the listening post your insight go to the media on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. isn't hero. foreign fighters battling libya's government pull back from the front lines in tripoli. blow on down jordan the saudis iraq live from doha also coming up accused of bribery fraud and breach of trust binyamin netanyahu becomes israel's 1st sitting prime minister to stand trial. surrounded by scandal and seeking support brazil's president remains defiant as the u.s. bans travelers from the country. i believe that in every respect he's acted

responsibly and legally and with integrity the u.k. prime minister defends his chief advisor was under pressure to resign and the claims he preached locked down. libyan authorities say russian ministries are leaving the battles front line libyan media broadcast video reportedly showing foreign fighters who support warlord aletha hafter leaving from an air base have to ask forces have been trying to capture the capital tripoli for 13 months they've suffered a string of defeats in recent weeks against the u.n. backed government supported by fighters from turkey but the mayor of bani walid confirm the russians left in the towns airport in 3 military planes bombed i had is following developments from tripoli. the mayor of benny will lead the city that's south of the city of god who just stated that 3 flights left from but he

will lead the airport loaded with it the russian mercenaries who have been fighting along with have those forces over the past year in southern tripoli we do not know for certain where they were heading maybe to banerjee to between and then from there to syria maybe back to russia now the russian mercenaries have been playing a vital and crucial rule in this battle especially in southern tripoli and the major advances achieved the white house that his forces over the past year are mainly attributed to the russian mercenaries from the wagner's group according to international reports over a 1000 russian mysteries have been recruited by after forces to help seizing the capital tripoli afghanistan's government is releasing up to 2000 taliban prisoners in a statement president ashraf ghani called the move

a goodwill gesture it's seen as a confidence builder before long awaited peace talks between the government and the taliban on saturday the taliban offered a 3 day truce over the ied holiday. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attacked the nation's justice system as his long awaited corruption trial begins he's facing several charges in a series of cases stemming from ties to wealthy associates netanyahu is israel's 1st sitting prime minister to go on trial for said has more now from occupied east jerusalem. this was always going to be an extraordinary moment in israeli politics benjamin netanyahu decided to make it was so clear in 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 lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell of 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. 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 in 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 0 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 friends of offering to hinder one used to get better coverage in another they're exchanging hundreds of millions of dollars worth of regulator help to a telecoms chief again but better coverage on his news site. before caught a glimpse of the parallel worlds to come for a prime minister on trial. leading 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 you know it was innocent until proven guilty calling for reconciliation benjamin netanyahu says this will be his last term in office you 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 very close it occupied east jerusalem for brazil now where the president has greeted hundreds of supporters as an unfolding political scandal adds to the country's coronavirus crisis in our own was seen posing for photos with people in brasilia shaking hands and wearing a mask his supporters defied a lockdown and demonstrated against virus restrictions in sao paolo the president has been criticized for his limited response to the pandemic and is accused of interference in a corruption case involving his sons. the us president has announced travel restrictions on brazil as it battles the spread of covert 19 new restrictions bar most non us citizens from entering the country if they visited the last american nation in the past 2 weeks was ill now has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the us confirmed infections passed 363000 more than 22600 people have died donald trump imposed a similar ban on china and the u.k.

earlier well the u.s. national security adviser robert o'brien says a ban on all travel from brazil is necessary to protect the american people. i think that 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 the southern hemisphere. do you want as of now i'd say brazil and we'll take a look at the other countries in a country by country basis for sure now one of 5 iranian tankers carrying millions of dollars worth of fuel has entered venezuelan waters despite warnings from the u.s. to iran has threatened to retaliate if washington tries to stop its vessels according to online tracking data the ship fortune is in northern venezuela after passing trinidad and tobago it's set to reach the port of that's west of caracas later 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's in violation of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries well drivers lined up through the night on saturday anticipating fresh supplies of petrol pumps with the arrival of the iranian ship venezuela's fuel used to be among the cheapest in the world but can now cost more than $3.00 a liter on the black market mohammad marandi is a professor 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 venezuelan start 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 bow down to the united states when it makes americans and sending 5 ships was a big mass it wasn't just one or 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 u.k. prime minister bars johnson has backed his key advisor after it emerged he allegedly breached lockdown restrictions dominic cummings traveled from london to northeast england at the end of march are suffering from coronavirus symptoms he says he had to arrange childcare for his young son government advice the time was for all citizens to stay home the bulk of forbes. dominic cummings had little to

