algeciras selects. be the hero the world needs. washing. the a in. libya's un recognized government says it's taken control of warlord money for half toss last major stronghold in the west of the country. and for the bacteria watching al-jazeera live from doha also add kneeling in respect memorial services are held in the us where george boyd whose death in police custody swapped worldwide protests 3 years since the brocade of qatar by its

neighbors there is still no end in sight for the worst political crisis in the gulf region and all creatures great and small we look at the war biodiversity plays on our planet and the unprecedented threat it's now facing. thank you very much for joining us we begin with breaking news out of libya this hour where the deputy defense minister says government troops have taken control of tower hona that is the last stronghold of warlord highly for have to in western libya about 60 kilometers from the capital tripoli on thursday the u.n. recognize government announced that he had regained full control of tripoli have task forces still hold large swathes of territory in the east and south of libya let's bring in our correspondent mahmud abdel watters just arrived in tire who will tell us about what you've seen since you arrived in what used to be. a strong. hold

in the west of libya and what made it possible for the government forces to recapture the city. 2 as you can see here and here behind me the government forces who are now include control of the city of the one i absolutely can get the victory the defeat of happiness forces in the city of huna now by losing the secure. the major and lost a son to hold in western libya as you know that. of the secure for whom the swift seizure of the city after who now is mainly actually beauty due to the turkish military support for the government forces and also the residual of. russian medicine raise from the bagnall group who have been fighting

alongside after forces now. this city the city afternoon at about 75 kilometers south of the capital tripoli is very strategic a very significant from here. half the us forces had a central command over the past year and from here russian military experts are armed with their morace any gyptian military experts have been supporting have to they run the battles around the battles in southern tripoli from the certain central command and the city of the huna from ted who now have that his forces received military enforcement reinforcement and also military supplies over the past year before all of that who does not mean the into the fighting according to military sources here with the government they say that right they are going to continue chasing after sources further soured. to the city of beni will lead that's

where house forces are if we're getting now ok mom would we see santa bring him where you are yes we see the celebrations ongoing where you are right now and as you've said this is a significant setback for have to forces because this was their stronghold in the west but as you've said also have tried still controls large parts of eastern libya so worse likely to happen next are we going to see some sort of retaliation from have tossed forces after this defeat today. that's also possible because a little while ago we heard a mortar rockets as the government forces were celebrating in the main square into who. they were targeted by one. while to the right and where we have been told that that came from the solves from the southern direction

that remember that's the direction half those forces took when they were trying to pull out of the city as the government forces crossed into town who now city so the fighting might not stop into huna as the government forces. determent as the tell us to chase. that eminence of have to has forces further south in the city of beni will lead that's another to have to the city in clues south of the city of misrata but generally speaking this is a major setback for have to his forces have to himself reliant on the city of huna for military reinforcement to support his forces in southern typically also as i mentioned the central command house that had here in this city that was run by a russian him right jenny dipshit military experts have been helping have those forces and the battle to seize the capital tripoli it's clear the failure of have

to his forces to seize the campaign. in april last year that that lasted for 13 months to take control of the capital tripoli this campaign has now failed by the fall of the city of but. the question now is we're not have we are not the government forces will proceed to send to libya to adjust military bases that's the stranglehold of have to these forces in libya after they lost the rest of the country thank you thank you very much for that mahmoud dead 100 reporting there live from time warner which has been seized by the government forces of libya a time when i was a stronghold of warlord honey for have tar in western libya earlier we spoke to sami hamdi who's the editor in chief of the online magazine international interest and he says the capture of town i mean the end of half ties months long offensive

to seize the capital tripoli. has those offensive on tripoli had 2 key strongholds into it was it launched from 2 key strongholds the 1st was i what the air base that was taken not too long ago and the 2nd was the homeowner after the fall of the what the half those forces knew that they could not hold on to tripoli offensive so they began to withdraw some of their troops and don't want to or the news from taiwan or comes after the d.n.a. went to moscow and after the meeting between and again and said i was the president of the g n a where it's believed that turkey and russia are now negotiating a framework of cooperation so who now today it's unclear whether it fell because of the military attack by the d.n.a. forces or whether this is part of a negotiated exchange between the russians and between the turks with regards to libya but in terms of its significance it means the end complete end of half that as a tripoli offensive and the military solution that has that offered to those powers

