where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who will come after. higher purpose. this one is ours. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes leaving the frontlines in libya's government says another flight carrying russian mercenaries who support the warlords after has left tripoli . domestic flights resume in india despite a large increase in the number of new coded 19 infections. to meet the woman who

took it on herself to fill the gap of much needed medical protective gear in new york. crops burned over night a sea water brought by cycling on park devastates thousands of farmers in one of the world's largest mangrove forests. covered sports as gold for the n.f.l. joined forces to raise money for greater virus relief tiger woods and peyton manning beat tom brady and phil mickelson to generate more than $20000000.00. ok let's get going there have been more depart just today of russian mercenaries from the front lines of the battlefield in the libyan capital tripoli that's according to the un backed government the russians have been fighting on behalf of the warlord after against forces who backed the government with support from turkey hafter has been trying to capture the cap. for 13 months now the mayor of bani

walid has confirmed the russians for the 1st group out from an air base in the town on sunday 7 military aircraft were sent to retrieve them our correspondent mark went up the warhead will join us live from the libyan capital in a moment but 1st here's the latest these are the pictures libyan media show russian medicine a reason leaving police frontline they were meant to shift the balance of power on the battlefield in favor of libyan warlord flee 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. 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 remnant 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 the league do you any report last month suggested hafter was backed by up to $1200.00 medicine or a yes' from russia as a vegan group a private military contractor the u.a.e. which backs have is believed to be bankrolling them the kremlin and have to deny they were ever there. very recent military gains or 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 this with retreat on the battlefield seems to suggest that their momentum is fast shifting in his 13 month long military campaign. joins us live here on the news from tripoli mark what do we know or is anyone speculating as to why the russians decided to pull their mercenaries out of this conflict. peter that's the $1000000.00 question nobody knows yet at least for the time being even half the us forces have not commented on this but we know that their russian

mercenaries have been playing a major and crucial rule in achieving advances in favor of her his forces over the past year in southern tripoli taken control of as threat egypt locations including the 3 military camps that have been recently captured by the government forces in southern tripoli and yet a military camp and the missiles that medics recap now in benny would leave the city of the city of tarhouni at the made of told that several flights have been landing in a port to carry the russian mercenaries but it is no clear information on where they're leaving in libya or out of libya but what we know for certain is that some of the russian mercenaries that left the front lies have

been carried by land transportation from benny will lead also to a job for military bases in central libya in all cases the russian medicine reserve in beni would lead now. the mayor told and just the other that the elderly council in benny will lead is protesting the presence of that i should mercenaries in ben you will lead because as they say they have taken part in attacking libyan cities and also attacking and killing and wanting innocent civilians there they say that the concern of the that some of the russian mercenaries might stay longer in beni will lead well thank you very much. domestic flight several zoomed in india as the government easy some restrictions off for 2 months locked india has just announced another record jump in new cases

in the past 24 i was 6977 with more infections being reported some states a pushing to limit the number of flights restarting elizabeth random has been at the airport to see how the crisis is unfolding. we're in delhi where more than $200.00 flights will take off and land on monday on the 1st day of domestic flights restarting in 2 months airlines say that they will be operating about a 3rd of all their flights to begin with but there was so much confusion ahead of flights restarting because there wasn't clarity on what the all states would accept flights and what the current team goals would be upon arrival and already seeing the result of that confusion 82 flights in and out of delhi have been cancelled leaving frustrated passengers behind they didn't have any notice airport officials say that's because a number of states went back on the number of flights that they would accept the was has states like tamil nadu and maharashtra they had initially said that they

didn't want any flights and that's because the number of coronavirus cases an india contributes to rise they are struggling in their states and they don't want to see a spike nonetheless flights have restarted and what we're seeing is all passengers having their bags satisfies before they go inside everyone has to with face mosques throughout the journey they are thermal screening before and after a flight the close in time to check in and for boarding gates is earlier than it used to be the center has set its guidelines for quarantine upon arrival only passengers showing symptoms will be tested and only those who a positive goal and to quarantine but all the states have set different rules but one thing that every. one has to do has made it mandatory to download every contact tracing and that's raising concerns especially with privacy experts

say that india's privacy laws in the it does not have the privacy laws to protect people's personal information. as per annum reporting the prime minister has lifted a state of emergency and containing the outbreak. says the spread of the virus is now under control measures had already been relaxed in most of the country and only tokyo and 4 other regions were still under restrictions japan managed to avoid a large scale epidemic reporting around 16000 confirmed cases and 840 deaths. a sudden rise in the number of burials in yemen suggest the spread of the virus is much greater than the authorities are reporting it comes after the united nations announced the country's health system has in effect collapsed in charlotte dallas. these freshly dug grave sin to the scale of the corona virus outbreak in humans largest southern city of aid in humans health ministry says the disease has killed

