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Dozens of hostages freed at least 20 killed after a siege at a sikh center in the Afghan Capital is. A turkey lympics is pushed back a year and athletes from around the world have voiced their relief at no im happy to be petering the current virus pandemic well hear from them in the next hour. Well the largest lockdown yet in the fight against the coronavirus is underway with 1300000000 people in india now under orders to stay in their homes the restrictions will last for 21 days now india is only seen around 600 confirmed cases so far but there are fears that that could rise quickly all europe remains the current at the center of the outbreak more than 500 people died in spain just in the past 24 hours. Raising the death toll there to nearly 2700 but theres also concern the u. S. Could be the next hot spot infections in new york have now said to more than 25000 and that number is rising rapidly and just in the past few hours u. S. Senate leaders agreed on a stimulus package to help Health Workers and to prop up the economy while our correspondent elizabeth purana joins us live now from new delhi liz millions and millions of people having to come to terms today with essential being housebound talk us through the logistics of this particularly for the people who live hand to mouth. Just missed us your so most of the country is quiet today that softer the scenes we saw after problems to modi announced the lockdown when lots of people around the country were rushing to Grocery Stores panic buying and you know even though Prime Minister modi said that people would still be allowed to go out to get essential supplies and we had delhis chief minister have hold press conference a few hours ago saying that its the governments responsibility to provide for people and that by crowd in places people are defeating the point of a lockdown asking people not to do that and so things are quieter today but its so important to remember that you know panic buying and hoarding its a very middle class thing and there are so many people in india who arent middle class and in fact the places that we we we are seeing crowds today are homeless shelters that can no longer you know weve been hearing from homeless shelters that say they only have about 2 days worth of supplies left and thats because theyre not just looking after the homeless now but by the very many in india who are daily wage earners who as you say live a hand to mouth existence and because they can no longer work i mean they can no longer look after themselves and liz i mean were now already seeing the government take these really drastic measures but were still looking at cases in the 100 so far i know theres been a concern that the lack of Testing Facilities that the actual numbers could actually be much much higher. That was of real concern the start of the last week before the lockdown was imposed this week that was perhaps the biggest concern in the country india does have over 500 cases now and 10 deaths in a country of 1300000000 people but up until a few days ago india was also performing the lowest number of tests among affected countries and there was increasing concern that the lower level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases in the last week though we have had the government doubled the number of government Testing Centers from around 50 to just over 100 theyre also important private hospitals and given them guidelines so that they can also Start Testing and they have increased number and with more testing we are seeing more cases theyre also issued the government has also issued guidelines to hospitals including how much they can charge people to test private hospitals that is thats around you know 70 u. S. Dollars but again we come back to that point of there are just so many people in india who could never afford to pay that much to do a test and a Public Health system that simply isnt equipped to deal with this its not just a Public Health system as were seeing around the country all those homeless shelters all those Migrant Workers stranded around the country still waiting to hear from the government about what its going to do for them and as before and theyre on the ground for us in new delhi thank you very much less well lets now speak to dr Hargett Singh batty hes a medical doctor and also a member of the progressive medicos and Scientists Forum hes also in new delhi from where he joins us on skype dr bao to thank you so much for taking the time today i want to pick up where elizabeth left off there are enough people in your mind getting tested in india. 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The aberrant export of masks and now that were back to the now we had expecting that because im out of the band has been in order now the production be a lot of the ministerial meetings love what you want bitch can say and not all of them but action will be increased so we had expecting that not all of that situation believe but as an all need to look at it with a little not for their efficiency not im not them its them dont all need to learn about it well enough was a big vision and they want what i did with respect to the other ways all of those who are sitting in the old ladies are in the same hospital bill but not the way i did and he quickly they only have some jiggle mask and thats on dr how did saying back to that medical doctor speaking to us from new delhi thank you for joining us that thats very difficult time and we wish you all the best Going Forward and you. Well the number of people who have died from the virus is now nearing 19000 the highest number of deaths is an issue with almost 7000 people lets bring in french esko but jim who is in milan for us francesco we were talking yesterday about