Stop it from spreading. A divided Spanish Parliament extends the virus state of emergency for a 4th time. The british Prime Minister gets a grilling from the new Opposition Leader as he defends his handling of the outbreak. Israel announces plans for thousands of illegal settlement homes a new yorker by west bank. And a top kashmiri rebel commander is killed by Indian Forces i think tensions at the border. Begin this evening with fresh accusations from venezuelas president over a plot by the u. S. To oust him thats what he says venezuelas state television has board calls videos of what it says a 2 american mercenaries and as well an authority say they captured the pair during a failed armed incursion on monday the us gov. And has denied involvement with the law has described the operation as a plot coordinated with washington to enter the country via the caribbean coast and remove him from office lets go straight now to todays of all who joins us live from it is this is obviously very much a developing story what more can you tell us. Well what we saw is a venezuelan press and the little he called for an International Press conference was a foreign media in the country where he showed a video initially of one of the u. S. Citizens a former u. S. Soldiers that were detained when they attempted apparently to arrive into the country using speeds no look and then man appeared speaking in a video a show on my model in that video he said that some of their priorities where to take over the airport of back us to secure the airport so that could be detained and then transferred outside the country he also said that he believed that he was helping venezuela free itself from a dictatorship nicolette motile once again accused the United States of trying to invade venezuela they said that this time he saw a country that a Security Company in order to carry out the dirty work mode also said and accused quite obvious president of participating playing and active role in this incident he says that ducasse plan was assist in creating camps across the border that would help former venezuelan soldiers and others to try to create unrest in the country the priority was apparently to create some comes on to carry out targeted attacks legal imo it was also asked whether this could be approved to detain the leader of the opposition one way though because he showed during the press conference a contract that was signed between law and the silver which is of the Security Company in the United States he said that that is up to the Prosecutors Office generally there is developing news when i would just announce also that there are going to tensions in venezuela as we speak ok that is to isabeau there live for us from what is said is. The u. S. Has taken another swipe at china has tensions escalate over the coronavirus pandemic us secretary of state blames china for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people from around the world and the again accused of covering up the all brokers covert 19 adding there was no true when when with a communist regime china saw then that it had an emerging Public Health crisis on its hands the new china could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide china could have spread the world descend into Global Economic malaise that choice but instead instead china covered up the outbreak in han its National Health commission ordered virus samples destroyed on january 3rd china disappeared brave chinese citizens who raised alarms it deployed its propaganda organs to denounce those who politely called for simple transparency prigs us to today 120 days on china is still refusing to share the information we need to keep people safe by doing head early hit back at the u. S. Saying tariffs should not be used as a weapon at the present donald trump threatened to impose them china has also criticized u. S. Claims that the pathogen originated and i will have the bar treatments cost all to White House Correspondent kimberly hellcats so we heard there from secretary of state mike pompei already doubling down on those accusations city provide any evidence completely. No evidence and neither has the us president who 1st made the claim back in late april that this originated in a lab in wu han and that believe that this was something that he saw firsthand but the problem is with classified intelligence its never shared so this is really been sort of perfect fodder for a propaganda war now between the United States and china we should point out the u. S. President certainly has a vested interest in blaming china given the fact that this is an Election Year hes trying to win reelection and had been hoping to do so in a strong u. S. Economy one that now has been obliterated as a result of this pandemic so the secretary of state echoing the concerns of the u. S. President saying that china needs to provide answers but also continuing the finger pointing against the World Health Organization saying that it has been reluctant still to demand it investigation of china and in order to definitively find not only the answers to where this originated but even to track down patients 0 there needs to be that investigation and there needs to be a full transparency so once again this administration pointing the fingers at china but also the World Health Organization and. The president is speaking live now i believe he has spoken in the past sort of few minutes about health care what more can you tell us on that front. Yeah the u. S. President having a number of engagements where reporters were brought in to listen to some of his comments the 1st being a engagement for signing a proclamation for National Nurses day of course they are on the front lines and some of that tape is now being played back he has as we speak a