higher than reported the country is set to relax his lockdown measures from saturday let's bring in zain bus ravi on skype from their hand so zain here we go 8 times more how does that square with the numbers the government has been putting out not to mention the plans to return a lot of people to work on saturday. that's exactly right this is this is certainly a much larger number than we've heard from any sort of official sources at any given point in time we should say that mr hamad siri is not necessarily a senior figure or necessarily a well known public figure in terms of the official lines that we've seen coming out of the health ministry with regards to the government's attempt to fight the coronavirus but he is an epidemiologist on president hassan rouhani task force him speaking so openly to the media is certainly a signal especially to the government media is a signal about the conversations perhaps that are going on in the background behind closed doors we've seen in this interview to r. and a a government news agency mr saree said that the rise is still happening that the pe

us across some other developments out of iran thank you zain. when i look at yemen where the prime minister has declared the southern port city of aden a disaster area after it was hit by flash flooding 8 people including children were killed when heavy rain inundated streets and homes shot up unless. it was a desperate attempt to stop this couple being swept away strange isn't it into the streets in central aden fighting to proofread the current. thinking. it is rainy season in yemen but with neglected infrastructure the water makes its own power through the city turning roads into rivers meaning record sound we have to be safe from the vehicle was our god these boys trying to cheer up a woman they risk use by singing to her compounding the trauma is that this also happened a month ago then the u.n. had to bulldoze thousands of tons of rubble and model to the streets almost 5000 families were displaced the water also harbors an invisible danger human is battling a cholera outbreak of disease spread through. some 400 kilometers north in the capi

possible 2nd wave of infections one of the worst hit countries let's go live to our correspondent zain bus lobby joins us now from tehran so zain is it clear who's considered to have a low risk job and how this sits with the warning about a 2nd wave. that really is the 1000000 dollar question here at this time and now we've heard from health officials over the last few days and weeks that things can't go back to normal too soon but the president when he made this announcement president rouhani began by saying that all branches of government are on board with the plan that they have moving forward so making it clear that the government is according to him speaking in one voice despite the warnings of normalising too quickly from health experts saying that that could bring on a 2nd wave here president hassan rouhani did say that in terms of the details of what is considered low risk and high risk those announcements will be made over state t.v. in the coming hours so we can surmise that what they consider low risk is anything that doesn't compel too large of a crowd to form people can wo

bus ravi on skype from toronto zain a lot to unpack here let's start 1st of war with the shocker there could be 8 times higher than the official rate. that's exactly right now the figures the official figures versus what the ground reality is this is been a source of debate amongst leaders here in iran since the beginning of the outbreak if you go back weeks you'll remember that a member of parliament from home was openly publicly critical of the government saying that the number of infections and deaths was far higher than were being reported this was just in the 1st 2 weeks of the outbreak here since then the government passed a law making it illegal and punishable to spread any figures that contradicted the official numbers here in the country so you know this is been a real big problem and there hasn't been as open public debate as many officials in the health ministry especially seem to have preferred but what we're seeing here is this gentleman mr hamid saree he's an epidemiologist he's with president hassan rouhani counter krone task force and in an interview with the government

the daily fast should only happen within the close family gone other times of big feast with friends zain has found an alternative to video chat. let's see how the meet will be during ramadan keep in contact with my friend and after breaking the daily fast how she experienced it despite the restrictions she can celebrate the rituals of ramadan with as many friends as she wants thanks to social media the german film awards is normally a glitzy and glamorous affair but this year was something different physical distancing rules meant no red carpet gala instead the prize winners were announced in a virtual ceremony this year's big winner was system crash which tells the story of a 9 year old girl with a violent behavioral problems and her experience with germany's child welfare system the film method i thought i towards all dollars including best picture best screenplay and best director for nora. dylan alexanderplatz one the runner up prosper best film they doubly correspondent scott ross perot sent us this summary of the knot system crasher and berlin alexanderplatz an intimate social dram

