try this after that we're not the enemy of the people we are the people usa the current battleground close to physics anyway on. a group of russian mercenaries who backed libyan war mostly for half dark leaving the country of the latest tripoli. i'm committed al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. he has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity despite mounting pressure u.k. prime minister abbas johnson refuses to fire a top advisor is accused of breaching lockdown rules. benjamin netanyahu becomes

the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to face criminal charges and coarse. and under the shadow of coronavirus subdued celebrations for muslims marking one of the most important holidays. we begin with breaking news out of libya where russian mercenaries have been fighting in support of the warlord holy fuck off a leaving the country the mayor of the town of bani walid has confirmed that there are evacuating through the airport there after withdrawing from the capital tripoli that follows a series of setbacks $100.00 forces have been fighting to take territory from libya's internationally recognized government a move up the ahead as following developments from tripoli. the mayor of benny will lead the city that south of the city of the horn just stated that 3 flights left from but he will lead the airport loaded with that the russian

mercenaries who have been fighting along with half the forces over the past year in southern tripoli we do not know for certain were they were heading maybe to banerjee to binny and then from there to syria maybe back to russia but what we know for certain according to the mayor of been you will lead city is that the russian missionaries. have been fighting going on would have to have forces have left the country they were accompanied by a russian air defense system unit bannister that was accompanying them from tripoli to bend you will need to protect the cut of one now the russian mercenaries have been playing a vital and crucial rule in this battle especially in southern tripoli and the major advances achieved by half to his forces over the past year are mainly attributed to the russian mercenaries from the wagner's group as you know that

according to international reports or a 1000 russian mysteries have been recruited by forces to help seizing the capital of tripoli. resisting fierce pressure even from within his own party british prime minister johnson is standing by senior adviser dominic cummings they have been growing demands for cummings to quit or be sacked and emerge that he drove 400 kilometers to his parents' house in late march and britain was under extra to lockdown to prevent the prevent the spread of coronavirus that in barber is live for us and london so just explain for us now dame why isn't it coming so important and boris johnson appears unwavering in his support. well dominick cummings of course is the man that boris johnson brought in last summer to drive his. policy there was a purge of so-called moderates if you like in the conservative cabinet dominic

cummings has already been proved himself a controversial figure someone who was actually held in contempt of parliament in the past but right now he's under fire of course for this trip that he made at least one trip boris johnson faced tough questions about why his chief advisor made this journey was it necessary did it break the government guidelines and also in fact what boris johnson knew and where when boris johnson didn't give anything away in fact right from the start he was as robust in his defensive dominant cummings i think as it was possible to be today i've had extensive face to face conversations with dominic cummings and i concluded that in traveling to find the right kind of childcare at the moment when both he and his wife were about to

be incapacitated by coronavirus and when he had no return it i think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent and i do a lot more came down for that. i had a dream so what is the reaction being. well it's early days kim but i mean if you look at political commentators and some politicians on twitter it's clear that a lot of people are quite surprised at how solid and how unequivocal boris johnson was that dominic cummings acted as he put it legally responsibly and with integrity why because there are a fair number of conservative m.p.'s right now getting very angry communications from their constituents who have been denied access denied visits to for example their elderly relatives who were sheltering all of their sick children in hospital

and so on people saying we've made sacrifices during this lockdown were we basically being mugs is the message from the government that if you thought you were doing the right thing you could have gone out you could have done what you thought was ok and i think that is the real sore point for the government now that boris johnson has really tied himself to dominic cummings without for example suggesting that he might have any regrets if this story keeps rumbling on it will damage his credible credibility within some of his own support base let alone the opposition who've been calling for mr cummings to resign thank you then the debugger their cost of elements from london. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has accused police and prosecutors of conspiring against him he made the comment says his long awaited corruption trial began in occupied east jerusalem from there harry fawcett reports. this was always going to be an extraordinary moment in israeli politics benjamin netanyahu decided to make it more so clearing

