and driven the unemployment rate for 6 to 23 percent and it's also highlighted an equality village's tensions and a health care system that isn't equipped to deal with a pandemic the following weeks will count of the peace and mass movement of people who accelerate the spread to the coronavirus from indian cities to its rule hot. i don't regret. the senior aide to the british prime minister accused their breaching lockdown rule says he has no regrets and behaved reasonably. to watching on his or a live from london i'm very novel gave also ahead the world health organization has suspended testing the malaria drugs hydroxy chloroquine and co with 1000 patients

due to safety concerns the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will not miss an historic opportunity to add next parts of the occupied west bank and to india's domestic flights take off again but infections are still on the rise with the biggest daily increase yet. hello the closest adviser to the u.k.'s prime minister has defied calls to quit or apologize over accusations he broke virus locked on rules addressing a political storm vets and gulf boris johnson's government dominic coming said he doesn't regret his actions he travelled with his family from london to northeast england while his wife was unwell barker reports from westminster. this was an unusual moment for dominic cummings

a man more comfortable in the background of british politics the prime minister's chief advisor has been under huge pressure to explain his trip to the north east of england which appear to defy the government's old lock down rules a journey he said he was forced to take under exceptional circumstances no i don't i don't regrets what i do do so as i said i think reasonable people may well disagree about how i thought about what to do in the in the in the circumstances but i think that i think what i did was actually reasonable in these. in these circumstances. cummings who was faced with daily media scrum outside his home so the journey was to ensure his 4 year old son was looked after because his wife was suffering from coronavirus symptoms something he would also develop he said he remained in isolation in a separate property on his parents' estate leaving the house to collect his son

from hospital where he fell ill walk in woods on his father's land and return to london after 1st travelling to a local beauty spot to check if he was fit to drive the scandals dominated the front pages of many of monday's newspapers opposition m.p.'s are calling for an immediate inquiry and there's a growing number of m.p.'s in the ruling conservatives cummings's own party that want him to immediately resign his explanation goes some way in diffusing some of the anger directed towards him but others are asking whether they can add their own personal interpretation to the lock down rules. summer's come early to the british capital and with it an increasingly relaxed attitude to social distancing rules at the height of restrictions the british government urged people to stay at home and save lives a message most followed but the scandal surrounding dominic cummings has a road it people's trust in government anybody think they're above this letter of the law is a maniac and they should only adhered to it as much as possible and i think he's an

absolute shocker and he ought to go immediately why should we be following up down when they don't want him to be any punishment if you don't follow it boris johnson defended his chief advisor saying cummings acted lawfully and with integrity in following his parental instincts the comments have been raised johnson's critics who accuse cummings of double standards over the look down rules every single person in the country decide to do these things but one person in the country boris johnson has staked his entire reputation authority on career you say no no no whatever he told me you did nothing wrong the government meant to be using this time to leave the country out of lockdown instead it's struggling to silence a scandal at the heart of power the barker al-jazeera westminster well let's talk about those of patrick diamond he's an associate professor of public policy at queen mary university in london and that is where he's joining us from thanks very

much for your time with us on al-jazeera so coming said in a statement that he believed that he was acting reasonably and within the law according to a statement of what you heard has it helped or hindered his standing. well you could say that his position could not got any worse because obviously the media headlines the last 48 hours to be absolutely terrible both for mr cummings and for boris johnson's government so he took a risk today is in holding this impromptu press briefing in the rose garden of downing street has to make things worse the next few days will show whether or not he's been able to lead to the piece of evidence of the story but the government's position tonight is very difficult it's trying to steer the u.k. out of the law down on the entire message and strategies being the railed by an argument over mr cummings personal behavior is this something that cummings can survive. it's possible he can survive and the reason why he may survive is because of his fundamental importance to the prime minister when the prime minister could

have cut mr cummings least several days ago but has chosen not to and the reason for that is because mr cummings is believed to be absolutely central to mr johnson's operation politically in downing street in terms of steering the government through this very difficult period in the wake of the pandemic and so that's the reason why mr cummings may end up surviving because he is so important to mr johnson right and what do you make of what the prime minister himself said just about half an hour or so ago about this incident in cummings when he said he had acted legally and reasonably so does that give you an indication of what the prime minister is going to do next or is not going to do. well i think the strategy for number 10 is going to be to try to brazen the story out and hope that things move on obviously yesterday boris johnson announced that schools are created in the u.k. on the 1st of june he's also announced today a series about the changes opening of certain retail outlets and so on i think that

