i have strength as a story of courage. the fear is real. passion. and there is just. i believe the rules circumstances i believe to be legally. a top adviser to the british prime minister says he did nothing wrong denying accusations he broke strict lockdown rules. i'm convinced this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the trial of an added malaria drug and covered 900 patients is suspended by the world health organization because of safety concerns. israel's prime minister says he won't miss an opportunity to annex more of the occupied west bank calling it one of his

government's top tasks. leaving the front lines libya's government says another flight carrying russian mercenaries who had supported warlord who for half star has left tripoli. the british prime minister's closest adviser dominic cummings has defied calls to quit or apologize of accusations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules addressing a political storm that's and golfed bar staunton's government cummings also said he doesn't regret his actions he says he acted reasonably and within the law when he drove 400 kilometers with his son and wife who had covered 900 symptoms coming find he went to his parents' property to ensure his 4 year old would be cared for if he too fell ill. no i don't i don't regret what i did as i

said i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i thought about what to do in the in the in the in the circumstances but i think that i think what i did was actually reasonable in these. in these circumstances the rules make clear that if you're dealing with small children they're not could be that can be exceptional circumstances and i think the situation that i was in was exceptional circumstances . following the story for us live from london nave so cummings confirmed he did make this journey he gave somewhat detail about this journey but is this really likely to be the end of it. well as a good question i think it goes some way in diffusing some of the anger that has been directed against germany coming so over the past few days there's been spiraling accusations that have been quite vicious in some of the newspapers directed to him

personally as to why a man so close to the prime minister should follow the rules and regulations is they want to rule for the political elite while there's another rule for the rest the public will dominate coming says said in his very very detail account is set out a series of logical explanations as to why there were the exceptional circumstances surrounding his decision to go to the northeast of england he says he doesn't need to apologize he says that they were reasonable decisions to make and that the hard and fast rules set down by the government to stay at home and save lives had room to maneuver given that there were exceptional circumstances that prevented him from staying at home given that he feared that his home could be a target given that he's a controversial figure and fear it's a protest as could target his home given that his wife was suffering from covert symptoms and he feared he would be ill and given that of course the how to young 4 year old son that he was looking for help and looking after all of that added up to

this very quick decision to go to the northeast of england he said he could have done certain things differently like asking the prime minister's permission or at least letting the prime minister know but i think the biggest mistake that's coming is made was not to share with this information sooner because over the past few days as a said some of the headlines directed at cummings have been very vicious indeed and they undoubtedly will have dented not only his reputation but the reputation of those close to him including the prime minister now will be interesting to see how this all shakes down what has this done to johnson some of said that they don't in his state he's been there cool future on standing by dominic cummings. well yeah i think that the lack of detail over the past few days has made a bad situation significantly worse not only for cummings ball but for boris

johnson himself firstly let's not forget what all of this surfaced of friday in the newspapers that coming said made this irregular journey to the northeast of england it fell to senior cabinet ministers to awkwardly try and some build their way through quite. pointed interviews on television to try and explain what dominic cummings had done then all of a sudden on sunday and their main man himself boris johnson who again tried to explain and defend cummings his action without going into any detail whatsoever so here we are on monday with a man who is more used to being in the background of bit british politics putting on a clean shirt rather than a hoodie and sitting there in the back garden of number 10 and trying to explain in detail what had happened as a city takes some of the wind out of the sale of the allegations some of the fiercest allegations levelled against dominic cummings but already an awful lot of damage has been done at

a time in which the government is desperately trying to focus the attention on easing lockdown restrictions not on stamping out this scandal at the heart of power . thanks for that there across the mountains from london. the world health organization has suspended a clinical trial of the malaria drug and talks the current queen as a cause of $900.00 treatment it says the trial has been put on hold while safety data is reviewed us president donald trump said he had taken hundreds the car crane to ward off corona virus that has now stopped you have of course been public health warnings along the way that this drug may be unsafe. let's go live now to white house correspondent kimberly how can kimberly how is this all likely to go down with the president. well for the president's part he still longer taking the drug he confirmed that as of yesterday in an interview with an american network but there's no question that this is certainly of note given the fact that

the u.s. president has been one of the biggest proponents of hydroxy chloroquine in the u.s. president has repeatedly cited studies in france as well as in italy and has also said that he has received numerous letters from various people who say the drug has saved their lives now it's for this reason that the u.s. president says he himself took the drug prophylactic lee that means that as a preventive measure given the fact that there was an outbreak of covert 1000 here in the white house campus not only did the president's personal valet test positive for cope at 19 but also the vice president's press secretary and even some members of the u.s. secret service so as a result the u.s. president decided in consultation with the white house physician to take this drug even though it's known to have high risk particularly when it comes to heart rhythm problems the us president said he took it he's now off the drug but it's certainly interesting that given the fact that the u.s.

