with of the contact tracing bill that's coming down the pipeline and the funding of the war on lebanon china and possible american dollars that have been going into the place before all this happened but is this a dangerous we are walking when it comes to press freedoms or is any possible misinformation in a public health crisis a potential danger to the public and needs to be policed them some fashion how do you feel so obviously i have a pretty clear point of view on this because as you mentioned i've had 2 stories that have been censored by facebook here's the problem with it is that both of these stories one is about the lab receiving u.s. funding that is an absolute fact it has been proven time and time again i put up lots of proof for it the other one is about this bill that's on its way down the problem is that the so-called. checkers who have fact checked these stories in one case it was political act and the reporter writes in the story he didn't bother to fact check the story he literally says the 15 minutes report that swan presented which we did not fact check the why are you doi

iran's revolutionary guard, continued to fly to and from china, and is believed to have taken the first covid—19 infections to iraq and lebanonrline did not respond to the bbc‘s request for comment. nawal al maghafi has this report. on january 31st, iran suspended all flights to and from china to try to slow the spread of coronavirus. despite the ban, the bbc has found that one airline kept flying — mahan air. iran's largest and first privately operated airline. it's sanctioned by the us for its ties to the powerful iranian revolutionary guard. these restrictions on mahan air are part of wider sanctions imposed on iran, bringing the country much closer to china economically, and mahan air plays a key role in this relationship. analysing flight—tracking data, we discovered that from the 31st of january until april 20th, mahan air was given permission by the iranian authorities to conduct 157 flights between iran and four chinese cities — in breach of its own government flight ban with china. we found that ten additional flights were used for aid and to evacuate iranians citizens. by the middle of february, the virus was at its

imposed on a 2nd city in northeast china after another cove in 1000 cluster was discovered authorities are downplaying fears of a possible 2nd wave of infections lebanon meanwhile is resuming lockdown measures for 4 days because of a resurgence in corona virus infections described as a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industries policing guinea have opened fire on protesters demanding an end to the coronavirus lockdown at least 6 people were killed in towns near the capital from that protester safe release of been mistreating them and demanding bribes to let them through checkpoints any is one of the worst hit countries by the virus in west africa. and prospects for a peace deal in afghanistan appear to be fading after tuesday's attacks on a maternity hospital in funeral which killed $56.00 people president musharraf's conny immediately ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban as well as other armed groups the taliban has blamed eisel for both attacks but says it's ready to fight. those are our top stories stay with us the stream is coming up next and

craft says maximum pressure may be applied to russia to china and indeed actually iran is proliferating chemical weapons with has a bulla from lebanon in venezuela and that the united states needs to. the united states cares for the people of venezuela. a very up surd. holywood movie that they are trying to sell to the public opinion of the world trying to convince the people the public that there are terrorist groups from the middle east here in south america in venezuela and we with the help of iran well at some point they even said gee years ago that we had bicycles which had uranium from venice well in order to export them to iran for them to produce. nuclear weapons they also said that osama bin laden was hiding here in my god he died and before they killed him so they have they have made up all this stories in order to try to link venezuela to middle east terrorism you know that to convince the world that they have to invade venezuela either because we have a so-called humanitarian crisis which does not exist or because we support and we finance and whatever international terrorism that's that's all foolish that it's not true

better these countries are fairing, australia, austria, bhutan, china croatia, cuba, ja boodjib estonia, greece, iceland, love -- lebanonslovakia, slovenia, south korea, taiwan, thailand, tunisia and finally, vietnam. all of those countries in the green beating the coronavirus and doing much better than us. the next group is countries that are nearly there. they are suppressing the virus but still recording new cases. there are countries in europe there and then the group still in trouble. these are the countries where recorded cases are going up or going down very slowly. despite the fact the last week or two of data from the u.s. is somewhat hopeful and moving somewhat in the right direction, we're somewhat until the red. in a group that happens to include some of trump's favorite world leaders like putin of russia, duterte of the philippines and brazil. this crisis is among other things a global test of governance and just really hard to look at the data and come to any conclusion other than that our leaders are failing. r leade. let's be honest. quitting smoking is hard. like, quitting every monday hard. quitting fe