the daily fast should only happen within the close family gone other times of big feast with friends zain has found an alternative to video chat. let's see how the meet will be during ramadan keep in contact with my friend and after breaking the daily fast how she experienced that despite the restrictions she can celebrate the rituals of ramadan with as many friends as she wants thanks to social media. time now for a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines today there are new questions over the health of north korean leader kim yong or his new news agency says doctors have been sent from china to advise on kim's health south korean media have reported that he's recovering from a heart operation and. air france has secured a 7000000000 euro bailout from the french government with most of its planes grounded afghans along with its partner alan calan expect their joint traffic to be down more than 90 percent in the coming months. dozens of inmates have rioted at a prison in argentina's capital buenos aires demanding better health protection after a confirmed coronavirus case

daily fast should only happen within the close family gone are the times of big feast with friends zain has found an alternative to video chat. let's see how the meet will be during ramadan keep in contact with my friend and after breaking the daily fast how she experienced that despite the restrictions she can celebrate the rituals of ramadan with as many friends as she wants thanks to social media. also sport now and while germany's bundesliga is hoping to restart the ses in in may the dutch top league will not be awarding a title after the coronavirus brought his campaign to a premise to a close the dutch if a declared the stays an over on tuesday when the government extended a ban on public events to september no tames will be promoted or relegated i x. abs to them and a set out who were at the top of the standings will go into next season's champions league. climbing mount everest is one thing with its breathtaking views but climbing the equivalent height of nearly 9000 natives on your parents' staircase is quite a number of britain jackson a paralyzed former rugby player scaled hi

national development fund money will be used to fight this pandemic so for more on this let's go to zain basra in tehran so 1000000000 dollars obviously that is a lot of money zain how is it actually expected to make a difference with what iran is dealing with uncoated $19.00. that's exactly right this is an enormous amount of money it's actually $1000000000.00 euros just $20000000.00 shy of $1100000000.00 but we have to look at this in context of how much money iran had originally from the international monetary fund that asked for $5000000000.00 so there certainly is a huge gap in terms of what they've liquidated from their national development fund and what they think they need so certainly what we're likely to see here is this money being funneled directly into the health sector the president has said that this will be used to facilitate everything the health ministry thinks it needs they're going to be making domestically all of the things they need to track and treat the coronavirus mass gloves ventilators they're also going to be using this money to pay the health workers that are

a choice it needs external financing as the foreign currency reserves window or that's interesting zain it's so perhaps one of the most sensitive points not clear yet in this plan if they're going to begin to people's deposits how are people reacting to this. well we've been speaking to activists people who have been involved in the protest movement which began in october a movement that has been coming calling really for a change in leadership they don't have much faith in government they say that yes he may call it an independent government made up of technocrats but it is a government that came to power brought to power by the political parties established political parties who have been governing this country for decades at least some of them and so the people on the streets say what the 1st thing you should be doing is not borrowing more money from the i.m.f. or taking people's deposits and the banks with you should be doing is retrieving stolen public funds but they don't believe that the government is able to do that because like i mentioned it is controlled by some politicians w

zain. this is g w news live from very well and world health chiefs say they're deeply concerned as the number of coronavirus cases it tops 1000000 but the death toll rising in the u.s. new york's governor closes city playgrounds to enforce social just in saying president donald trump incest america will soon have more ventilators than it needs also coming up. italy enters its 4th week of walked out and fears of unrest are growing as armed police guards guard food shops and people run out of food and money. but the coronavirus means some good news for the world at least with millions of owners stuck at home amid the pandemic our 4 legged friends are getting quality time in quarantine many shelters are also seeing a surge and i drop chickens to fill lonely la county. thanks for joining us the number of coronavirus cases around the world is approaching one a 1000000 with more than 200000 factions the united states is by far the worst hit country new york governor andrew cuomo has ordered the s