say to journalists outside his home on sunday it's alleged the prime minister's chief advisor broke a lockdown rules traveling hundreds of kilometers to daraa in northeast england to his parents' estate at the height of restrictions in march and get to meet his he was and if things weren't awkward enough for cummings cue the arrival of a protester van with a reminder of boyce johnson's address to the nation to stay at home you must stay here coming said the trip was to ensure his 4 year old son was looked after because his wife was suffering from coronavirus symptoms something he would also develop he said he remained in isolation in a separate property on his parents' estate but eyewitnesses claim cummings left locked down to visit in the air by beauty spot and that he made another trip to the northeast after returning to london in april article allegations the prime minister was quick to dismiss an unshared told appearance at the daily downing street coronavirus briefing though there have been many other allegations about what

happened when he was in so fights relation and thereafter some of them probably false i believe that in every respect he has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity. despite support from the top cummings faces a storm of criticism from figures in the police health service and scientific community some m.p.'s in his own party want him to quit 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 have to stay at home if coded 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 the 1st person 14 days for the others and now it turns out they could have been driving around the country with symptoms this isn't just a story about one man this is about faith and

a government that sets rules and regulations demanding self-discipline and sacrifice of people stopping the spread of the virus is meant to be a collective endeavor no exceptions dominic cummings is one of the most divisive figures in british politics the mastermind behind the campaign to leave the e.u. who together with boris johnson plotted to revolutionize british politics he's a non elected official but wields more power and influence the many people are comfortable with opposition m.p.'s are now calling for a full inquiry into all of the allegations against cummings at a time when trust in government has rarely been needed more needs barca al-jazeera westminster. time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back. which is very very worrying. most of all reads it is overflowing and overwhelmed hospitals and cemeteries in

yemen are unable to cope with the spike in suspected coronavirus take 6 plus. whatever stop loss. whatever the will call the talmud had nothing everything to stop the coronavirus status. hello there some nice weather across much of japan not a soul want to shout has to come you can see a lot of me in overalls you as that will me want to sunny so western areas of honshu still strain to care on monday away from her again not about temperature is the power of a high there 20 celsius clear skies generally across much of the korean peninsula the rain they very heavy again through central and southern areas of china this whole mass of rain will work its way south and east as we go through tuesday so

take the rain towards the coast some showers likely op into shanghai and a very wet day generally into hong kong with a warm high of 30 degrees celsius plenty of showers and thunderstorms throughout much of indonesia becoming a dismal widespread monday across much of thailand cambodia on towards vietnam not a bad day the across much of borneo we have got the usual showers and thunderstorms but the north heavy the same across them on a peninsula but choose day we'll see more in the way of heavy showers and thunderstorms again becoming more widespread across much of borneo so we're watching the northeast of india of course the psycho and he's well out of the picture but there's more heavy rain to come as we go through monday particularly up into the northeast pushing up again into be tan and elsewhere very high temperatures a very hot day in particular in non-poor with a high of 46 celsius. protest by a palestinian. identity to create. steps. that

can fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict. come to palestine. palestine sunbonnet a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera. who are. welcome back a quick time out of the top stories here on al-jazeera libyan authorities say russian mercenaries are leading the front lines in tripoli in media broadcast video

reportedly showing the fighters who support the war the need to have to leave and from an air base. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is accused police and prosecutors of conspiring to topple him in any way possible netanyahu made the comments that its long awaited corruption trial got underway in occupied east jerusalem. on the u.s. announced travel restrictions on brazil that's covert 19 cases in the latin american country that's the 2nd highest number of infections in the world. there's been an alarming spike in the number of virus related deaths in yemen on friday the un announced the health system there had effectively collapsed as the country's ravaged by war and the pandemic grave diggers in the port city of aden have been working around the clock international aid group doctors without borders reported a sharp rise in deaths and infections including among health workers the u.n. envoy to yemen says the health system is ill equipped to protect diagnose and treat people. what she's very very worried we. are right