people feeling somewhat optimistic that the tide might be turning but the numbers are still huge and the Health System has clearly been overwhelmed how is it now coping. Well. Its not a good day for optimism according to italian Civil Protection yesterday 743 people died because of corona virus after 2 days of declining fatalities the trend changed yesterday was the 2nd deadliest day since the beginning of the outbreak here in need to li the death toll in the country hit 6820 the highest in the world so far the total number of confirmed cases rose to almost 70000 with an increase of 5200 daily its a little d step back after the perceived slowing down of the virus from 2 days ago experts warned not to look for trends after just 2 days so even if today the figures were bet we would need more time to say that the virus that something is really changing the mood of italians in these weeks follows the evolution of the contagion so of course today cannot be a good day but the authorities are asking d the population to be patient they said the results would have been visible after a couple of weeks but the spread of the virus and the number of losses is still very high if indeed next day is a tally and didnt see anything changing the frustration would probably continue to rise yesterday the Prime Minister has a pick on to war and gust stations owners after they promised a National Strike because they have to stay open they are considered essential david c. 4 for the forests of the francesco youre sitting in a city thats been locked down for weeks now and italians are watching similar measures now being rolled out across the continent and beyond youre at what lessons are italians now hoping that other countries one of land in your experience. Well what we have learned so far is that the virus cannot be underestimated and italian authorities said it but maybe were not listened we probably made an evaluation mistake and didnt see the threat coming when the epidemic arrived here italians were forced to change all of their habits very quickly but it was really. Not easy but it was great to understand we had to respect the lockdown and the measures over the course of at least 2 weeks and probably way more. Watching the images coming from the hospitals listening to Health Professionals appeals ever worn especially here in the north of italy. Yet quickly understood what would we had to do that was basically stay at home. These last few weeks while its really was shutting down was shutting down everything other counties in europe too like france and the u. K. Went on with their lives what is happening abroad is a scenario we have already seen so its audience here wonder why de suggestions were not listened the brunt. Francesco joined by tony their theories in milan for us thank you francesca well in britain the government isnt desperate need of volunteers as it tries to contain the virus that jonah hill joins us now live from london john i believe the n. H. S. Is launching quite a large volunteering campaign what are they actually asking people to do. The n. H. S. As you say needs volunteers it needs volunteers in its back Room Services its Catering Services it needs bill volunteers to help move supplies around the place it needs volunteers to back up the people the Health Care Workers on the front line in anticipation of the peak of this crisis arriving 1st perhaps in london and then the rest of the country in the coming days and weeks a lot of retired n. H. S. Stuff of received emails and letters from the Service Offering to reregister of them and a High Percentage of those have taken up that offer and have been reregistered and are awaiting further orders you join me outside the xcel center in london its enormous Conference Center back in 2009 at the height of the financial crisis it was used as a venue for the g 20 an emergency summit of the g 20 well approaching the height of a very different crisis potentially a far worse crisis the xcel these being repurposed into an Emergency Hospital there are military planners and engineers inside theyre turning it into an Emergency Hospital force for work beginning early next week with 500 beds moving up to a total we understand of 4000. 00 beds in anticipation as i say of a wave of cases overwhelming hospitals in the london area london expected to be a week and a half to 2 and a half weeks ahead of the rest of the country there are other field hospitals planned in time at other sites around the country 700 military personnel as i say working now a further 3 and a half 1000 on short term standby to step in and help civilian authorities around the country if needed among other things the military is being deployed at the moment to very hurriedly roll out supplies much needed supplies of personal Protection Equipment to hospitals around the country a National Health service here has been sorely court short by this crisis after 10 years of all sterile stereotypes that have revealed huge gaps in its ability to cope particularly shortages of gloves and goggles. And mosques with senior staff in the last few days warning that they feel they are being led into this crisis like lambs to the slaughter and jonah we were just hearing from francesco there in milan that italians are watching brits go out and about in a confused about why theyre not necessarily all respecting as social distancing measures tell us a little more about whether or not you feel people are changing their behavior are people coming together to try to fight the spread of the coronavirus i mean i think that has possibly changed in the last couple of days after on monday the government the promise of hours johnson. Made those stay at home measures and social just the message measures in forcible by the police was very much stricter very much clearer in his