the opposition leader to ask difficult questions of the prime minister well that's not something. this country has been used to seeing at full throttle for quite a long time now this is a very different opposition leader standing up opposite johnson now secure stahmann recently elected head of the labor party very different ways be decisive jeremy corbyn who was frequently accused of missing the opportunity of those difficult questions of really making the government sweat in these circumstances has thomas is a prosecuting lawyer by training and you've just seen him in in action in his 1st pm cues opposite boris johnson recently returned to work of course off to suffering a 19 and missing no opportunities to ask a lot of very difficult questions of the government kissed ahmed they're accusing boris johnson as head of the government of being slow in going into lockdown slow in tracing slow in testing slow in the provision of p p protective equipment for the health care frontline. deaths in care homes of particular issues still going up said kissed on a boris johnson said that wasn'

they listen to all the time and the opposition is the same opposition that for example i shall be in iraq telling the bush administration they would be received with roles in the streets the reality is that model still has a significant amount of support within the military has its support among certain sectors of the population that the real solution to swallow is a negotiated settlement between different political forces all real political forces reject insurrection violence a coup attempts only a peaceful solution can be achieved through negotiation by diverse forces and minnesota and what the opposition need to do then is to declare against an insurrection list approach accept the fact that they're going to have to enter into negotiations and stop supporting coups we saw coups in april of 2002 we saw our efforts at the stabilization of the so-called exit last 24 and seen other examples of stabilize venezuela we saw a coup in april 21000 and it hasn't worked and instead of increases suffering for a great number of people and confirms what mother has been trying to say or what has

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i am the leader of the opposition. that thet to make sure opposition members remain intact. to the agenda. -- the reform agenda. people tend to talk about personality. we are here. we have a mandate to undertake clear reforms in the country. --did manage to elect because in the past coalition as we have seen -- audio] on the issues of excesses of past governments, but there were excesses within the administration. and the anticorruption division were not as effective in dealing with the members. are happily enjoying themselves as new ministers in the new administration. with mohammed as prime minister. haslinda: why should malaysians trust you and trust the abolition coalition given that your capability has been dented giving the shocking fall? off your coalition >> some members, yes. field of the trail -- the betrayal. that is a major part of the coalition. we have nine. this is not new. it has been going for months, more than a year. this was tolerated. is --s not something that a well coordinated, orchestrated event. it was tolerated. andnst excessive corruption treachery

opposition politicians have said that they will respect the agenda. even though analysts have said they could show how unhappy they are that this meeting has been limited by staging a walkout now the king in his address has called for unity in the government but the political drama in malaysia is set to continue the opposition politicians issued a statement on sunday to say they will continue opposing this administration and they want to try and we gain power of the government has said it's limiting the sitting to just one day because of the coronavirus and because the country is still trying to contain the spread of the virus that malaysia has begun to ease restrictions put in place since 2 weeks ago. as far as the vote of no confidence is concerned presumably the delay means it's not going to take place until the next sitting in parliament. that's right so the next setting and parliament will take place in july and the speaker has already said that it has accepted the proposal but no date has been set for. the debate but remember that this parliamen

see burundi the ruling party has confidence was named a winner of the presidential vote but the opposition vows to contest what it says was an electoral farce. i'm phil gal welcome to the program the top german court has ruled that volkswagen must pay compensation to customers who bought v.w. diesel cars fitted with software that manipulated emissions test results the landmark ruling in the diesel gate scandal paves the way for tens of thousands of others to receive damages. the federal court of justice said anyone who bought a v.w. car equipped with software that manipulated emissions tests is entitled to compensation they can return the vehicle and receive partial financial reimbursement from the car maker. ikey got off with a plaintive can request compensation from the defendant on the purchase price of his vehicle but they must take into account that the car has been used and they must make the vehicle available to v.w. . the plaintiff was this retiree he had sought a full refund from fox falcon of around 31500 euros for a v.w. sharan he bought in 2014. day and a great ruling on it's t