that wanted a military solution is no longer on the table and we're back to the status quo as it was before the beginning of the tripoli offensive east and west i think it's important not to get carried away with i don't know there's a lot of people very happy with that and of have there is a military solution and anybody who wants a negotiated political solution should celebrate the fact that half there is tripoli offensive has failed this is the end to have to has been to completely wind in the civil war this is what we're seeing today is a return to the status quo the stalemate that we saw for many years between east and between west and this prospect of an military campaign eastwards is very unlikely and the reason i say this is that the biggest dynamic is not necessarily in the military terms the biggest dynamic is the changing in power brokers it's no longer even you it's not only european countries it's not on the u.a.e. or egypt or these countries it's now russia on the eastern side and turkey on the west and say almost a repeat of syria in the sense that these are the countries that are going to be

pushing the parties to decide what the future of libya should look like. to the u.s. now where 10 nights of nationwide protests have given way to a somber memorial service for george floyd his life was celebrated in minneapolis by civil rights leaders and family members while thousands of others across the u.s. paused to remember him his last words i can breathe have now become a rallying cry against police brutality and systemic racism john hendren reports on minneapolis the minneapolis police chief took a knee as the hearse bearing george floyd passed a barrel of respect for the man whose death at the hands of his officers launched a national movement. inside a minneapolis memorial service george floyd was remembered as a family man a gentle giant who adored his 6 year old daughter giana now fatherless it's crazy.

all these people came to see my brother. that's amazing to me so many people. he was also remembered as the spark that set off often fiery protests in more than a dozen cities across the u.s. a movement the reverend al sharpton urged mourners throughout the country to continue it's time for us to stand out in charges made and say good job and meet. this crowd of hundreds of people didn't come with invitations they came to pay their respects to george ford and there's such a demand to do so that there will be multiple memorial services one in his state of birth north carolina on saturday another in his former hometown of houston on monday and then a funeral on tuesday. as the memorial took place a key demand of the floyd family was fulfilled 3 of the police officers who detained floyd in his final moments faced hearings for new charges of aiding and

abetting 2nd degree murder the 4th officer derek children who note on floyd's neck saw the charges against him elevated from 3rd degree murder to 2nd degree a charge that suggests the killing of floyd was intentional but for those mourning the 46 year old man the charges mark just the beginning my brother is gone. with the floyd new you still lives on as floyd family prepares to take him from his adopted home city for the last time the demonstrations that began when he uttered his final words i can't breathe continue john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis and new york state 2 police officers have been suspended after a video showed that a shoving a 75 year old man to the ground it happened in the city of buffalo last police were clearing the area where protests was finishing. the elderly man is in a serious but stable condition in hospital the city's mayor says. by the video

while the state governor condemned the incident as disgraceful. still ahead on al-jazeera we look at why britain. considering sowing the government . had it has been some very heavy seasonal rain in the southwest of china that massive cloud was responsible for it running into was hong kong run down but it's breaking out there it's all part of the spring rain system the my you buy your frontal zone that runs up from china into japan there is focusing only really on the far south a q shoe in japan is leaving home she largely clear and the following rain surfaces they aren't quite as heavy as the ones that preceded them still as water logged but

you know so far north succumbs not very far up as far as who hung the shanghai were in the continuing warm sunshine detention beijing if anything is rising to pre-war $35.00 on sunday was the sun's tom's pop up again in southern china including in hong kong a humid environment of course and he's under storms now remains of the side clone are hard to see but they are up in here and they have produced a fair amount of rain however we're into the forecast bassinet see what we've got the pole is very wet and the result of that in the same is true in the northeast of india in parts of bangladesh there are scattered showers elsewhere and the breeze is stunned to pick up officially the monsoon has gone into carol up in karnataka as well no further than that however it would of course it keep advancing. a journey of personal discovery by a great grandfather he was