meeting with the Iowa Governors where Iowa Governor rather on the reopening of the economy where he is also set to speak but what i can tell you from what weve learned from that 1st appearance so far is that the us president has made a bit of an announcement saying that he is now interested in changing the Affordable Care act one that many know as obamacare saying that he wants to replace it with a new system thats cheaper that takes into account that Many Americans have preexisting conditions and he insists this is not a departure from the Supreme Court position of this administration when there were these challenges we should also point out the what the u. S. President is talking about with regard to chrono virus is this controversy thats been going on for the last 24 hours when he said were winding down the task force now he tweeted in the last couple of hours that in fact he wont be doing that now now he will be continuing it indefinitely he was challenged on this by reporters in the u. S. President several the reason for the abrupt about face was that he had no idea that this task force was so popular so now instead of winding it down as he was doing yesterday now hes continuing it indefinitely and he says hes adding more people he will make that announcement by monday the u. S. President saying that this is a crisis of enormous proportions he says is worse than pearl harbor attacks of the World Trade Center it never should have happened and he did all ages as members of his task force do that one of the Biggest Challenges remains the asymptomatic spread that continues in the United States were watching this very carefully to see what else the u. S. President may say thank you for that that is our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat. Well lets get more now from katrina who has more from beijing on the exchange of words between the u. S. And china well the u. S. And china have been engaging in this war of words for months now and the Foreign Ministry spokesperson what union or only added to that further today at the press briefing she 1st said that any idea of raising or using tariffs as a weapon was a braun and she said that only all parties will basically lose out from the increase of trade tariffs of this of course is responding to president trumps threat of raising tariffs on china and because of this outbreak she then used a very Strong Language to level her own accusations at the Trump Administration namely she said that they were misleading the International Community intentionally she also said that the Trump Administration was blaming china as a political strategy simply to get donald trump reelected all part of a larger anti China Smear Campaign to divert attention away from the Trump Administrations mishandling of the crisis back home and she also referred to these accusations as you mentioned that covered 1000 originated in a chinese lab specifically in the war on institute of role the g. Saying that these are groundless and she demanded that the u. S. Produce the evidence that they say that they have and she also said that the beijing was quote unquote fed up with washington stripped. Spains pollard has extended the countrys state of emergency for a 4th time Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez had asked for another 2 weeks and allows the government to control peoples movements as they gradually relaxes a lockdown spain is one of the worst hit countries with more than 25000 people dead from the outbreak. Is live for us in madrid ma says so the vote has happened this extension has been approved what more can you tell us what does that mean in reality. Has been is struggling to get enough support to approve the state of emergency a lockdown until may 25th he had to be a negotiation yet critics went to 4 hours of negotiations with different Political Parties and in these negotiations he made some concessions part of the deal is that he will be whole cocoa ruling coal ruling in coalition with. The regions he there will have more transparency that we need to be reporting to the rest of the Political Parties at least once a week on the motion porton he has been asked to find an alternative to the state of emergency because most of the Political Parties in the parliament are not going to support or are going to approve another 15 day extension of the state of emergency so now it has 15 days to find an alternative plan to the state of emergency framework and not as we have been reporting spain is one of the worst hit countries how badly though has the economy economy been affected by the ongoing long term. He has won since the Virus Outbreak in spain over 1000000 jobs have been lost weve seen how the most affected sectors were to resume construction and services these down these deescalation plan of easing measures gradually in different provinces is going to start next week were going to were going to move on to face one where many restaurants and bars with terraces will be able to open up to 50 percent of the capacity and hold its kind of open up to 30 percent of the capacity without using common areas but all the owners of these of these places saying its not worth for them to open all these places because the theyre not going to get any benefit or its not going to be economic for them so were facing now another problem we wont have to rescind this year we dont know what the borders are going to be opened we have to be relying on on on domestic to research them with 3500000 a fine employed people and other people with temporary layoffs that are not steel reduced or so to recent that in spain represents a 12 percent of the Gross Domestic Product that has a direct impact in the economy of the 35 percent this year is a very dark scenario thank you that live for us from madrid one of the most Senior Scientific advisors to the British Government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules that he helped to create professor Neil Ferguson was one of the leading voices on the Scientific Advisory group more than 30000. 