messaging things do appear to have improved there are far fewer people out on the streets far fewer cars easier really quiet but still there are people going places there are still cars on the streets it may be that those measures have to be tightened further but i think people have struggled to cope with the governments announcements that have evolved so quickly over the last couple of weeks that into times of being quite vague contradictory confusing appealing that to them to make sensible decisions but they dont necessarily feel equipped to make as i say it may yet turn out that those measures have to be enforced even further john hall that live for us on the streets of london thank you very very much john. Well lets take you to some news thats coming to us just out of saudi arabia where tougher measures are being put in place to avoid the spread of the virus the king has now ordered a curfew to start at 3 pm local time in riyadh and mecca and also a lockdown in riyadh mecca and medina well be bringing you more on that as we get it well as restrictions are increased in various other places in china many restrictions have been eased in a province the initial epicenter of the outbreak now most residents will now be allowed to leave for the 1st time in nearly 2 months the lockdown in the provincial capital will remain in place until april 8th the Foreign Ministry says the majority of new cases in the country are from people returning from abroad well for the latest on this lets bring in our correspondent katrina you who is in beijing katrina have we been seeing Much Movement since these restrictions were. Well maybe not as much as we might have expected the stars are so theres no mass exodus was you might have expected after the end of a 2 month lockdown although her base borders are open theyre still very tightly controlled as far as we know there are still no public trains planes or buses leaving the province one way that you can leave is by a private car now during the lockdown nobody was allowed to drive their own cars now they can drive them freely around the province inside the province and they can also try to leave the province by driving and the other way they can leave is by chartered train or bus these have been organized by companies specifically to bring workers and we just heard in the last few hours the 1st chartered train leaving 800 workers to beijing has also just arrived now some 2 very important conditions for leaving the province so far one you must be able to present a Green Health Code on your mobile phone which essentially certifies that your virus free and secondly you must be able to provide Contact Details of your company or employer that is to say if you do not have a job waiting for you elsewhere you still cannot leave the province we nor father that you can enter from outside if you pay into a province and airports bus stations and train stations are preparing to have public routes or been done but we still dont have information as to when exactly that will be offered to the public and katrina beijing has clearly been very keen to declare victory over the pandemic what is the governments focus now. The governments focus is very much on getting this economy going i think in february the entire country was brought to a standstill a province was under lockdown and that is to say that residents could not leave their apartments but all around the country businesses factories restaurants shops were basically shut down the Manufacturing Sector was very much shut down and so the government this is a big problem because theyve made very big promises us to what kind of economic targets there theyre able to hit by the end of this year and this 1st quarter weve heard this week has had a virus that devastating impact on chinas Economic Activity the beige book which is a survey of therm said it showed there were some i popping figures in terms of the impact economically so the government is very keen to get that going again so what they want to do is avoid any 2nd wave of infections and because of this theyre focusing very much on imported cases all travelers coming into major cities in china must be tested for the current virus and also anybody leaving who bay after the easing of this lockdown was also undergo strict testing and also possibly quarantine after they arrive in the city so even though theyve had already this 2 months of lockdown stuck in their apartments when they leave and try to resume normal life they still have to undergo another 2 week period minimum of corn team again correspondent katrina you with that update for us from beijing thanks katrina. Well new york has become a major battlefront in the fight against the corona virus pandemic it now has more than 25000 confirmed cases and that number is rising rapidly but the u. S. President says he hopes to have the situation under control by east ok but i was on the reports from new york city. Sobering news for new yorkers the situation is worse than 1st thought with the coronavirus rate of infection doubling every 3 days we were looking at a free tree coming across the country were now looking at a bullet through because the numbers are going up that quickly basically the governor says the white house has not prioritized health care to the state that needs it the most new yorkers 25000 cases it has and times the problem that california hands 10 times the problem that Washington State has you prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they are needed. New york will need 140000 hospital beds to care for the ill they currently have 50000 available new york citys Largest Convention center has been converted into a makeshift hospital but it wont be enough. York is also exploring converting colleges and hotels to hospitals as well recently retired nurses and