pushed hard for a presidential election this month in the expectation that it would win but the opposition forced the last minute delay my guess this week from poland is dominic touchin speak polish i meet people from the ruling lot and justice party was his government guilty of trying to put politics ahead of people's lives. somebody's got to ski welcome to conflict zone. thank you for having me let's go back to the beginning of this month when your party was still hoping to hold a presidential election donald tusk former prime minister of poland said that only a madman or a criminal would proceed with an election during an international health crisis but you didn't care about the risk to people did you expected to win and that was all that mattered are you trying to say that dumb of tosca called people from germany of are you up and from switzerland and from south korea are mad people because these are the places where elections took place maybe he's calling americans a mad people as they are having their primaries now so we've we resigned from this idea of elections at the moment but th

my approach is almost the opposite. rather than studying the joke we do not get, the opaque thing, i want to study the things that are so common sense that we do not examine them at all. i think free enterprise falls into that category. when i asked my students how many had heard the term and understood what it means almost all raised their hand. then the fun begins. [laughter] i would just make one more point which is that a key theme of my book is how often free enterprise was paired with common sense. here you have a typical headline "free enterprise and common sense" so this was a common pairing. if you look at the subhead it talks about crackpot new deal-ism. let me begin my talk. dewitt emery, the founder president of the small businessman's association, felt frustrated and wanted his fellow citizens to know why. the biggest advocate of small business branded himself as a "salesman for free enterprise." after more than a decade spent promulgating it as the fundamental american value indispensable in the battle, is

an alleged mercenary claims venezuelan opposition leader wango i don't mess with a u.s. security companies boss just prior to a failed coup 2 weeks ago the story after the break. we go to work so you straight home. the dropping of the f.b.i. case against michael flynn reveals what so many of us have long believe russia gate was a crude and sloppy invention could undermine the outcome of the presidential election irrespective of how you feel about the current occupant of the white house it was an attempted coup tellingly the corporate liberal media side of the conspiracy. and this is the problem with studying and a mix you don't know and so you know it's easier to be reactive than proactive and i hope that we are entering a new renaissance here i don't think we need a more intimate ins to show us of this is a vitally important problem. welcome back an alleged mercenary from the u.s. who work or security companies given testimony following a failed coup attempt against venezuela's president nicolas maduro and he claims the opposition leader one guy i don't met with the hea

supporters of bullies main opposition candidates. on the streets of the capital which they hope that he'll win wednesday's general election he has run for president twice before but lost he says his victory was stolen by a president. who is not standing this time campaigns have been marred by sporadic violence between supporters of the ruling c n b d f d d party. in congress for liberty party government officials say 3 people have died this injured and many arrested all of this is meant to intimidate the opposition so as to guarantee the victory of the ruling party but this is quite clear nonsense . at the other end of town thousands attend the ruling parties final campaign president that accompanies his preferred candidate every session to supporters are confident victory belongs to them that she is one of the most influential politicians in buti and a close ally of the president he's a former rebel fighter who survived the ethnic cleansing of students of hutu ethnicity at the university of beirut in 1905 the president calls him a n

encountering little more than rear guard opposition, the assault makes such rapid progress that by 11 day, the l plus three objective line has been reached. ♪ ♪ featured by broken contours, the terrain of okinawa is rolling to mountainous and a great portion of the 485 square miles is under cultivation. cover and concealment are good. the topography presents the enemy with good observation for delaying action. soon after landing, the assault forces and their civil affairs sections are presented with a task of collecting, screening and detaining a large disorganized civilian population. the vague race of japanese nationals are by no means antagonistic. as they number close to 300,000, the security and health of our forces make them a definite military problem in the operation. the progress inland is impeded by the tactical destruction of bridges by the retreating japanese. however, where conditions permit, forward motion is not delayed by reconstruction. roads and trails impeded by craters and roadblocks are quickly repaired by the advancing units. okinawa is laced with a good tactical