closure rate zain says she worries how that will impact mental health in the coming weeks and months the psychological fallout when somebody loses their business and goes through all of that trauma. the trauma is basically cumulative and there's a lot of people are in this county you're been very traumatized. dean says this is yet another hardship, the county is forced to go through the experience to large wildfires in a major flood in the last 3 years, i'm taylor bisacky reporting kron 4 news. >>the santa cruz county leaders are now thinking about putting new restrictions back into place its beaches after what they saw over the weekend. we have video that was captured out a pleasure point you can see a lot of people many of them too close together. the county recently reopened many of its beaches after easing the local shelter in place order but county spokesperson jason hoppen says that those rules are about to get tightened right back up again. >>we saw what we have a large number of people on that that looked to be a refuge charges where there are more restrictive measures in pla

the economy so far it hasn't been able to do so it's been blaming the central bank as well hasn't it zain i heard the prime minister saying that i wonder how people feel about that if it's just this government trying to pass the buck already. well anti-government protesters are venting their anger at both the banks the financial system the central bank concluded but they're also blaming the political elite they say if it's not enough to blame the banks which have imposed capital controls and deny people access to all their savings because of a shortage of dollars they're blaming the political in the fridge has been governing this country for decades for mismanaging for wasting public funds mansoul those in the opposition say the government is using the central bank as a scapegoat and instead of going after politicians on the problem is this political tension is lessening the problem because the government is blaming the opposition of tempering with financial stability and scenario the collapse of the currency in order to topple it while you have those in the opposition who are saying what

this year iranians say they'll be praying especially for one thing an end to the coronavirus pandemic zain . a weather update next here on al-jazeera then a fly past at a promotion for british war veteran who raised more than $37000000.00 for the country's health service as he turns $100.00. hello the weather is generally set fabric across the middle east at the moment to send the case across much of the arabian peninsula still some shop shall is just sliding out of iraq into iran up towards caspian sea they'll make their way further a swiss pushing into techmeme astonished as but just maybe into afghanistan as well as we go through friday but as you can see for many that's a bit too bad behind east a positive he will still see one of 2 showers as we go on through friday push on into sas they the showers will become fewer and further between so dry across anika the worst 31 celsius here in doha with some increasingly warm sunshine as we go on through the next couple days with the winds falling somewhat lighter than they have been a recently bunnie a warm sunshine across northern parts of a

phones to aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder what is broken can be fixed zain bus ravi old jazeera run. and now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera led by the world health organization several global leaders have united to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 19 the campaign aims to ensure any new vaccines and treatments are available to all the leaves of the most production and we believe we are safe and effective it will be 1966 and. not a vaccine or take months for one country or world region of the world but the vaccine and treatment that that a federal safe effectively minister has only been recently available everywhere everywhere u.s. president donald trump says he was being sarcastic when he raised the possibility of injecting people with disinfectant to fight coronavirus the president suggestion also prompted leading disinfectant makers station strong warnings to people not to drink or inject disinfectant he ended his friday briefing without taking questions from the media. i was asking the question of t

gramophone aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera iran. but his restrictions keep people away when australia more people are adopting pets from animal shelters have residents can believe that homes for exercise using the opportunity to walk the dog at pet owners also say that dogs and cats help them to put feelings of isolation. it gives me company say during the day off and if i have kind of painting meetings for a while any nice i've stuck to come over to where i'm working and kind of put these poor happens they add lack of path now. to this is out there these are the top stories in the u.s. government will be spending nearly 3 trillion dollars to respond to the current of our us pandemic and it's off to politicians in the house of representatives also not the $484000000000.00 in relief. muslims around the world are beginning to mark the 1st day of the fasting month of ramadan the country's facing lockdown restrictions because of the operating many communal practices of being done in seclusion. but in pakistan

sanctions zain basra the oldest here after. all governments across the middle east and north africa have been taking drastic measures to cap the spread of the qur'an a virus now despite the un's call for global ceasefire the region faces even more on saturday amid ongoing conflicts and declining oil prices are reports. this is the count of the saudi authorities imposed if lockdown is lon's holiest site is always packed with pilgrims so while the year. but these are extraordinary times from morocco to saudi arabia governments have imposed restrictions curfews or closed borders to combat covert 19 jordan is under strict indefinite lockdown saudi arabia has the highest rate of infection in the region while algeria the highest death toll. in the absence of vaccines to prevent infection or florence's hope confinement will limit the spread the number of laboratory confirmed cases might be far less than the actual numbers of cases due to a limited that's think about it is in in some countries taking all these winds into account it is

