polls have opened in south korea's national assembly elections with unprecedented measures in place to deal with the coronavirus before even being allowed to cast their ballots and voters must wear masks stand at least one metre apart have their temperature taken disinfect their hands and wear gloves. well let's cross now to journalist our frank smith who is standing by for us in seoul this is the world's 1st a major election since the start of the global coronavirus pandemic how is it even possible to hold an election under these conditions. well a couple of things happened here in south korea they're really on the tail end of the curve the south korean government and the measures you know upheld by the public have really stunted the corona virus outbreak here and now you have about 30 cases per day emerging there's about $10000.00 cases in the country all together so people are feeling a little bit safer and as you mentioned in the introduction they're taking extraordinary measures at the polls i visited the advance polling station and advance polling station earlier this week last f

federal reserve this following the authorization from the venezuelan national assembly and the self declared president one guy doe in order to protect the assets he says this is a move that's being widely condemned so joining us now to discuss this professor richard wolf he is professor of economics and international affairs and co-founder of democracy at work now professor the central bank was really quick to slam this move as a fraudulent seizure and venezuelan foreign minister jorge arriaga he tweeted this he said the central bank of venezuela denounces the vulgar dispossession the donald trump in complicity with some lawmakers from the national assembly in contempt order regarding the net the nation's financial resources which had been blocked at citibank now professor the venezuelan central bank had been blacklisted back in 2019 so what is the legality of the federal reserve. and foreign assets do we have precedent for this. and it's clearly are not there are attempts in the middle of a global pandemic to range the kinds of sanctions that you're imposing i would hope for people that eit

an acceptable council state to serve as the transitional government into a presidential and national assembly elections could be held we hope within 6 to 12 months both nicolas maduro and one where the would accept the council of state as the sole executive during this transitional period and what a surprise the plan is to get people on board to for that new council with all the powers you can help asking how come when it's long been decided in d.c. that one white oh is the legitimate president of venezuela united states proudly recognize the national assembly president wanted to i you know as the interim president of venezuela joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela who want to idaho $21.00 other governments in the region and across the world have joined the united states and recognizing going to know as venezuela's interim president for a while now the stars and stripes have counted on him he's been counting on their support helps been coming in all shapes and forms from a hailstorm of sanctions against the government to threats of sending the world's mig

that one white oh is the legitimate president of venezuela united states proudly recognized national assembly president want why you know as the interim president of venezuela joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela who won 21 other governments in the region and across the world had joined the united states in recognizing going to go as venezuela's interim president for a while now the stars and stripes have counted on him he's been counting on their support helps been coming in all shapes and forms from a hailstorm of sanctions against the government to threats of sending the world's mightiest military to sort things out in caracas pulis material would do well not to test. the resolve of the united states. are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table when all of that didn't work the u.s. came up with. let's put it this way mission get the drug lord the indictment of nicholas madero and his co-defendants alleges effort to flood the united states with cocaine but still none of that helped mr why do move the most stosh out of the

economic collapse plans to roll back the 6 week locked out in france being discussed in the national assembly the u.k. so health minister says the government will start to include deaths outside of hospitals in the government's published figures it comes after the independently run office for national statistics of the number of people who died england and wales is 52 percent higher than government figures show. to the us now the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is fast approaching 1000000 president donald trump is promising to expand testing as some tate's states begin to ease lock down restrictions florida's governor is in washington to meet with the president of the moment let's go live now to our white house correspondent ghibli hell could of florida kimberly is one of those states that is planning to ease restrictions. yeah it's a populous state is a state that many people flocked to for tourism it's also the official residence of the u.s. president who no longer calls new york state as his home but now calls florida as his home state of course has a very big property there some wou

to economic collapse plans to ease the 6 week long down in france are being unveiled in the national assembly politicians are trying to weigh a growing frustration from the millions stuck at home against the risk of a 2nd wave of infections the number of new daily cases fall and after 165000 infections spain's prime minister is expected to present a plan for restrictions to be further eased children were allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 5 weeks a couple of days ago despite the nationwide lockdown spaniards have been hit hard with 23000 deaths and close to a quarter of a 1000000 infections arrow in madrid says restrictions will be eased gradually. spain has lost half a 1000000 jobs during this period of time and so the the necessity of restarting spain's economy is really urgent this is what. it is doing today he's presenting the. deescalation plan we're entering the 2nd phase of this of spain's lockdown and what we know so far about this the escalation plan is that the prime minister has requested the 17 out of the most regions here in spain to be readily ready to double their inte

