A country eases restrictions and restarts professional sports and the biggest t. V. Network in the philippines is ordered to shut down after and lengthy dispute with president ordering go to take. The air one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in asia is to be eased even further hong kongs chief executive kerry lamb says cinemas and bars can reopen later this week while secondary schools will restart later this month a knock down was imposed in hong kong in march theres been no new domestic infections there for 2 weeks now elsewhere though the u. K. Is still in the grip of the pandemic it now has the highest number of deaths in europe and russia has reported 10000 new cases for the 3rd day in a row it brings the number of confirmed cases there to around 155. I found a worldwide more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died this is the John Hopkins University corona virus tracker it says they are more than 3 and a half 1000000 confirmed cases across the globe. Is katrina you now with more on the situation in hong kong. The government and kerry lamb said that they were very confident that hong kong had stabilized its corona Virus Outbreak enough to be able to ease some of those very strict measures that have been in place for weeks so starting from this friday groups of up to 8 people will be able to gather in public and theyll be able to eat together for example in restaurants previously that maximum group number was for also some key venue some key businesses will finally be able to reopen that includes jims cinemas in theaters some balls as well as beauty parlors and finally they also announce some opening dates for schools which many families have been looking forward to so starting from may 27th older High School Kids will be able to attend school but they wont be all at once Younger High School students as well as primary School Students will be able to resume classes from the beginning of june and now this follows weeks of corn a virus cases in hong kong dwindling in fact in the last 16 days there have been 0 new local infections the have been some imported cases but there have been very few in the Single Digits if any on some days and it also follows months of real real economic battering that hong kong has seen the the economy in hong kong declined in its 1st quarter this year by about 9 percent compared to last year so the government is very keen to get the economy going again but its not quite out of the woods yet the government said that theyre going to give every hong kong to dissin reusable mask that theyre expected to wear when theyre out and about and some businesses including night clubs karaoke clubs as well as saunas and bath houses will remain closed for at least another 2 weeks and join a whole joins us now live from london with the numbers coming out of the u. K. What do they tell a cs numbers jonah. Well these are the weekly statistics released by the office of National Statistics governing all deaths from all causes here in england and wales from which one can extrapolate to include scotland and Northern Ireland as well what youre trying to do of course is to work out the overall impact of covered 19 all on the u. K. In the way that they are doing that. Widely accepted as the most reliable measure impact by the virus is to look at excess deaths over and above the average for this time of the year when s. Figures indicate that up to april the 24th as an 11 day lag time here excess deaths over a 5 week period total 38000. 00 in england and wales including the north not in scotland figures that goes up to 42000. 00 and this excess deaths numbering 2 sinatras deaths from code 19 but suspected deaths and also deaths related to covered 9000 people who havent been able to get all spittle havent wanted to get to hospital havent been able to get the sort of ongoing treatments that theyve needed for ailments that they may have suffered from so pretty large numbers those and fully 34 percent of that figure are deaths that have occurred in care homes care homes housing the elderly the most vulnerable last week bosses described care homes in the United Kingdom as the new coronavirus frontline and if you focus down further on these numbers to get a more specific number of deaths related directly to covered 980 the where the virus is mentioned on the death certificate or is suspected of having caused that death well the numbers in england and wales are 29710 at scotland and Northern Ireland to that figure and you get a number around 32000 and that importantly or importantly to some puts this countrys death toll well ahead of italys death toll suggesting that the u. K. Is now the worst affected country in europe of course compare. Since country to country are extremely difficult to make there are lots of different factors that affect countries differently size and age of population prosperity if were still so on but at least according to this metric at this moment the u. K. Looks like it may well be the worst affected country in europe john i thank you very much for that john holl live for us there in london as we mentioned russia has reported more than 10000 new cases for the 3rd day in a row earlier we spoke to Simeon Galperin who is head of the Doctors Defense League in moscow he says a Russian Health system has suffered setbacks in recent years would get like calls from 2 doctors from different cities from different parts of russia and everywhere we have a lot of problems there not a lot enough for hospitals there not a lot enough. Doctors we dont have enough mites and we dont have enough equipment actually all these is a result of the reforms in. Performed in russia