imposed on a 2nd city in northeast china after another $1000.00 cluster was discovered authorities are downplaying fears of a possible 2nd wave of infections lebanon is resuming lockdown measures for 4 days because of a resurgence in corona virus infections described as a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industries. policing guinea have opened fire on protesters demanding an end to the coronavirus lockdown at least 6 people were killed in towns near the capital conakry protesters say police have been mistreating them and demanding bribes to let them through checkpoints it is one of the worst hit countries by the virus in west africa. and prospects of a peace deal in afghanistan appear to be fading after tuesday's attacks on a maternity hospital and funeral which killed $56.00 people the president ashraf ghani immediately ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other armed groups the taliban has blamed eisel for both attacks but says it's ready to fight back there's a top stories the witness continues next they'll have the news hour and half a

between china and the united states the taiwan straits are likely to witness more saber rattling in the months ahead rob mcbride al jazeera still to come on out here in this news hour lebanon's banks and government play the blame game as the country struggles with its well. financial crisis in history. china's biggest and most important political gathering of the year will take place on friday 3 months late because of the current virus the national people's congress is expected to announce measures to kick start the country's struggling economy after the outbreaks or decades of growth seize up to you reports from beijing. how . this time last year leave a was running from one international business meeting to another but because of the pandemic who work as a freelance interpreter has dried up she's turned to teaching to make ends meet oh i find it's quite challenging and depressing for me. sometimes but. i would be reminding i by people around me and to understand that it's not just the me it's actually everybody and there are people being hit harder than me when china's leaders gather for the national people's congress on friday the slowing economy will be front and center

have andorra, australia, austria, bhutan, cambodia, china, croatia, cuba, djibouti, estonia, greece, iceland, jamaica, jordan, kosovo, latvia, lebanontenstein, lithuania, luxembourg, malta, mauritius, monaco, montenegro, new zealand, slovakia, slovenia, south korea, taiwan, thailand, tunisia, and finally, vietnam. >> seth: we're worse than lichtenstein, slovakia, and latvia i don't even know enough about those countries to make a joke i'll just assume everyone there is named gustav and they chug fanta while riding mopeds. let us know if we got close. we even did worse than bhutan. just a side note here about bhutan what's up with their graph everyone else has a nice bell curve and their chart looks like the opening credits of "frazier." i guess bhutan figured out that the cure for coronavirus is -- ♪ tossed salads and scrambled eggs ♪ no, you're doing a show in your attic. anyway, the point is, there are lots of countries that have suppressed their outbreaks and now some of them are safely reopening in ways that are still far off for us like germany, where professional soccer returned this weekend, although with a slight twist >> ge

lebanon's high ticket prices and quarantine fees are making the trip difficult. german carmaker volkswagen says it will invest more than 2000000000 euros in china the targets are 2 electric motor with the company's v.w. will become the biggest investor in the battery maker will shun both slackness also increasing its stake in the chinese electrical electric vehicle maker j a c motors. and let's talk about that with our financial correspondent only bar is in frankfurt for us hi ali so v.w. is putting even more money into china as we heard it's coming at a time where there's a lot of tension with beijing politically so is this a good move by folks back and. well long term it seems to fit a volkswagen strategy after all her birthday is to see your folks wagon worldwide has called out that he is wanting to make a volkswagen the world's number one electric car maker and also batteries which are also part of this investment decision to be a key technological component that volkswagen is good at so putting money into china putting money into batteries into e-cards goes along with the strategy and don't forget china is the world's largest auto market the german market i

