronavirus and then it was brought about unprecedented restrictions in some countries where prayers and mosques and public celebrations are barred as priyanka gupta. goes further it's one of the most important most investable. but this year

it's been celebrated under the shadow of a global pandemic. only and an asia there were no hugs no bearing gifts and no visiting families. the world's largest muslim country has one of southeast asia's highest number of called the night infections and deaths worshippers were barred from offering prayers inside mosques and open fields. i am also not going to live but resigned myself i performed i had prayers in the midst of the plague of covert 19 only resigned to allah hopefully our luck will lift up this does a yes. in saudi arabia the grand mosque in the holy city of mecca was lost the empty. worshippers followed strict social distancing measures while marking the end of the fasting month of ramadan. mosques across the kingdom are

close footprints. here whom here in jerusalem as i walk some mosque compound chris were allowed outside the gates of islam's holy holy site. while in gaza most were reopened put a 2nd time in 2 months since soaked all was imposed. health officials on a cause to promises on peace must do people and condemn them about when i thought her up and that's the one of the hope that with we are taking all the necessary measures so people can safely practice their prayers the preventive measures that the ministry of health instructed include masks each person should bring their own praying carpet each one at least a metre apart between the worshippers people are happy that they can pray inside the mosques after a long break especially on this day of eagle ford that are. in pakistan to defeat will congregate but sacrifice some of each of the traditions. but we don't maybe

assume that all of them we couldn't celebrate this eat as we used to do in previous years because of current or virus and social distancing we couldn't even harder friends or hen chick with them. the in syria this time comes to go over a period of peace aside the lady at the foot of this seat is considered the calmest one as there is no bombardment things basic god the situation is calm i hope the displaced will now return to the homes. it's been a different kind of feed but this saw him praise a flock of comfort and he still has a need for making a decent priest at the times. on senior. unlike many other countries on the long run people in iran are being allowed to pray inside mosques the president hassan rouhani has been easing restrictions and april but the government is urging people not to travel during the easter holiday is in basra he has more now from

tehran iranians are marking evil figure at a time when the country is still working to contain the spread of the coronavirus official figures from the government suggest that the overall rates of infection and death are dropping nationwide but for evil for their prayers the officials here are playing it safe the mass prayer service that would have been led by the supreme leader himself was canceled iranian say it normally attracts millions of people in downtown streets that would have been lined with men and women standing shoulder to shoulder for the ied prayers those streets were empty this year the mosque behind me was meant to hold either prayer services but those were canceled last minute and people were asked to convene at the campus mosque to her own university at a venue that normally would have attracted thousands of people there were only dozens and even though the 1st either prayers since the covered $900.00 pandemic were much smaller than usual people we met said they were just glad to be there and so for the manner of yet and i understand this here we feel more spiritual because

we've been confined to our homes we used to come and go to be in contact with each other but this confinement at home made us want to see each other prayers make us feel better. for the moment i'm a little and i like we are from my done that i'm province you know many terran residents travel to mars on the run but because the leader advised people to stay home we haven't returned to our province for months we wanted to return before corona then around no rose but we stay put. the health ministry has warned against people traveling between cities or provinces during the holiday something they did contribute to the spread of the corona virus during the persian new year holidays months ago and health experts are worried it's something that could happen again and could start a 2nd wave of the current virus outbreak but the government seems determined to move ahead with trying to get things back to normal as well restaurants and cafes have already started reopening and president hassan rouhani has said that even

though famous religious sites will remain closed there are courtyards will reopen to the public museums and other tourism sites will also begin to open later this week. world food program says an additional $130000000.00 people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of the year because of the pandemic most live in sub-saharan africa and reports now from sunday in senate girls tease region. as children they were classmates job went on to mit in the u.s. and around a multi-national company before returning home to become the town's mayor. had several children and opened a small stall selling peanuts now she's appealing to jump for help measures to stop the spread of coronavirus has also stopped her trade she and her family are going hungry here normally food is very cheap here people are producing because should where you see fish is very easy we have 15 kilometers from the sea and this is

