country still struggling to contain the outbreak case in point the dagestan republic in the north caucasus is one of the hardest hit regions more than 40 doctors have died in the battle there against the virus and local medical staff face increasing challenges with over and hospitals and a lack of equipment to well let's get across this time hawkins says is reporting live this morning walking down a few regions then as well as i've just said they're having trouble president putin actually raised the issue of dagestan in his latest televised briefing what i have to say about that than well the rates of that curve of new infections in russia are overall experience will growth has been slowing down or reaching that all important plateau that's been the trend across moscow and many other russian regions. just on the betrayed seems to be going very much in the opposite direction with information coming out of the region which is quite boring but if not addressed very soon things could be on the brink of a medical emergency this is something president putin addressed in a video conference with o

19 inside a refugee camp in bangladesh but for the virus could trace through the settlements in caucasus to solve with nearly a 1000000 people living there social distancing is difficult and access to running water limited release donovan as a spokeswoman for the un's refugee agency in caucasus bazaar she says more results isn't needed. it's a very worrying development and today's but the 1st step positive case within the refugee camps so far just a hunch an ace and tests have been done and most of the refugee population but in the causes but our district is the number is continuing to increase leave 134 cases and causes our district today and in bangladesh more generally the number 3 and so confidently it hasn't so the numbers continue to increase that there is a shortage of testing however it is increasing and testing only began in causes or at the beginning of april so we're in can't continue to increase the testing and what's particularly important for us at the moment is to establish adequate response capacity and we've been putting preparatory measures in place with the governments

coronavirus case in rohingya camp in bangladesh has been confirmed another person living in the caucasus bizarre district has also tested positive with 19. officials said the patients were being treated in isolation almost 2000 people who came into contact with them are in quarantine. have warned that cramped conditions and inadequate sanitation have left 1000000 people who live in the camps dangerously exposed to an outbreak of the virus. but joining us now is. he's the health director of save the children in bangladesh 2 people have tested positive for what measures are being taken to prevent the virus from spreading in this densely populated camp and can a worst case scenario really be prevented the. good afternoon. one cares has been positive in the camp and one is so. if the middle has been taken for the last one couple of phone of the months in the home of the courts or the bottles of coke so those are all true tea. into the log on for the last 2 months and all the you know the critical interviews in there so. the health service providers. you know vote one 7th. by more than $100.0

parts of the country still struggling to contain the outbreak the dagestan republican the north caucasus is one of the hardest hit regions more than 40 doctors there have died in the battle against the virus and local medical staff face increasing challenges with over one hospitals and a lack of equipment they say wanted to hawkins is called more on the. rates of that curve of new infections in russia overall the exponential growth has been slowing down and reaching that all important plateau that's been trying to cross moscow and many other russian regions. just on the road betrayed it seems to be going very much in the opposite direction with information coming out of the region which is quite boring that if not addressed very soon things could be on the brink of a medical emergency this is something president putin addressed in a video conference with officials the biggest in the situation in dagestan is proving difficult new cases of the sickness continue to be reported with serious complications. isn't the most populated region of russia nor is it the most densely populated and rela

still seeing some wet weather the showers that stretch from the black sea it was the caspian across caucasus pushing across northern parts of iran and the continue to just make the where little further research as we go through sunday tended to thin and break as they do say some more sunshine coming through behind temperatures 30 celsius little down in recent valleys but still pleasantly warm nevertheless want to see the showers that see into that western side of yemen join in that with the showers across the ethiopian highlands down into kenya down the rift valley some showers there into the gulf of guinea as well and those showers of course they do stretch across west africa as they should do on the edge of the way nicely further north was come back into central africa because the big shot was there just around the democratic republic of congo some showers into northern parts of tanzania south africa on the other hand well much of southern africa as you can see is fine in fry clear skies into houses but with a high of 20 degrees. i usually just read and trace frank assessments wise it's on

degree fahrenheit mark similar value as we go on into sunday night as showers i roll across the caucasus towards the caspian sea meanwhile showers continue into a theo got some rather wet weather rolling through here we've seen flooding in uganda recently we've seen some very heavy rain along the coastal fringes of kenya more big downpours coming in here through saturday and sunday and that push their way up across southern parts of somalia that wet weather well that will continue we'll see some very heavy showers all the way across into the gulf of guinea southern parts of nigeria also into the chance of seeing some localized flooding south of that what is generally 5 and rather be a few showers into mozambique but for most it's fine settle dry and sunny. isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise looking at another side of the story not the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact its reality has a long exposing. need for manipulating rhetoric and claims but they cannot manipulate the listening post your it's like going to th

rescue committee earlier she spoke to my colleague lauren taylor began by asking her why those in the caucasus bizarre refugee camp a particularly vulnerable. the story is a 1st of all built on sand and then next to it it's a very hilly area and that the rescreen landslides is massive we are also afraid that because of the router situation in the camp we have water stations at but they are fragile and if one of them breaks they are having the risk of getting consummated water which would further create risk for spread of deceases and it's also as we heard i mean young children 50 percent of the 1000000 people living in the camp are children so if they are outside i mean this is a huge waste that they could be flushed away by water or be hit by debris switch are flying through the wind so there is multiple shalen just for for the population does a bit more about the response so far in terms of coronavirus how how big is the outbreak than how well handled has it been i mean so far the number of these on shore is. hopefully it is not large right now but we are projecting that we might need over 1