most of our reach data and sudha market. very very highly. and as we have her overall read and the best days in advance for example. we were obliged to reach us. because we didn't have time enough. and. staff to be able to treat to be should so it's very heartbreaking i thought to my last rock as a number resident scholar at the middle east institute she says aid agencies have done too little too late despite the early signs of health sector capacity in yemen is already overstretched and in the beginning of may there were floods that overtook the city and you know we've seen videos. and trash floating in the city and after that an infestation of most cato's so so we have now colorado diphtheria other diseases on top of the emerging perfect 1000

crisis and it has been extremely disappointing that all of these warnings are just coming this week we have not heard anything since april the residents in the south of yemen and all over the country honestly have been following the coverage 1000 crisis emerging all over the world and rightly concerned because the aid agencies the government agencies have really not done much to protect them from this crisis that you know everybody. did wait too late to take any action on. thousands of protesters in hong kong have been a rallying against a national security bill proposed by beijing police responded with tear gas and. that oppose all would ban all activities considered subversive and activist said would be the end of hong kong as autonomy white house spokesman said china's oppose olds could lead to sanctions from the u.s. china's foreign minister has warned against other countries meddling in its affairs

of the cannot you're doing surely for you since the turbulence over proposed legislative amendments last june would have seeing increasingly rampant activities by hong kong independence organizations and radical local lists in hong kong escalating violence and terrorist activities as well as excessive unlawful foreign meddling in hong kong affairs or those displaced national security in serious jeopardy and posed a grave threat to hong kong's prosperity and stability and the practice of one country 2 systems which. now the u.n. world food program says the economic impacts well the pandemic will push an additional $130000000.00 people to the brink of starvation by the end of the year and people in africa will be the worst affected areas nicholas reports from inside the gold's tese region. as children they were classmate joe point on to mit in the u.s.

and around a multi-national company before returning home to become the town's mayor. stated i have 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 very good decision we have never submitted any health food industry. 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 sun jar not into the silicon valley of senegal but into the shenzhen of the region chinese investors opened fish processing factories in transformed barren fields into agricultural land for vegetables but with border shut the project is going rotten we need to stop the virus. find solutions so we can get people back to work because so many of us depend on the 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 nicholas hawk al jazeera sunday. there's been a bomb blast in somalia killing at least 5 people and hurting more than 20 others it happened about 250 kilometers west of the capital mogadishu during a camp for internally displaced people. muslims around the world have been celebrating the ied marking the end of the holy month of ramadan but this year prayers and mosques where the band or severely restricted and celebrations were muted priyanka gupta reports. 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 19 factions and deaths. was should be barred from offering prayers inside mosques and open fields. i am outside i got a lot of resigned myself i performed i had prison 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. versions followed strict social distancing measures while marking the end of the fasting month of ramadan. mosques across the kingdom acos for problems. here heard it here in jerusalem as i walk some mosque compound chris were allowed outside the gates of islam's code holy site.

while in gaza most were reopened put a 2nd time in 2 months since i was imposed. health officials on a casa promises and gave moss to people and condemn them about when i thought her up and that's the end of the the whole up to the day we are taking all the necessary measures so people can safely practice their prayers the preventive measures that the ministry of health instructed to 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 eat all foot that are. in pakistan to the feet will congregate 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 hen chick with them one of the in syria this time

comes to her 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 so impressive flow of comfort i'm hearing still resonate for maggie and lisa priest in the times. on c.n.n. . now for the 1st time in months pope francis has delivered his sunday blessing before a crowd in some peter's square there were several dozen people in the vatican square they kept their distance from each other and many wore mosques pope francis gave his message by internet from his library the people watching on large screens while he went to the window for a sign of blessing the past 3 months he has blessed empty square and tore

a civil service home to venice after the easing of restrictions they enjoyed the canals and cafes and took in the sights and sent mobs square many people will mosques for the trip taking them off briefly the photographs about 30000000 people visit in the dune city every year italy will reopen its borders to use states from june 3rd. now while towns and cities across the u.k. struggle with the impact of covert $191.00 of the poorest areas has been left to stand on its own j. week made international headlines when the united nations highlighted it as an example of how the british government has failed to deal with poverty as heroes lines leave visited the community and found its proved more resilient than most in coming together during the crisis. at the best of times j. week is a town on its knees the former seaside resort east of london has barely a shop or a doctor and many people have severe health issues as elsewhere several deaths have