hell could is monitoring reaction for us out of washington life after we speak to me in tehran so zain this is clearly very significant and very symbolic but this is the real deal this is not north korea testing something this has been a success it would seem. that's correct this is a very significant military development as far as the iranian military is concerned and it has been a long time coming since the beginning of this century of the 21st century iran has been working on trying to develop rocket technology as well as satellite technology to be able to launch this kind of military satellite into earth's orbit and this morning iranians as well 'd as the rest of the world woke up to what was essentially the announcement of a successful 'd secret military operation from the central desert in this country. of the rocket launch happened earlier this morning and now we can say for certain that 'd the newer satellite is 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth rocker's thermosphere and the military has said here the iranian military has said this is certainly the beginning of what hussei

sanctions zain bus ravioli just here at the. researchers in china have discovered airborne traces of the virus can travel up to 4 meters away from patients that had been thought to only reach 2 meters the study tested surface and air samples from wards treating infected people at a hospital in one hand or such as found the virus was mainly concentrated on the floors and some medical staff at picked it up on their shoes dr james trout is a senior research fellow and head of epidemic a logical modeling at monash university and he explains why not all countries are following the world health organizations advice on mosques. previously had the understanding that it's been predominately droplet and finite transmission which means that it can transmit on objects it can last up to 72 hours on surfaces it's possible that that is one of the reasons why it's it's spreading more rapidly and those new results from china will have to be interpreted with what we previously understood about the virus and one of the one of the biggest reasons w

phones to aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder what is broken can be fixed zain bus ravi old jazeera run. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines well leaders have joined the world health organization to launch an initiative to speed up on drugs tests and vaccines against private 19 the united states says it will not get involved and the head of the w.h.r. says a common approach is the only way to beat the virus this is a landmark collaboration to accelerate the development production and equitable distribution of vaccines diagnostics and turnout due to export corbet 19. shared commitment is to ensure all people have access to all the tools to defeat to defeat beat 9. u.s. president donald trump says he was being sarcastic when he raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant into patients to fight coronavirus after signing the latest stimulus bill into law trump tried to explain the comments he made on thursday that drew widespread criticism from doctors and experts the president suggested scientists explore whether inserting lights or disi

still aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder of what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera ron. all right time for an update of the headlines here on al-jazeera and the united states government will be spending nearly 3 trillion dollars to respond to the coronavirus pandemic itself the politicians in the house of representatives passed another $484000000000.00 in relief more than $26000000.00 americans have filed for unemployment in just 5 weeks the president donald trump expects the economy to rebound. our economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and that's happening as we speak and it's actually very exciting and. people are just just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether it's a demonstration or just in talking to people they going to get back to work and they're going to get back to work very fast muslims around the world are marking the 1st day of the fasting month of ramadan the country's facing lockdown restrictions because of the out

in the past that tehran is using its space program as a cover for missile development from tehran zain bazarov the reports. on wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advantages or that. it is a necessity for such powerful defense forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they don't have a place in space for today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i.r.g.c. putting the satellite into orbit gives us a technological advantage and it's also a powerful asset in the intelligence war in iran has put satellites in space before but the success of the noor comes after several failures in recent years it'

let's get reaction from our correspondent in iran zain president trump saying that iran just needs to ask for help i mean what's the likely reaction and do you think from the iranian president if he does speak on friday well the likely reaction is to be really twofold and probably similar to what the iranians have been saying all along they don't take anything that president donald trump says seriously and that's what they'll tell their people don't take what this leader says seriously and they'll probably say the same thing they've been saying since this coronavirus outbreak here began which is doubling down on their demands for sanctions relief the iranian president as well as senior officials here have actually demanded sanctions relief and to unilateral american sanctions they called it economic terrorism they've reached out to the united nations to partners in the e.u. the only thing they haven't done is reach out to donald trump himself as a matter of their own foreign policy they refuse to liaise with this white house with this trumpet ministration and that really is the thing

still aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder what is broken can be fixed zain bus ravi old jazeera to iran or from toys to pets says restrictions keep people at home in australia adam will shelters and see a significant increase in adoptions residents can leave their homes for exercise and many are using the opportunity to walk the dog pet owners also say their dogs and cats help them cope with feelings of isolation it gives me company say during the day off and if i've kind of painting meetings for a while any notice i've stuck to come over to where i'm working and kind of put these poor happens they add like a pack now. so this is out there these are the top stories and the u.s. government will be spending nearly 3 trillion dollars to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that's off the politicians in the house of representatives passed another 400 $84000000000.00 in relief more than $26000000.00 americans have fall for unemployment in just 5 weeks but president donald trump expects the economy to rebound. economy will start to pick up very substantially as soo

this year iranians say they'll be praying especially for one thing an end to the coronavirus pandemic zain bus ravi old 0 to $1.00. we're getting some signs that this pandemic is impacting germany's economy the number of unemployed in europe strongest economy rose by 308000 in april taking the total number of jobless up to 2600000 this is data out from the federal employment agency germany's g.d.p. is also forecast to shrink more than 6 percent this year the government expects the most painful recession since world war 2 to bottom out in the next 3 months economic activity it says could pick up again after that if a 2nd wave of infections can be avoided. fresh foods that would usually go to restaurants and cafes are being thrown away because of the global lock downs with farmers feeling the financial loss the u.k.'s national farmers union predicted a catastrophe in the dairy and beef industries as a man who would now reports. no dairy farmer ever wants to have to do this thousands of liters of milk poured away because it wasn't collected by the buyer or paid for robin that says a farmer ma

sanctions zain basra the old just year after. turkey has put its most populated areas under its today curfew to try to contain the spread of the virus people rushed to grocery and convenience stores off to the announcements 31 cities are affected including istanbul and ankara bakeries hospitals pharmacies and factories producing medical equipment are exempt a lockdown is due to end on sunday at midnight turkey's confirmed 98 more deaths in the virus on friday bringing the total number to more than one thousands. hundreds of cases have been confirmed in cameroon but health officials fear there may be many more that are are reported and now its long stay nationwide testing program. has more. health workers income rules raised to contain the spread of copied 1000 infections go to go testing is underway in several regions of the country and for good reason the virus has been spreading here and all for just a year the number of infections could be higher than reported. on the force day of this operation at least 100 new cases why disc

zain joins us via skype from chapel hill. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for inviting me. >> as we reach truly alarming death tolls and cases across the globe, the question being asked increasingly is should we all be wearing facemasks. you have been saying that the united states needs to speak with one voice on the pros and cons of wearing masks. in the midst of this pandemic, why have they failed to do that? >> we have two competing realities. one is there is a grave shortage for certain kinds of masks. the surgical masks, n-95s that they need for high-risk procedures. on the other hand, there is increasing evidence that people are spreading the disease before they have symptoms. they may have a mild case before it passes and they're infecting other people. that's why countries like hong kong, south korea, taiwan that have basically either mandated or culturally have mask wearing as a response to epidemics, their success shows that if everybody masks up, it's not just the sick people or the healthy people but everyb

masks are still required while there's no end date listed in the new order board supervisor, surely zain says one thing is certain no gatherings through the summer it's open ended right now the one item that has a date on it is a big gatherings. >>there will be no gatherings need or small or large pride and or public. until at least labor day so that that will happen during the summer time seen says she worries about the implications for business is a lot of our restaurants are not going to make it. i'm seeing that there will probably face about a 25%. closure rate in the long term impacts of the closures at psychological fallout is very real and we saw that during the recession. when i first joined office in 2009. my husband was a case in point. eager to press the private girls school that he this yet for when it was closing and he couldn't get out of the depression and to his lines. and i'm afraid that we're going to see a lot more diseases of despair and we actually see by this case and i'm taylor bisacky reporting kron 4 news. >>a modified shelter in place order is expected to be rev