39 people here the number of graves suggests that number is much higher than it is strange he says never happened before the symmetry in all the has passed 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 the 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 which is very very rare ranges jut we hope. you are right most already dead and sewerage a market. very very high some 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 dimmick 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 the 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 will see that start also infected but there's no tests to check her or her red and we were obliged to reach was because we didn't. start. be able to treat a patient so it's very hard the organization believes that an addon 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 the schedule that has come to us we don't even know what a tease and why it's killed so many these men try to pray in peace. it's impossible with the symmetry sorry busy day digging 5 times as many graves is 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. well before the pandemic the number of people in poverty had been steadily falling for years now it's rising again for the 1st time since 1998 that's because all over the world most people can't get to work and that's particularly difficult for people in poor countries and migrant workers as well to make matters worse food prices are going up there are major disruptions to supply and without laborers crops are being left to rot in the fields from the u.s. to india and then to the philippines king's college london is estimating the number

of extremely poor people globally could increase by 420000000 over the next several months gertie goshes the chairwoman of the center for economic studies and planning at the. university she says many people need immediate financial help and long term support. certainly we need major major efforts on the forefront because there's going to be massive increases in hunger but jack not to be concerned is to do the best i just don't give them something to make up for the cost of no because the last 2 months immediate cash transfers she wants to give for the workers we've all lost we just lost cardigans and egypt let's just make sure that any amount they do need to support it is again the central government has been completely inactive on this that did come out of this school students that has been provided just less than well as into g.d.p. and it's really not reaching to be good we are seeing such extreme cases of

humanitarian catastrophe and charity my good work discharging hundreds of children during the rules we've been giving but i would say as they're trying to have it back to their homes to face starvation. i mean we are seeing in credibility with a humanitarian gesture to us and we need to do something good to be any of this in fact a particular tragedy because it's all to be fixed for. war and right all of the other things that you mentioned in the situation of extreme of the to agility and so yes many of the existing structures i don't exist and have to be treated but nonetheless the school body needed provision of cash at least we need to leave that was the market to the essentials if nothing is. lost more ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including staying at home and feeling ignored her disabled people are struggling behind closed doors. and find out why a german court has ordered volkswagen to pay some damages to car opens. and in the

scorpios chill we'll hear from the queensland reds rugby team after 3 of the players walked out over pay dispute. now many people with disabilities are facing greater difficulty because of the pandemic charities in the u.k. press and the government for more help they say the lockdown has increased people's fear of isolation and many are worried they won't get the right treatment if they become ill has emma heywood. elsa has been self isolating since the beginning of march so makes the most of being in the garden she has severe rheumatoid arthritis and is in constant pain the drugs she takes suppress the immune system so she was told to stay at home for 12 weeks to shield herself and waiting to go back on to a drug that i've been on before. but if i had been. if covert had been

around i would have been dealing with this at an early stage but i know that my consultant has been on the cambridge front line so i didn't want to bother him disability groups say worries about health and accessing services are being felt more acutely during the town and many people are struggling behind closed doors according to the charity scope just over a quarter of disabled people feel forgotten or ignored by the government some disabled people considered clinically extremely vulnerable to corona virus have been asked to shield in theory being on the boehner bill list can provide people with extra support such as ours were to. try to save the system is flawed because it doesn't include groups such as the point i wanted to point shopping with social distancing rules very difficult yet again has always left socialising last year he went blind after a brain tumour and he lives alone i do it if i am perfectly healthy other than.

