al jazeera with every. suspended over concerns for safety the world health organization holds the trial of an anti malaria drug for covert 900 patients. columns a hole raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes. no i don't i don't regret what i did no regrets boris johnson's chief advisor defends his lockdown trip throwing u.k.

virus from strictures into confusion. but israel's prime minister vows to push ahead with plans to and it's more of the occupied west bank. fleeing the frontlines and more russian mercenaries fighting for ward cleaver have to pull out of western libya. welcome to the program the world health organization has temporarily suspended the global trial of the drug hydroxy chloroquine for treating covert 900 patients the agency referred to a study by a medical journal that says people taking the drug were at a higher risk of death u.s. president donald trump has been using the anti malarial drug as a precautionary measure for a short period his own health agency has warned people against its use to treat the virus. the executive group has implemented at temporary pause

of the hydroxyl hydroxy clock in our within the solidarity trial why did the safety data is that i viewed by the did i say 50 monitoring board the other arms of the trial and continuing our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat says president trump has yet to react to the w h o's decision. 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 us 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 on 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 cope with 19 of 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 us president no reaction to this study from the world health organization saying they've halted their study because of safety concerns still if 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. of else of them is a professor of epidemiology and medicine she also serves as the director of the i c a p a global health center at columbia university and joins me now via skype from new york good to have you with us on the program what seems to in your opinion prompted the w.h.o. to put a brakes put a brake on the research and testing of hydroxy chloroquine. and believe that the show made a very wise decision in view of accumulating data about the this drug in particular

as many of you are aware in a recent study has noted that there was an increase in side effects and some of the side effects for quite serious side effects as well as even an increase in deaths among people who took hydroxycut. the future executive that the committee that oversees the study that's ongoing is called the solidarity study and the executive committee that oversees that study actually met on saturday and based on the evidence from the recent evidence of the dangerous senate control complications with this drug they decided to pass it all met in their arm of the study so does that i think that was a very into me at this point in time does the pores of the holton the research is it soley done on the basis of the reaction in animals and humans or is it the lead up to that research of what this drug could do through testing for those are

the sort of so fully aware of how research is conducted or where where is that where is that red line. that these and find these death motivated the future to cause this arm in the study is this on human studies in which. some people who have covered 90 received a drug and they were compared to other people who did not receive the drug and in essence what that those studies and particularly the latest study showed in the large number of individuals who called 900 is that there were these serious side effects and even an increase in deaths amongst the people who took the drug so i think in a way this causes all of us a concern and i think what the future will do is review the safety data very carefully and decide whether the evidence is strong enough to actually start that arm of the study or to restart in rome and if the city that do not support stopping

that arm of the study from your contacts and your investigation and research what are the lines of research are encouraging at the moment i mean there's there's remember. when used in conjunction with sort of hiv combination. where do you think the research is going at the moment. well i think there is research going in terms of finding treatments and there's also research going on in terms of finding prevention methods like that scenes in terms of treatments there was one study that did provide encouraging the using gram visibly or in the treatment of people and you would call the 19 who were severely ill these were individuals who were hospitalized with probably 90 so i think that was quite encouraging there is no interest in studying death seemed drug in people who are with go in 1000 who are less severe who a natural quieter hospitalization for example in addition there are other cancers they're finding other treatments for example using plasma half from individuals who

had called in 1000 and recovered and using their connection and trying to see if you if you take this convalescent plasma and then in choose it or give it to someone who has called 91 this vs 2 sealed with benefits for our nation so that's another line of research and treatment gets said very activity fun of now so we work in progress so it's good to get your inside to professor thanks very much for joining us from columbia university thank you thank you. doll trump has defended his decision to spend most of the holiday weekend playing golf as the crow virus death toll in the u.s. approaches 100000 the president said it was the 1st time he's played in almost 3 months and that he wanted to get some exercise he made the comments before turn doing 2 memorial day ceremonies honoring fallen members of the u.s. military while tom scull farting tree criticism from democratic presidential

candidate joe biden who made his 1st public appearance in more than 2 months he wore a face mask as he laid a wreath at a war memorial in the state of delaware biden's been campaigning online for november's election. now israel's prime minister says his government will seize what he has described as a historic opportunity to annex more palestinian land in the occupied west bank and jordan valley benyamin netanyahu made the comments to members of his right wing likud party he says his cabinet will start discussing the issue from the 1st of july how to force it has more from west jerusalem 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 partner 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 words have the ability to bring it to vote in the israeli parliament the knesset the complicating factor him at least when there are a few one is the fact the united states seems to have been dampening down such expectations since the president might on perry here about 10 days ago the u.s. secretary of state they've been talking about the need for there 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 likud party supporters today he was saying that this was

a an opt an opportunity that hadn't existed since the creation of the state of israel in 1948 but he wasn't going to miss it. the u.k. prime minister's top advisor has defied calls to quit or apologize there are accusations that he broke coronavirus lockdown rules addressing a political storm that singles forest johnson's government double it coming said he doesn't regret his actions he travelled with his family from london to northeastern england in march while his wife had covert 900 symptoms leave barca has more from london. 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 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. cummings who faced a 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 by the scandal surrounding dominic cummings has a road it people's trust in government anybody thinks they're above this letter of the law is a maniac and they should the only adhered to it as much as possible and i think he's an absolute shocker 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 adviser 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 lot down rules every single person in the country has had to do these things 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 the government meant to be using this time to lead the country out of lockdown instead it's struggling to silence a scandal at the heart of power they've barker al-jazeera westminster. well still ahead here on al-jazeera touting for trade and tourism businesses across europe begin to throw back open titles and more than 5 years out of all stock and submissions scandal came to light a german court rules on compensation. for