liberal block will be able to reach that $180.00 or 60 percent threshold of the $300.00 member national assembly which would give them the capability of really fast tracking legislation frank spirit and soul to paris and started with nothing to do with the coronavirus a year ago today the people of not to dahmus badly damaged by fire thought to have been stopped by magical short circuits restoration work is months behind shadow denied by toxic lead winter storms and now the pandemic of the world's complacent 2 films about the cathedral have been released one shot before the disaster afterwards and both enhanced by virtual reality. not true don cathedral the symbol of paris in flames. the images from april 29 teams saddened the world. filmmakers cloues or slate and victor argue long had been shooting a documentary on the world famous landmark just weeks before the fire. it almost hit the day after the fire we realized that our images are extremely great value that we captured a moment on notre dame's history that we'll be able to pass on to the public whether european american asian or parisian e

the us administration the pay themselves pay out comes from an $80000000.00 fund set up by the national assembly that money is made up of venezuelan assets seized by the us government now part of that payout plan is expected to also include $100.00 us dollar bonuses for doctors and nurses battling at the front lines of coronavirus. and nasa is celebrating today the 30th anniversary of the hubble telescope sprocket lunch taking off on april 24th 1990 hubble has provided an incredible number of images and observations never accomplished before observation post in space has allowed scientists to take observations free of the earth's atmosphere distortion for the 1st time ever. ok let's head over to regina hamm of the sports h.q. but you know soccer stadiums are obviously empty right now no fans there and one team figured out now would be a good time for a name change it's probably better than getting bangs right cuz that's the barcelona is kept one of the most famous soccer stadiums in the world now the club that plays there is doing their part to help fight against the current of ours barcelona is

but people will be swayed on whether they choose those members of the national assembly and the parties who support the liberal president whose popularity has gone up through all of this or whether they will support the opposition to him but i have to say that given this national crisis in the way that the country does seem to have come together it is a lot harder for those opposed to president really to make a much inroads in this part thank you for all those updates rob mcbride in solo on believe it or not election day. sweden now which is reported a sharp rise in coronavirus debts and 114 confirmed on tuesday which was up from 20 the previous day overall about 11000 people have tested positive and more than a 1000 died sweden has taken a far more liberal approach to the pandemic resisting the national lock downs which other countries take number of new cases in germany has risen again after declining for 4 days another 2400 infections reported bringing the total to more than 127003200 germans have now died. so what we see there is that the outbreak is far from stabilizing

we consider this accusation the greatest insult to our nation i am confident that the grand national assembly of turkey will respondants that which was made for a domestic audience in the us in contradiction to what we know to be the actual historical facts. continuation of the genocide because. there is not human genocide there is. culture in general sites to. the journal science when happened in armenia after 115 it continuous up to today. by destruction of the armenian chooser of armenian more lawsuits or armenian monuments therefore it's a continuous jemison. on today's top if you slow. so far it remains to be seen how long it will take president trump for the turkish government to acknowledge the armenian genocide will hold of. reporting in washington d.c. joseph ricci party. and joining us to expand on this paria is the executive director of the army an armenian national committee of america are not always good to see you thank you so much so today on the 105th anniversary of the armenian genocide the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden issued a statement on the subjec

the un comprises 193 member states all represented in one of its 6 main old ins the united nations general assembly. its 1st session with representatives from 51 nations was in london on january the 10th 1906. the next few annual sessions were held in different cities then moved to the un's permanent headquarters in new york in 1000 pretty too. since then the general assembly has made history from the cold war but can you expound a film about it to the palestinian israeli conflict with controversial statements we will never ratified the u.n. arms trade treaty to some undiplomatic moments to get it to one of the iraqi. oil but if. the annual general assembly in september is chaired by a president voted for by member states. but does the assembly have to force its resolutions or to compel countries to act. we'll find out as the president of the 74th session of the united nations general assembly nigeria's ambassador to the u.n. johnny mohammed bundy talks to al-jazeera. ambassador to johnnie mohammed bandy thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera now everybody knows the u.n. many people a

