as they work through extreme conditions. together and transport this dangerous but precious cargo risking it. on al-jazeera. russian to treat foreign fighters battling libya's government pull back from the front lines in tripoli. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out surrounded by scandal and seeking support president our boss and our own remains defiant as the u.s. bans travelers from brazil. what she's very very ring. tones to keep a right of most of all reached that summit areas are overflowing in yemen as

a rise in coronavirus begins to overwhelm the country. ignoring physical distancing warnings crowds flock outdoors for the u.s. holiday weekend. the battle for tripoli has taken another turn with russian mercenaries fighting for libyan war clay for hoft are retreating from the frontlines after us forces have been trying to capture the capital for 13 months now but they have suffered a string of the fates in recent weeks and battling the un backed government that supported by fighters from turkey the marathon e-mail 8 confirmed the russians left from an air base in the town and 3 military planes i'm going to tell ahead reports from the libyan capital. these are the pictures the libyan media says show russian medicine a reason leaving police frontline they were meant to shift the balance of power on the battlefield in favor of the libyan warlord plea for have. but

a series of defeats has left a half that are struggling to fulfill his ambition to take the capital from libya's internationally recognized a government. he's lost control of 3 military camps and a debate in the west he used to launch attacks on tripoli and several towns his forces are accused of planting land mines in residential areas putting civilians at risk during the pull our it how your doesn't ask any are as of yesterday we started combing the liberated area to ensure the safe return of everyone who was displaced we are still closely monitoring the movements of the remnants militias and mercenaries who are trying to reorganize their fragmented ranks we are fully prepared to crush them we assure our fellow libyans in the captured areas that we will not leave an inch of the libyan soil and will not allow foreign mercenaries to

bank in residential areas and league do you any report last month suggested half total was backed by up to $1200.00 medicine or a yes' from russia's of the group a private military contractor the u.a.e. which backs half that is believed to be bankrolling them the kremlin and have to deny they were ever there. very recent military gains of by government forces have been largely possible because of turkey's supports it has sent troops to help tripoli against have to his fighters and has been calling for a political solution to the conflict and has refused to do any pressure by the warlords hafter says with to retreat on the battlefield seems to suggest that momentum is fast shifting in his 13 month long military campaign more

dubbed were paid. bodies a senior fellow at the atlantic council with the research focus on libya it says the departure of the russian mercenaries is a major setback for have to are. why they've pulled out now is subject to speculation obviously you have to take into account during the past let's say a week turkey has really created aerial capabilities in libya and has significantly weakened the strategic advances that the russian mercenaries provided namely in. in terms of attacking aerial defense system of their pants or systems that were m. iraq he supplied russian manufactured systems now it's obvious that there is some form of backdoor deal between turkey and russia in terms of allowing these mercenaries to back out of critically and go towards venue where the then toward israel front perhaps out of libya why they did that at this juncture i am not entirely sure but if they hadn't withdrawn they would have probably gotten killed

and i think that would have caused problematic dynamics between russia and turkey since late august it's actually the russian mercenaries that have been able the ground offensive to not only continue but for how far still to actually make territorial headway so they gained ground since then since then because of the russians involvement as soon as they pulled out in roughly i would say 8 hours puffer lost the territory that he's gained in a month that's how much of a strategic military advantage these groups for the russian groups provided and now that that doesn't mean that the war has ended but it does mean that in terms of capturing tripoli let's say i don't think that it's realistic to assume that that will be possible if the let's say factors of how far it's not significantly escalate against turkey it's also worth noting that before pulling out they significantly let's say put idees and improvised explosive devices around tripoli which points to the fact that they do not intend to be the attacking force again

because they will be let's say affected by their own minds that they plan to. this president has announced travel restrictions on brazil to stop the spread of covert 19 brazil is struggling to deal with the krona virus but that doesn't appear to be worrying president her boss neuro who's been out on the streets with supporters up yet he reports. the faience tell you both the matter took once again to the streets of brazil yet to greet his supporters in this regard of isolation measures. we are in brasilia now to join a spontaneous demonstration of the people for democracy for freedom the people who really want to presume to move forward freedom above all else. ignoring growing calls for impeachment and accusations of interfering in police investigations to protect the sons he took office facemask to hug in support of. the weekend anti lock down rallies have become accustomed also known as hardcore