00 people have died over taking actually is the highest number in europe im going to surprise johnson was asked about that number at his 1st Prime Ministers question since he recovered from that 19 opposition they did care system a asked how the u. K. Could have the 2nd highest death toll in the walls. At this stage i dont think that International Comparisons and the data is is yet that we draw the conclusions that we want what i can tell you is that at every stage as we took the decisions that we did we were governed by one overriding principle and aim and that was to save lives and to protect our n. H. S. Mr speaker the argument that International Comparisons cant really be made when the governments been using slides like this for weeks to do International Comparison just really doesnt hold water im afraid that many people concluding that the answer my question is the u. K. Was slow its locked down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow on the supply of protective equipment when john hall is following this in london he says the 1st exchange between the 2 leaders has already made headlines in the u. K. One influential online news publication called it the most meaningful pm queues in a decade and the 1st of potentially many to come. Boris johnson put on notice here that he is up against a brand new opponent who is going to give him potentially a much harder time than hes used to with lots and lots of difficult questions to be asked that will be asked that has already begun and answers that the Prime Minister of the government frankly probably at this point in time just dont have so kiss time or he is a prosecuting lawyer by profession hes used to asking the hard questions that was absolutely on display today so the Prime Minister wanted to say that they were improvements in care home in the care home crisis in this country secure starmer said no not according to your own briefing on tuesday night that noted deaths in care homes are still going up week on week the Prime Minister wanted to talk up his new testing target of 200000 tests today by the end of this month secure starmer said while the targets only as good as the strategy that goes along with it testing tracing what happened to that strategy 2 months ago Prime Minister he didnt have an adequate answer its the sort of thing this government is going to face now week on as this crisis develops and particularly in the aftermath of it germany is making moves to emerge from the pandemic locked on turns on the merkel said the 1st phase of coronaviruses passed she announced a range of steps to ease restrictions they include allowing people from 2 different households to meet while more sampson to museums will be reopening social distancing measures along with the wearing of masks will remain in place on public transport john mccain has the latest from berlin. Widescale relaxation of many of the restrictions that have been in place in this country now for the best part of 2 months a show of unity from anger merkel the german chancellor in the building behind me the chancellery with the Prime Minister of bavaria mark is a key ally of hers and the mayor of hamburg a social democrats widescale unity from them but there is clear disagreement from certain other leaders of german states big german states about the way forward on the one side angle or merkel is keen to stress that this is the end of the 1st wave that all the precautions the hygiene at precautions Wearing Masks preserving social distance of very important on the other side important ministers from important state saying that the economy of germany is really suffering very badly indeed and that all sorts of Different Enterprises businesses shops restaurants must be able to reopen also we know now that the german football season is likely to recommit in the 2nd half of this month the decision has been passed as it were the responsibility for the decision is being passed by the government to the appropriate German Football Association so that is likely to restart and that has been welcomed by the Prime Minister of north rhinewestphalia arm in lash it another key conservative politician in this country but clearly as i say behind the scenes there is a degree of discord in important German Government circles about what the steps forward should be because they are all worried about the potential for a 2nd wave of infection russia will also see some restrictions eased president Vladimir Putin has backed proposals to let some people go back to work in the capital moscow the citys mayor says Companies Involved in industry and construction can reopen in a weeks time as despite the number of nationwide cases rising 510004 the 4th day in a row russia has confirmed more than 165000 cases and more than 1500 deaths. The head of the World Health Organization is urging countries to boost investment and health care not only to fight the pandemic but to prepare for the next one as we work on responding to this pandemic we must also work harder to prepare for the next one now is an opportunity to lay the foundations for those eland whole systems around the world which has been ignored for too long that includes systems that systems to prepare prevent and respond to emerging genes if we learn anything from corbett 19 it must be that investing in held now will save lives later but of our head on the news are including warnings global lockdown measures could be the death of more than a 1000000 people from tuberculosis. And a life in the ruins says the syrian family