president has pushed this drug repeatedly the world health organization is now joining the chorus including the food and drug administration here in the united states who says look at this drug has serious safety concerns well it's you know useful for treating anti terrorism anti-malarial drug it is not useful for treating covert 19 now we should point out it's here in the united states a holiday today the u.s. president has been out laying wreaths in honor of fallen soldiers but when he returned to the white house just now reporters did try to show questions to him about this and also the fact that the united states now as one of the countries with the highest rate of death from coronavirus now hitting that 100000 mark if the u.s. president had any response he simply waved had very little to say about the matter . thank you for that that is complete alka there live from the white house and he has resumed domestic flights with the government to get asia's 3rd largest

economy moving again on the same day though it announced its biggest jump yet a new coronavirus infections almost 7000 are india correspond with broader reports from new delhi. it is the new normal that indian airports start sanitised passengers bags before they enter the terminal. the disinfectants praised just one of a number of new measures as domestic flights resumed passengers temperature's a check before and after flying masks a compulsory throughout the journey and some were taking extra precautions. and we have all. the. passengers with symptoms will be tested or quarantined upon arrival but many states have said they're on voles the civil aviation minister tweeted indian saw in the skies again but not everything went to plan $82.00 flights in and out of delhi were

cancelled with little notice leaving passengers frustrated according to airport officials that's because several states said they wouldn't be able to accept flights what's that earlier agreed to. what the number of coronavirus cases rising the worst hit states of try and have agreed to only allow 25 arrivals a day after initially refusing to accept flights. the state of west bengal's had flights can't land for another 3 days as it deals with the aftermath of cycling on plan we just heard that my friend has been cancelled i didn't get any notification i didn't get any mates i just heard it in airports so i'm joined. on having her back home. airlines are planning to resume about a 3rd of their domestic flights as the government tries to restart the world's 5th largest economy. but the industry faces challenges the supreme court has ordered social distancing must be observed in airports and on flights forcing airlines to

keep middle seats vacant and it said the government should be more worried about the health of citizens rather than the health of the airlines elizabeth pride of al-jazeera you daddy. israel's prime minister says his government will seize what he's described as an historic opportunity to annex more palestinian land in the occupied west bank and jordan betty it's been netanyahu made the comments to members of his right wing likud party and the israeli knesset is currently on trial for corruption charges are a force that has more from west to them on that now his comments. well it certainly means that the message from netanyahu remains very staunchly in that direction despite what's been happening since you negotiated the coalition deal with his former rival now benny gantz in which he assured that there would be no veto on that side of the government to netanyahu has plans to continue with the move towards an extension and from any time from july the 1st on woods have the ability

to bring it to vote in the israeli parliament the knesset the complicated fact that him at least well there are a few one is the fact that the united states seems to be dampening down such expectations since the president might compare here about 10 days ago the u.s. secretary of state they've been talking about the need for that to be negotiations ongoing with the palestinians. under which process israel would be allowed to annex parts of the occupied west bank as far as the u.s. is concerned so that was interpreted as a pretty obvious slowdown message coming from the u.s. we've also had the palestinian president mahmoud abbas declaring an end to all forms of cooperation with the israelis as a result of what has already been announced on annexation nonetheless to his diehard new could party supporters today he was saying that this was an opt in opportunity that hadn't existed since the creation of the state of israel in 1948

that he wasn't going to miss it. still ahead on al-jazeera the man hand-picked by burundi's long time president to replace him is declared the winner of a contentious election. and forgoing ancient traditions iraqis use technology to mark a holiday overshadowed by coronavirus. and they're off to a couple of cool a day show us across northern sections of the middle east the heat really is back in place play skies and also as you were showers across into areas of psyche that clearing fairly rapidly although there's another system working its way in from the west on tuesday but at least as much as 29 in jerusalem the same in damascus and the hot and baghdad on shoes of the high the a 40 degrees celsius and then those temperatures set to rise as we head through

wednesday up to 35 in damascus 44 in baghdad some pretty brisk winds coming from the interior so the hot dry winds coming down towards areas accounts also $36.00 in doha 40 celsius in riyadh and always the chance of those showers yet again into will southern and western areas of yemen and then down into southern africa now there's been a fairly vigorous storm system working its way through will southern areas of south africa that will continue to do so as we go through tuesday some pretty strong winds along these coastal areas some rough waves as well as that and keep in the time which is there are quite a bit of cloud as you can see just some 14 celsius in port elizabeth those winds extending up the east coast as well not about to cross into madagascar the usual across sections of central africa out towards the gavel a similar story a wednesday but to begin its care up in the fall for the hive 18 in cape town.