this program resistance to lebanon's economic rescue plan as the government asks for a financial lifeline. hello we still got some very hot sunshine across northern parts of china for the time being that will change as we go through the next couple of days area cloud into central areas of china that's going to push out into the east china sea eventually we'll see some wetter weather just not doing its way towards south korea towards southern parts of japan but headed that saturday looks was dry and sunny we're getting up to around 28 celsius in tokyo that cloud on the right that will continue to ease further east with so it will cloud over it will turn increasingly wet some heavy downpours for the far south of japan and also into south korea as we go through sunday still some showers there into southern areas of china but for the far south too bad hong kong around $31.00 celsius in the sunshine sunshine the showers meanwhile across a good part of southeast asia some of the showers on the live beside the seasonal rains of course and the great surprises here and wet weather anywhere from the philippines through malaysia indonesia out that wanted to shout study a

of more on rest this time is unlikely to deter china's government from pressing ahead with this security law adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. to lebanon now where inflation is soaring and the economy is close to collapse as the cost of bread and other basics continues to climb some people have had to start growing their own food scene or whatever reports from beirut. lemon tree i know if it does this is. any and her husband are growing their own food they are among the estimated 40 percent unemployed as lebanon faces its worst economic crisis and decades international organizations say almost half of the nearly 5000000 people are struggling to put food on the table my husband and myself are jobless at the moment so we found that that might be like the best solution to the problem that we're facing not everyone has a balcony a rooftop garden or land to enable them to become food independent and where the government close to bankruptcy many say such initiatives will not be enough to deal with what prime minister has warns could be a major food crisis the world food program says prices of basic goods increased by at least 40 percent that

and lebanon's banks and government play the blame game as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in history those stories after the break. hello there's rain developing in southern china significant rain but it's not heading towards japan japan is just sitting with a circulation in the sea of japan itself which takes some back or breeze across the sea to the korean peninsula where it's bright and breezy sunny 17 in tokyo and it could well be cloudy of a good part of honshu bit disappointing really a bit of rain running through beijing as it disappears attempts will start to rise again and this rain this heavy will drift offshore through hong kong during friday's to line takes it through taiwan which does mean of course who hands are rather warm $32.00 in hong kong is rather sticky 29 now if you had sat was the active weather for thunderstorms is going to be in the southern philippines around still away sea and maybe job role but beyond that the circulation i have in the open mortar rest of sumatra is south the equator is the circulation is the other direction for an area of low pressure and it will stay over the water but these are pretty big thunderstorms in the sout

china voted to begin imposing a controversial new security law pro-democracy protesters fear it will erode freedom and justice in the semi autonomous territory. and ethiopia has started repatriating its citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to return home but lebanon's high ticket prices and cornered fees are making the trip difficult. south korea has reported its biggest spike in corona virus cases in almost 2 months prompting the government to reimpose a number of social distancing measures including. closing any schools that opened just a few days ago parks museums and cedars in the soul much paul in the area are also closing for 2 weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the virus it comes after officials announced more than 130 new cases in the past 2 days some of which came from an outbreak in warehouses of an e-commerce firm. well for more let's bring in journalist frank smith in seoul frank why are authorities so concerned about these flare ups because the infection numbers relative to population don't seem very high. yes they are pretty low relative to the populatio

china voted to begin imposing a controversial new security law pro-democracy protesters fear it will erode freedom and justice in the semi autonomous territory. ethiopia has started to repatriate its citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in as of a bump from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to return home but lebanon's high ticket prices and quarantine fees are making the trip difficult. and in washington d.c. restaurants are getting ready for limited reopening on friday or allowed all for outdoor seating only now the city is partially lifted coated 19 restrictions the food industry has been particularly hard hit as a result of the law. so korea has reported its biggest spike in corona virus cases in almost 2 months prompting the government to reimpose a number of social distancing measures including reclose inc many schools that opened just days ago parks museums and theaters in the soul metropolitan area are also closing for 2 weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the virus comes after officials announce more than $130.00 new cases in the past 2 days most of which came from an outbreak in warehouses in of an e-commerce