doctors are being asked to come back to help fill the need and global event to leaders are in short supply new york now needs 30000 in the governor urged the white house to send him thousands more that the federal government has in storage and that are not being used as for the streets they remain mostly empty up both people and cars new york is essentially on lockdown and given the increased cases of coronavirus it likely remain like this for at least many weeks to come. Gabriel sondos how does you know your. Well now u. S. Senate leaders have agreed on a 2 trillion dollar package to combat the outbreak of the funds are aimed at keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat and helping frontline medical weapons the reman follows day is of arguments with democrats accusing republicans of prioritizing profits over whether to health the senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on a historic relief package for this pandemic it will rush new resources onto the front lines of our Nations Health care fight and it will inject trillions of dollars of cash into the economy as fast as possible to help American Workers families Small Businesses and industries make it through this rupture and emerge on the other side ready to shore well u. S. President donald trump says he would like to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically Health Care Specialists on so optimistic mike hanna reports from washington d. C. The New York Stock Exchange on an unprecedented rebound despite the fact that one in a 1000 people in the city are infected the dol posted a gain of over 2000 points the best day since 1933 investors apparently believing that congress was near agreement on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus bill President Trump asserting that the reaction was also linked to his expedited timeline for ending the shutdown across the country. Today as you probably saw the dow surged over 2100 points at sea all time record history of the exchange is very encouraging and i think part of the reason is they are looking at what is close to being passed and i think a very big part of it is they say that we want to get our country open to soon as possible one economic adviser supporting the president s hope that anti pandemic measures could be eased within 3 weeks if we can target zones where. The virus is less prevalent things are safe were not abandoning the Health Professionals advice but there is a climber to try to reopen the economy and. Perhaps are caught less of a shot in but the Health Experts are being a lot more cautious in discussing timelines insisting that there is insufficient data to decide on even a partial lifting of shutdowns at present we need to know whats going on in those areas of the country where there isnt an obvious outbreak is this something underneath the surface that says wait a minute you better be careful and really clamp down or what looks there that you dont really have to be as harsh as you are in other areas so its looking at information that up to this point john we never had so its a flexible situation a fact that could temper any renewed surge when the stock market opens again mike hanna aljazeera washington. On to other news now and a lengthy siege at a sikh place of worship in the Afghan Capital has been brought to an end just in the past hour or so were hearing that at least 25 people have been killed but dozens of hostages have been freed the interior Ministry Says unknown gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the religious complex around 150. 00 people were gathered inside Security Forces sealed off the area and gunfire was then heard over several hours as the taliban has denied any involvement victoria fontanas a professor of peace studies at the American University of afghanistan she believes eisel is behind the attack. Likely to be the states you what are santa whatever they call themselves they have a history of targeting minorities in afghanistan they have argued that she had you know ritzy. Bombing of the wedding hall last august and though so it is most likely to be the end to the season overall mandate and when he date. And gets a policy from the state to actually to actually terrorize and antagonize all minorities in afghanistan from their perspective hes supposed to be a sunni state and a caliphate and therefore just like any other minorities in iraq are or in other parts of the world they are being targeted for the purification of what they believe could become their kind of public is exasperated by the political games that are taking place at the moment and they do want the government and the state west hell get responsibilities to them and this goes with security but its also goes with but you cant everybody here is expecting a tsunami to happen and they really dont know which government is going to support them in. Well now its time for the weather and has rob has been chasing the rain through the med its been a miserable couple of days in the crosses over salt but thats its an eastern part satellite picture behind me shows the moving trying to talk just say about the right for the more serious cuts are interested not just the size of a 40 millimeters thats a lot of rain really for anywhere in europe and its unfortunately his multiple of the month average so is a little bit a lot wetter than you might expect but you saw the crowd has moved on the last 12 hours or so the rain fell into his ear because course fox 50 millimeters fell overnight again is not a lot well yes it is is too noisy but its something to be a c. E. O. Or at least for the sas in the capital the average for the year here is 20 going to be the get significant rain but whats happening here is a building storm. We are feeding cold air in from Eastern Europe has just come down and