disadvantaged people in coastal regions and for those living in crowded growing a refugee camps in caucasus bazaar while bangladesh is dealing with coronavirus spend big supercycle and is approaching its course lying posing a challenge to the authorities here to evacuate coastal areas even if the saigon hits off their weakling it could cause significant damage to the farmlands and rule homes 100 i'll just dhaka bangladesh syria's warring parties have agreed to reconvene in geneva to negotiate a constitution once the coronavirus pandemic eases united nations special envoy gary pedersen said that the relative calm in the last rebel held enclave of vividly provided an opportunity for building confidence the war in syria has been raging for more than 9 years with pederson urging the u.s. and russia to start talks obviously the united states and russia as a key role to play in this and i'm also for that increase. and cooperation and when it comes to syria they don't need it for and. there are many older actors also. if you are to be able to find some. u.s. oil prices have rallied over the past 3

notably perhaps at the moment of logic of cows in north a set your alarm you're a republican the north caucasus there's nothing to suggest that those protests won't continue and in all likelihood they will continue with increased intensity writer and or fox all leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from london more than 67000 people have now died from the corona virus in the u.s. that's despite that more states are bowing to pressure and reopening tens of thousands of people flocked to new york's parks and public spaces for the warmest weekend this spring while in california some defied beach bans texas is the latest say to open summer fits businesses joining others including georgia and oklahoma the demonstrators have still gathered from coast to coast to call for restrictions to be eased more quickly. the mayor of an amazon city has appealed to the climate activists gratitude to use her influence to help the rain forests protect her as battle the coronavirus the mayor of my notes made the pleas inmates in the city's prison briefly took 7 guards hostage opera testing against

rehabilitation work is going to take time now fortunately millions of people living in the camp in the caucasus. have been spared from the sideline because it was not directly in the path of the cycle on that they're clearly still on danger because in the monsoon season those area can get flooded and there could be a landslide in the hilly slopes where a lot of these refugee camps are by and large we still have a lot of reports to see what comes up but the damage has been very severe this is one of the hardest gone since 190-2007 so we'll know farther down the road thank you for that update time chantry not for us there in dhaka. the u.n. special envoy for the middle east has called on israel to abandon threats to an expired so the occupied west bank israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been given the u.s. president's blessing to press ahead but the security council was told it could be it could breach international law diplomatic energy james space reports. many observers have predicted that prime minister netanyahu threat to annex parts of the west bank was simply an election ploy or

virus infections and doug a stunt has prompted the russian government to build field hospitals the caucasus region of southern russia has become one of the hardest hit in the country there have been reports of overwhelmed hospitals and medical staff dying after a contract in the virus according to official numbers there are 4000 confirmed cases in dagestan but experts say the number is much higher with nearly 700 deaths recorded from quote pneumonia. still to come on al-jazeera in just a moment despite a death toll that's nearing 100000 sun starved americans get ready to hit their newly opened beaches. with their possessions washed away or smashed by the storm cycling victims in india and bangladesh seek out to start again. how i would say the big cool from the weather across southeastern europe with sundry downpours breaking that hates those and rather wets when the blustery conditions up towards the northwest with quite a tight little area of low pressure rattling across the british isles bring some heavy rain across scotland that will push across into norway i make fun of this weather sy

still seeing some wet weather the showers that stretch from the black sea towards the caspian across caucasus pushing across northern parts of iran and i'll continue to just make the well little further research as we go through sunday tended to thin and break as they do say some more sunshine coming through behind temperature 30 celsius little down to race in values but still pleasantly warm nevertheless want to see showers that see into that western side of yemen join in that with the showers across the ethiopian highlands down into kenya down the rift valley some showers there into the gulf of guinea as well and those showers of course they do stretch across west africa as they should do in the edge of the way nicely further north was come back into central africa because the big shot was there just around the democratic republic of congo some showers into northern parts of tanzania south africa on the other hand while much of southern africa as you can see is fine in fry clear skies in johannesburg with a high of 20 degrees. main on al-jazeera has covered 19 infects millions and triggers

they also worked all the way down in the caucasus in dagestan and all the way deep into the ural mountains as well. it was way beyond the limits that we sometimes think of. now, the size of the famine made it an enormous challenge to try to deal with, but there were other challenges as well. one of them was the mere fact of, you know, the number of people that needed help. at its peak, you had about 200 american men working the famine in russia. obviously, they could only do so much. so they put together an army, literally, of russian employees, who worked under them. this network of russians who worked for the ara eventually reached 125,000 people. and none of this work could have been done without the russians. so while it was american relief that was orchestrating it all, much of the work was done by the russians themselves. transportation, as you can imagine, over one million square miles was one of the biggest headaches. the railroad network had been destroyed as a result of the civil war. much of it was no longer simply working. the rail lines that were working were frequently attack