been reported in the local care home with the virus among the population everywhere it sounds like a recipe for disaster dealing with a lockdown is proved difficult enough for communities across the u.k. which have all the things like food and medicines that anybody might ever wants and so you'd assume in a place like this with very limited supplies that things would have been doubly difficult in fact though the story of jay which has turned out to be one of triumph over adversity the 1st step was to find some money a mixture of handouts got them to the equivalent of about $3000.00 which doesn't sound like much so be a couple 1000 pounds we've got some stock in some of the supermarkets and so we decided separate kitchen here yes with that they've already cooked hundreds of meals for the old and the sick who can't leave their homes stored in a donated freezer after their is packed up they did it on a shoestring and it still does enough money for several more months the guys here obviously are doing prepackaged meals so they get they get delivered to people's

doors to anyone who's isolating for whatever reason and that means they've got access to hot food. paper out collecting prescriptions for people yeah everybody just mucks in and gets things done so this is the unique thing about j. week having spent years abandons they've had to learn to deal with crisis after crisis alone well you know we love you while everyone else has been forced to change everything j. which believes it can cope with cold feet because it doesn't feel much different to how things usually are people. food clothing items to get the people that televisions. mobility scooters i've had some bags of shopping 6 or 7 bags and that is basically how we're overcoming they said what we're doing as a community to help others not feel whatever stop us. whatever the weather 18 months ago the united nations human rights visited j. week and ended up condemning the british government for keeping the population in

poverty nothing whatsoever came out of it which was what j. was expected to happen they do a good job of ignoring the fact that they hardly have anything it seems to make the virus that bit less frightening largely al jazeera. 15 year old girl who peddle her injured father cross india has been invited to try out for the national cycling team jyoti kemarre carried her father on the back of a bicycle as she rode from grogram city near new delhi to their home village in the northeastern state of bihar they travelled about 1200 kilometers of a 7 day a family was left destitute when the coronavirus put her father a motorized rickshaw driver out of work staying in india an engineer has come up with a solution to running errands during the lockdowns instructions this small robot remote control car drives to the local market where it can collect and carry home up to 30 kilograms of groceries and even programme to maintain social distancing

with other customers. time for a quick check of the headlines here on our jazeera libyan authorities say russian mercenaries are leaving the battles front lines maybe in media broadcast video reportedly showing foreign fighters who support warlord only to have to off leaving an airbase binyamin netanyahu has accused police and prosecutors of conspiring to topple him in any way possible he made the comments as his long awaited corruption trial got underway in occupied east jerusalem is a very slow motion citizens of israel what's on trial today is the wish to eliminate the will of the people the attempt to talk to 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 an attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi 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. now there's been an alarming spike in the number of virus related deaths in yemen on friday the united nations announced the health system there at effects of a collapsed grave diggers in the port city of aden have been working around the clock to keep cemeteries from overflowing the u.n. envoy to yemen says the health system is ill equipped to protect diagnose and treat people effectively. which is very very worrying he said we have. a right most. dead and sewer democracy. very very high. and as we are her. best days. we were obliged to reach us. because we didn't have time. and. staff to be able to treat to peace so it's very heartbreaking

the u.s. has announced travel restrictions on brazil as kovan 1000 cases in the latin american nation new restrictions bar most non us citizens from entering the country if they visited the latin american nation in the past 2 weeks brazil has the 2nd highest number of infections in the world but president jabil tomorrow continues to encourage rallies against lock down restrictions afghanistan's government is releasing up to 2000 taliban prisoners in a statement president afghani called the move a goodwill gesture a prisoner swap a seen as a confidence builder before long awaited peace talks between the government and the taliban comes after the taliban offered a 3 day troops over that either holiday. so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story thank you thanks for watching i think.

it's where the coronavirus started but is so where things are now returning to normal so what is china's post coronavirus strategy the national people's congress is dealing with most 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.