the 6 week blocked out in france are being discussed in the national assembly politicians are trying to weigh growing frustration from the millions stuck at home against the risk of a 2nd wave of infections the number of new delhi cases fall and after 165000 infections the ascii is a paris based journalist and president of reporters without borders he says that life in france would return to normal for quite some time. the good news is obviously that there is a prospect of ending or loosening the lockdown on may the 11th the bad news is as the prime minister said we will have to learn to live with the virus as long as there is no treatment or vaccine and that will be several months or if not years ahead so the prospect of having this new life where we have limited freedom where our cultural life sports life social life will be limited were working will be subjected to many adjustments and limitations this is a very grim prospect for many people maybe thought a bit too too quickly that's been 11 would be a return to the world before we have 2 hot spots in the country the east where it

and see if this is going to be transferred into support for the parties and politicians in the national assembly who support moving jay in the country's president because his popularity has stats steadily climbed during the weeks of this crisis and his approval rating now stands at a very high 57 percent in the news years government has announced tighter social distancing measures after a sudden surge in cases public transport has been reduced to half capacity gatherings are banned the new rules are in place for 14 days the capital jakarta accounts for many half of the more than $30000.00 infections jesica washington is in jakarta she says there's growing public concern of the lack of testing being done. a lockdown. and. public transport indicate that. the capital city is taking this crisis very seriously now. that now we have. around 7000 u.s. . across. different. across. every area. they want to and. that. particular. cases. by that point the virus had already spread well beyond china and many people growing very suspicious as. a single case. 100 and. the other problem. has. realized. european

in theh korea, and election, the democratic party in the 300places seat national assembly, that is the largest elementary victory in more than 30 years. the result as a show of support handling of the coronavirus outbreak. five european countries extending their ban until may 18, and it is a bid for france, spain, belgium, austria to calm markets during the pandemic. hedge funds in the primary exchange are among those who oppose the ban. ray dalio says investors would be crazy to hold government bonds right now. the founder of the world's largest hedge fund says he has no choice but to spend trillions of dollars, but with so much money printing by central banks, he questions it. he found himself on the wrong side of plunging markets after he said cash is trash. in israel, rival leaders failed to reach a deal, that means a fourth election in little over a year. and dan'setanyahu decided not to ask for more time. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. thank you so

. 80-seat national assembly. seen as a show of support for moon's handling of the outbreak. five european union countries have expanded their ban on the shortselling of stocks for the month. france, spain, belgium, austria, and greece say the prohibition will continue until the 18th of may. hedge funds in germany's primary exchange are among those opposed to the man. -- to the ban. global news powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. anna? anna: let's talk about what's going on stateside in terms of coronavirus. global cases of coronavirus have reached 2 million, and in the u.s., donald trump will unveil guidelines to ease stay-at-home rules. the president says the virus is showing signs of plateauing in some regions in the u.s. he later held a marathon series of calls with dozens of business leaders to get their perspective. at the daily white house virus briefing, trump said reopening guidelines would be announced today after he speaks to governors. pres. trump: the battle

for the left leaning governing party the democratic party looks set to gain a majority in the national assembly boosted by an effective response to the coronavirus crisis the election was carried out under strict coronavirus social distancing rules. u.s. senator elizabeth warren has become the latest high profile democratic party figure to endorse and joe biden to be the party's presidential nominee warren who ended her own bid for the white house last month announced her support in a video message mr biden has now been endorsed by all of his major former rivals. a 106 year old woman has been released from hospital in britain after recovering from kovac 19 great grandmother connoted shen is believed to be the country's oldest patient to recover from the disease she said she felt lucky to survive and was hungry after her month long ordeal. russia is reporting nearly 25000 infections and 198 deaths from the corona virus with walk down measures imposed across the country moscow spend a rocky 1st day under the new restrictions. making every moment count doctors in this hospital in moscow race to pr