his intention to fight not just within the courtroom but outside in public against the whole concept of this prosecution but citizens of israel what's on trial today is the wish to eliminate the will of the people the attempt to topple me and the right wing camp over a decade the lift didn't succeed in doing so in the polls so in recent years they came up with a new patten so says that the police in attorney's office joined together with the left wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell of baseless cases and imagine a 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. in the courtroom itself what could become a defining image of israel's longest serving prime minister in the dock facing criminal trial just a week after he was sworn in for a 5th term after the cameras were rejected his legal team asked for delays in calling witnesses well they argued about access to evidence the strategy to push

the start of the main phase of the trial well into next year outside supporters saying and chanted and amplified the prime minister's message of persecution already in its 1st day of this trial is a window into just how polarized israeli politics is and benjamin netanyahu and his allies making no bones about appealing to supporters like these on the basis that the trial is not a criminal one rather a political coup designed to ousted from office but there are warnings that such a strategy risked further division this was the main and 100 and you know demonstration outside his residence netanyahu is accused of asking for and taking lavish gifts from wealthy for. ns of offering to hinder one newspaper to get better coverage in another but exchanging hundreds of millions of dollars worth of regulator help to a telecoms chief again for better coverage on his news site. before caught a glimpse of the parallel worlds to come for a prime minister on trial there's no leaving his 1st cabinet meeting of the new

coalition talking about iran the economy and governing for all his former fierce opponent and now alternate prime minister in a rotating coalition deal benny gantz released a statement saying that and you know he was innocent until proven guilty calling for reconciliation so benjamin netanyahu says this will be his last term in office he will spend a good deal of it fighting not just for his innocence in court but against the very institutions that accuse him of breaking the law are a force that i'll just erupt occupied east jerusalem and seems reminiscent of the violence that rocked hong kong 4 months last year and they say fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters they returned to the streets to denounce beijing's plan to impose national security laws on the city from hong kong adrian 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 concept through a serious and really critical. piece off try this communist party to support the people who offer it to the press powerful people in thailand all pay 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 or banners 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 and 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 the 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. external forces are illegally interfering in hong kong the fears which is cause serious harm to china's national security into what was 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 august but before then are a number of sense. of anniversaries including the 1st protest that marked the beginning of this movement adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. still ahead on al-jazeera some relief soon to fuel pumps in caracas and iranian shipments reaches

venezuelan warships. and open all knobs confusion on u.s. speeches as new york state tries to relax coronavirus restrictions. but. how i will hot sunshine pretty much sums up the weather across the middle east at the moment not quite as hot as it has been just around that eastern side of the mediterranean into the levant as this area of cloud has swept through this introduced some fresh conditions so we'll see temperatures no higher than about 20 to 23 celsius there for jerusalem and for beirut's mashal as they're making their way across eastern parts of turkey heading towards the caspian so armenia georgia as well john seeing some wet weather clearing through as we go on into tuesday across the finish dries us it does sum it up 39 celsius here in doha on tuesday

just a chance of one of 2 showers around the gulf of aden so western parts of yemen could see some showers and they join up with the showers which will fade their way back into ethiopia south sudan showers there through cameroon southern parts of nigeria seeing lively showers i was right spread through gonna all the way into liberia maybe we will still see some showers just around the coastal parts of kenya pushing across the tanzania even insist still in the areas of somalia but to the south of that it is generally try say generally because we've got some wet cool and windy weather making its way through cape town feeling rather chilly here no one within 15 degrees but choose day. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as

a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these demands we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy. watching out is there on her mind on our top stories this hour breaking news from libya russian mercenaries have been fighting in support of warlord family for half daryn leaving the country the mayor of the town of bani walid has confirmed that departing through the airport there after withdrawing from the capital tripoli

follows a series of setbacks for the us forces. u.k. prime minister barak's johnson is standing by his chief adviser who is under pressure to resign johnson defended dominic cummings after he made a journey during the coronavirus locked up. the corruption trial of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has begun yahoo denies charges of bribery for want and breach of trust he says this is in attempts to topple him in any way possible. one of 5 iranian tank is carrying millions of dollars worth of fuel has entered venezuelan waters despite warnings from the u.s. to iran has written to retaliate if washington tries to stop its vessels according to online tracking dot earth the ship fortune is in northern venezuela after passing trinidad and tobago set to reach the port of little west of caracas on sunday the other 4 ships are expected to arrive in the next few days bringing in