backers even as the number of coronavirus cases in day has spiraled out of control . brazil is now the 2nd most affected country in the world 2nd only to the us a video of a recent cabinet meeting released by the country's supreme court has shocked many brazilians as balsa narron his ministers called for the jailing of mayors and governors who imposed lockdowns in the country against the president's will and seemed interested in the surge of the pandemic now in another blow to balsa natto his ally u.s. president donald trump announced a ban for travelers from brazil resilience and it's it's really a law right that contrie like a moment and president right will soon i don't likes to explain for everyone that he has that kind of special relationship with president sol any kind of

measure made by u.s. government in terms of the trial go bad can be a problem in terms of that narrative. but he specifically would have. a lot of him in the political debate here and probably president wilson ari's you know pain at times off and that he wrote about the koran the virus crisis here. as the number of infections keeps rising health services are increasingly under strain across the country with some doctors asking to take politics out of the response to defend them ik we have to let the people that are supposed to make the citizens make the right decisions for us to cope with this disease with the spread he sees i think it should not be a political issue is should not be a government issue i mean just the ministry of health issue but this perfect

storm of a health crisis coupled with an increasingly bitter political fight appears to leave little hope for improvement as the virus keeps hitting with lethal force i listed them. but as i was president nicolas maduro has thanked iran for delivering a tanker carrying more than a 1000000 barrels of fuel it's the 1st of 5 that iran sent to venezuela the united states has opposed that delivery but didn't actually stop the vessel but the ron and venezuela face u.s. sanctions and it's whale of a short of refined fuel despite having the world's largest oil reserves in the philip but it has arrived in venezuela precisely yesterday the day that ramadan the holy month of our brothers the muslim people to shop for change has arrived the 1st of 5 ships that bring jessa lane and supplies to might guess a lane in venezuela due to a comprehensive cooperation agreement that we had with the islamic republic of iran

cemeteries are overflowing in the a many city of a now after a spike in crime a virus cases the united nations has announced that yemen's health system has effectively collapsed after years of war and the burden of the pandemic charleville us reports. these freshly dug grave sin to the scale of the corona virus outbreak in humans largest southern city of aden humans health ministry says the disease has killed 39 people here the number of graves suggests that number is much higher than . if strange this has never happened before every signatory in all the past to have these numbers of the dead. humans health minister announced the 1st virus death on april 29th 2 weeks later that grew to soutane but charity save the children disputed the death toll they recorded nearly 400 patients who died of corona virus like symptoms in just a week nobody knows the true numbers because human is only testing 31 people per

1000000 what she's very very rare ranges jut we have. a right. already dead and sewerage a market. is very very high come out of. the u.n. announced last week that humans health system had effectively collapsed it was already on life support after 5 years of civil war and calls to stop fighting amid depend demick were ignored the residents in the south of yemen all over the country honestly have been following the coverage 90 a crisis emerging all over the world and rightly concerned because agencies their government agencies have really not done much to protect. doctors without borders runs the only did occasional cover 1000 seem to in southern yemen but even it is turning away the sick they don't have enough oxygen or personal protective equipment it suspects foresee that starforce also infected but there's

no tests to check her or her red and we were obliged to reach was because we didn't . stop. to be able to treat a patient so it's very hard the organization believes didn't add in about 70 people are dying of coronavirus in their homes every day. a lot of people have brought their dead to us from the pandemic the rains in a disease from this that has come to us we don't even know what it is and why it's killed so many these men try to pray in pace. it's impossible with the symmetry sorry busy day digging 5 times as many graves as normal even children help well yemen's government has not reported the true scale of coronavirus it's obvious for those on the ground charlotte dallas al-jazeera.