time to take a look now at other news around the world south korea is holding national assembly elections with unprecedented measures in place to deal with the coronavirus before being allowed to cost their ballots voters must win last stab at least one need for a pause have a temperature taken disinfect their hands and break ups. new zealand's prime minister just into our dance says she's she and other top officials are taking a 20 percent pay cut for the next 6 months odd analysts say the staff was a symbolic acknowledgement of the struggle faced by many new zealand is frontline staff will not be affected. and the us treasury department will spend $25000000000.00 to support major passenger airlines and help them with the economic impacts of the coronavirus on travel to mont the country's largest airlines including american united delta and south wales for receive most of the money as grants and some as you know us. here in germany chancellor merkel is preparing to talk to regional leaders about whether to relax the country's walked on medical interest limits on freedom of movement on th

state mike pompei all said the transitional government would serve until the presidential and national assembly elections could be held within a year of the transitional government open across spain and italy people held a minute's silence on choose day to mourn and remember the lives that have been lost to the coronavirus spain recorded its highest number of deaths on tuesday bringing the total to more than 1400 the crisis is pushing spain's health care system to its limits but the government says there is reason for cautious hope a minute of silence in madrid after the deadliest day yet in spain's corona virus outbreak the city and much of the country are on lockdown following other european nations. a senior health official who has been infected appeared via video link to praise measures taken so far but with a warning. and his days to go given to ponder that it can be analysis from last week in certain regions shows that the measures are little by little having the desired effect now it wouldn't make any sense to try new measures very important measures were rolled out on the 15th of march

for the left leaning governing party the democratic party looks set to gain a majority in the national assembly boosted by an effective response to the coronavirus the election was carried out under strict social distancing rules. israel's president has tasked the country's parliament with forming a government after parliament speaker binny gunson prime minister binyamin netanyahu missed a deadline to reach a unity deal the country could now face its 4th election in just one year. the i.m.f. says that the asia pacific region will experience 0 growth this year for the 1st time since the $960.00 s. due to the massive economic damage caused by the corona virus and a new report warns that the impact in asia will be quote severe across the board and unprecedented massive drops in industrial and retail activity major supply chain disruption and a huge collapse in demand from europe and north america have been felt across the continent since the start of the year. well clifford couldn't from v.w. business is covering this story for us and joins us now in the studio good to see you clifford so we know

council state to serve as the transitional government until presidential and national assembly elections could be held we hope within 6 to 12 months. in exchange the u.s. would lift harsh economic and diplomatic sanctions even on the sale of oil than israel is lifeline the plan calls for both mother and the opposition leader one waythe goal was recognized by washington as the legitimate president to step aside whitehall is already on board. with this today we have international support for a proposal that we made months ago for an orderly transition of power that gives guarantees and space to all those who stand by our constitution. wasted no time responding. in a communique the government says the quote neither extortion nor false accords will distract president model and the armed forces from their mission to protect the venezuelan people but washington is betting that the growing pandemic on top of plummeting oil prices and u.s. economic sanctions will make this offer more palatable for those who could force my daughter's hand. indeed the initiative sounds remarkably familiar it's app

they need the 300 seats in the national assembly.ed 180 for a semi-super majority where they can get many bills through quickly. a super majority, they need two thirds of the 300 member national assembly. it would really help out president moon get his agenda enacted. haidi: is this something of a potential opportunity for a reset for moon? particularly as he seeks to convert the potential leverage out of this election to be able to truly reshape the economy the way that he has people lisa lee campaigned on -- previously campaigned on? thomas: president moon has really struggled with his income led economic policies. when he came into office, gdp grew 3.2% in 2017 and slowed down to 3.2% in 2017, slowed down to 2% last year. this year, who knows what it is going to be. maybe not as bad as other countries in the u.s. predicted. it could be flat. but the priority was simply to get the government's, and then know,ld take on his, you the progressive policy agenda that he has. haidi: in terms of what specific , i guess, postelection, you