has been a lot of concerns on the opposition side and we had on the opposition side and we had on thed david liddington saying that he wanted to look at the detail of this, but he felt that there might be questions to be answered. it is going to rumble on for a bit, i think, it is not going to end quite here. couple of developments in the last moments on this. one is a tweet from the chancellor, rishi sunak, who says, taking care of your wife and child is justifiable and says, taking care of your wife and child isjustifiable and reasonable and scoring political points over it is not. that is the government view and then the opposition, we have just got a labour press release. they have been rather quiet for the past couple of hours but we are getting the statement now which says, the lockdown rules were clear, if you or anyone in your household was suspected of having covid—i9, you must immediately self—isolate and not leave the house. however, the prime minister's chief adviser appears to believe that it is one rule for him and another for the british people. this will cause understa

declared winner with just 38 percent of the vote in may 2019 result led to months of protests by the opposition police in the u.s. state of georgia say they'll do everything possible to punish those responsible for the killing of an unarmed black man almost 3 months ago the family of 3 says he was out jogging when he was confronted by 2 white men who say they thought he was a burglar the men have been arrested. well as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the inside story don't go away. was the u.s. involved in the attempt to venezuela washington says it wasn't even those detained suspects seem to claim otherwise but the u.s. and most of latin america want nicolas maduro out of power does that mean venezuela this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program now on the 3rd of may the venezuelan government announced it had detained a group of what it called mercenaries trying to reach venezuela on speedboats along with several dozen colombians the group reportedly numbered around 50 at least 8 people were killed in the incident as the venezuelans in effect ambushed the g

last month the prime minister's been put under pressure on the leader of the opposition . the ins records the average number of deaths in care homes each month for the last 5 years the average for april has been just over 8 house and. this year the number of deaths in care homes for april was a staggering 26000 that's 3 times the average 18000 additional deaths this april. using the government's figures only 8000 are recorded just cope with deaths that leaves 10000 additional and unexplained care home deaths this april huge exercise in testing is going on a further 600000000 pounds i can announce today protection control in care homes and yes it is absolutely true that the number of casualties has been too high but i can tell you house is right a little bit. last week and indeed this week the number of outbreaks is down and the number of fatalities in care homes is now world. comes as the latest figures reveal the number of coronavirus related deaths in u.k. care homes has indeed been falling for 2 weeks in a row in the 1st week of may there were officially 1503 deaths in

has claimed responsibility for the operation which was coordinated reportedly with venezuela's opposition led by one goh i don't know but president insists the united states and specifically president donald trump knew about the plot from the very start. well venezuela does have a history of mistrust when it comes to the u.s. over alleged attempted coups back in 2002 the bush administration was accused of plotting to remove the then president chavez a group of generals took over the capital and forced shoppers to resign but millions of people who had elected chavez surrounded government buildings and institutions demanding their democratic rights and the release of their president within 48 hours he was back in power but all things pointed at the opposition and senior members of the white house. ok we'll talk to our guest in a moment 1st let's talk to j.j. rendon he's the presidential high commissioner and a general strategist for the government he joins us on skype from miami in florida j.j. randon welcome to inside story as an attempted coup this failed and failed big so what did it rea

for alleged mercenary claims venezuelan opposition leader wang met with the u.s. security companies boss just before a failed coup 2 with a story after the break. you cannot be both with the yeah you like. the one else chose seemed wrong. but all roles just don't hold. any you get to shape out just to become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back an alleged mercenary from the u.s. core security company has given testimony following a failed coup attempt to gain venezuela's president nicolas maduro he claims the opposition leader met with the head of silvercorp at the white house before the plan was put into practice it was 2 weeks ago an armed group on board speed boats tried to make an incursion into venezuela they were intercepted and repelled by security forces the army then began patrols searching for anyone involved more than 10 alleged mercenaries have since been detained one claimed he's been a local contact. around the middle of march 1 where do a travels from col

opposition activity in hong kong a spokesperson announced that it will be discussed during the 7 day session off the annual parliamentary meeting the move comes in response to hong kong's pro-democracy demonstrations last year the full proceedings officially begin on friday. phebe kong has been following the story for us and joins us now from taiwan's capital taipei hi phoebe what more can you tell us about this new bill and they all will be put on the agenda of the national people's congress which is the chinese parliament or which starts its meeting on friday so according to us wow if we know and according to the nation from local media the new law may prohibit section of foreign interference the procession of the chinese central government and possibly terrorism so these are those so-called loopholes in beijing's eyes which they consider to be something that explodes exposed during the months long and he government goes has happened last year in hong kong so the beijing person saying that this is to safeguard the national security for china. so what does this mean for hong kong's