finding it easier to live in the rubble of their home and them to return to displacement camps. A new United Nations report says around a 1000 mercenaries from a Russian Armed group are operating in libya it says theyre on the side of war holy fast are adults and offensive last year to take the cowbell from the internationally recognized government lets cross live now to our diplomatic editor james bays at the United Nations in new york james tell us more about whats in this report. Well its a confidential report delivered to the 15 members of the u. N. Security council by the panel of experts on libya for the 1st time theyve looked at the issue of mercenaries in libya out jazeera spoke to a number of Security Council members whove confirmed whats in the report weve known for a long time there are russian mercenaries operating in libya we didnt perhaps know the scale of the operations of the Russian Company the wagon a group it has about a 1000 operatives its believed in the country including about 40 snipers who are on the front lines trying to tilt the battles in favor of general half the 57. 00 page report gives pictures of some of those operatives and pictures of some of their weapons it also reveals for the 1st time the general have to is getting support from fighters that have come in from syria weve known for a long time that turkey has been sending syrian fighters to support the government government of National Accord but it seems that syrian fighters have been coming in on the other side to support general have that we believe as many as 2000 fighters who are on contracts of 800. 00 a month for 3 months we believe to try and help general have to in his fight i put these points to the Spokes Person for the u. N. Secretary general they dont comment on leaks but they did talk about the mercenaries operating in the country were very concerned and the intervention in. Foreign citizens in libya is something the secretary general has spoken out about publicly it is something of concern it is of no help to the people of libya who are who are in dire need of political reconciliation so peace can return to their country. Well the Security Council also got a 2nd report on libya today this one from the secretary general himself this is one that is currently not published but will be published at a later stage showing a troubling picture on the ground the violence just getting worse the situation getting worse and the secretary general now is saying that he is going to publish soon his own cease fire mechanism. Thank you there that is our diplomatic editor james bays live from the United Nations. Meanwhile soldiers fighting for libyas u. N. Recognized government have retreated from an air base they were trying to capture from renegade general who they for health are what is being used by hunters pirates to launch air strikes on the capital an air raid killed a family of 3 on tuesday night after has been retaliating for the libyan army capturing several cities that his forces controlled along the western coastline a correspondent. Is in tripoli he says the strategy is to keep half 1000 forces besieged in the air base. The Government Forces say the last more than 25 fighters in yesterdays attack to the capture of a base meanwhile the say that half the forces also suffered a huge number of casualties due to the multiple strikes by the Government Air force now the Government Forces say that they are regrouping and they are maintaining their positions around a wittier air bases in this case house that his forces inside the babies are the Government Military sources say that they carried out about 24 airstrikes last night following the clashes on the ground between have those forces and the Government Forces they say that the targeted to missile launchers inside the bays along with other military vehicles and also. Meanwhile have the forces continual. Taking revenge on the capital tripoli in retaliation to their casualties the last yesterday they targeted at his attention area called aloud but here it just a few kilometers away from the Capital City Center killing get 3 civilians from one family the father the mother and their son. A u. N. Report says more people were displaced by conflict in syria last year than anywhere else in the world barely a 1000000 people fled a government offensive in december but since a ceasefire in march tens of thousands have returned to their homes and many if found them destroyed or about a man they reports. Celebrating the holy month of ramadan in the. Dark and his family found and to task and now they are breaking the fast in what was once their home. A splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. Says he fled his home rehab the end of the year when the syrian army and the russians bombed this area well an hour earlier now my family and i here on top of the destruction we are reliving a very difficult and painful memory i pray that god doesnt lead anyone else experience this his mother says with the kitchen destroyed ready meals from outside my home in north korea the most important thing is that we relive our memories and eat in our. Army how is situated in italy province a few kilometers west of the strategic m 5 highway. Healthy years by rebel forces it was the major target for the Syrian Government to capture during an offensive in december nearly a 1000000 people were displaced by the violence most fled north arriving in the Turkish Border where many live in makeshift camps a recent un report says in 2019 syria had the largest number of new displacements of any country almost 1900000. The situation for displaced People Living at the border was dire. When a cease fire was agreed between russia and turkey in march tens of thousands of people return to their homes. Some like abu ziad family found them completely destroyed but many found it easier to live among the ruins rather than return to the camps. The manly aljazeera. Israels defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settler homes in the occupied west bank around 7000. 