. yet more severe storms across central parts of the u.s. you can see this huge massive cloud right out of texas pushing up across oklahoma he's in cross the good parts of kansas and all the way up. towards the midwest so we have seen some big hail the auto nadir mixed in and some flooding and damaging winds and you still see that law and that china still has his feet up into central parts of canada russia to the east is that not too bad lossy fondant frog has some pavey rain and florida that we some showers continuing here as we go through tuesday that was the question here is largely settled and sunny today a few showers over the mountain states but nothing too much to speak of another woman and i like getting up to $32.00 degrees celsius warming off in san francisco around $27.00 celsius come wednesday the showers there still has a very slow moving system this one right across the plains i which was eastern seaboard you could catch wanted to share was coming in here as well for good

measure i was in crimea showers across cuba across parts of central america we will see more the same as we go on through the next as a house a little dry there for cuba last you find in try for time across the lesser antilles but you'll catch one or 2 showers had it was trinidad and tobago. but. this powerful social network is sculpting a global cyber society and regulation is playing catch up but as scandals begin to unfold they witness is that we should not be in this position. they want this to munch extreme content as they can get on the cover to gauge how i think sway against profits and how the rules are being written. and signed facebook on al-jazeera.

or. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera means the whole run a reminder of our top stories the world health organization temporarily suspend the global trial of the drug hydroxy chloroquine to treat covert 19 it follows a medical journal report that says its hues can have harmful effects on patients. also israel's prime minister has told members of his right wing likud party he won't miss a quote historic opportunity to and explore palestinian land in the occupied west bank and jordan valley. and the united kingdom's prime minister is top advisor is refusing to resign over accusations that he broke the lock down rules dominic

cummings says he did nothing wrong by driving 400 kilometers with his family from london while his wife had covert 1000 symptoms. 30 pounds prime minister has lifted a state of emergency aimed at containing the outbreak sions r.v.'s 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. well the u.k. government says thousands of retail shops and outdoor markets can reopen next month lockdown destructions that eased but much of europe has started to lift credit virus measures in the hope of salvaging the summer tourist season as lopez had reports. 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 i must get my mother got the guts 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 and 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 worked fairly well with local clients so far we're happy with things including the easing of restrictions. greece is also trying to salvage his 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 bailouts 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 the stream and roam but many people have gotten used to doing their exercises online this business like other industries may have to change its precursor owner business plans. in berlin reopens forming pools must follow rules of hygiene and social distancing only embassies are it was pleasant above all i was surprised that it wasn't as well as i

feared only a certain number of people could get in you have to basically swim in circles the ease restrictions may be a relief for thousands of europeans but for entrepreneurs' it's yet another test of whether their business will survive this phase of the lockdown patsey a locus of the young al-jazeera. also the news are coming from india fire has got hundreds of slums in the southeast area of the capital new delhi the incident seems to happen in the dock less about area firefighters are trying to bring down the blaze that began early in the afternoon no casualties have been reported so far. well staying in the country india has resumed domestic flights with the government eager to get its asia's 3rd largest economy moving again but even as the announcement was made the country recorded its biggest jump yet in new coronavirus infections almost 7000 or india correspondent elizabeth for all of us will from new delhi. that is the new normal that indian airports start sanitise 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 off to flying mosques 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 sent 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 what handled with little notice leaving passengers frustrated according to airport officials that's because several states said they wouldn't be able to accept flights earlier agreed to. what the number of coronavirus cases rising the worst hit states of try and tamil nadu 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 answers i just heard it in the airport 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 airlines elizabeth pride of al-jazeera you daily visits north africa more russian mercenaries have been pulling out of the battle for the libyan capital tripoli this coming from the un backed

government russian fighters are supporting ward cleaver after who's been trying to capture the capital for more than a year well the mayor of bani walid confirm the russians have been flying out from the town with 7 military planes seen landing there al-jazeera is much more that the white head has been at the frontlines and brings us this update. then he would leave the city there was a city of god who met the maid of benny will lead told her that several flights have been landing in airport to carry the russian mercenaries there 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 mostly is 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 will lead now the mayor told and just the other day out that elderly council in benny 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 something to me the is the editor in chief of the international interest who says the united states is trying to assert its influence in libya while russia and turkey are the go shooting. what's happening is that turkey and russia are trying to negotiate their new position as the new power brokers in libya for the 1st time we've seen that instead of the g.n.a.t. continuing to bomb but i don't want to we've seen the 1st time that the d.n.a.