the hope in downing street will be that the story will be evolving by the end of the week mr cummings will be yesterday's news that may well prove to be too optimistic all right we will wait and see what happens patching diamond thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera. now the world health organization has suspended a clinical trial of the malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine as a possible treatment for a cover 19 the trials been put on hold while safety data is reviewed it comes after a paper published in the medical journal the lancet found people taking the drug were at a higher risk of death and heart problems u.s. president donald trump previously said he was taking the drug as a precautionary measure against the virus but has since stopped the executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxyl hydroxy clock in our wheeze in the so you

don't need to try out what. the safety data is that i viewed by the safety monitoring board the other arms of the continuing let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly halkett so any reaction from the president on this drug that his tell to a successful. and the u.s. president has been out and about in the united states honoring those who died serving their country it's part of a memorial day tradition as he returned to the white house reporters tried to ask him but he simply didn't have an answer but there's no question that this is a drug hydroxy clark when the u.s. president has been a major proponent for weeks even taking it for himself he has just wrapped up a 2 week course of the drug he told reporters or last week that he was taking it and said he just wrapped it up as of yesterday this is something he said he did in

consultation with the white house physician after there was an outbreak of covert 900 here in the white house campus not only did the vice president's press secretary test positive but also the u.s. president's personal valet and well this is controversial it caused quite a firestorm in the united states when the u.s. president said he was taking it. u.s. present for his part continues to point to successful studies he says in italy in france even as his own food and drug administration says that taking this drug is very risky that it's a drug designed for malaria not for treating covert 19 and those that take it even without the consultation of a doctor well they could be putting themselves at considerable risk particularly since it's known to cause heart rhythm problems still the u.s. president for his part has continued to advocate for the success of the drug saying that he has heard from some front line workers that they're taking it as

a preventive measure as well as the fact that he says he has received letters from people that say it saved their lives so the u.s. president no reaction to this study from the world health organization saying they've halted their study because of safety concerns still ahead the u.s. president is not one to admit he's wrong almost never so it seems unlikely that he is going to say anything about the study still it is certainly something that reporters will be likely to press when they see the reporter again next as he appears on tuesday all right so i can really thank you very much for that update. so as you're hearing it is memorial weekend in the u.s. on the president has defended his decision to spend most of the holiday weekend playing golf the coronavirus related death toll nero's $100000.00 trump said it was the 1st time he's played golf in almost 3 months and wanted to get a little exercise before becoming president trump repeatedly criticized his predecessor barack obama for playing golf trump made the comments ahead of attending to memorial day ceremonies honoring fallen members of the u.s.

military and the democratic presidential candidate joe biden made his 1st in person appearance in more than 2 months as he marked memorial day he wore a face mask as he laid a wreath and delaware biden abruptly canceled campaign rallies of the onset of the pandemic in march he has been campaigning online from his home in wilmington the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will not miss what he describes as an historic opportunity to extend israeli sovereignty to parts of the occupied west bank he's made the move one of his new government's top priorities but palestinians consider the step and illegal annexation harry fossett has more from west to sell them. 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 complicating factor 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 to come on al-jazeera a sense of normalcy returns us cafes restaurants and jams open up across europe but many say they'll struggle without foreign terrorists and hundreds more russian mercenaries are spotted leaving trick ponies frontlines after a series of setbacks for warlords and. we've got some rather cold and shallow weather across central and eastern parts of

you but it's a swarming out from the west clear skies here high pressure in shots so lots of sunshine and it's warm sunshine looking at temperatures getting up to 24 celsius in london on tuesday afternoon around 26 the already paris push a little further east was but 7 same here in vienna 19 in warsaw will be up to around 20 there in but i mean you can see those showers in play there for the central and eastern parts of the continue not in the way further east was bryce's guys coming back in behind so the showers becoming confined to ukraine down towards rumania bulgaria down towards what we still see a few showers just clinging on around grace for the west it's warm dry and sunny still a few showers into west central parts of spain but they're in the process of easing as well fine and dry across a good part of north africa lots of warm sunshine coming through because the showers further south we've got the showers popping up now around the gulf of guinea will see the showers there to cameroon into a good part of nigeria through got