what i am also incredibly vulnerable and when all the services were drawn from my social. worker to not being able to get. to kuwait all of those things i was a lie or i don't even have the option of. going for a walk or maybe you know these i want the minutes in the park. rickards your we have. a government spokesperson told us it is determined to ensure the most vulnerable are supported during this pandemic but campaigners say more needs to be done in that speed of decision and and force is coming very quickly and not being moved. very quickly we believe that the needs of disabled people and specifically in these a partially blind partially sighted people from our perspective have not been taken account of has not been thought about and we really think that needs to happen much

has been made of the result shown by people during this crisis some have had to demonstrate real fortitude for years and i would al-jazeera lincolnshire. back to europe the british prime minister boris johnson facing condemnation from the public the opposition and even from within his own governing conservative party for defending his top advisor there are growing calls for dominic cummings to quit or to be sacked after it emerged he drove 400 kilometers to his parents' house and britain was under a strict lockdown regime and he was showing symptoms of covert 19 new barker's in london he says the breach and senior politicians defending it has jeopardized trust in the government. this isn't simply the story about one mile and this is about trust and faith in government a government that laid down rules and regulations that required people to be disciplined required self-sacrifice of people and our people are questioning well

look what was it all for given that perhaps senior officials close to the prime minister close to the government as a whole may have been bending the rules to their own advantage in london today it's almost as if summer has come early and with it the inclination to perhaps bend rules and regulations of social distancing in people's favor and of course all these allegations spiral around dominic cummings the question is really should people be following what the government says does it undermine that crucial faith possibly it does and this is what the newspapers have been saying here the tabloids very interesting to say that this one the daily mirror is left wing the daily mail is right wing both of them saying similar things in their words the daily mirror a cheat and a coward that's how it describes dominic cummings and boris johnson's response to the breach of the regulations and the daily mail what planet are they all in

a huge distrust as i said and those that are meant to be leading this country at a time where perhaps trust in leadership was never needed quite so much as it is now. well the coming scandal is just the latest slip up for the u.k. government the prime minister boris johnson has come under particular scrutiny initially his team had implied the u.k. would adopt a strategy of herd immunity that's letting the virus run its course to build up across the population resistance that plan was quickly abandoned but lock down restrictions were still rolled out weeks after medical experts advise them to do so this led to critics blaming mr johnson for the number of deaths in the u.k. at the height of the pandemic more than a 1000 people were dying every day in the month of april nearly 37000 people have now lost their lives and the public's frustrations have only been made worse by what many have seen as johnson's unclear and conflicting advice let's bring in our mr campbell he served as former british prime minister tony blair's director of

communications and press secretary inside 10 downing street and was the campbell welcome to the news hour we are expecting to hear from dominic cummings in the next hour clearly for a mini constitutional point of view he's not elected so he shouldn't actually take reporters' questions in the same venue as the prime minister's daily briefing but just to be clear what is the one thing he can say that will shut this down. i don't know because it all depends on the truth and i'm afraid that what we've seen is a long track record of both with johnson and with dominic cummings they have a very very loose arrangement with the troops so i honestly don't know the answer to that i mean the story has changed several times in the last few days for a sense of what this is about is that the haps the ministers who have been sent out to bat for cummings in the last few days and have made themselves look completely ridiculous in the eyes of the public and a few will this sense that there's one law for them another or rest of the country

and they basically said no we're not going to do this unless we know the truth johnson's performance yesterday was embarrassing and i think has rightly been condemned in many many parts of the world which is incredibly damaging to the standing of the united kingdom at this time and so perhaps what's happened is that they're basically saying well ok cummings you going to have to go and defend this yourself or let's see how it all pans out there's a lot of talk that he's going to use what they have apparently caught in downing street the trump card which is not his due donald trump it's to a card playing phrase suggesting that there's some condition of his son that meant they had to act as they did which is already provoking corps a lot of angry reaction whether it's right or not i don't know from people who say well hold on i've got a child with very challenging needs are got parents very challenging special circumstances but i did what it was i was told i abided by the rules and that's why

this is cut through to the public it has made people so angry that you know i mean it is this where i am now i've spent 23 hours of 2023 hours out of every 24 pretty much for the last 2 months. i've not been able to go to 2 funerals of friends that very close to me died not been able to visit people and also not been able to visit a new member of the family that has been born up in the north of england every single person in the. 100 percent to do these things but one person in the country boris johnson has staked his entire reputation authority on career in saying no no no whatever he told me he did nothing wrong i mean what if asli pardon me for interrupting alistair what if he does that quiz politician apology and basically says sorry if you think i did something wrong but he doesn't express sorry or contrition for actually having done something wrong doesn't that just give it

