ok we'll leave it there john thanks very much john psaropoulos our correspondent in athens. now more than 14000000 people have been infected with hiv 19 globally also more than 600000 have died researchers around the world are racing to develop more than 150 potential vaccines they're all for providing some positive results there is the university of oxford astra zeneca testing vaccine in big numbers of people in the u.k. south africa and brazil it's expected to release the results of its 1st human clinical trial shortly in australia the university of melbourne and murdoch children's research institute is also conducting phase 3 trials and chinese companies cinna back and soon a farm of both moved to phase 3 testing in brazil and also in the u.a.e. sara gilbert is a research a leading the trials the oxford university vaccine center speaking virtually to members of the british parliament she said her team is still testing how long the vaccine will provide immunity nationally quite immunity to other human actions this is relatively short we don't get reinfected sometimes quite

high between athens and ankara because of turkish training in contested waters let's bring in john psaropoulosin the greek capital for so what has come out of the meeting john tell us more. well as you say both ministers agree that the turkish drilling which is an authorized in the exclusive economic zones of cyprus and of greece must stop that is a common position among the e.u. 27 members and the e.u. and the united states have also condemned turkey's so-called exclusive economic zone agreement with libya which cards up a corridor of water in the eastern mediterranean that is also claimed by greece now the 2 ministers of course are agreed in terms of position in principle but there was very little coming out of this press conference today on what germany or other e.u. members may be willing to do in practice to deter turkish actions and those turkish actions do seem quite undeterred at the moment earlier this month turkey issued a navigational telex that one of its drill ships will be conducting exploration in cyprus exclusive economic zone and today the day of this meeting here in athens a

church for nearly a 1000 years before becoming a mosque so here's our team across the story john psaropoulos in athens more reaction from there because there's been a lot of opposition to this from greece but 1st simcoe seal you in a stand bull still so many people out there it underlines what a popular place it is for people to visit how is this going to change now. well come on this place is fair for pool for both domestic tourists and for foreign tourists coming over as it is a museum but for the turks of course it's has a different meaning because turks have been awaiting for to reopen the place for worship for the last 8 to 5 fierce that's why as the state council and mounts the decision to reopen the place to reopen i also feel dozens of people came together and as as evening came there are more and more people coming here with their families they're chanting they are celebrating that i also feel is now back again a mosque another museum so everywhere they will be able to fray here and present our lawn is actually having a televised nation rights speech and it's still on the way out bu

as hungary in poland they object to the proposals being tied to democratic rights life now to john psaropoulos who joins us from athens so as far as the government is their concern john what's the big issue for them whether it's grants versus loans and tagging it to democracy slash human rights. well greece is a country that is already paying 3 and a 3rd percent of its economy every year servicing all of those emergency loans that you remember greece took from its european. com raids its euro zone partners back in 2010 to $15.00 it's going to spend the next 40 years paying 2.2 percent of its g.d.p. repaying those loans that economists say is an unmatched record if greece actually pulls it off historically no country has spent that long paying that much of its economy on servicing debt and yet here is greece saying we fully back a common recovery instruments backed by all the european union countries which will eventually have to be repaid over a 30 year period after a moratorium but which greece is willing to join in paying why because greece stands to suffer a 9 percent recession this year it

due to cover 19 the country is forecast to suffer the continent's deepest recession this year john psaropoulos reports from athens. 2 decades after it was shut down athens old airport is roaring back to life an international consortium is plowing $9000000000.00 over 10 years to create a model city in the southern suburbs and $80000.00 jobs it's music to the is of a government that came to power promising growth and now faces europe's deepest coronavirus related recession of up to 10 percent. but is encouraging is that today when the whole world is facing kind of problems due to coron of virus the country's most emblematic investment is finally beginning its not only greece's biggest investment at $620.00 hector's helicon is being billed as europe's biggest urban renewal project one that could increase the size of the national economy by 2 and a half percent with unemployment here at over 14 percent the greeks welcomed the news but wonder if they'll be the ones to benefit. this is perhaps they will be job openings and that will help but my rent will double in fact it's already started going up

actually said it is the same with the notre dame cathedral in paris al-jazeera is correspondent john psaropoulos now with the latest on the greek government reaction in athens. the official reaction so far has come from the greek culture minister. who is calling it a bare faced challenge to the entire civilized world which recognizes the unique value and universal nature of the monument and she went further she said that it's clear from this decision by the turkish course that turkish justice is not independent but follows the whims of president over one and she said the nationalism displayed by present to one is a poor councillor and takes his country 6 centuries back obviously this is being seen in greece as a very political move not only does it muddy the waters of the already difficult greek turkish relationship complicated by disagreements over the aegean and over maritime jurisdictions in the eastern mediterranean but it also now introduces a historical element sudan's passed a law which now makes female genital mutilation a crime the united nations says nearly 9 out of every 10 girls in t