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color again the top stories on al-jazeera u.k. prime minister as close as the visor has defied calls to quit or apologize over accusations you broke virus locked on roles dominic coming says he acted reasonably and lawfully when he drove 400 kilometers with his son and wife who had coronavirus symptoms. the world health organization's putting a hold on testing and to malaria drugs recovered 19 over fears that increases the risk of death us president donald trump was taking drugs or quit. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will head what he described as a store of opportunity to addicks parts of the occupied west bank the move has drawn condemnation from several countries but supports from the u.s.

. domestic flights have resumed in india for the 1st time in 2 months but health all forty's in the country are concerned over the rising number of coronavirus cases almost 7000 new infections workin for. and on sunday elizabeth purana reports. that is the new normal that indian airport staff sanitize 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 checked before and off to flying mosques a compulsory throughout the journey and some were taking extra precautions. and we have all read. off the. passengers with symptoms will be tested or quarantined upon arrival but many states have saved their own voles the civil aviation minister tweeted indian saw in the

skies again but not everything went to plan 82 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. 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. we just heard that my friend has been cancelled i didn't get any notification i didn't get an e-mail so i just heard it in the airport so i'm trying to i'm having her back home. 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 are vacant and it said the government should be more worried about the health of citizens rather than the health of an lines elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera you daddy. in india soldiers have been deployed to help with relief efforts after a powerful storm hit last week cycle and destroyed homes destroyed homes uprooted trees and flooded hundreds of villages priyanka gupta reports. the last greenfield so why spend gold tone and a gentle wasteland 5 days off to stockholm on 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 2 more to community of char coming in the sun there goes my groove region was caught in the eye of the storm. 60 year olds on how old are

most old his harvest. salty water from the the open gold seen here by has so much to do spotty and 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 then starvation looms over his family are full yet come i can get i'm 60 years old what can i do now i have nothing left i have no option but to die. bob i should be more i'm doing a scraping for pieces that you can still salvage from this destroyed home the grains that took a monster harvest are all gone the fish in this pond died. overnight this fallen 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. this in the 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 coolly big old tiger and is the mescal want her to side more than 40 percent of people in this part of india live in poverty. the surge of the sea water in this etymologically sensitive region could be devastating for its poor farming and fishing communities across hundreds of villages. have been blocked i 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 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 i'm not down also making it harder for families from diesel issues to go to cities for work. people like anyhow and are the future remains uncertain unless help arrives soon priyanka could go to 0. hundreds more russian mercenaries have left the front lines of the battlefield in the libyan capital tripoli that's according to the u.n. back governments the russians have been fighting on behalf of the warlords against forces will back the tripoli base governments including turkey has been trying to capture the capital for 13 months but what i've been well has in tripoli he says there's public anger over the presence of the mercenaries. then he would lead the city of the city of god who met the maid of benny will lead told that civil flights have been landing in a port to carry the russian mercenaries there is no clear information

on where that believing in libya or out of libya but what we know for certain is that some of the russian most recent 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 resists in beni will lead now will come may have 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 that wanted that some of the russian mercenaries

might stay longer in beni will lead and prosecutors in russia are seeking an in jail sentence for a former u.s. marine who's accused of spying haul well on was detained at a moscow hotel room in 28000 but says he was framed the prosecution accuses him of being a ranking u.s. military intelligence colonel and that he was caught trying to obtain secrets he says he took a u.s.b. drive from an acquaintance thinking it contained holiday photos the u.s. national also holds british canadian and irish passports. the candidate for indies governing party has been declared the winner of last week's presidential election with nearly 70 percent of the votes every state and me a will replace longtime president here in currencies who's stepping down after 15 years in power the election was marred by allegations of fraud and voter harassments malcolm webb is following the story from nairobi and he explains why the opposition is refusing to accept the decision. the many in the opposition