. >> the election takes place every four years. 300 seats are up for grabs in the national assembly.he campaign lasted 13 days. candidates canceled rallies and avoided shaking hands to prevent the virus from spreading. the p popularity of president mn jae-in helped the ruling democratic party, which does not hold a majority. moon led the fight against the virus, which included drive-through testing. the daily number of new infections has fallen sharply. >>> it is time now for world weather. it looks like people in japan can look out their windows and enjoy the blue sky. >> that's basically as far as we can go. sunny and mild temperatures expected. some becoming warm for most parts of japan, as this low pressure system, rather the high pressure system is hard at work. it has been clear conditions and much of sunny conditions across central all the way to western japan. then the low pressure to the northern parts, that's leading to slightly different temperatures and different weather conditions for hokkaido and tohoku. it is also going to bring slightly unstable weather conditions the

i gather at the time a lot safer than turbulent berlin so the national assembly convened here to draw up a new constitution for the 1st german democracy the weimar republic and that happened in this theater. $919.00 was an exciting year in. the bauhaus a school that would reshape the way the world thinks about design opened its doors its director architect invited famous artists to the city like a silly condensed ski. the bauhaus architects built their 1st model home and house i'm haunted with its minimalist form and modern materials it introduced a new approach to house. 2019 environment inaugurated a new home for other revolutionary bauhaus designs a tribute to the creative minds behind the movement and celebration of its centennial no audio guide here when you can download an app to your phone that will guide you through the museum. this is the famous cradle and utilized condition ski's color theory. must be blue squares red and triangles yellow the design is still produced today and can be yours for 1880. the centerpiece of the museum. collection he chose 170 pieces that were invo

to economic collapse plans to ease the 6 week locked out in france a being discussed in the national assembly. the u.k.'s health minister says that the government will start to include deaths outside of hospital and it's published figures it comes after the independently run office for national statistics said the number of people who died in england and wales is 52 percent higher than the government figures show the turkish defense ministry says that at least 40 civilians have been killed in 2 bombings in syria it's blaming the kurdish y p g for the attacks in a free and in the northwest there are reports that one of the explosions targeted an oil tanker the city has been under the control of turkish backed troops for 2 years. there's the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after rewind next. to rewind. since we launched al jazeera english back in 2006 our library of award winning documentaries has been growing year by year and here on rewind we're revisiting some of the best of them today we're rewinding more than 10 years to a series that looked at the data lives of children in

now doesn't seem like the government will be more accountable with the current state of the national assembly and it come to the time as we're seeing in the increase of violence notably by members or groups or armed groups that didn't sign this peace agreement in 2015 rob groups like the zombie state in the greater sorrow did exist in 2015 or i'll tell you that really it's just not the suddenly flung one with the means these groups were not signatory of the peace agreement now maybe it's a candidate that ran for parliament for this election calls on more dialogue with these armed groups to try to find a peaceful solution. to the situation in mali which clears though for ordinary muslims is that having more troops on the ground having more french troops having more un peacekeeping troops in there this is the most costly peeping operation in the us history and also the deadly as well having all of these soldiers on the ground has not brought the somalis and so despite this vote there is hope that elected officials will hold the government sort of counts that they will be some sort of dialogue w

the conservatives and power have justmore skeptical conservatives and the national assembly have beenabout paying for what the government has done so far to lower income households. but they are also more willing to overlook some of the democraticthat the party is not. so if the conservatives were in power right now and favored to win, it would make things may be easier moving forward but if moon's party wins, you could see more activity. a platform of reforming the table has not been successful so far and if we see andparty winning today enacting major change to table reforms, we could really start to see change in the tables we have not seen yet. they have not asked for money yet but it seems like a matter companies arehese so dependent on the rest of the world, which is struggling, and they are structurally important to the south korean economy so it is something the government cannot overlook. what are we expecting in terms of the economic campaigning side of things? electionsmpaign and play into how the economy is shaped as korea gets through the crisis? >> he really could serve

democratic party won by a landslide with a hundred and eighty six in the three hundred seat national assembly. for the ballot widely being seen as a referendum on his handling of the corona virus pandedemic. off north stae media took a dim view. the label tay as human scum accusing him of embezzling funds raping a minor. and. spying for the south the money. finally we end policy on a more home warming story to have come out to this crippling pandemic a ninety nine year old british war veteran has managed to raise a almost fifteen millionon euros. to help the uk's national health service after completing one hundred laps of his garden with the help of his trusty walking frame. thousands of people havave to natives to tell moree schools to bobolster the finances of the nhs. the veteran has told local media that that he's fought so many battles during his life and his sidede h has always won and it's going to win. this againn when it comes to o this. deadly viru. not brings you up to date do stay with us here on fronts twenty four. if you have a new coach welcome to the frontier on france twenty