in the past 5 or 8 years it cold like optimisation during this world years then been closed many hospitals like even in. Moscow that will last about one half of our hospitals and we dont have these for no if the situation being happened like 10 or 20 years ago it was it would be much easier to resolve or this problem. Naive ron continues to be the coronavirus hot spot on the middle east that is joining global efforts to fight the 19 scientists are working on developing testing that could be ready for export within months as comes as they are growing signs of recovery in iran with daily deaths falling to their lowest level in weeks. In laboratories like this all over the world scientists are trying to answer the same questions how can covert 1000 be stopped is there a cure when will this Global Crisis be over at the Pasteur Institute into her own iranian experts are working with chinese colleagues to try and improve testing for the virus something that has been a challenge since the early days of the outbreak so im coming here for just to have a 10 to. Condense on training and know how to use test because you would see all the dots but asking if you please stop im sorry our interview with the visiting expert was cut short by security i mean i mean you know about the government here has been criticized for responding too slowly to the pandemic and it seems officials and remain sensitive about anything related to its coronavirus response. Set up in 1920 the campus into herat is named for french scientist louis customer a 19th century pioneer of modern medicine this institute runs dozens of labs and employs hundreds of staff across the country the government Hopes Research and development here will enable iran to export diagnostic kits and medical equipment this facility is nearly 100 years old and one of the largest of its kind in the middle east for years scientists in these kinds of labs have been fighting all manner of diseases Infectious Diseases and now their priority the inskeep a priority for these men and women is to try to find a way to fight covert 19 why is the virus more severe in some patients does it mutate and can survivors develop immunity. Answers to these questions and the discovery of a vaccine in a place named after a pioneer in the field would be an Outstanding Achievement and the head of the institute made it clear that is the ambition. Were working on producing the Technical Knowledge for a vaccine and focusing on medicine and treatment to see which medicine could be a good candidate for curing the disease but on the day of our visit irans president was more guarded in an address to his cabinet house and rouhani was clear there have been no breakthroughs social distancing is the best policy and everyones in this for the long haul. But i know about face on the assumption that the us i mean unfortunately remained these people for some time and nobody can predict when this epidemic days or months you have to have the house protocols of continuing Work Production and activities. Comes to corona people have to be general there is no treatment no medication or vaccine for it so the fundamental thing is to be careful about ourselves while finding a cure is the end goal testing is also important last month the revolutionary guards unveiled a handheld device they said was capable of detecting an infected person from 100 meters away but its effectiveness was criticized and Irans Health Ministry did not approve it for use with no easy fixes scientists to carry on with their research how to end the pandemic remains an open question and they intend to find the answer. To her. On to other world news now in the philippines leading broadcaster has been ordered to shut down the Telecoms Authority says a. B. S. C. B. S. License has expired president rodrigo tatty has regularly criticize the network opposition groups accuse him of targeting independent media speak to jemima island again our correspondent in manila jamila give us the background to this case and what does a suspicion today mean for the network will they be able to feel it. Well fully according to the National Telecommunications commission the order of deceased and to seize is actually immediately exit you tory that is something that also the department of justice secretary of the department of justice said that it is has to be implemented right away however a. B. S. E b. N. Continues to air as we speak its about 7 pm local time the letter was issued and was received this afternoon but in the interviews of the commissioners of n t c with local channel fear it remains to be seen exactly how that will be implemented whether Law Enforcement will have to command to the Network Networks grounds and to forcibly force everyone to stop its airing on free t. V. Now this is also a complete turnaround to the issued statement of the national delicate mitigations commission a few months ago that it may order and issue a provisional authority pending the renewal of the franchise of the network in congress now this spy denials by spokespersons of the of the president that the president has anything to do with this last year president would be good with their dames self said that he intends to shut down the network after it failed to air his campaign ads in 2016 now human rights experts say this comes at a very unfortunate time when the country just like the rest of the world is fighting a pandemic and the biggest Media Network with substations across the country with over 11000 workers are unable to help with information dissemination but despite the legalities fully the questions of whether it has the right to air at this point a lot of human rights experts