lebanon to syria to yemen. so i really think it's going to redouble this benefit of dictators. >> .. in exchange for oil, venezuelan oil, provided below-market prices which in russia and china would sell at a profit. that's not working out now. russia has had to bail out and that doesn't play well back in russia and that is exacerbating the sentiment against putin. i think guaidÓ has an opportunity in venezuela as a leader who will actually help them get them out of this crisis and really the key factor to watch is venezuelans. especially among the former tribe. will they begin to attribute their grievances to the maduro regime? site think it's that for dictators, i really do. i think what we're seeing is the benefit of a we open a democratic system as to satisfy americans, governors initial response to this and so forth. we have self-correcting mechanism. we have a say in how we are governed. and in the societies that don't, really, as the people's voices are stress, the only opportunity to change made turn out to be a revolution of some kind. i'm optimistic about democracy, free societies, , as long as we pay attention to ourselves and to every can to strengthen our democ

epicenter of the outbreak in china and where the illness 1st emerged in december 5 infections were reported on monday the 1st census locked i was lifted last month lebanon has now preparing for a 4 day nationwide shutdown only a week after easing some of its coronavirus restrictions government ministers made the decision after the number of new delhi cases rose to its highest level in more than a month that's prompted concerns about a 2nd wave of infection then a horror has more from beirut. the lock down to prevent the spread of coronavirus was gradually being eased allowing lebanese to get back to something resembling normal life but in recent days the rate of infections increased prompting the government to order a 4 day closure as of wednesday night where you have. the rate of infections from one person to another has accelerated here in the past 3 days there were 109 cases in 4 days and this has reversed our gains the failure to wear masks and reckless disregard for social distancing rules are being blamed for the rise rather hard on a sort of to close the country again but the problem is people were not complying with the safety measures we alread

china, croatia, greece. greece is often criticized as a governing basket case in europe, and look well how they have done. iceland, jamaica, jordan, kosovo, latvia, lebanonlithuania, luxembourg, malta, monaco, montenegro, new zealand, slovakia, slovenia, south korea, taiwan, thailand, tunisia, and finally vietnam. all of those countries in the green, beating the coronavirus and doing much better than us. the next group is countries that are nearly there. they're suppressing the virus, but they are still recording new cases. these are the yellow graphs, right, you see a bunch of countries, particularly in europe that are there, and then there's a group that's still in trouble. these are the countries where recorded cases are still going up or going down very slowly. despite the fact that the last week or two of data from the u.s. is somewhat hopeful and somewhat in the right direction, we are still in the red. in a group that happens to include some of trump's world leaders, putin of russia, duterte of the philippines and bolsonaro of brazil. it is just really hard to look at all the data, and come to any conclusion other than that our leaders are failing

china after another 900. 40 s. are downplaying fears of a possible 2nd wave of infection. a new 4 day lockdown has come into force in lebanon because of a resurgence in corona virus infections in recent days the scribed is a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industry the crisis hit country had been slowly starting to emerge from several weeks of restrictions that aggravated its economic crisis. police in guinea have opened fire on protesters demanding an end to their coronavirus lockdown at least 6 people were killed in the towns near the capital colloquy saddle height it reports. liberty and freedom of movement is what protesters in several cities in guinea are demanding. angry its coronavirus knocked down measures restricting them from traveling in and out of the capital conakry and in living they blocked roads and set fire to police vehicles at several checkpoints built to try and contain the spread of kobe bryant's love for the protesters no work means no. at all we've. learned with fed up with this lockdown the government has abandoned us that killed

china faces international criticism for their early handling of the coronavirus and concealing information. in is trail people headed to the beaches this weekend and in neighboring lebanonh-goers were in the pews today. jon: hundreds of iraqis gathered in baghdad as part of a resurgence in anti-government protests. dem tray stores are demanding better living conditions and an end to rampant government corruption. in a gesture of goodwill the prime minister called on the judiciary to release owl non-violent protesters from london. that's a look at stories from around the globe. new reports on how the chinese government pressured the world health organization to delay a warning about the novel coronavirus. first a mother's day message from my colleague jess see jess. >> jesse: to all the moms out there, you know from mom texts, i get at lot of texts from my mom.th the one w thing i learns is, stp yelling at juan. click or call for a quote today. saturpain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. "show me what you're made of." so we showed it our people, sourcing and distributing more fresh fo