captured mercenary close friends with an opposition leader wang met with the u.s. security companies boss just before a failed coup 2 weeks ago in the south american country due to the break. join me every. sport i'm sure. i'll see you then. lead. welcome back an alleged mercenary from the u.s. silver corps security company has given testimony following a failed coup attempt against venezuelan president nicolas maduro he claims the opposition leader one grade 0 met with the head of silver corps at the white house before the plan was put into practice was 2 weeks ago that an armed group on board speed boats tried to make an incursion into venezuela they were intercepted and repelled by security forces the army then began patrols searching for anyone involved and more than 10 alleged mercenaries have since been detained on claim to be in a local contact. around the middle of march 1 where do a travel from colombia and the right in the u.s. jordan could draw did not reply to our attempts to contact him he would then get back in touch to inform me that he was meeting w

hello terry thank you for having me simply speaking the democratic camp is united in opposition to this controversial national anthem law we see that you do not regulate people and legal restrict people from respecting a national anthem or even a country you earn your respect you do not make law to make people to respect you ok the law on the national anthem is one thing that beijing is preparing to impose a sweeping national security law on hong kong with far reaching implications what impact do you think that will have. on the cuts hong kong's legislature it doesn't go through the legislature and in fact beijing simply to what impose is an accurate way to talk about to say because beijing doesn't consult hong kong people they just say you have to take it and more importantly this controversial national security law will undermines hong kong's high degree of autonomy and also to freedom that guarantees of commerce success if beijing is determined to exert more control over hong kong is or really anything you can do to stop it. well in practice perhaps it's very difficult to stop beijin

effect and you'll concede the opposite effect of what they claim to be doing if there wasn't actually real lives at stake and actual blood blood that could be shed this is almost comical daniel has got to leave it right there do you like adams of the ron paul institute thank you so much. puerto rico once again rattled by another earthquake over the weekend a $5.00 quake knocked out the power on the island forcing the relocation of at least 50 families a lot of buildings were also damaged residents on the island are still living in shelters from previous quakes just earlier this year the governor there says the families that have to relocate will not be placed in the shelters because of coronavirus concerns. right let's head over to regina hamm with the sports h.q. were you know the rest of the world is waiting for sports to return but there is one guy out there breaking records at the gym and he's a very familiar face because you know during quarantine the rest of us are worried about fitness and were most likely sitting around bingeing for the t.v. anyway so maybe a little inspiratio

but whether or not the streets will be used as opposed to remote belies to once again voice their opposition to not just me but the political system as a whole that remains to be seen. as it is thursday morning in baghdad thank you for that simona full to the white house has described the u.s. china relationship as quote disappointing and frustrating and a deepening rift over the origins of the coronavirus president donald trump who says the virus came from a chinese lab as the fallout from this pandemic is worse for the u.s. than the japanese attack on pearl harbor 941 and even 911 this is really the worst attack we've ever had this is worse than pearl harbor this is worse than the world trade center there's never been there like this. and it should have never and could have been stopped at the source could have been stopped and show. it should have been stepped right at the source and it wasn't earlier by june hit back at the elaborate she claims they're saying there is no evidence and china also says towers shouldn't be used as a weapon after donald trump threatened to impose them more on

the opposition says the government cannot be trusted.ctivists have shared videos like this one on social media showing burials at night. they say the government is hiding coronavirus deaths. the ministry of health has since said the night burials should stop. >> we do not track the government figures. the government response was very disappointing, very underwhelming. the lives ofd tanzanian's will be lost. reporter: this is one of the main hospitals for covid-19 patients in dar es salaam. no one is allowed to. fill many of them. . -- film any of them. activists have been arrested for challenging the government's account. prevention measures are in place, but for the large part, it is business as usual business as usual. has the embassy pandemic is growing in the city. >> if you lock someone up in a out,, the day you let him his immunity will have reduced by 30%. allowing continued interaction helps us build immunity and this will help us build diseases. >> freedoms to pray and trade are popular among many tanzanian's. lockdowns have bee

never an opposition groups accuse him of targeting and media. hello i'm richard gives birth and you're watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that we're looking at this week in the philippines the due territory government decides a pandemic is a good time to shut down the country's biggest news outlet donald trump is that it again i'm saying it to anybody risk good news the question it's not a nasty please go ahead confrontations with.