a total of $1500000.00 barrels of iranian petrol it's expected to ease fuel shortages in venezuela but it is in violation of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries. well scenes like this a common in venezuela an oil rich country that's frustratingly short of petrol drivers lined up through the night on saturday and dissipating fresh supplies at petrol pumps with the arrival of the iranian ship venezuela's fuel used to be among the world's cheapest now it's as much as $3.20 a liter on the black market bomb of brandy as professor of orientalism at the university of tehran he says the u.s. should not dictate trade terms to other countries americans can't make up their mind on the what 1st they say that iranians are taking from the venezuelans and now they're saying the venezuelans are taking from the iranians what is important is that these are normal trade ties between 2 sovereign independent countries and the

regime in washington is in no position to dictate terms to the international community and iran is not a weak country like countries within the e.u. which will simply bowed down to the united states when it makes americans sending 5 ships was a big message it wasn't just one of 2 tankers it fuels 5 tankers so the iranians did that both to give support to the venezuelan people out of solidarity with the venezuelan people to prevent them from suffering and also in an act of defiance to us hegemony and also i think the americans understood quite well that the iranians would retaliate brazil now has the 2nd highest number of covert 19 cases in the world behind the u.s. confirmed that the actions are actually only 350000 more than 22000 people have died president jiah balsa not always coming under increasing pressure after he dismissed the virus as being mild. the u.s.

national security adviser says a ban on all travel from brazil is necessary to protect the american people would have brian made the comments on a u.s. news program a short while ago. i think they will have a 212 after. today with respect to brazil and just like we did with the u.k. and europe and china and we hope that will be temporary but because of the situation in brazil we're going to take every step necessary to protect the american people so that sounds like you are looking to cut off travel from brazil in the southern hemisphere. do you. say brazil and we'll take a look at the other countries in the country by country basis for sure meanwhile balsa nado is defending a tirade caught on video after accusations of interfering in a criminal investigation into his family. he is following the story from bogota. presidency which is being consumed by a number of accusation and investigations not only into his response to. me even if he has lost through hell to ministers in practically

a month because of the way he's been fighting against isolation measures because he has been promoting an unproven drug that he said would cure kovi of the 19 but also because of this investigation which is being led by said she a model who was a former minister of justice and he's also a sort of anti corruption superstar in the country mike lee considered by a great the majority of brazilians forest on a c.n.n. he is the one leading the charge against both so narrow who he says has been interfering in police investigations concerning his sons and millions of muslims have been celebrating it all for marking the end of the month of fasting it's one of the most important festivals in the islamic calendar but this year of course prayers and mosques are either banned all severely restricted celebrations

practical to reports. he goes further is one of the most important most investable. but this year it's been celebrated under the shadow of a global pandemic. any other nation 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 washable as well barred from offering prayers inside mosques and open fields. i am outside i got a lot of resigned myself i performed i had prayers in the midst of the plague of covert 19 only resigned to allah hopefully our love will lift up this desire yes. in saudi arabia the grand mosque in the holy city of mecca was largely empty.

worshippers followed strict social distancing measures while marking the end of the fasting month of ramadan mosques across the kingdom are close for prayers. am to. in jerusalem's alok some mosque compound prayers were allowed outside the gates of islam's 3rd holiest site. while in gaza mosques were reopened for the 2nd time in 2 months since a lockdown was imposed. health official santa casa promises and must do people and condemn all of that when i thought her up and that's the end of the whole we're 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 evil for the. pakistan to defeat will congregate a lot but sacrifice some of each of the traditions. maybe isn't all of it and 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 him check with them. 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 the soul and prays a flow of comfort and healing still gresson need for making a decent place to times. on syria. unlike many other countries on the

lockdown people in iran are being allowed to pray inside mosques president hassan rouhani has been easing restrictions since april send us ravi has more now from to wrong. the ryans are marking evil for there at a time when the country is still working to contain the spread of the corona virus 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 iranians 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 cancelled last minute and people were asked to convene at the campus mosque wrong 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 pandemic were