leader agathon raster 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 it's 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 inborn or akureyri in many cases brought the opposition supporters from accessing polling stations or 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 have 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 being 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 there have 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. polls of opens in suriname with a long serving president jesse butera say he's seeking another term despite being convicted of murder with terrace who was found guilty of the execution of political

opponents in 1982 last year he was sentenced to 20 years in prison but as law doesn't appear to be heard next month he denies the charges. egypt's top medical union has warned of a complete collapse of the country's health care system over the covert 900 crisis the egyptian medical syndicate has accused the health ministry of negligence in failing to protect its workers from the virus at least 19 doctors have died and more than 350 are infected that's according to the union it's calling for more personal protective equipment for medics and better training and testing for those with coronavirus since. the u.k. government says thousands of retail shops and outdoor markets can reopen next month as more lock down restrictions are much of europe astarte it's a lift coronavirus measures to the hopes of salvaging the summer tourist season has had a on has more. for the 1st time in 2 months madrid restaurants and

coffee shops are back in business for now this is the new normal only outside seating is permitted chairs cleaned after every customer and city employees are on the square disinfecting the area during the time of this pandemic some customers say they are willing to adapt and i scream at the god i spent the entire look down period to learn this finally off as a bit of social life it is a bit odd with the social distancing and everything but i've really missed it. and spain's canary islands locals are out enjoying the warm weather but notably missing are turks tourism accounts for more than 12 per cent of spain's economy businesses are eagerly waiting for july when the country is scheduled to reopen its borders to international visitors because it's essential to have tourists back in our businesses during the lockdown we work fairly well with local clients so far we're

happy with things including the easing of restrictions. greece is also trying to salvage as tourism industry reopen coffee shops in athens are mostly empty with tourists denied entry until mid june visitors spend more than $19000000000.00 in greece last year but times have changed after. last year at around this time we had tourists and we were crowded now we live a different reality the economic crisis is going to be global but in greece we spent the last decade dealing with the bailout that the crisis is going to be far worse for us. in italy one of the hardest hit countries in europe james reopened on monday only customers who book in advance are allowed into this gym in rome but many people have got used to doing their exercises online this business like other industries may have to change its precursor own a business plans. in berlin reopens forming poor. must follow rules and had seen

the social distancing be able to start it was pleasant above all i was surprised that it was a disability i feared only certain number of people could get in you have to basically swim in circles to ease restrictions may be a relief for thousands of year peons but for entrepreneur is its yet another test of whether their business will survive this phase of the lockdown patsey a look this of a young al-jazeera. television the headlines on al-jazeera british prime minister's top adviser says he does not regret his decision to travel for hundreds of kilometers breaking lock down roles donna cummings insists that exceptional circumstances meant he drove 400 kilometers with his wife was feeling unwell along with his son he said concerns about childcare wiki to his choice cummings and the prime minister boris johnson have

been under pressure after allegations surfaced and a newspaper late on friday 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 schoolchildren could be that can be exceptional circumstances and i think the situation that i was in was exceptional circumstances . the world health organization's putting a hold on testing a drug the us president was taking over a fear is it increases the risk of death the anti mother area drug hydroxy couric when was being analyzed to see what impact it would have on patients with covert 19 the temporary pause on test comes after a study suggests that it put people at greater risk of death than heart problems

donald trump the drugs potential but on sunday said he had finished his course of medication. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will push ahead with his plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank he says it's an historic opportunity and a set july the 1st as the start for his cabinet to discuss the move the plan has drawn condemnation from several international countries hundreds more russian mercenaries fighting for the libyan warlords $24.00 have to have fled the front lines south of tripoli the un recognized government of national accord says they were evacuated from the town of bani walid by a military cargo plane have to his year long offensive to seize the capital has suffered setbacks in past weeks as opposing forces have taken more grounds. you're up to date for the latest headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up after

the string by. high after the i.k. welcome to history john hopkins university is the keeping track of the global numbers for covert 19 let's have a look here on my laptop it is difficult to get accurate figures but this is what they are seeing round about now is $5000000.00 to firm cases look at the number of deaths here and we're going to be talking about it's a note about deaths but about remarkable survivors as survivors come from the u.s. from the u.k.

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