more legs not fewer legs. well honestly the best thing about isn't this to me is not about how long this runs a story it's about the rights and wrongs of a government rightly in my view belatedly but rightly asking the country to go in to look and then the prime minister the person to whom it was so important to the prime minister the state his entire political life on his back at the moment he breaks those rules i'm going to be honest i don't care what the circumstances are i know people who've had really difficult challenging circumstances who stayed home who made sure that they got through it with whatever they had and this idea that he could only go to only the 60 miles across the country pretty other people risk and in so doing undermine fundamentally the basic message of this government ok we get your position and this is what really gets my goat these are in phase one of this

crisis because of the incompetence and indifference of boris johnson tens of thousands of people died and now in phase 2 they're now making judgments about how to ease the lock down not according to the science but how can we get this dominant coming story out of the way ok r ving or corrupt their right will get dollars sinew they're going the better here's the thing what does this say about boris johnson as prime minister he was elected on one issue on one issue only get bricks that done you and i are roughly the same generation we're exactly the same generation i remember barbara castle a labor party grandee saying of your former boss tony blair but does he have the killer instinct because her stance was to be british prime minister you've got to have enough guts to sack the people who are closest to you and it would appear mr johnson lacks that particular component. well no tony blair had a killer instinct to fight that you mean did he kind of do the things that he had

to do both the will and then to couple or to govern effectively and to take difficult decisions he certainly had the ability for us johnson is somebody who has spent his whole career both as a journalist from a very privileged background and then as a politician all savings through life by making people laugh and he is basically taking the country for a right i would only to revisit the whole process argument but i think it's fairly well established that he lied in these team led by dominic cummings came very suddenly in my view broke the law to get over the line with that one he's one of the actually it's got a majority i think what you're saying is a promise to simply somebody doesn't have a killer instinct he's incapable of doing the job and the fact that you would like to talk about this now in the middle of a crisis would massive health implications massive economic implications trouble now about deciding when and how to open schools open shops open bars and restaurants get football but we can assume not a lot of people and all the country can talk about this is gonna dominate cummings

is incredible and the government reduced to a jibbering wrecked by this guy is i mean i i have such i'm trying to hold back what i really think because i have such contempt for these people i don't know what i suspect will happen today control of your heartstrings when you try and sort of say i'm really you know noisy my apologize but the idea that these people mean anything they don't of they don't know what humility contrition contrition is this does this however honest to campbell completely undermine or to a degree undermine the fight against the coronavirus in the u.k. because if dominic cummings was an elected m.p. and you had the local police chief constable in the durham area saying he is being investigated he would have to go public and say i will step aside because i'm an elected m.p. so he's. unelected so he doesn't step aside but all those government ministers involved in the fight in the u.k. against the coronavirus not least matt hancock the u.k.

health secretary there maybe going to take their eye off the ball a little bit and concentrate on domestic politics and surviving instead of keeping people alive. well i couldn't put it better myself that is what is so appalling and really putrid about what's going on you have the other day when this story 1st appeared about cummings and what he did or didn't the mirror in the guardian broke the story within hours you had johnson city number 10 at a time of national crisis and what was he doing all day funny or begging cabinet ministers to put out tweets and the like a bunch of nodding dogs they did a couple of cut and paste the tweets and it went out and said oh this is a father actually in the interests of his son and then sit in poets i think what has fueled this raging anger and you know the only reason i think what this lockdown might still hold but i think it's pretty close to cracking the reason why still hold is because actually the public are still way more decent than these

people so they understand there is actually a risk of going out and doing things that we maybe one want to do you know are sort of still staying here today we're going to once a day to exercise people are still following the rules but when for example they try to open schools then you know parents are entitled yesterday boris johnson introduced a new in a new defense breaking rules and it's your parental instincts his instinct as a parent was that he should go to durham but what if your instinct as a parent of the you know i want to go to work with the kids my instinct as a parent you know the teachers i won't go to teach other kids are there who look up to my oh and what happens when you establish that there's one rule for the government and another rule for those who are governing you have a breakdown of society and that's why this is so serious and i honestly believe unless johnson gets a grip of this i don't think it is about companies it's about johnson how much of the venal incompetence years and yet he's been