much smaller than usual people we met said they were just glad to be there and settled manner of yet and i understood this year 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 players make us feel better. for the minimalist leonella we have from my done that i'm province you know many terran residents travel to mars on the run but because the leader advice 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 corona 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. the u.n. world food program says an additional 130000000 people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of the here because of the pandemic most live in parts of africa. nicholas hock reports from sunday anna and a senegal stis region. but as children they were classmates job went on to mit in the u.s. and around a multinational company before returning home to become the town's mayor. stated i 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 of which you see fish is very easy we have 15 kilometers from the sea and this is a very good decision we have never had any help like food industry the. mayor 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 virus is economic impact this is one of the. largest markets in senegal people come here for food vegetables 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 jope wanted to transform sun gera not into the

silicon valley of senegal but into the shenzhen of the region chinese investors open 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 farming to survive well 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. because hawke al-jazeera sun jarrod the new york times has published the names of nearly $1000.00 american covered 19 victims on its front page the list comes from a victories and death notices from across the country and includes the victim's age

interests and jobs paper says they were not simply names on a list the overall u.s. death toll is approaching 100008 is a holiday weekend in the u.s. and many beaches in the northeast to open for the 1st time since the arrival of the pandemic is confusion as kristen slimmy reports from new york. it's memorial day weekend traditionally the start of beach season in new york the city has about 22 kilometers of public shoreline this retired school teachers live in what's known as the rockaways for 30 years i don't have a backyard in our front yard i live in a co-op building this is my yard this is my outside space this is where i go for fresh air and socialization and enjoyment and i want my beaches open but rockaway beach like the rest of the city and its surrounding communities remain under strict social distancing requirements with some of the highest rates of coded 1000 in the

nation what we know for sure is we do not want large numbers of people going on mass transit right now and that's the only way the vast majority of new yorkers are the beach get to the beach here in new york city the beaches are officially closed no life guards on duty no swimming allowed walks are fine the mayor says as long as people maintain social distancing but he's threatened to take even that away if people don't comply yet just beyond city limits many beaches are open for business long beach is one of several limiting access to residents david salinger's relieved the beaches are reopening for his businesses sake but he is wary it's a tough balance to strike between keeping you know their community safe given the periodicals to their beach which is a big part of our life here following the rules is my concern because if they don't have to close the beaches altogether and i don't think anybody wants the rules include wearing a mask near other people and no contact sports nearby federal beaches are open to anyone but you need

a car to get there state rules require all beaches to allow only half as many people as usual when the city announce that they won't be opening there was a fear that it's really hard to keep a safe and healthy beaches 50 percent capacity with tens of thousands of people coming out from the city rain in the forecast may keep the crowds away for now but warmer weather is on the horizon with 8600000 city resident. just over the border christian salumi al jazeera new york. result is there are these the top stories and breaking news from libya russia mercenaries have been fighting in support of war holy father leaving the country the mayor of the town of bani walid has confirmed that departing through the airport there after withdrawing from the capital tripoli and far as this follows a series of setbacks for health us forces. u.k. prime minister abbas johnson is standing by his chief adviser who was under

pressure to resign johnson defended dominic cummings after he made a journey during the coronavirus lockdown today i've had extensive face to face conversations with dominic cummings and i concluded that in traveling to find the right kind of childcare at the moment when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by creative hours and when he had no will turn. i think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent and i do a lot more came down for that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has accused police and prosecutors of conspiring against him he made the comments as his long awaited corruption trial began in occupied east jerusalem is a very slow and most 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 patent so says that the police in attorney's office joined together with the lifting newspapers i call them the just not b b bunch they tell the faceless 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 police responded by using tear gas and water cannon to disperse the large crowds. in mecca one of the most sacred cities in islam public prayers to mock have been taking place but only a few dozen worship is gathered at the great mosque saudi arabia has imposed around the whole curfew. the news continues here on al jazeera off the inside story stay with us.

it's where the coronavirus started but also with things and are returning to normal so what is china's post coronavirus strategy the national people's congress is dealing with criticism over its handling of the pandemic and concerns over its economy so how will china move forward this is inside still. hello i'm come all santa maria it is normally a time to outline the strength of china and the communist party but then what's normal about these 2.