a slave of the leave property al-jazeera is james gannon explores his family's legacy to the slave owners shut down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some of us so scar we even skew to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. the or the the a. recap of our top stories on al-jazeera they have been celebrations on the streets in western libya after the government said it's taken control of the last stronghold

of warlord timely fashion after in the west on thursday the un recognized government announced that it had regained full control of the capital tripoli. memorial services have been held in the united states for george floyd's 10 days of black guys matter protests were paula says she beats were paid including in minneapolis where floyd died in police custody 4 policemen have been silent and charged in connection with his met. in other world news more than half a 1000000 people have fled violence in the democratic republic of congo in just 9 months that's according to new numbers from the united nations more than 1300 civilians have been killed in almost the same amount of time attacks by armed groups and retaliatory operations from the military have montt the northeast region the un says some of the incidents could amount to crimes against humanity. has been 3 years since an airline then sea blockade was imposed on qatar by egypt

bahrain and qatar as neighbors the united arab emirates and saudi arabia but despite recent efforts to deescalate tensions there is no end in sight to the worst political crisis the gulf region has seen. reports. may the 20th 2017 donald trump arrives this sunday rabia his 1st trip abroad as u.s. president trumps aim was to have wealthy gulf nations joining the u.s. bid to defeat i still to help and the war in syria and contain what the u.s. described as iran's growing influence but that was a short lived hope 4 days later the website of qatar's news agency was hacked and fabricated statements posted attribute it to the emir of qatar critical of u.s. policies in the region the washington post subsequently cited u.s.

intelligence officials saying the u.a.e. orchestrated the hacking that was just the beginning on june the 5th sudsy arabia the u.a.e. and egypt severed diplomatic ties with qatar and it posed a land sea and blockade which continues until now. the qatari government strongly denies allegations of supporting extremism qatar also condemned a list of demands from the quartet as a breach of sovereignty the 13 demands included big relations with iran closing a turkish military base and shutting down the al-jazeera media network there is no appetite at the moment in the international community to to get involved in the gulf crisis the covert 1000 condemning it has really consumed pretty much any policy making capacity in western capitals and other international capitals

everybody's looking at dealing with that pandemic any insecurities across the middle east and the gulf crisis just one of many crisis in the middle east have been put on the back burner this is the man widely seen by qatar as the architect of the blockade mohammed the crown prince of all the b. and effectively the ruler of the united arab emirates ben's date and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin said nan both strongly oppose calls for democratic reforms that have gained momentum in the region since the arab spring uprisings 9 years ago this is the law and we're going to do that too small too little on the challenges are huge we're talking just not about the. challenges then but i guess that we are talking about not well and you know you can are mix. in that mix

social environment and all of these as well as of course the heart security all of these can only hope that it all the region works together as well you know. qatar has ruled out withdrawing from the g.c.c. and says it welcomes talks with its rivals but only when the blockade is lifted. according to the wall street journal trump has recently called on sunday raby and the u.a.e. to and that ban on qatari airlines using their space but this was turned down by the saudis and maruti is who believe the restrictions of the only leverage to extract concessions from. the rocket has left lasting wounds for qataris they hope the gulf while balls will mend the diplomatic rest one day but catalan the sandilands quartet remain divided over a wide range of issues that reconciliation may take

a long time. dohan the coronavirus crisis now in brazil has overtaken italy to record the 3rd highest number of covered 1000 deaths in the world that's after it reported a record daily death toll for the 4th day in a role more than $1400.00 deaths were confirmed on thursday pushing the total above $34000.00 presidential is latin america's worst affected country present radar sonar has been widely criticized for dismissing the risk of the virus saying on tuesday that death was everyone's destiny. argentina meanwhile has extended its lockdown until the end of the month as it struggles to control the spread of coronavirus it includes restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital buenos aires but measures will be relaxed in other parts of the country argentina reported its highest daily number of new infections on wednesday a total has now passed 20000 have been more than 600 deaths an influential