frank assessments tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result in poaching a lot quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal and it really is citing in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines it's time for new policy and say on the street they cannot all be seen to grady but he read to me this is the really deep over all continues inside story on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera of either of our top stories this hour the british prime minister's closest adviser dominic cummings has defied calls to quit or apologize

for the accusations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules addressing a political storm that engulfed boris johnson's government cummings also said he does not regret his actions. the world health organization has suspended a clinical trial of the malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine as a covert 900 treatment us president donald trump had been taking the drug but sell stock. india has resumed domestic flights with the government eager to get asia's 3rd largest economy moving again but it happened on the same day it announced its biggest jump yet in new coronavirus infections almost 7000. there have been more departures 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 war highly for haft are against forces who backed the government with support from turkey has been trying to capture the capital for 13 months the mayor of bani walid confirmed the russians flew the 1st group out

from an air base in the town on sunday 7 military planes were sent to retrieve them all desires to hold a head is in tripoli those details are still sketchy about exactly where the mercenaries ago. benny would lead the city there was a city of the horn at the maid of benny will lead told that several flights have been landing in airport to carry the russian mercenaries there is no clear information on where to believing in libya or out of libya but what we know for certain is that some of the russian mostly is that left the front lies have been carried by land transportation from ben he will lead also to a job for military bases in central libya in all cases the russian mercenaries in beni will lead now will come the maid told her that the

elderly council in binny will lead is protesting the presence of the russian mercenaries in ben you will lead because as they say they have taken part in attacking libyan cities and also attacking and killing and one innocent civilians there they say that the concern of the that some of the russian mercenaries might stay longer in beni will lead for in these governing party candidates has been declared the winner of last week's presidential election with nearly 70 percent of the vote every state in the year will replace longtime president here. who is stepping down after 15 years in power the election was marred by allegations of fraud and harassment welcome weber's following this from nairobi. the many in the opposition leader agathon writer had promised his supporters a victory he drawn very large crowds there during rallies over the last few weeks

following the polling which was on wednesday last week his party official said there were massive problems with the vote they say that $200.00 of their agents were arrested and detained is the they'd found ballot stuffing going on in polling stations and when they raised objections they were forcibly evicted from those polling stations and they say that the ruling parties militia there's the in boehner akureyri in many cases brought the opposition supporters from accessing polling stations what took their voting cards in place to vote instead of them or using voting cards of dead people or prisoners all of these allegations they say of affected the result which they say was rightfully dess but the electoral commission chairman when announcing those provisional rolls the results he said the poll went well everything had gone to plan it was peaceful and that the election had been free and fair but this is happening in a context where there were almost no international observers some weren't invited

others were told that they'd have to quarantine for 2 weeks on arrival not was just 11 days before the poll so affected lee excluded them from observing these elections and this all happened in a context where ever since the last election the been widespread reports of rights abuses of cracking down on dissent so certainly no surprises for many observers rights activists journalists many of whom are in exile because they're not free to work in burundi from their point of view no surprises that this poll has been very much disputed. the indian government has deployed soldiers to help with rescue and relief efforts after a powerful storm hit last week so i can open destroyed homes up rooted trees in flooded hundreds of villages in west bengal and odisha states or the 20 rivers have breached their banks and sea water is seeping into farmlands in the so underpants

mangroves region that's a unesco world heritage site practical to reports. the last green field so why spend gold halftone a jewel wasteland 5 days off to suck on a farm made landfall in the eastern state of india the scale of destruction it had left in its path it's now becoming more clear. this to more to community of charcoal and in the sun their guns mom groove region was caught in the eye of the storm. 60 year old on how old are lost all his harvest. salty water from the the open gold seen nearby has so much to do with spotty on potato fields the soil is so contaminated that he says it will take years or more and some grain to wash away the sold. on to them starvation looms over his family