means for people who earn in the lebanese pounds and with they said skyrocketing more than 50 percent zain so if they want to see what we can hear you on the show so i think that was gunshots just tell us what's going on no need to so you take cover if you need to. know this it seems like the army is using rubber coated bullets in order to as well as tear gas to disperse protesters that are trying to clear this square this square is really symbolic because when the protest movement began in october this was where people were gathering this was the main protest site so the army is trying to clear the square close the roads that lead and the bank the streets you can see. the army we can ask them any presence the army will not speak to us but it's clear what they're trying to do they're trying to take control if you can see the tear gas there lobbing tear gas so yeah we can see why the smoke are assuming there's gas. right the but it's not clear you know that looks like the pace of play at all snow at this point not sure who they shooting to guess. whether they want to clear clear the square

zain. just so. welcoming our viewers from around the world live from central london this is all to u.k. . the number of daily coronavirus debts i record 563 that says the british government is under fire for still failing to meet its powers testing targets i'll be talking to her on the just. number 10 business schools to release the data that informed its knocked down decision and while that all concerns have been designed to track infected patients or more others could also be used as a form of social control. the un delivers a to the gaza strip amid warnings that the densely populated territory can see a devastating virus outbreak of the health system already ravaged by years of the israeli egyptian blockade. and the labor m.p. urges the government to continue vital cladding removal blood despite growing viruses residents still living in unsafe buildings are forced to self isolate for weeks i'll be talking to a fire safety expert a little later. we are currently awaiting the government's daily cor

from tehran thank you zain. someone on the breaking news that is coming out of france or more than $800.00 people have died in the last 24 hours that is the highest daily death toll there are so far more than 74000 people are infected cross the country go to natasha butler now who joins us now from france with more senator tell us more about these numbers and and the kind of strain that this is on the health care system right now . well i have to say some people in france were beginning to think that there was a light at the end of the tunnel because over the past 3 days with actually seen the number of cases of people being hospitalized with current a virus go down quite considerably yet today we see that that is not the case it's all that there is this trend outputs in fact a 10 percent increase in cases 605 people who are hospitalized to die and the others die in a nursing home say the biggest figures that we've seen so far in faults in 24 hours for deaths they were announced by the french health minister who

still aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder of what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera run well still ahead in sport the legendary football he managed to find a game he was allowed to play in. the rule. of the pole 3 decades the hubble telescope has been pairing deep into the universe and beaming spectacular images of distant galaxies back to earth as nasa marks its 30th anniversary polls on how hubble's changed our understanding of space by 4321 and draw a circle to go back to how to place a window on the universe. public is the 1st major optical telescope sent into space taking edges from above the distortion of the atmosphere and light pollution nasa has called it the ultimate mountaintop when the possibility of a telescope in space opened up astronomers jumped on the idea scientists have used hubble to observe the most distant stars and galaxies as well as the planets in our solar system its most famous photo was taken in 1995 a so-called deep field image showing areas of the universe as they were billions of years ago during 3 decades in orbit

gramophone aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera iran. still ahead on al-jazeera staring into space for 3 decades we look at how the hubble telescope has contributed to our understanding of the universe. time in sports we'll hear what europe's wider cup captain has to say about the possibility of this year's event taking place without spectators. that for 3 decades the hubble telescope has been deep into the universe and beaming spectacular images of distant galaxies back to earth as not some logs its 30th anniversary they are getting reports and how those contributions to science and how they have changed our understanding of space. 54321 draw well placed over the government place a window on the universe public is the 1st major optical telescope sent into space taking images from above the distortion of the atmosphere and light pollution nasa has called it the ultimate mountaintop when the possibility of a telescope in space opened up astronomers jumped on the idea scientists have used hubble to observe the mo

joins us live here on the news out of tehran zain what more do we know about the launch. well we know that this is the 1st time that iran's government its military has called this the launch of a military satellite this morning we heard something news that came as a surprise to most iranians and to most of the world that iran had launched its military satellite to nor over 400 kilometers into thermosphere now any time the country the country's revolutionary guard do something like this that from time the country's military flexes it is generally to project some strength and more likely than not it's safe to assume that the united states is the target audience for that flexing in the immediate immediately following the successful launch of the satellite into orbit we heard from the commander of the revolutionary guard corps major general hussein salami and he made a couple of very very specific points he said that it's unnecessary for a powerful military like the r.g.c. to possess specifically military use satellite technology he also said that no armies defense plans are