and media experts are also saying that this really reeks of political of persecution this is an improvised curtailment of press freedom and its something really spawned by political and personal retribution thank you very much for that to mean and into the night for a sin many. And still ahead on aljazeera after fleeing violence half a 1000000 vulnerable refugees in kenya and now face another battle and that sinking feeling we talked to both men struggling to stay afloat at one of pakistans most popular tourist spots. And are there weather conditions are carry across the Korean Peninsula but im afraid the showers and the clouds clearing away from there is on its way towards japan now at times some very heavy amounts of rain particularly into more central areas of honshu it doesnt really do much the temperature in osaka 24 celsius but slightly cooler in tokyo with those heavy downpours and the nations back into china weve got another mass of rain just waiting and that will wreck its way eastward sweep across as we work our way into thursday so the rain pushing into beijing at a low the temperatures 20 degrees celsius and further to the south the rain also working its way east was and that will arrive into shanghai later in the day but on the south coast it is a very warm day in hong kong with a high there of 33 degrees even more than that they threw all central areas of india the have been some warnings for by the india mess office and then to the north on the north east its the case of more heavy downpours this was in the western himalayas just look at the rain it was coming down actually mixed in with a hail storm say through wednesday it is going to be bangladesh seeing the brunt of these heavy downpours that will be showers and scott the thunderstorms really cropping up in many areas again across the north and then through thursday well into more showers developing through addition and some rather heavy coastal sheilds into the state of kara. In countries like a mine people have been killed too because we in the United States have privatized the ultimate Public Function war this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help to pass bombs deals off you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam isnt that interesting there are a shadow on aljazeera. Welcome back a recap of our top stories on aljazeera one of the toughest coronavirus knockdowns in asia is to be eased even further on kongs chief executive kerry now says calls can reopen made to this month along with some businesses cinemas and bars the u. K. Is death toll from covered 19 has become the highest in europe according to newly released data from the office of National Statistics that shows the number of fatalities reached 30002 weeks ago and in other news the philippines leading broadcaster has been ordered to shut down the Telecoms Authority says a. B. S. To be as license has expired present roderigo tatay has regularly criticised the network. By germanys top court has ruled that the European Central bank must limited in its involvement in an e. U. Stimulus program complainants argued that the purchases were unconstitutional as speak to dominic cain about this is alive in berlin dominic talk us about the significance of this ruling and what does it mean. While the case was brought by people who argue sanch the e. C. B. Activity in buying government bonds over the past several years was something it really should not be doing and the they would mainly german complainants there are arguments was that the german constitution did not allow money from the bundesbank thats the German Federal bank to be used for such activities now the ruling from the Constitutional Court backs that up to a certain extent and effectively says that what the e. C. V. House done is potentially beyond the constitution of germany point about the significance of this is that it represents something in this ruling as it were for everyone because the bundy. Spanks the federal bank of germany now can examine this ruling and it effectively has to decide over the course of the next 3 months whether it feels that what the e. C. B. Does what the e. C. B. Explanations are for the activity its been doing are acceptable and if it believes that it is then then things can carry on as they were however the problem comes if the bundesbank the people in charge of the news bank see what the European Central bank has been doing as not being acceptable is being unconstitutional well then that becomes a much greater problem for the e. U. For the euros right i was going to ask you about the implications for germany and the European Union as a whole. Well the implications for germany has just said effectively what level of interference or involvement or indeed oversight should there be of what the e. C. V. Is doing of what the bundles bank is doing because theres one criticism is very clear in this ruling which is that the rush that the bundestag in the rush to building behind me has not been scrutinizing the activity of the bundesbank and the European Central bank but also the German Government hasnt been doing enough scrutiny so thats from the german perspective from the european perspective there is the very distinct possibility that other countries might start to say well what about what why cant we examine other things that e. U. Institutions of been doing and maybe our constitution can as it were than can be more important to be supremely over the e. U. The European Commission today has analyzed this ruling and has said no we insist upon the primacy that means the importance the supremacy of european law so there is the potential for precedent being set here but of course