medical journal has retracted an article which says anti-malaria drug increased the risk of death for covert 1000 patients 3 of the 4 offers raised doubts over data provided by health care firm which was used in this study published in the lancet the research from to the world health organization to suspend testing hydroxy couric when a controversial drug has been touted by u.s. president donald trump as a possible treatment for corona virus now the u.k. based pharmaceutical company seneca has started producing a potential vaccine for corona virus the company says trials are underway and asked started manufacturing doses so it can meet demand if the vaccine proves effective it says it will distribute a $1000000000.00 system no end middle income countries the company's chief executive pascal so oreos say is there a mean to ensure equal access to their acts seen if successful. we are moving at

the food speed we are writing right now we are on a warning 10000 volunteers in the u.k. in a face street new york trial. we also received. 'd recently to conduct a large study in brazil as well and we are in the process of organizing a large 30000 volunteers study in the united states we expect to get the results of our clinical in all of us if you're a single as well so you know we have a good hole the vaccine where the we were but we don't you know that at the end of the some a number of critics that we were privatized the rich countries and fight with demonstrate to us that it was his big announcement that the low middle income countries we're together sometimes everybody else and it is science to you know fantastic donations by the gates foundation or some number of conferees and so essentially what it is is that this. accelerate this this

may come as we've actually to allow countries to get access and the world health organization is astonishing a process by which the location would be defiant so that everybody gets equal or. equipped of one axis now the parent company of british airways says it's considering a legal challenge against the u.k. government's quarantine moles all travelers to the u.k. are required to quarantine for 14 days from monday or face a hefty fine i agee says boyce johnson's government did not consult the industry before introducing them sonja gago is tracking developments from london joins us now live solo psion why is a british government british airways rather considering this action. well like many sectors folly the pandemic has been absolutely catastrophic for the aviation industry but what's really concerning the chief executive officer of i agee the

parent company of b.a. is that they simply will not be able to it will affect incredibly their chances of being able to carry out business in july and flying up passengers in july. willie walsh the c.e.o. . really criticized this as a blow to the company saying it would in effect torpedo the company and that it was an irrational decision that the government had taken to impose this 2 week quarantine on travelers as well now he is also being backed up by a rival low cost carrier the c.e.o. of ryanair said that what the government quarantine plans were in effect nonsense and really they need to have some other kind of plan in place otherwise it could affect the aviation industry in the u.k. for many many years to come and be a vacation industry is course crucial to the u.k.

economy given trade and also the tourism industry here ali yeah why has the government decided to bring in this quarantine plan now sonia and is it likely to stay in place. well this is a question that many people have been asking when in effect at the start of the pandemic you had barely any actions being taken for example the most that was ever being carried out the airports were leaflets advising passengers to get help if they had a temperature but there were no checks at the borders coming in people were were coming in without any fortunes being put in place now of course. there was a huge forelimb passengers coming into the country as well but it is curious as most other countries are now trying to sort of find an economic recovery after

being so hardly hit by the pandemic many business leaders in fact the whole business sector is incredibly worried that this in effect is going to do more harm as they try to get as the u.k. tries to get out of the situation now what the home secretary said what the government has said is that in effect they want to protect all the work that has been done to try and shield as many people from the pandemic from coronavirus in the u.k. is possible and they believe that the threat really comes from outside but when you look at the stats and you look at the u.k.'s death rates from cova 1900 has one of the highest in europe it really seems quite puzzling as to why would they put this in now rather than at the start of the pandemic any thank you for that go live for us there in london. now it's world environment day and the united nations is calling for greater efforts to protect the planet's living systems this year's focus is biodiversity which is under threat like never before the un says recent