brought a bit of winter in and is already up into a storm which is good not rains to new zealand but is actually moving towards its for the next day or so now the cold air itself is currently sitting over the balkans youve got a bit more light snow to come for sarajevo and then things to slowly warm up admittedly but just the cold has been for the ship and so its still feeding the storms cold air of a warm water its who they are afraid is going to get pretty wet room included these rooms forecast for the next 3 days running at least one of them a study on thanks rob and still ahead on out of there prosecutors in turkey indict 20 suspects for the mother of jon lester mom shocking. The devastating impact that yemens war has had on an entire generation of children. It really isnt perspective. Conscious human world deal with the c. D. C. And well get the thoughts of some of the wild best athletes as the tokyo lympics says thats coming up with china. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged and some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally its a big business will go in the sample it will take the same there in the sand is where you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so pleasant a tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sandals at this time on al jazeera. The u. N. Fact finders accuse the bernese military of genocide the political if you think. Do you believe the nobody is a fascist or poor children have all. The recognize that both sides have legitimate grievances against the other let me just this is the founder of climate pac and that is why the. Big. Debate we are. On aljazeera. Hello again im just a reminder about top stories this hour. The Worlds Largest lockdown is under way in india 1300000 people have been told to stay home for the next 3 weeks to contain the corona virus. While in china many restrictions have been eased in who have a province the initial epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak people are being allowed to leave for the 1st time in nearly 2 months but the lockdown remains in the provincial capital. And u. S. Senate leaders have now agreed on a 2 trillion dollars package to combat the outbreak of funds i aimed at keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat and helping frontline medical well its. Well in less than one hour a new zealand will go into lockdown for 4 weeks Prime Minister has declared an emergency ordering all nonessential Services Schools and offices to close shes adding people to stay at home as the country reported 47 new infections on wednesday Health Authorities are warning that that number will rise in the coming days lets go now to our correspondent sean about us who is in opened in new zealand charlotte how have people there been preparing for all this. Well people have had some advance notice percent Prime Minister just said that she would do this on monday when we had just 102 cases she said she wanted to take these restrictive may shoes because at one point italy only had 102 taxes to a new zealand is trying to get ahead of this well they can today they announce they have 205 cases 50 new taxes in one day and thats why she wanted to take these proactive quite restrictive measures so we go into lockdown in just under half an hour at midnight what that means lockdown means Different Things in Different Countries and new zealand it manes essential services only the new zealand that means as of midnight going into tomorrow for school wakes they will not be allowed to leave their homes unless they are going to the supermarket to the pharmacy or for a war but it has to be a solitary walk and you have to keep 2 meters away from other people now we went into a state of emergency today which gave the government the feints police the powers to really be able to hurt in force and make sure it is done properly and so police will have the powers to race people if they are not abiding by these rooms a shot at whats been the perception there of just how the government has been handling this crisis. I mean it is quite a restrictive approach really because theres only 205 cases which is quite little on a global scale but most people are willing to stay home to be full weight and they seem to be on lockdown because theyve seen the news because theyve seen how bad it is other countries and they dont want to get that they want to be able to flush it out one of the thing the government did today was that these 205 cases 201 are related to travelers new zealand is coming home or tourists who people close contacts in that just cinderalla do not Prime Minister they are our biggest rate the travelers coming homes they have poor costing up to 200000 New Zealanders may try to reenter the country in the next 4 weeks and she said those people are because through so those people will face very strict quarantine measures when they go into the country some may be put in government isolation facilities those that can prove they have an isolation plan will be allowed to go home but will be chipped told by flakes our correspondent shot at us theyre heading into a lockdown in new zealand thank you for that update charles well malaysia has now extended its lockdown by another 2 weeks due to a sad infections there 172 new cases have been recorded raising the total to 1700 thats the highest in Southeast Asia 17 people have died Prime Minister and we need and yes and says the shutdown will now last until april 14th and across the border and thailand about 60000. 00 Migrant Workers have left the country after a strict measures were introduced that the government has imposed a one month state of imagine see closing businesses and forcing a mass exodus of weapons who are mainly from laos and cambodia thailands Prime Minister is expected to announce additional restrictions on thursday the country has 934. 