account should missed scenary claims venezuelan opposition leader wang met with a u.s. security companies boss just before a failed coup 2 weeks ago in the south american country details coming up after the break. and this is the problem in studying pandemics you don't know and so you know it's easier to be reactive than proactive but i said we are entering a new renaissance here only the mornings to show us that this is a vitally important problem. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to say proud this day to come as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. up. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you then. come back an alleged mercenary from the u.s. of course security company has given testimony following a failed coup attempt against venezuela's president nicolas maduro and he claims the opposition leader i'm going to go with the head of silver corps at the white house for the plan was

you can distinguish that as opposite of the 1930's. the new deal, heavy hand, for the government policy in england, in the 1920's, the u.k. took the progressive route and had terrible unemployment. now the u.k. had double-digit unemployment for two decades, not one, and a part of that was monetary but a part of that was the progressive laws. thatw, it is remarkable, life,, so much of modern things we take for granted now, come into being. the idea of a family vacation, where you take your car, take some time off and go, mostly wealthy people could only do that. in the 1920's, you have middle-class families able to do that. really a time of remarkable prosperity for the average american. this is following one of the most terrible wars in history, following a pandemic, following all these seemingly incredible crises, yet you have this prosperity that came in its wake. it is greatghted, that you highlighted harding and coolidge, i understood just like you, when you learn about these things in high school and college, you learn about them

al jazeera live from doha also coming up the british prime minister gets a grilling from the new opposition leader who defends his handling of the corona virus outbreak. u.k. was slow. slow in testing slow and tracing and slow in supply of protective equipment. the polarized parliament in spain turns for a 4th extension to the lockdown are being challenged. returning home thousands of migrant workers and india who lost their jobs just a lockdown take trains back to their villages. the u.s. is taking another swipe at china has tensions escalate of the coronavirus pandemic in the past hour u.s. secretary of state mark pompei are blamed china for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he again accused beijing of covering up the outbreak of cars at 19 adding there was no true win win for the communist regime china saw then that it had an emerging public health crisis on its hands the new. china could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide china could have spread the world descend into global economic malaise that choice but instead ins

the chinese government has announced that lawmakers will consider legislation that could limit opposition activity in hong kong the move comes in response to hong kong's pro-democracy demonstrations last year a spokesman said the new goal will be discussed during be saved. day's station off the annual parliamentary meeting that officially begins tomorrow and here today president xi jinping and the members of heaney's party attended china's annual political meetings which opened off to a delay of 2 months to 2 coronavirus. government spokesman wang yang stressed that the basic rules of hong kong will be supported that is how. to ensure the policy of one country 2 systems is firmly on polled over the long term we will strengthen the sense of mission and political responsibility of national committee members representing hong kong and macau and firmly support the improvement of systems in mechanisms for enforcing china's constitution and the basic laws of those 2 special administrative region. ok fabien creech my is following the story for us he joins me now from beijing hello 5 b.n. what mo

in this new contest of opposites, in the end, it's one—on—one.rump has described the coronavirus pandemic as the worst attack ever on the united states, saying the global outbreak would not have happened if china had acted quicker. mr trump said the fallout from the pandemic had hit the country harder than the japanese bombing of pearl harbour in world war ii, or the september the eleventh attacks two decades ago. he added that it should have been stopped at source in china, but wasn't. for more on this, i spoke to anita kumar. she's a white house correspondent and associate editor of politico. obviously the big news is the president's announcement that his coronavirus taskforce was going to be disbanded, but, as you indicated, it is back on. today he said it is back on because he heard from a lot of people around the country, public—health officials around the country that were very alarmed by that and really urged him to reconsider. where do you see the president's strategy going here? these right, the economy was doing really well, now it's be