gramophone aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera iran. and that's it for me rob matheson for this news hour i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news including more on our breaking story from the world health organization which is announced a plan to accelerate to research into a covert 19 vaccine the head of the w.h.o. dr said the world needs these tools and needs them fos he said experience has told us that even when the tools are available they have not to be equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen we have from other world leaders who are throwing their weight behind the program i'll be back in a couple of minutes with more on that but for now. throughout history humankind has prevailed in our darkest all coming together to face the very thing that would extinguish our light. this is not one of those moments. at all. this is a moment for pretty much the opposite for hiding for laying low. now is also. saving humankind by really really not getting mirrors. where playing games

this year iranians say they'll be praying especially for one thing an end to the coronavirus pandemic zain. yemen has recorded its 1st 2 corona virus that sparking fears of a major outbreak in a country that's ravaged by civil war 5 new cases were reported in the southern port city of aden that takes the total number of infections to 6 nationwide yemen is already dealing with a cholera outbreak and only half of its hospitals are fully functional the u.n. says that it's likely the virus is spreading undetected in a country where millions of facing starvation the u.n. secretary general is again appealing for an immediate cease fire in syria after he described as the a riff bombing of a market in the north on wednesday officials from the u.n. warned that covert 19 looming there's an urgent need to end violence and to ensure the delivery of critical medical supplies to syria our diplomatic editor james bass reports. hours before the u.n. security council held a virtual session on syria a fuel tanker rigged with explosives was detonated in the northern city of a free the death toll stands at we

this year iranians say they'll be praying especially for one thing an end to the coronavirus pandemic zain . governments around the world say they're doing what they can for their citizens impacted by the virus there are millions of people left homeless living in camps getting little if any support scott high the reports from one such community in north. 40000000 people around the world are displaced and those in camps across myanmar's catchin state are among the most vulnerable that's according to the u.n. high commission for refugees but in this camp internally displaced persons or i.d.p.'s as they're known are facing even greater danger covert 19 they do everything they can to prevent the virus from spreading into their dense camp. thank god. i want the authorities or officials to help us equally not treat us on different levels because everyone suffers the same nearly half of me and mars 240000 i.d.p.'s are catchin scattered throughout the northernmost state that borders china camps and churches many are migrant workers in china but because of the coronavirus they have lost their jobs

gramophone aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder of what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera iran. well still ahead here all the al-jazeera news staring into space for 3 decades we look at how the hubble telescope has contributed to our understanding of the universe. welcome back a unilateral ceasefire in yemen has been extended for one month and that's according to a spokesman for the saudi u.a.e. coalition the original 2 week truce was declared after the u.n. secretary general called for a global ceasefire because of the coronavirus yemen's health care system is already on the verge of collapse and more than half of the population faces acute food shortages these are the human rights activist. has died in prison he was the founder of the saudi civil and political rights association m it was prosecuted multiple times for his work and in 2013 he was given an 11 year sentence on charges of breaking allegiance to the ruler and inciting disorder aside a human rights group says that he was transferred to hospital several months ago when his health deteriorate

has made clear that these are advances in military technology and will be used for military purposes zain thanks very much let's go to a complete white house correspondent kimberly good afternoon good morning so this must be peaking interest in raising eyebrows at the state department and also the building behind you. yes no official reaction from the state department just yet but we can tell you of course you've already reported the u.s. president's tweet this of course is following the reports of the launch of that satellite and then a sort of a warning by the u.s. president to iran earlier this month where he had said that he thought that iran was trying to plan a sneak attack as he called it against u.s. troops or assets and he wore that there would be a heavy price paid if that happens now the u.s. is the launch of this satellite as an advancement of its missile program and we know that the tensions between these $2.00 sides have been ratcheting up for months even as the president had said that he had restored deterrence with following the killing the drone killing of general saloon