a very good decision we have never submitted any health food in this. job is meeting with town elders they're deciding which families will receive state provided bags of rice each making their case because there's not enough food for everyone no one has been infected with the virus here yet but people are suffering from the viruses economic impact this is one of the largest markets in senegal people come here for food vegetables and meat look at it now it's been like this for weeks people here were shaken by a virus many of them hadn't heard of coming from china now impacting their lives here deep in senegal as countryside just wanted to transform sanjay not into the silicon valley of senegal but into the shenzhen of the region chinese investors opened fish processing factories and transformed barren fields into agricultural

land for vegetables but with border shut the project is going rotten we need to stop the virus and find solutions so we can get people. back to work because so many of us depend on the farming to survive while the number of infections are multiplying in senegal the government is easing restrictions on movement fearing a looming food crisis. we need markets to reopen it's a question of survival. there is a sense that the measures to prevent the outbreak have become a heavy burden for many. in the face of hunger. nicholas hawke al-jazeera. brazil has the 2nd highest number of virus cases in the world behind only the u.s. and among those affected are indigenous communities infections are rising quickly in densely populated cities but as catch a look a sort of yarn explains they're spreading to remote places too. it's

a 5 hour boat ride from the amazons of largest city to the press only those indigenous village people here are locked out all visitors hoping isolation will keep them safe from the virus but it didn't cover 1000 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 meds and made it home or taking antibiotics and antiinflammatories. many here believe the disease came from the river that connects the village to menow so that's one of the cities hardest hit by the outbreak in brazil and where there aren't enough coffins to bury the dirt

testing for the virus in brazil is already behind that of other countries and these remote communities have little to work with what you know much less 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 hey boy so now those 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 this ties in. this morning or so repetitious a very important to be able to diagnose case. it is so that medical protocol is of social distancing can be followed right now we're 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. now dizzier the

new york times says publish the names of every american coronavirus victim on the front page of its paper the list of close to 100000 people comes from a bit juries and death notices from all over the country it also includes the victims' ages interests and life and jobs the paper describes it as an incalculable loss saying they were not simply names on a list. recapping our top stories for you so far this half hour the corruption trial of the israeli prime minister has now begun benjamin netanyahu denies charges of bribery fraud and a breach of trust he says this is an attempt to topple him in any way possible is a very slow and martial medium in which the citizens of israel what's on trial today is the wish to eliminate the will of the people the attempt to tell for me in

the right wing camp for over a decade the lift didn't succeed in doing so in the polls so in recent years they came up with a new pet and so says that the police in attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years. thousands of protesters in hong kong have been rallying against a national security bill proposed by beijing the police responded by using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the large crowds. chinese foreign minister wang he has accused politicians in the u.s. of spreading lies about his virus responds the u.s. has previously said its relationship with beijing is disappointing and frustrating president trump maintains the virus came from a low bar a tree in new hampshire polls are growing for the u.k. prime minister's chief advisor to resign over claims he broke. the government has

defended dominic cummings after he drove more than 400 kilometers from london to his parents' home he said for childcare reasons he was supposed to be in self isolation a number of m.p.'s demanded he resign or be sacked including a member of his own party in mecca one of the most sacred cities in islam public prayers to mark has been taking place but only a few dozen worst worshippers gathered at the great mosque saudi arabia has imposed around the clock curfew is a different picture however in pakistan where big gatherings are being spotted across the country and western scholars are urging people to follow social distancing during the celebration. iranians among thieves with pres inside mosques the government has been relaxing restrictions since april up next it's the listening post i'll see you from 10 g. tomorrow until then away from the tool to produce their own. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the

moment to stop already 30 action these is the moment to concentrate on fighting over why did we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the 000. a sloth cultic 19 misinformation has been going 5 times planning an experience carry around now coming out the time that you write has created a kind of story for conspiracy and social media companies to do more to stop this passion for spreading like alcoholic and campaign. alarm richard yes but if you're watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that we're looking at this week that human to human transmission of conspiracy theories around covert 19 why is it that so many americans actually believe the family behind fiat's automobiles now controls one of italy's largest newspapers and lollipop.