aristocracy another top priority is the return of artifacts that the greek government says he stole john psaropoulos reports. this marble block is being cut out to make history it will eventually form part of the parthenon where new model is being precisely chiseled to be married to surviving fragments the reconstructed blocks will be hoisted back into the structure much of the damage to this 2500 year old temple was caused relatively recently just over 200 years ago the 7th of elegant removed dozens of sculpted panels to get to them he hosted masonry off the roof and dashed it to the ground yet nobody else is now to remove something you have to dismantle whatever's on top of it it's not like pulling a book off the shelf temple construction was like lego they were built from the bottom up this is why they've lasted each piece is fitted exactly to the pieces around it and that makes them earthquake resistant the sculptures formed part of the structure this quake proof technology has lasted world the ancient greeks connected each block of marble to its neighbor with iron clamps over which molten lead

areas controlled by have to forces and is the gateway to libya's oil rich region let's join john psaropoulos our correspondent in athens we were expecting of course the german foreign minister to obviously talk about the relationship between turkey and greece but how much of a sort of a curveball was that the also mentioned libya. well it was really all of the same mind search the 2 statements on what he was doing in the eastern mediterranean in water as opposed to be a g. and what it's doing in libya. as you say of course germany wants to avoid escalation in libya the statements of the foreign minister was the decisions on military operations are not to be welcomed but always run the risk of contributing to an escalation rather than having to kill egypt face off over libya the german minister said he would like to see a demilitarized zone around it and the base city of joy for the south and to deescalate the tension surrounding those 2 areas that seems highly unlikely because the libyan parliament a week ago invited egyptian assistance apparently the libyan national army is unable to face t

battering greece's economy has received a nearby playground for the rich may still create resentment john psaropoulos al-jazeera athens. several explosions have gone off at a fireworks factory in turkey 4 people killed and almost $100.00 injured in the northwest province of south korea it's believed up to $200.00 people were inside at the time it's unclear what caused the explosions. american football teams the washington redskins say their thorough me reviewing their team day is pressure mounts to change it delivery in korea for fed ex a major sponsor is backing the campaign and sportswear giant nyc has removed the team's merchandise from its website the redskins have long been criticized as racist and offensive to native americans. you're probably familiar with the star-spangled banner the u.s. national anthem that's played before all major sporting events well this year in light of the protests against police brutality and systemic racism the n.f.l. will be playing another song as well on that better captures the black american experience and her chappelle explains. live to everybody. when civil r

later natasha in paris with some news out of those talks in the meantime we're off to athens john psaropoulos is there for us and john where does greece fit into the picture between the big 4 economies and then the frugal for as they called. will come all greece is one of the most heavily indebted countries in the european union about 180 percent of its g.d.p. is owed in debt for the next 40 years so it doesn't want to assume a great deal of new debt and the idea of receiving a roughly 25000000000 dollar handout in the form of grants in order to offset this year's recession sounds very good to the is of the greek government and to the ears of the greek people. the european union however is also going to see a rise in debts this year because governments are borrowing heavily to spend on their recessionary economies and the european commission has said it expects. an average solver in debt across the e.u. this year to rise from about 75 percent to about 95 percent just on account of covert 19 therefore it's very important that there is a new entity the european commission that's willing to issu

battering greece's economy has received a nearby playground for the rich may still create resentment john psaropoulos al-jazeera athens french president has replaced his popular prime minister with a little known civil servants it's part of a major government in an attempt to reinvigorate his presidency 2 years before the next election that's asked about the reports from paris shore cast stakes is not a new name in french politics a conservative mayor of a southwestern town he's worked for former rightwing president nicolas sarkozy and was recently put in charge of planning the lifting of france's lockdown nevertheless few people in france had heard of him until he was named prime minister replacing it while felipe like president emmanuel might crawl during a cabinet reshuffle you for. me will mean more than ever to reunite the nation to fight this crisis among us and above all continue the deep reforms that you've undertaken so that we will emerge stronger and more united but served as prime minister since 2017 when mackerel was elected like our steaks conservative felipe was little known when he to

because of covenanting the country is forecast to suffer europe's deepest recession this year john psaropoulos reports from. 2 decades after it was shut down athens old airport is roaring back to life an international consortium is plowing $9000000000.00 over 10 years to create a model city in the southern suburbs and $80000.00 jobs it's music to the is of a government that came to power promising growth and now faces europe's deepest coronavirus related recession of up to 10 percent. but is encouraging is that today when the whole world is facing kind of problems due to coron of virus the country's most emblematic investment is finally beginning its not only greece's biggest investment at $620.00 hector's helicon is being billed as europe's biggest urban renewal project one that could increase the size of the national economy by 2 and a half percent with unemployment here at over 14 percent the greeks welcomed the news but wonder if they'll be the ones to benefit from this is perhaps there will be job openings and that will help but my rent will double in fact it's already started going up so