as i say the question now is what this means Going Forward in so far as the money that the european institutions have agreed to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that is not included in this ruling that is safe in that in that sense what this is about is what the European Central bank has been doing front for the economy of europe because constitutionally they can deal with Monetary Policy and not supposed to deal with Economic Policy thats the take we can as it were take from this ruling today thank you for that dominic a knife are assembling. Libyas internationally recognized government has launched an offensive to capture an air base controlled by the warlord highly for have tar our t. A has been used to launch airstrikes on Government Forces they recently seize control of major cities along the western coastline and rejected have to ask call for a ceasefire during the holy month of ramadan. Now to kenya which shelters nearly half a 1000000 refugees from neighboring somalia and south sudan they live in crowded camps at risk of a coronaVirus Outbreak with little or no access to health care aljazeera as malcolm webb reports from nairobi. Anima deo fled fighting in her hometown in south sudan when she was 2 years old her parents brought her here to kakuma refugee camp in northern kenya its been a home ever since over 2 decades its become a city of shacks home to nearly 200000 people trips to the water pump with the market are essential to the way people get food to eat. Shes worried about the spread of the corona virus in a company and you cannot talk on monday when i dont know where we fetch water we have to queue and social distancing is practically impossible that scares me. And is among nearly hoffa 1000000 refugees in kenya many escape the conflicts in neighboring somalia and. Most live in camps like. So far no cases of the virus have been identified here. Refugee rights activists say cramped conditions and the lack of health care could be a recipe for disaster unfortunately it means possible devastation people who are infected will not be able to be isolated people who. Will be a lot of transmission the spread fast and the response with this. The uns Refugee Agency released this video showing measures that have been taken to prevent the spread of the virus during food distributions he says its added extra water points for washing hands but that doesnt change many of the realities inside and outside the camp protecting refugees for miers is not only about protecting refugees or about protecting Host Communities really its about protecting all of us and everyone is not protected in the truth of this are. People in kenya and other parts of africa waiting to see if or when the corona virus will spread as much as it has in asia europe and the Us Health Experts say could be disastrous. And i says lifes already become more difficult the crisis has pushed up food prices worried about her family in the weeks ahead she says all they can do is pray to god malcolm webb aljazeera nairobi kenya. In israel the need is the local councils in arab towns have gone on strike theyre demanding compensation for revenue loss as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have fostered has more from time. This is a National Problem across israel local governments have had a huge shortfall in what they would usually expect to take in in terms of local taxes because of the businesses shuttering under the coronavirus restrictions but leaders of palestinian israeli minister parties such as this one say that they are being compensated to the same extent under a Government Program as bigger jewish majority areas in israel is an 800000000. 00 Compensation Scheme from the interior ministry but areas such as this one say theyre only getting in total some 13000000. 00 of that and they say thats just not enough but that the attilla be billeted talked about this is why we ask them to deal with the arab sector that lacks resources hundreds of thousands of people are under the poverty line therefore we ask them to increase funding to cover 25 percent of our losses to money in 1. 00 sense these palestinian israeli areas of israel are victims of a mathematical logic that the biggest economies the biggest cities the majority jewish theyre the ones that have had the biggest tax losses and therefore getting the biggest compensation payments from the government but the palestinian israeli mayors and council eaters say that its evidence of a longer term problem of their areas that had chronic underinvestment in their economies over many years and that is one reason why there is a higher level of poverty and that they require high levels of support as a result the Israeli Interior Ministry tells us that it does ignore leads but the compensation offered so far doesnt solve the problems for towns such as this one that they are offering other means of support and that they are looking in to further Financial Assistance as israel starts to ease itself from its coronavirus restrictions. South korea is restarting its professional sports needs as the Coronavirus Infection rate slows down the government is allowing Outdoor Sports starting with a hugely popular Baseball League but fans cannot attend the game mcbride has more from the city and. This is the last practice session before the long awaited start of day one of south koreas face bowl season of the season that of course has been delayed by more than a month because of the coronavirus were here at this stadium in incheon thats the home of the s. K. Y. Vns thats injuns local team who are taking on the visitors had eagles they are down on the diamond at the moment to have a