that global cooperation is needed to fight against the pandemic however the united states has the opposite approach get a list of people not to associate with or cooperate with and top corporations based in. china are at the top i think that while waiting might have been a money situation in they may have come with a big bag of money and said ok we want to be involved we want to help well here's a and then they probably accept it without thinking about the bad players and the same thing we're going to then not so much concerned about fags getting real information at this particular point and my humble opinion c.n.n. is all about just trying to get ratings trying to give us because he's a very popular person in the next room at all and even graduate in high school let alone have any kind of a advanced degree is all about trying to get their television revenue. cases are increasingly being recorded around the world of mine is being struck down by an unknown inflammatory disease and it's thought that it's being caused by a delayed immune response to corona virus despite sharing many similarit

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colombia an opposition leader one quiet oh who denies the allegations. in full should not be with tony windsor a u.s. official and a consultant in the war in iraq and afghanistan last night reported and showed the contracts signed by the venezuelan opposition if you meant to privatized and preparing extradition of mercenaries and terrorists trained in colombia to storm venezuela and try to kill him. let's cross over to a white house correspondent kimberly how can the u.s. and venezuela's relationship has been a fractious one for a number of yes' what happened over the weekend doesn't help but what all are officials saying about it in washington d.c. . well the u.s. president is the latest to add his denial on top of the u.s. state department saying that no u.s. agency was involved in this military incursion but certainly the video is dramatic you see there not only the capture of these 2 americans that are being paraded but also the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro reading their passports their names and their birth date on national television now he all

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and state security agents in zimbabwe are accused of abducting and torturing female opposition leaders. health officials in china are dealing with new clusters of the current virus in the north eastern province of gillett the government is sending medical teams and hundreds of staff to the area one district in the city has raised its coded 19 risk level from medium to high china's taking extraordinary measures to try to rid the country of the virus as the heart and reports. the people in this province have been battling the novel coronavirus longer than anyone else the virus started here in december last year and grew to epic proportions killing more than 4000 people in china alone after months of lockdown and move on the number of cases began to drop then this week there was a cluster of new infections a new testing campaign is underway to stop the spread the residents fear going to crowded testing centers could put them in danger but. i think some measures should have been taken for example people should be separated when there are many of them it's not very good to have too many peo

party accuse authorities of vote rigging opposition leader. said the electoral observers from his party have been chased away from calling stations there were no independent observers on election day here's more long lines no social distancing and a touch of handwashing. amid the pandemic the people at the randi crowded polling stations to vote for a new president the run up to the elections was marred by repression and arbitrary arrests and on voting day social media platforms were blocked. hardly any foreign observers were out putting stations after the government said they would be forced to spend 14 days in quarantine due to coronavirus. despite lingering distrust of the government voting was peaceful in a country used to violence and ethnic tensions the incumbent president. has left the country for a divisive 15 years coming to power after a brutal civil war his chosen successor every. year is a former army general and influential political figure. many thought that this day would never come but it has come to pass this is the day when pe

and they are in a high saturation area and no opposition. and recommends approval on the following conditions -- number one, winetasting is conducted there should be signs in a conspicuous space, that the entrance and/or the exits of the premise as depicted on 257 which state no alcoholic beverages beyond this point. said times shall be no less than 7-inch by 11-inch in size and contain letters no less than one inch in sign. two, signs posted that no minors are allowed in the tasting area as of april 1st, they have not agreed formally to the conditions. >> they have and they have not? >> they have not as of april 1st. >> okay. and if we could ask the applicant about that. thank you, officer. do we have matt pawns on the line? or another representative of the applicant? >> the applicant is matt pond and matt pond is on the call-in line and our operations team could unmute mr. pond's phone number so he can speak to our committee now. >> he is ready to speak. >> clerk: mr. pond? >> hi, guys. everybody hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. >> okay. so