still ahead on al-jazeera. i believe that in every respect he has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity take a prime minister defense as chief adviser who is under pressure to resign over accusations he breached lockdown rules. and aid in the age of krona virus drive their celebrations keep it's socially distant in the u.s. . hello there plenty of hot sunshine across much of the middle east and the arabian peninsula not quite the same across the fallen off without some cloud coming in of the all see as and it does mean we're also going to see a fair amount of rain 3 will central and eastern areas a turkey as we go through monday but it should clear fairly quickly away from the eastern end of the med so a sunny skies obama getting feeling very nice off to the recent

a heat wave 23 in beirut 22 celsius in jerusalem sometimes just popping of the day across western society down across into yemen so this is where we could just see a scottish thunderstorm without rain really quite heavy through eastern turkey but it doesn't clear as we go through tuesday and warming up last year and 2 with a high of 24 although we could have a fairly county often you with a few more showers away from that time which is not as bad as they were either in baghdad 34 celsius on cheese day 44 and 39 celsius high in doha plenty of rains the central areas of africa and really particularly heavy around the gulf of guinea but it's really to the south of monday we're looking to watch this system here this area of low pressure this will bring the raining quite steadily across much of the south it will really bring in some cool as some very strong winds look at that temperature important is about 25 on monday the showers in the winds pick up on tuesday the temperature drops down to 13 celsius.

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russian mercenaries are leaving the front lines in the capital tripoli state media reportedly showed fighters who support or more cleaver have tarr flying out from an air base. the u.s. has announced travel restrictions on brazil is coping 1000 cases surge in the latin american nation that has a 2nd highest number of infections in the world the number of virus related deaths in yemen has risen sharply aid groups estimate as many as 70 people have died every day and the past week and the city of aden alone. hong kong's government is criticizing nations opposing china's plan to impose a new security along the territory it's pretty cheap says it's needed to tackle what he calls growing terrorism more than 100 people have been arrested following large demonstrations on sunday sir clark joins us live now and hong kong so those protests on sunday sara what's the reaction to that. we had some catholics aims on sunday or those protests that we had clashes between

police and those people demonstrating in those protests that continued light an evening on color inside they started on hong kong island around lunchtime about before midnight last night they were still going now basically china's decision to introduce this national security law in hong kong that's triggered a huge amounts of opposition in hong kong and that was the reason for yesterday's protests we had to see what this law means it means that chinese security agencies can operate in hong kong now a number of countries have criticized and condemned condemn beijing's plan to introduce this and rubber stamp the legislation by the in the wake of a hong kong government overnight released a statement telling those countries which include the united kingdom united states canada and australia to stop interfering in hong kong political affairs that china's vice premier as well 100 beijing's leader in charge of hong kong's affairs has told delegates the national people's congress the people should not and their country should not underestimate china's plan to move ahead with this now you

mentioned earlier some of the chaotic of the reaction we saw yesterday we got 180 at least people arrested and we had a number of traffic lights damaged we had streets blocked and there's been a huge amount of police presence on sunday and we expect similar scenes this wednesday when i controversial bill is introduced into hong kong apartment so let's talk more about that when this 2nd reading happens of this bill that you're talking about do we expect that the protests will be sustained throughout that. we do expect more protests on wednesday what they're talking about is trying to surround the lives of council building which is not far from where we are now we've already seen a roadblocks and barricades being put up by the police in preparation for wednesday's 2nd reading of this national anthem bill now it was it had its 1st rating last year but was withdrawn when it triggered a demonstrations and a lot of opposition of course this was around the time we had the anti government or the anti extradition demonstrations ramping up but now the reintroduced this

particular piece of legislation on wednesday and what this means is that the people of hong kong must sing china's national anthem they must respect china's national anthem and it will also be sung and played at major events in hong kong and also those people who disagree a little ridiculous they could face potentially a 3 year jail sentence or $7000.00 fine so the protesters are already talking about wednesday we do expect a huge police presence to surround this particular building the government headquarters on winds that try and keep those protesters out there sarah clarke with the latest in hong kong sara thank you. the number of confirmed cases of covert 1000 in the us is rising and nearly 100000 people have now die but despite warnings from public health officials many americans have been out and about enjoying a long holiday weekend auburn also reports. groups of family and friends gathered in new york's central park in fine weather on sunday police were on hand to remind