a great campaigner down the years and he makes people laugh and he's very good in the act of them as people are oh because back in the after pretty soon ok we have to leave it there alice campbell thank you for coming on we do appreciate i think you're a book about. tell him he weather his journey really hot in parts of the states people are going out maybe not such a good look not such a good thing to do there's a lot of them out there peter but it's very very hot so people are heading to the beaches what you would do is an inaudible times they were as i don't know it's actually southwest in the u.s. is where we got the clear skies the last as that's one thing i'm going to talk about the other is this mass here across the central and southern plains that is not about to change anytime soon really nor is the heat across the southwest so is venice beach and you can see peter's just referring to plenty of people out there enjoying the water and enjoying the beach but there's actually some heat wave warnings in place in fact excessive heat the national weather service a calling it for southern california nevada and also across into areas of arizona

and this gives you an idea what i'm talking about it comes to excessive heat because the average in l.a. for this time of year is $23.00 celsius and look at this way up to 32 by choose to and it really doesn't drop below that for several days so really very warm much warmer than average but this is the area of concern in terms of rain over the next few days it is a very very slow moving system and it extends a long way really from the midwest right the way down into texas it is slow moving it means some very heavy amounts of rain within that we could have some severe thunderstorms as always that chance of damaging hail maybe even a tornado but national fact the temperatures aren't that different added the system or behind you know we usually have that clash of cold air and moist warm air we don't have that but it's moving so slowly of the next few days that i think one of the biggest problems is going to be some widespread flooding particularly in summers can see as much as 100 millimeters of rain so peter i'm not sure i'd rather be in the rain or in the sun nyssa tough one ok jenny talk to you later thank you very much still to come here on the news hour for you. just having

a bit of an it's quite kieron quieted quite a decent shy kid. shaken not stirred new zealand's prime minister approves the show must always go on. for going ancient traditions iraqis use technology to mark a holiday overshadowed by coronavirus. an awful lot to stifle strike a comes out firing that's coming up with jokes in the sports news. tune on out to see students in india's carola state will be heading back to school despite confirmed cases of covert 19 and risk warnings people in power is back with more investigative documentaries from around the wound as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic global health leaders meet remotely to discuss effective solutions for the development of

a cold with 19 vaccine and the 2 party investigation asks whether water should be a free natural resource or a commodity traded for profit and how are the u.s. elections shaping up as the country battles calls with 19 we'll look into whether donald trump can survive these historic setbacks june announces era frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water what's been the result received perching go up quite significantly and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

welcome back let's just get you right up to speed with all the top stories so far today russian mercenaries fighting for the be on the warlord holy for after have retreated from the frontlines his forces have suffered a string of defeats in recent weeks against the un recognized government. and is reported its biggest one day jump in new cases more than 6100 but domestic flights have resumed as the government eases restrictions after 2 months lock down. british prime minister boris johnson is facing condemnation for defending his top advisor their own growing calls for dominick cummings to quit after he was accused of breaking the law and he is due to make a statement in the next hour we'll carry it live for you here on out is it. germany's top court today ruling v.w. volkswagen must partially pay back car owners affected by its emissions cheating scandal more than 11000000 vehicles worldwide it's affected let's take a look at what precisely happened here well way back in 2040 u.s. researchers discovered that v.w. was using software to cheat on its emissions tests its diesel engines were missing

up to 40 times higher than the legal limit one year later the german company admitted to the scheme its c.e.o. stepped down and shares dropped by nearly half in 2 days tens of thousands of drivers have sued volkswagen one case has reached germany's highest court but it could have implications for others the scandal has already cost the company more than $33000000000.00 and just last week its 2 top executives paid $10000000.00 to avoid criminal charges ferdinand do it on her phone as the director of the center for automotive research in germany he explains how the ruling means drivers will be compensated based on the mileage of their vehicle. you see the girl over here the owners drive a lot of kilometers with the car which they bought sometimes you go 345 years ago and then lucas said ok we have to take in the coward and. the

value of the car is you mean it's due to the humans it's the car and therefore we will find a solution which says ok you can get back the car. then price you pay terms years ago for the car however you have to pay into account the kilometers the uses of the car which you did in the past and therefore i think it was expected that the seller currying terminal you will go into that direction and so that on the one hand we don't need you. to pay compensation for customers because they've cheated the customers on the other hand customers have to be accepted that the use it or the car has to be into taking into account or making the channel so lucian or their product that