nap their practice session now it is a long awaited start this has been well over a month that weve waited for the baseball season to get underway and very strict precautions are in place to make sure that all the players are safe a certain amount of social distancing is practiced they are not allowed to do high fives and shake hands also notably for Baseball Players are not allowed to lick their fingers that search tricky for the pitchers and also nobody is allowed to spit most notably of all no spectators are being allowed in place of spectators what we have on some parts of the stands are simply painted cutouts of spectators all of them. Very correctly Wearing Masks but no spectators themselves are allowed in instead people are allowed to see this now thats the important part of this game and the start of the korean season they are supplying a worldwide demand at the moment for live sports south korea is one of the top 3 baseball playing nations in the world of course the United States and japan are ahead of them but in south korea they are the 1st to get their baseball season underway so all of the matches that are being played by the. 10 major teams in the Korean Baseball Organization are being staged streamed through the likes of e. S. P. N. To a worldwide audience so that they can get their fix of life baseball when the spectators can come back if that is still an open question here they are hoping possibly within the next one to 2 weeks to start introducing spectators back into the stands here but even when they do it will be a long time before we have packed stands here they will only be reduced numbers with empty seats between them. Hundreds of boats men in pakistans lakeside toris sponsor struggling to make ends meet during the virus lock down while the government is considering partially lifting restrictions in some areas walks and recreational areas and not part of a plan to has more from camp or lake. On poor lake situated in the himalayan for tears and less than 50 kilometers from. Their favorite burger bar or track think how ignorant of tourists from around the country and from nearby area by now you can see hundreds of border now. And a walker there nor heard of the war i wondered about day. Good things are going to be good for good there are over 250 boats here and there on park this is beach season but there are no customers and the myth find ourselves otoh for doing bugger gone round into our state over log down under 14 go march all public and recreational play if it were close and that means that all depended on the ball. I know what it about the future with the philippines we do not want to get out of all these are hard times and if this crisis belongs i will have to find an alternative like michael. The ministry of planning estimate that anything from 14 to 18000000 reported may lose their jobs and their fear they had written it there and didnt for a long last down the Unemployment Rate would go higher although the drummer of the dollar even some restrictions are allowed the movement of written work and life are thoroughly coming back as part of the markets are going to earn. I likely do them and short. Close again im fully back to go with the headlines on one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in asia is to be eased even further hong kongs chief executive carrie lamb says schools can reopen major this month along with some businesses cinemas and bars scattering a you has more carry lamb said that they were very confident that the current Virus Outbreak in hong kong was under control enough to ease some of these very strict measures that have been in place for weeks most importantly starting on friday people are going to be able to gather in public in groups of up to 8 people now thats double the previous maximum of 4 people and many key businesses Key Entertainment businesses will also be allowed to open so that includes cinemas and uses it includes gyms and also beauty salons also key was the announcement that some schools are also going to be able to finally reopen. The u. K. Death toll from corona virus has the highest in europe according to newly released data from the office for National Statistics that shows the number of fatalities reach 30002 weeks ago john hall has more from london 34 percent of that figure are deaths that have occurred in care homes care homes housing the elderly the most vulnerable last week care home bosses described care homes in the United Kingdom as the new coronavirus frontline and if you focus down further on these numbers to get a more specific number of deaths related directly to covered 900 either where the virus is mentioned on the death certificate or is suspected of having caused that death well the numbers in england and wales are 29710 at scotland and Northern Ireland to that figure and you get a number around 32000. And russia has reported more than 10000 new cases for the 3rd day in a row it brings the number of confirmed cases a toronto 155000 in other news the philippines leading broadcaster has been ordered to shut down the Telecoms Authority says a. B. S. E b. N. C. License has expired the president ordering that attack day has regularly criticize a network opposition groups accuse him of targeting independent media those are the headlines inside story stocks now. And. Will life ever return to normal after lock down from asia to europe all countries cautiously relaxing coronavirus restrictions but is it too soon what are the risks of a 2nd wave of infections this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program unburned its been its now more than 4 months since the coronavirus started spreading from wu in china