a full yet my god i want to get i'm 60 years old what can i do now i have nothing left i have no option but to die. publishing the more i'm doing is scraping for pieces that you can still salvage from this destroyed home the greens that took a monster harvest are all gone the fish in this pond died. overnight this fall and fisherman has lost all his income and 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. the sunderbans region is a cluster of more than 100 islands and one of the world's largest mangrove forests stretching across whispering gold and bonaduce it's home to the endangered quarry big old tiger and his mescal want her to its side. more than 40 percent of people

in this part of india live in poverty. the sounds of the sea water in the north sydney sensitive region could be devastating for its poor farming and fishing communities across hundreds of villages. and what they want to push 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 macam least 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 cool no virus pandemic on the town are also making it harder for families from diesel engines to go to cities for work so people like me how long gone are the future remains uncertain unless help arrive soon priyanka could go to see her. afghanistan has begun freeing taliban prisoners in what president calls

a goodwill gesture these are images of the 1st $100.00 men to be released from bagram prison on monday president danny chose to free around 2000 prisoners and response to the taliban's offer of a 3 day truce over the holiday. was sudden rise in the number of burials in yemen suggests the spread of coronavirus is much greater than authorities are reporting the medical charity doctors without borders says it shows a wider catastrophe is unfolding there with the health system that's effectively collapsed shelob else reports. 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 and. it's strange this is never happened before at the symmetry in all the years 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 13 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 we have. a right. already dead and sewerage a market. 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 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 foresee that start also infected but there's no tests to check her or her red and we were obliged to reach was because we did. stuff. to be able to treat a patient so it's very heartbreaking you can a zation believes that in and aden about 70 people are dying of coronavirus in their homes every day and when a lot of people have brought their day to us from the pandemic the rains in the disease and from the schedule that has come to us we don't even know what a tease and why is killed so many these mean trying to pray in peace.

it's impossible with the symmetry sorry busy day digging 5 times as many graves is normal even children help the humans government has not reported the true scale of coronavirus it's obvious for those on the ground charlotte dallas al-jazeera iraq's government has imposed a lot on for the duration of the 8 holidays but not everyone's abiding by the rules some mosques are allowing a small number of wash's most muslims are letting go of centuries old religious rituals to help protect their communities from the virus some out of faulty reports from back that the the call for each prayers rings out from the minarets of omar to bull 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. the world covered 19 is confining people

to harm's but because i'm living in a very close to the mosque i decided to come and pray of course while 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 total 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 shrine has made available an application that

allows pilgrims to visit virtually. to me it's 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 presence will be through our intention other religious establishments are using the internet to reach their congregations. throughout ramadan. 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 were afraid for them to get the disease. 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 streets have never been this empty on the morning of 8 seem want to 14 al-jazeera but that. this is out there and these are the top stories the british prime minister's closest adviser dominic cummings has defied calls to quit or apologize over accusations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules addressing a political storm that has engulfed vast johnson's government cummings also said he doesn't regret his actions he said he acted reasonably and within the law when he drove 400 kilometers with his son and wife who had covered 19 symptoms no i don't i

don't regrets what i did was as i said i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i thought about what to do in in the in the in the circumstances but i think that i think what i did was actually reasonable in these. in these circumstances the rules make clear that if you're dealing with small children could be that can be exceptional circumstances and i think the situation that i was in. exceptional circumstances the world health organization has suspended a clinical trial of the malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine as a cover 19 treatment us president donald trump had been taking the drug but has it all stops. india has resumed domestic flights with the government eager to get asia's 3rd largest economy moving again but it happened on the same day it announced its biggest jump yes a new corona virus infections almost 7000 russian mercenaries fighting for libyan

warlord holly for half there have retreated from the front lines of the us forces have suffered a string of defeats in recent weeks against the un recognized government. randy's governing party candidate has been declared the winner of last week's presidential election with a heavy 70 percent of the vote if india shimmying it will replace longtime president pierre. who's stepping down after 15 years in power the election was mobbed by allegations of fraud and harassment. afghanistan has begun freeing taliban prisoners and want president gone he calls a goodwill gesture these are images of the 1st $100.00 men to be released from bagram prison on monday president gandhi chose to free around 2000 prisoners a response to the taliban's offer of a 3 day truce. stay with us inside stories coming up next.

he's been fighting those he's called the terrorists now syria's president is turning on his closest. sharla skating the assets of the billionaire who just happens to be his cousin so what is exactly triggered off to. war inside story. hello i'm come all santamaria in a circle of syria's president bashar.