has offered 2 days for forces into one or to withdraw and this is actually believed to be to give time for russia and turkey to iron out some of the details we know that russia is trying to convince have to give up the offensive and to cement himself in the east while turkey cement itself in the west and the 2 countries discuss the future of libya but the wild card his suddenly is that the u.s. is now trying to reassert itself we've seen a statement from the u.s. embassy in libya the u.s. has been very quiet in which the u.s. now claims that it is a firm partner of the d.n.a. and that it has always been a partner of the g.n.a.t. and that it wants a political solution so now turkey has found itself between the russians and between the americans the americans don't want russia to have a big role that americans want to play a renewed big role in libya and turkey is caught in between the 2 russian prosecutors are seeking an 18 year jail sentence for a former u.s. marine accused of spying. was detained in moscow in 2018 but says he was framed the

prosecution accuses him of being a u.s. military intelligence colonel trying to obtain state secrets the u.s. nationals are holes british canadian and irish passports he denies the charges. afghanistan has begun freeing taliban prisoners and what presidential garny calls a gesture of good will now these are images of the 1st $100.00 men to be released from the buggering prison on monday president danny chose to free around 2000 prisoners in response to the taliban's offer of a 3 day truce over each holiday and that's due to end at midnight on tuesday. for india's governing party candidate has been declared the winner of last week's a presidential election with nearly 70 percent of the votes of the vote every step and she will replace longtime president. who is stepping down after 15 years in power the election was marred by allegations of fraud and harassment

david autor is a counterterrorism expert of global risk international he explains why there's been widespread speculation over the credibility of the vote there is no doubt that if you look at least 3 of the. protests and you know activity and assassinations you know of course going back to the policing there of the 1990 s. every tree that would use and it would seize. what what the few east you know we shouldn't return to that period but there is likely going to be some you know scary she's you know coming in the next few days i think there's been huge allegations of you know restrictions of freedom from you know from journalist and it was made worse you know i mean the election was made worse by the 90 pandemic which meets a lot of the international community that was made to observe the elections could in trouble and that actually you know give some some doubts as to the finish and

credibility of the elections that you know well because the results have been clipped you know and he's 3 of african countries i doubt if there is going to be any difference despite the claims about position that elections you know where not free and clear of course week wreaked so i doubt you know if we will not see skirmishes but that won't go anywhere. polls also closed in sort of a long serving president and cyber a taser is seeking another term despite being convicted of murder but cast his vote in the election for the national assembly in the capital potter moneyball members of the assembly will then vote on whether to reelect him but to lead a 2 thirds majority in the vendor he was found guilty of the execution of political opponents in 1902 an appeal will be heard next month. germany's top cause has ruled that vaults far gone must buy back diesel cars at the center of

an emissions cheating scandal the decision affects about 60000 car owners in germany wells fargo admitted using software to cheat on a mission tests 5 years ago and what became known as diesel gate scandal has already cost the firm more than $30000000000.00 worldwide and an agreement has been reached for a $9800000000.00 government bailout for the german airline lufthansa the rescue package will keep the carrier going as the industry struggles during the global pandemic the deal is yet to be approved by the european union. you what you have to say with me still robin a reminder of our top stories the world health organization has temporarily suspended the global trial of the drug hydroxy chloroquine for treating covert 19 patients the agency referred to a study by a medical journal that says people taking the drug were the higher risk of death

u.s. president donald trump says he used the anti malarial drug for 2 weeks the executive group has implemented at temporary. pause of the hydroxyl hydroxy clock in our reason the solidarity trial why did the safety data is a viewed by the data safety monitoring board the other arms of the trial are continuing. israel's prime minister says his government will seize what he describes as a historic opportunity to annex more palestinian land in the occupied west bank in jordan valley and even then you know who made the comments to members of his right wing likud party in the israeli knesset. the u.k. prime minister's top adviser his refusing to resign of accusations that he broke lockdown rules dominic cummings says he did nothing wrong by driving 400 kilometers with his family from london while his wife and how to cope with 900 symptoms no i don't i don't regret what i did and 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 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 japan's prime minister has lifted a state of emergency aimed at containing the outbreak sions our base 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 a structure it's those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next states fault lines do stay with us. the latest news as it breaks the mine sits within

a valley surrounded by bush land and most of its operations have been about 500 made his plane to the surface with detailed coverage the malaysian navy recently prevented a boat carrying around $200.00 range of refugees from landing from around the world starting with leaders are accusing the opponents of trying to topple that by tempering with financial stability. i'm almost saying most of the brain tumor i had to choose between my job or my mom and of course i was going to choose my mom i had to take my doubt i see where i was at work at the time i didn't have paid time off but i have a customer yelling at me every day people need 19 states are being forced to make an impossible choice between going to work or caring for themselves or their loved ones i was working the day that the twins were delivered fires to syrian section and up through.