with helping south korea to contain the virus and into enabling the company to folks in the national assembly elections. it's a big distance. and pope spread out over several days the voice over crowding. update temperature checks. that they must also disinfect their hands and legs loves. those are the feverish and to set only includes. that's what i. it it's not. that that it is only now facing increasing up and i think that one of the things that. even those in s. along with the ten thousands of people in self quarantine were able to exercise their democratic rights voting especially because- south korea's government has won the battle against the viruses from over. on the day. it was the. the mananager to the renovation of the building of notre dom says it be readydy for t the twy twenty four top date. the fire that gutted the famous because the irs nine hundred and two. thank you was a pledge by france's big bill. in the wake of that file only two minutes so far it's been paid out. the project is set to be. the phone. for this of course owns this. yeah after the devastating fire notre dam

victory for the left leaning governing party the democratic party to gain a majority in the national assembly boosted by an effective response to the corona virus the election was carried out under strict social distancing rules. u.s. senator elizabeth warren has become the latest high profile democratic party figure to endorse joe biden to be the party's presidential nominee warren who ended her own bid for the white house last month announcer's reports in a video message mr biden has now been endorsed by all his major former rivals. and a 106 year old woman has been released from hospital in britain after recovering from tobit 19 great grandmother connie is believed to be the country's oldest patient to recover from the disease she said she felt lucky to survive and was hungry for her month ordeal. in countries around the world people are staying at home to stop the spread of the russia it seems that cabin fever is making people creative as well members of one facebook group or turning themselves for walls in the great work start. flying into a painting from the old bad. sink into the trage

south korea is holding national assembly elections with unprecedented measures in place to deal with the coronavirus before being allowed to cost their bennet's voters must weigh in last stand at least one meter of pot have a temperature taken dissipate their hands and we're close. 5 times in ukraine have as extinguished a fire that was threatening the chernobyl nuclear power plant the forest fires near the abandoned site had been burning for 10 days the chernobyl nuclear plant stuff that a meltdown in 1906 that sprayed radioactive fallout across europe. and here in germany there's been a rise in corona virus infections off to 4 days of decline but chancellor angela merkel is due to consult creamy is off the 16 german states to decide whether they should be a cautious lifting off the lock down one recommendation suggest starting with gradually. the opening of schools and shops but any rollback of the restrictions will involve a delicate balancing act. germany has a tough decision to make keep restrictions in place like france or like austria start the country down the path towards no

administration recently the pay themselves pay out comes from an 80000000 dollars fund set up by the national assembly the money is made up of venezuelan assets seized by the us government part of that payout plan is expected to include $100.00 bonuses for doctors and nurses battling at the front lines of the rotavirus. and nasa celebrates today the 30th anniversary of the hubble telescope the rocket launch taking up on april 24th 990 hubble has provided an incredible number of images and observations never accomplished before hubble's observation post is in space allowed scientists to take observations free of the earth's atmosphere because of the distortion for the 1st time. let's head over to regina ham at the sports h.q. we're going to in absence of many live sports right now it's a good time to have an edition of flashback friday to find you know last night we had something similar to live sports 1st year that of the n.b.a. draft and then the 2020 n.f.l. draft took place virtually last night highlighted some of the best years. the edge of the league so for friday edition of this day in sports his

for the left leaning governing party the democratic party looks set to gain a majority in the national assembly boosted by an effective response to the coronavirus the election was carried out under strict search will distancing rules u.s. senator elizabeth warren has become the latest high profile democratic party figure to endorse joe biden to be the party's presidential nominee warren who ended her own bid for the white house last month announced her support in a video message mr biden has now been endorsed by all his major former rock. the world's richest men jeff bezos has become even richer shares in his retail giant have a zone of shot up in value according to bloomberg base those assets have increased by 24000000000 to over 138000000000 dollars since the beginning of this year i was on the liver services have been in high demand as people stay home during the coronavirus help break. well there's been international condemnation of donald trump's decision to freeze u.s. funding of the world health organization president tropic used the u.n. body of failing and its efforts to response the