restaurants and cafes owners in spain opened their doors to customers the 1st time in 2 months people can also go to the tolson museums and barcelona as part of the government's phased approach to easing virus restrictions as of july the 1st international tourists arriving in the country will not be required to enter quarantine spain has been hit hard of course by the pandemic recording of the 29000 deaths. the indian government has deployed soldiers to help with rescue and relief efforts after a powerful storm hit last week cyclon destroyed homes uprooted trees and flooded hundreds of villages in west bengal and odisha states more than 20 rivers have breached their banks and sea water is seeping into farmland in the mangroves region for your nasco world heritage site is priyanka gupta. the last green fields of western coal have turned into a wasteland 5 days after soccer unfun made landfall in that instance to defend

the scale of destruction that had left in its path it's now becoming more clear. this remote community of charcuterie in the sunderbans mongol fujian was caught in the eye of the storm. 16 year old adam how old are lost all his harvest. salty water from the bill thank god signor by has surged into his paddy and put into foods the soil is now so contaminated that he says it will take years of monsoon grain to washington to salt until then starvation and his family of 4 yet come i can have my say that i'm 60 years old what can i do now i have nothing left i have no option but to die. publishing the mando is

scraping for pieces that he can still sell those from his destroyed home the greens that took him months to harvest are all gone the fishing has spawned have died. overnight this farmer and fisherman has lost all his income. you know i'm going to . i was taking refuge with my family in a shelter after returning to see that everything's gone i really hope the government can help us tide over the crisis. this in the woods region is a classroom of more than 100 albums on one of the world's largest mangrove forests stretching across west bengal. it's home to the endangered royal bengal tiger and is a unesco world heritage site more than 40 percent of people in this part of india live in poverty. this so just to see water in the sky i thought you could be sensitive region could be devastating for it's called farming i'm fishing

communities across hundreds of villages. but they haven't got the want to get to the actual. they're no better than the trees and plants have all died because of the salt water and the way the fish are dying it will be really difficult for cameras here to put food on the table the coronavirus has already had an impact on their incomes we need to start government appointed scam so you know. the corona virus pandemic are knocked down are also making head harder for families from days from agencies to go to cities for work for people like me how about the future remains uncertain a mess has arrived so. on 0. the number of deaths from the virus in the u.s. is now approaching 100107000 just over it but despite warnings from health officials many americans have been out enjoying a long holiday weekend is good weather in the states is what reynolds. 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 partied on 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 coven 1000 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 say say. a country eager to return to normal but divided over what normal has become rob

reynolds 0 well new york has been struggling with a lack of personal protective equipment ever since it became the epicenter of the pandemic in the u.s. but one woman in brooklyn has taken it on herself to help medical workers get what they need to stay safe gabriel is on the reports from new york. she's been called the patron saint of personal protective equipment or p. p. e. and for hospital staff here in brooklyn rhonda rowland shear is definitely a godsend like many americans she became frustrated at the hard time hospital staff faced getting a hold of p.-p. essential for working with patients infected with covert 19 unlike most people she decided to buy the equipment herself and then give it away this handout the line went around the block each week her charity cut red tape for heroes gives out plastic bags inside her gloves masks shoe coverings hand sanitizer and other

supplies given to anybody who needs it and we treat non-medical staff just like the medical staff because they're the working people the maintenance workers that are in the rooms of coban patients picking up the trash bringing a lot of yet they're considered non-medical workers and i don't agree with this anybody with a hospital i gets free people hospital staff are appreciative but this is very important because they're going to say the lines we're going to save us from transporting anything to the patients and from the patients from transferring it on to us so it's very important as lifesaving all the supplies rhonda gives away have cost her more than a half $1000000.00 money she raised by taking out a loan against her new york city apartment while everyone is very happy with what they're receiving many have told us that inside the hospitals the demand for

personal protective equipment for exceeds the supply overall is not enough there's not enough you know everywhere you go you know i need you know so it's it's definitely some that's very much appreciated a woman who has taken it upon herself to help protect hospital staff one bag of supplies at a time gave rosendo al-jazeera brooklyn new york. new zealand has further eased its restrictions on public gatherings as of friday groups of up to 100 people can gather the current limit is just 12 and zealand has only 41 new claims over the past week. i've scalabrine fly consulate obviously still have those restrictions apply applied in terms of size but the shift to 100 person makes my means many more gatherings will be able to work from now on. these changes are good news for