00 cases of the virus. Well the lockdown in bangladesh is not only affecting the 160000000 population there but also around a 1000000 refugees from myanmar to no infections have yet been reported in some of the worlds most overcrowded camps but to reduce the risk no one is being allowed to leave altogether in crowds most even for prez aid agencies have been instructed to stop all activities and the nationwide lockdown that is due to continue for another 10 days while in pakistan 3 weeks of travel restrictions have also started including the suspension of domestic flights and into city road transport 77. 00 deaths and nearly a 1000 and factions have been reported there so far our correspondent is in the capital islamabad the pakistani Prime Minister has said that theyre watching this situation really closely and hoping that they will be able to do the died however. Your an emergency option of going into a few right now we are door there large parts of pakistan including the province of then also the provincial capital of baluchistan and also in the. Province several districts are in a state of a few log down all the. Schools and colleges of course were closed earlier and people are being told to stay at home even here in islamabad most of the people are waiting to die but the progress on the Prime Minister there did would bring about a very difficult situation if there were complete lockdown and curfew would be naked city of the situation escalates but for the moment hes lost everybody just aired home and people are taking it seriously. Well while the corona virus pandemic continues to ravage Europe Russia seems to be less affected one death and 658 infections have been confirmed in a nation of 147000000 people but as stepped fast and reports from moscow some officials and doctors are warning that the country could be heading towards a serious outbreak. Churchgoers kiss religious icons one after the other as if there is no cause with 19 pandemic. While the Russian Orthodox church has put some measures in place to improve hygiene these religious rituals continue to be performed because many here are convinced they wont get in fact it was noted in ancient times when pandemics more severe than the coronavirus happened people would carry a cross in the pandemics would stop we live according to our belief and we believe that god will protect us this is why we are not scared we look at it only in spain the services restarted in churches didnt help them know the situation got worse than anywhere else thats my answer to you russia says so far stricter measures like closing churches restaurants and shops are not necessary after quickly closing the border with china in january and imposing strict quarantine measures for people who came from affected countries the government says infections have been limited russia is praising itself for doing a better job at containing the virus compared to other countries the government says that everything is under control but people are increasingly getting worried because theres a lack of information and people this trust the official figures and the fact that hospitals like this one are quickly being built to cope with an influx of patients tells them a different story thousands of workers have been brought to this construction site outside moscow the large Infectious Diseases hospital should be up and running by mid april and aims to treat up to 500 patients other hospitals have been confer. Or to into pneumonia hospitals a sign that the government might be planning to treat a coronavirus as pneumonia. In our hospital 240 beds for new warning a patients bill without employing the related medical personnel doctors of other specialties are in course with these patients but dont have enough expertise this could lead to a higher death rate with a local Organization Called Doctors Alliance accuses the government of trying to cover up the corona Virus Outbreak here after a 79 year old woman died after being tested for covert 19 the official reason given for her death was trumbo says the poorest of the girls wards the distance collected from many different cities show us that the number of pneumonia cases have increased and that there are certain bands and orders for example doctors are not allowed to make postmortem diagnosis of pneumonia ive heard from many doctors course no one will speak openly about it theyre all scared im not scared here i tell it without giving names of course i get bashed for lying but i dont hide anything and have no reason to lie increasingly empty streets in moscow the largest european city show that concerns are growing the government has closed its borders for foreigners and ordered people older than 65 to stay home some are worried that if russia is faced with a large outbreak the country wont be able to cope hospitals have been closed and many doctors were laid off in recent years even large hospitals like this one would then be too little too late step fastened aljazeera moscow. All cats is now sending ventilators and other medical supplies to libya after it confirmed its 1st case of the coronavirus libyas Health Care System is highly vulnerable after years of conflict curfews in place and schools have also been closed as authorities try to prevent a large scale outbreak. And now in some other world news prosecutors in turkey are indicting 20 suspects for the killing of journalists. They include the deputy head of saudi intelligence and a Royal Court Advisor all are accused of instigating premeditated murder with monstrous intent the saudis deny allegations that crown Prince Mohammed bin silent played a leading role into shock to us killing the critic of the kingdoms leadership was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018 but