them to keep the recommended distance most appeared to comply and many new yorkers wore masks this memorial day weekend on the pages of one of the city's newspapers a different kind of memorial names and brief descriptions of some of the nearly 100000 u.s. residents who have died from coated 19 the headline read an incalculable loss elsewhere people party down beaches along the east coast and congregated outside a bar in pennsylvania dancing and listening to live bands. they appeared to ignore warnings from public health experts that crowds create the danger of a new spike in covert 900 cases when you go out for this weekend a memorial day i knew when to do a some kind of social gathering it's very important to maintain that 6 distance and very important to have your mask with you in case at 60 different the distance

cannot be maintained president donald trump who last week made a show of demanding that houses of worship be opened across the country this weekend skipped church in favor of goals for the 2nd day in a row he was not seen wearing a mask some churches did open in massachusetts a roman catholic priest greeted parishioners outside st john the evangelist church but other pastors perhaps mindful of the verse in the bible that says to everything there is a season decided the time was not ripe we're not ready and we are not going to open our doors until we believe that everybody is going to be able to stay safe a country eager to return to normal but divided over what normal has become rob reynolds al-jazeera. britain's prime minister boris johnson has backed his kid visor after was revealed to literally break down restrictions on

a cummings travel from london to northeast and going at the end of march while suffering from coven $1000.00 centimes he says he had to arrange childcare for his young son a number of m.p.'s have now to mandate he resign or be sacked by the prime minister says there is no need for that. as i said i look very clear i've seen a lot of stuff in the last few days about this episode of self isolation by mr cummings that does not seem to correspond remotely with reality and. as the as far as i can see he stuck to the rules and he reacted legally and responsibly and with the with the sole and the sole objective and voiding such contact as would spread the virus as luck and says the managing partner for the strategic advisory firm oddly he says this could affect the government's control tends to carry people with them over the real world consequences to this because if it

appears that there's one rule for the general public and another for people in power then the general consensus that existed around the lockdown in any future measures the government wants to implement there may be less compliance with those most public because they think they don't need to adhere to them there's also a political consequence which is that the promise the chief advisor is in trouble the prizes are big huge amount of political capital to try and get it through it but what you saw today was they took the view that actually this was a sort of western it's the story only 3 people in westminster and not really being paid that much attention to by people in the country but if you look at for example the front page of tomorrow's daily mail newspaper they get mail is typically very very supportive of conservative government the front page to most of the mail newspaper 'd one of the best in the country calls donica mr zine or the promise to sack him so if they're judging the actually it's a westminster story not really cutting to the public i think they may have just got

that calculation wrong. afghanistan's government is releasing up to 2000 taliban prisoners and a statement president called the move a goodwill gesture it seen as a confidence building measure before a long awaited peace talks between the government and the taliban on saturday the group offered a 3 day ceasefire over at the eat holiday. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attacked israel's justice system at the start of his trial for corruption is facing charges stemming from ties to wealthy associates that now who is israel's 1st sitting prime minister to face trial very fast has more from occupied east jerusalem. this was always going to be an extraordinary moment in israeli politics benjamin netanyahu decided to make it more 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 and attorneys office joined together with the lift 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 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 he's 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 risks further division this was the main and demonstration outside his residence. netanyahu is accused of asking for and taking lavish gifts from wealthy friends of offering to hindu one newspaper to get better coverage in another of exchanging hundreds of millions of dollars worth of regulator we hope to a telecoms chief again but better coverage on his new son. who caught a glimpse of the power of the world's to come for a prime minister on trial. leading his 1st cabinet meeting of the new coalition talking about iran the economy and governing the rule is full of fierce opponent and now on to the prime minister in a rotating coalition deal benny gantz released a statement saying that was innocent until proven guilty calling for reconciliation