business and for those looking to plan logic gatherings that's another stupid renormalizing of wife as we continue to stamp out the virus not long before making that announcement the prime minister mrs arden was speaking live to a local morning t.v. show when an earthquake hit this is how she responded yes having a bit of an it's quite kieron quieted quite a decent shake here if you see things moving behind very has stopped probably isolates a little more than most as it stopped trying to store is it still going you know it's just stops and you're feeling syphon while to continue the interview you know are we find ride and i'm not under any hanging lights i look like i'm in a structurally sound. place afghanistan has begun freeing taliban prisoners in what the president asked for afghan a calls a gesture of goodwill these are images of the 1st $100.00 men to be released from prison on monday the president is to gun shows to free around 2000 prisoners in

response to the taliban offer of a 3 day truce over the ied holiday that's due to end midnight on tuesday the iraqi government has imposed a lockdown for the duration of the ied holiday but not everyone is abiding by the rules some mosques are allowing in small numbers of worshippers yet most muslims are letting go of centuries old religious rituals to help protect their communities from the virus simona folds and reports now from baghdad. the call for prayers rings out from the minarets of. but that's most important sunni mosque normally hundreds would attend the morning prayer which marks the end of the fasting month of ramadan but only a few dozen people flock to its gates to observe what is one of the most sacred rituals of. confining people to harm's but because very close to the mosque i decided to come and play of course

one observing the safety precautions. in the law and people in the mosque is ignoring government orders to remain shot to prevent the spread of coronavirus the government has imposed a poll a lockdown over to eat holidays but some mosques are nevertheless letting in a limited number of worshippers for the most part however people will be spending their holidays at home for hasan like many other shia iraqis a trip to the shrine city of najaf in iraq's south is a must on the 1st day of ied there he would normally pay his respects at his father's grave and pray at the muzzle of a relative and successor of prophet mohammed this year hasan has gone online to fulfill his religious duties the ryan has made available an application that allows pilgrims to visit virtually. the meets the 1st time the experience is very nice

of course it's not like actually being there but it has brought some relief from humans to visit we're able to visit from afar but in the end our presence will be through our intention. other religious establishments are using the internet to reach their congregations. throughout ramadan jamila harry has live streamed his sermons on facebook with only a small number of people attending in person. on the 1st day of eat jamila would usually host friends and relatives at his grandfather's house in baghdad cavaney a district the building passed down for 3 generations is a popular venue for prayers and religious studies. of course the door is open we will not turn anyone away but this time people will not come in large numbers only very few will come and you can count them on one hand it's not like in the past we are afraid for them to get lazy use. but fear of the coronavirus is not enough to keep the most devout away authorities have set up

roadblocks throughout the capital to prevent people entering graveyards and shrines even during the city's most violent years but the death streets have never been this empty on the morning of 8 seem want to 14 al-jazeera but that more restrictions are being lifted in palestine after no new cases were recorded over the past mosques and churches will reopen on tuesday and by thursday people will be able to go to shops and restaurants and workplaces in the public sector will reopen we're told the prime minister says all the reopening will abide by medical advice. still to come here on the news hour with the monaco grand prix canceled one driver still gets his laps in around the iconic circuit joe we'll explain all in the sports news when we come back. business later is what you'll find

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time for sport with peter thank you well we start with a charity golf match that raised more than $20000000.00 for coronavirus relief tiger woods and phil mickelson paired up with n.f.l. legends tom brady and eli manning and i was actually one of the footballers who came up with the shots of the day. yeah that was 6 time super bowl winner brady holding out for birdie but bending down to retrieve the ball he actually split his pants and mickelson went on to lose the match by one shot woods getting revenge for the $9000000.00 he lost to mickelson at a similar event in $28.00 team tiger struggled with injury at the start of the year was competing for the 1st time since february as he'll be ready to go when the

p.g.a. tour starts for real on june the 11 that of spain's top football league has want players to act responsibly as they try to restart the season action could resume as early as june the 11th with the darby match between severe and real betis but for severe players have apologized for breaking social gathering rules well. we cannot behave in this way it's a risk to our industry we're putting at risk $187000.00 jobs and more than one percent of spain's g.d.p. during training sessions in the upcoming matches it would be practically impossible to come into risky contact it's in our private environments that's where we need to be careful. the restart hasn't come soon enough for one player at athletic bilbao striker and it's a do it's the oldest player ever to score for spain had hoped to retire in front of fans but he needs a hip replacement so he's ended his career now you know instead he was on and by his teammates with a special socially distant ceremony on the pitch in bilbao. italy