our correspondents and of course the ali joins us now live from istanbul so them talk us through whos being named and why were seeing this now. No says salem what 15 members of the hit squad 2 important things are in the they file as it was announced by the Church Officials longer ago one of them is a former deputy head of saudi intelligence on the last 3 and the other one is the former royal court adviser. And they are a name as having instigated to meditate to murder what monstrous intend this is especially for those 2 people along with those 15 members of the there are theres very few who were involved 54 witnesses have been listened to prepare this indictment also it die in Technical Analysis was based on the mobile phone records of the suspects records so if they enter and exit everybody would remember all of those pictures taken of c. C. Cameras at the airports and outside the consulate and the hotels that they have entered a presence there their presence up to concentrate witness statements and now this is off to moscow she does phong laptop and i pad this is what the indictment is based on now its a public case as no one from jamal just family has been able to file a complaint against it but the truth is democracy is just killing and his turkish fiance who lives in istanbul was not in the married with jamal who should but on the ng did she didnt have any right to file a complaint about this or the police some of prosecutors has filed a public case and now there is an option theres a possibility if it can work out what bullets and might be might be issued for those suspects but we know that saudi arabia has said im on that i said it and sell them on who are the top names had nothing to do with the murder because thats why they sent in some people to to death and life imprisonment and im cassano with all the latest developments from istanbul for us well continue watching this closely thank you senator. Now the president of chad is describing mondays attack by boko haram fighters as the worst yet on the army. Visited loch province to pay tribute to the 92. 00 soldiers killed a few attack a few hours after the attack ambush in nigeria killed dozens of soldiers there to now a new Human Rights Watch report accuses saudi arabia and its allied fighters in yemen of serious human rights abuses in the far eastern governorate that lies on the border with oman now the allegations go back to early 29000. 00 and they include arbitrary arrests torture forced disappearances and the Illegal Transfer of detainees to saudi arabia former detainees say they were tortured at a facility at the citys airport accused of supporting those fighting against saudi arabia in the war in yemen detainees families say saudi arabia carried out false disappearances of between 3 to 5 months and illegally transferred at least 5 yemenis to saudi arabia their whereabouts still unknown and Human Rights Watch says the kingdom and its supporters have held no one accountable for carrying out these abuses well now lets speak to our friend nasa shes the yemen researcher act Human Rights Watch and the author of this report she joins us now on skype from gothenburg in sweden after you interviewed some of these detainees talk us through what they told you. So at least 16 cases that we spoke with. Spoke about. How people who were very at retz tortured and forced disappeared and many of them have been illegally transferring to sound some of their family know nothing about their whereabouts some of now and heard back from the latine lives in specially and in and in a prison and. After 3 to 5 months so many of the 16 pieces. Really need their relatives to come back to yemen and be prosecuted according to the many not so there is no justification for this Illegal Transfer of detainees and saudi forces in yemen are obligated to abide by International Human body of law and International Human to human rights laws and they must treat people taken into custody for security reasons human and it be it maybe it be someone on suspicion of committing a criminal offense the so many courses need to transfer transport of there so the cost of the well may in any government invest investigation and prosecution african or a port also describes an informal detention facility where people were tortured by yemeni officers how involved is the government in all this. So it is a quite. A visible division with ben they are in the government. In terms of their attitude to the Saudi Led Coalition presence and so what we had was just especially and picture is of some of the detainees and we spoke last hour to one of the detainees who were detained inside and and weve mentioned center been inside the civilian airport in iraq are because that matter so there used to be not a person inside the airport but today there is this is an office of the center where saudi forces are keeping the thing hes and supervising torture and ill treatment to these the thieves. There the yemen reset at Human Rights Watch and author of that report thank you very much for joining us afra. Still ahead on aljazeera and sports with job well hear from the president of the international and the committee on the battle. Find out the time for sports joe youre going to tell us about how everyones feeling about the olympics and you know what necessity of relief seems to be the word of most athletes and Officials Say using after the decision was taken to postpone this years olympics the games in take care have been pushed back for up to a year because the current virus pandemic in session because he made the decision on tuesday after coming under pressure from countries who said they wouldnt send teams of the local organizers mits them more at ease following the decision. And that there is a part of me that is relieved but i think it is going to be