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 very closely okey pieties to see what's described as a once in a decade storm has left thousands of people in western australia without power up to 50000 people and the stay or affected by blackouts the city of perth was a particularly hard by torrential rain and winds of up to 132 kilometers an hour cleanup operations are underway and weather warnings do remain in place for the 1st time in months what francis has delivered his sunday blessing before a small crowd in st peter's square was present kept their distance from each other and many did wear masks that francis gave his message online from his library with people watching on large screens and taurus have also returned to venice after the easing of restrictions and he briefly took off their mass to take pictures about

30000000 people visit the logan city every year italy will reopen its borders to european union states starting on june 3rd. for the 3 and a half 1000000 muslims living in the united states celebrated the end of the holy month of ramadan on sunday and in times of social distancing mosques took extra steps to keep worshiper safe i did hear castro has more. welcome to eating while driving that's eating to end the month long fasting of ramadan and drive it was the least that we can do to try to make our community feel the festive nature of read further into the darley he draws lawmakers center in falls church virginia is among the american mosques hosting socially distant celebrations this holiday. president trump on friday declared houses of worship essential many state and local governments bar large religious gatherings and throughout ramadan

normally a time when hundreds of congregants gather in mosques to break daily fast and pray the devotion has moved online oh the mean a shape on you right he. our faith has taught us that no matter where we are and what the circumstances might be that we still have to go forward with life and do the best that we can who are necessary add observe ramadan with her daughters in a home korean team she's watched friends lose loved ones to cove it and struggles with not being able to comfort them in person a lot of people have passed away and you know dusty unfortunate part of this but for those of us who are home and who haven't been affected and who can actually give back you can do that in so many different ways from the perspective of being grateful at dar islamic center volunteers gave away more than $600.00 meals a night during ramadan families are receiving more goodies now on eat then they'll

return home some to small gatherings where friends will bring their own food and grandparents will watch grand kids play from a far heidi joe castro al-jazeera falls church virginia. our website is al jazeera tom it's very easy to find how to saratov com take a look when you get a moment and keep it here for a recap of the headlines in just a moment. and we shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera libyan authorities say russian mercenaries are leaving the front lines in the capital tripoli state media reportedly show fighters who support warlord khalifa haftar are flying out from an air base forces have been trying to capture tripoli for 13 months now they've suffered a string of defeats in recent weeks against the one backed government that is supported by fighters from turkey military spokesman for the un recognized government call on libyans not to allow foreign mercenaries into residential areas

. of those i was going to as of yesterday we started coming to liberate it eery a to ensure the safe return of the displaced we are still closely monitoring the movements of the ruminant militias and missing areas who are trying to reorganize the fragmented ranks we are fully prepared to crush them over we assure our fellow libyans in the captured areas that we will not leave an inch of the libyan soil cooling them not to allow foreign mercenaries to bank and resort into areas of the us has announced travel restrictions on brazil was coven 1000 cases surgeon that latin american nation and as a 2nd highest number of infections in the world right after the united states despite that presidential are also naro continues to encourage rallies against lock down restrictions the number of virus related deaths in yemen has risen sharply aid groups estimate 80 people have died every day in the past week in the city of aden alone the u.n. envoy t.m.

in says the health system is ill equipped to protect diagnose and treat people. and israel's president nicolas maduro has thanked iran for delivering a tanker carrying more than a 1000000 barrels of fuel is the 1st of 5 sent to that country by iran the u.s. had opposed that delivery but did not actually stop the vessel but the ron and venezuela face u.s. sanctions when israel is suffering from a shortage of refined fuel despite having the world's largest oil reserves. government is criticizing nations opposing china's plan to impose a new security law and the territory security chief says it's needed to tackle what he calls a growing terrorism there's been anger in hong kong over the proposed bill with large demonstrations taking place on sunday around 180 people were arrested so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera one o one east is next. more than 10 years after the global financial crisis you've

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