set a season could restart in june but never him of it might not take part the striker has suffered a suspected achilles injury while training with ac milan he's having scans to find out the extent of the damage. the caps have a strain in rugby side queensland red says there are no hard feelings towards the 3 players who walked out of the cob over pay row australian international isaac wrote it was part of the trio released from their contracts off for refusing a 60 percent wage cut but most rugby players across australia have accepted reduced pay to help keep this for to live amid the cove in 1000 shut down initially were quite disappointed without some time to digest it now as i said they got to spend a lot of time with them of the years and so we were disappointed to see them without having them around the locker room but it's just something that happens you know everyone is entitled to make their decision throughout this this pandemic and there is but it just reaffirms all the draws that here you really want to be here

you have a lot to prove and i'm looking forward to putting on the queen's and jersey again well what be federations worldwide to taking a financial hit including in england which could lose more than $100000000.00 while cup winner will greenwood told us that cooperation between clubs and country is essential for recovery. the reality is that clubs and unions who are on the brink whose financial stability and security has been exposed by coronavirus i think in the short term the thing that happens and start really happen 1st is the clubs and the country to get on side with each other because the realities for the are a few of the main breadwinners and those are the england international matches the games that we can those big money spinners those big events that you can sell to broadcasters bring in the commercial revenue but for that to happen in them would need to have access to their star players to attract the best to attract the fans to come who want to watch but the flipside is that clubs want to finish their

season and they don't want to pay back the broadcasters the money they owe from last season they need to finish season 20192020 there's still the european club competition to take place the 1st thing that has to happen is this dialogue between club and country to see if we can get a calendar to finish last season and to get next season up and running with a bucket full of internationals taking place so that we get back to a relative sense of normality and in that process because it will take time we then have the conversations have been taking place between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere the 6 nations and sounds are then potentially those organizations coming together to to get a global calendar where the rugby championship takes place at the same time 6 nations tours take place and then at the back of the season you have the rugby nations championship the commercial side of the game become stronger it's clear for the game to become a truly global one there has to be

a great deal of alignment between the unions and the calendars. to commercially maximise their wonderful game that we have. now some day should have been the culmination of formula one's monaco grand prix the race may have been cancelled because of the pandemic but for henri's charlock luck still managed to get a few laps in around his home circuit the driver featured in a short film with director claude illusion behind the camera the clerk drove for r e s f 93 that are around the iconic street track but he misses being back in his real car in one month and will be back on the racing truck in form one and season will be starting again i just can't wait i'm missing racing so much and i've been preparing myself more than ever during the lockdown as i had a lot of free time and i feel ready to to get back in the car now has been racing but without fans in the school's longest race got even longer on sunday the coca-cola 600 in charlotte went into overtime with drivers completing 405 laps

instead of the scheduled 400 because of several incidents late on friday keselowski picked up the checkered flag and a formula a driver has been disqualified after cheating in an online charity race hired a professional east for racer to compete in his place in a game on saturday up has been fined almost $11000.00 all right that is all useful for now more later peter joe thanks very much more news in a couple of minutes when we come back hopefully see them for the moment about. water scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because it's lawyer doesn't mean it's cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford it that guy's teles water in

a new 2 part series al-jazeera examines the social financial and environmental impact of water privatized ation loads of water coming soon. a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry i walked out on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in the living room close the book of the books and know all you like and the others through the green line continues with spirit child who do stories that have impact on society i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys behind bars so many people have gone to jail as a result of my work we want on al-jazeera. as the world fights to corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day the new patent your new join our global community. how we come to be able to fight on soaring your questions can i just ask you time to see directly that coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the fact life on earth the great question that keeping you up to date and

we've seen countries retreat back and beaten back to the stream on 00. leaving the front lines libya's government says another flight carrying russian mercenaries who support the warlords after has left tripoli. hello again welcome back you're watching al-jazeera my name's peter dhabi these are your top stories to mastic flights resume in india despite a large increase in the number of you cope with 19 infections. pressures building in the u.k. prime minister after he stood by his advisor who broke quarantine rules.