tough different stuff members have to work on each and every pot it also depends on the local government in the event there are lots of problems such as what to do with volunteers but even so it was still better than the olympics being canceled. As someone who experienced the boycott of the moscow olympics i tell japans athletes dont crumble dont give up motivate yourself once more stay young heart i hope they will take on the challenge next year athletes around the world echo many of those words despite their disappointment most say the decision to push back the games in tokyo was the right one it was a little relief to see that the olympics has decided to close probably because my 1st concern was that everybody would be healthy and everybody would have a fair place to actually compete so actually seeing a glade you know gives me a little bit of security that the olympics is worried about everybody you know you look over the history of the olympics and you see theres usually a war that its kind of stop the olympics from happening so seeing a buyer is coming you know seeing that it was a break in a small car now is spec narry right really it was respected and now were all human were all dealing with the same things bittersweet i would say the initial one was actually the relief. Because the concern of safety was always on my mind. You know it wasnt about my personal safety it was really the safety of my friends and family that would come to visit me you know they thats the thing i was getting calls. From my friends been they say christian if youre going to risk it were going to be there with you and that actually scared me you know and so. I really had a sigh of relief knowing that they were going to be safe beyond that you know when i looked at big picture this was the right call to make but the small bit of the selfish side you know as as 2 time olympic champ you know this is this is a lifetime dream this is a goal and i thought maybe i can you know this was 2020 was the year of tokyo 2020 with the year out of defending that idler are gaining that however you want to look at it but you know now i have a tokyo 2021 will strike me as an unpaid Committee Says its comfort and its countries athletes will do well a year from now and ratio those who have already qualified for what would have been this years games so challenging mine and history tragic times globally but athletes and sports now absolute clarity that enables and the focus on the games in 2021 said before be close to closer to 500 the largest team we have a say and all the athletes that have qualified remain qualified and those who havent will be working with their sports to ensure i can get the best opportunity to do so. But the idea is to has also faced criticism that it took so long to make the decision well Place Association which represents professional sports men and women around the world says helen pick chiefs must change their approach in future. If the ai i think is to learn anything from me its better bet that in helping mary because more people who are close to the actual circumstances on the ground being involved better decisions can come to a more inclusive approach kristen the fact that were just getting some lines in from the president of the International Olympic committee has bring it on Sports Correspondent leigh wellings now and late what has thomas bach been saying this is the 1st time weve heard from the i. O. C. President almost dark since there is no interest but inevitable decision and the thing that he stands out in may that he said was not one voice for cancellation but that it didnt need to be discussed to me this was always the division why couldnt i respond why wouldnt i announce a postponement it makes tactic sense despite all the just a girl hurdles and difficulties it makes false sense of the cancellation but uk has admitted that it did have today this just us is that the i. O. C. Had to act tough to see coronavirus biggest africa and Dynamic Development to stop america and the United States i dont question. Their door ready date and time that they needed to make a decision hes everyones anxiety about to get least figures from the part of the world that men are perspiring that was announced but thats what he said on 1st i do talk to go im still whats federations as i start to try and work out how im going to deal with the system Team Calendar and hasnt ruled out that it might be integrated spalling to be the satellites but that is a problem what this terracotta it was a beautiful jigsaw puzzle where theyre going to start trying to put the pieces in class all right thanks very much for filling us in on that its. All right well well leave you with some shots from japan where businesses have been getting one last look at the olympic flame at a special display in the Fukushima Prefecture organize this is still considering what to do with the olympic flame while the games up aspirant hopefully we will see it in all its glory with bigger crowds in 2021. That is so useful for now for me and especially stasia thanks very much gerri do you remember that you can find a much more on our web site all of the latest coronavirus updates the address for that is aljazeera dot com do stay tuned here though we are just getting news in that prince childs british Prince Charles has tested positive for corona virus theyll be much more on that in the next news hour thats to help roman will be sitting in this chair and just a few minutes and do stay with us on aljazeera for all the latest updates on the pandemic. One of the really special things about working for aljazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know its that each of the body but to give because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues. 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