events such as wildfires in the amazon and locusts infestations across east africa showed just how fragile the world's ecosystems have become the imagine south of the $1000.00 has also highlighted the ever decreasing frontier between wildlife and humans 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases can jump from animals to humans and $1000000.00 species are under threat from extinction experts warn action must be taken now to prevent an every aversive all collapsing biodiversity maycock reports the wonders of the natural world are known to do to these troubling times especially the extraordinary life in our ations like the millions of golden jellyfish here in the marine lakes of polo a unique subspecies evolved to harvest energy directly from sunlight all the myriad diversity of the world's coral reefs with 25 percent of marine species live but here too there's another biomass which dwarfs everything else combined and it's

invisible to the naked eye it's the microbial life of aussies and it's found everywhere from the surface to 4000 meters down. and these unseen microbes include astronomical quantities of viruses that attack marine bacteria all part of the web of life in the sea. in fright every liter of seawater contains more viruses that there are people on the planet 95 percent of all life in the oceans by weight is comprised not of fish or of whales but of microbes. and it is these microbes that create 50 percent of all oxygen on the planet every 2nd breath that we brief. the problem is from invisible lifeforms to some of the biggest piece on the planet biodiversity is threatened by environmental destruction for the african elephant it's more than

just poaching for the ivory trade we're also facing big big challenges when it comes to happen that transformation for larger industries and of course the biggest impact that is less talked about which is the increasing population of africans and therefore the competing nature of land between elephants and people and it's when the ever decreasing frontier between wildlife and humans is breached disease like corona virus can jump from animals to people out of the 7800000 species that we have on the planet about 1000000 species are under threat from extinction and that's a lot because the nature is this finely attuned by diversifying its human system where each one plays each species plays a role in the bigger puzzle with 19 is clearly one of these messages that we need to understand and heed very fast that you can't continue to undermine and encroach

on nature and expect nature to be stable it's apparent that we're at a turning point. experts say the air approach could it must be one where we act to save our environmental heritage continue to pay a heavy price. nick plonk al jazeera. get him fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera they've been celebrations on the streets of toronto now in western libya after the government said if it's taken control of the last stronghold of warlord tiny for have tar in the west on thursday the un recognized government announced that he had regained control of the capital tripoli as well one had has only to some to hona. as you can see here. by the government forces or out of now if you look at all this if you are

the one up out of chile really going to the victory the defeat of capital forces and this is still going on now by losing the secure. but at least i lost a friend in western libya memorial services have been held in the united states for george short 10 days of black lives matter protests paused years were paid including in minneapolis where freud died while in police custody 4 policemen have been sent 10 charged in connection with this matter more than half a 1000000 people have fed violence in the democratic republic of congo in just 9 months that's according to new numbers from the united nations more than 1300 civilians have been killed in almost the same amount of time attacks by armed groups and retaliatory operations from the military have mond the northeastern keevil region the un says some of the incidents could amount to crimes against

humanity. it's been 3 years since an air land and sea blockade was imposed on qatar by egypt's bahrain and qatar neighbors the united arab emirates and saudi arabia one of the incidents that led to the roqueted was a hacking of katanas news agency. and the parent company of british airways says it's considering a legal challenge against the u.k. government's quarantine walls all travelers to the u.k. are required to quarantine for 14 days from monday or face a hefty fine i so says a boris johnson's government did not consult the industry before introducing the measures it says measures will serve as a huge blow british airways has already cut 12000 jobs because of its decline in operations inside story talk charges there is next in our series stay with us.

throughout history humankind has come together in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually say that every generation has its moment this one is ours. ringback to see. the global pandemic has changed our world as we know it. it's been particularly devastating on the aviation sector airports have been shut thousands of airplanes ground that. businesses have seized operations and the long term financial costs

may not be known for years to come. but according to the international air transport association this year's loss of revenue has cost airlines more than $300000000000.00 thousands in the air travel industry have been left jobless. qatar airways one of the world's biggest carriers is no exception the doha based airline was already dealing with restrictions imposed by 4 arab nations as part of their blockade of qatar. without access to the airspace of its neighbors it had to find new routes and new destinations. and now as it navigates the turbulent skies in the wake of the pandemic how will the airline recover from both the health and political crises. and what's in store for the future of global air travel after the pandemic. the chief executive officer of qatar airways akbar a buck.