00 are to be built in the effort settlements south of bethlehem homes are illegal under International Law are a force that has the reaction 1st from western us alone. It would if it went through be a major expansion of the good shots on block or in and around bethlehem south to the south of bethlehem reportedly about an extra 100 hectares of land being used for these 7000 Housing Units presumably it would be inside the back of what is being mapped at the moment between the United States and israel as to exactly where an annexation could take place does come on the same day as 2 interviews with the u. S. Ambassador to israel David Friedman have been trailed in the press they will be fully published on friday in which he essentially says that if israel according to ness and you know Benjamin Netanyahu the Prime Ministers promises does go ahead and try to annex some 30 percent of the west bank beginning in early july then the United States would recognize that however he also said that as part of that there would have to be a commitment from israel to negotiate a future palestinian state as well although in one of those interviews he said that essentially would just have to be a commitment that it wouldnt necessarily have to be a response from the palestinian side let alone any real prospect of negotiations taking place some might read into that some reluctance just to give a complete green light of course you remember that in january when the trump deal the trump peace plan was unveiled friedman said that israel could start annexing almost as soon as it wanted to he was reined in by Jared Krishna president trumps son in law at that stage there are talks still going on between the United States and israel as mapping process still going on need abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and says the approval of the homes is further proof International Law is being ignored. Policy is have been arguing for years that israel is building these settlements which are considered illegal under International Law and then creating facts on the ground that then are presented to palestinians as part of the reality on the ground in a peace deal that they should accept this is a Business Announcement for their solidifies their argument that theyve been saying for years that israel is ignoring International Law and its using its Good Relationship with the u. S. Right now mainly between the u. S. President and israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to do actions that would be to International Law that are illegal and then asking palestinians to accept them so for post that is theyve been saying that they no longer view the u. S. As almost a mediator for peace and they will ask for an International Peace conference whereby different players in the region and in the world play a rule in ending the conflict and the media is reporting the killing of a commander of a pakistani linked Group Fighting in kashmir koreas nyco reported they died during a gun battle with indian troops and poem a district he led his ball was in hiding which wants the indian admin to set territory to be integrated with pakistan 35 year old had been on the run so 80 is to be a shadow and as a professor of International Relations at the university of westminster he says the killing will make the relationship between the Indian Government sent People Living in that disputed territory even worse. We have to understand that in the occupy session and the extended for live nation the way to happen in palestine its quite intense the kashmir has been visiting india for many decades now and nothing in. This killing will do it but did a friend of luck down with his conduct if the coroner was also a general long dont indict him for since august 21 thing that india too clearly even bibis your autonomy this is the state had whats likely to happen it will frustrate ssion more entangle more anxiety that fish ordinary kashmir population will have its going to make the relationship between kashmir any missed much worse than what it is already when you look at India Pakistan relations they have already been quite bad in recent months so thats the despite the pandemic both in india and pakistan like it or elected for a while its what we find is will compete was increased by the fighting for distraction from the sick problem not what happens fishnet is generally when indian soldiers are in fact thankful that might die is like because you will suffer in this aircraft by the Fire Fighting not whats likely to happen of course is that india will be used all kinds of a means to distract attention from all problems in this case what they are using is the use of a lockdown related to family make the squeeze the population for that because the main intention of that Hindu National government is not only to completely off effect actually but also to evade any form of resistance that fishmans have so where their relation with pakistan in food will get worse when done frankly that situation because she was quite diet and its as you might say in practice getting so had all of his or. Meet. The current team breaches facing street justice from latin american gangs counting on. Us we report from south korea where a consistent draw for infections means further long term measures are being used. Hello the survey will weather conditions across the Arabian Peninsula to the north has seen rather unsettled conditions a massive cloud as you can see and look at this cloud here clearing away from george now that brought a severe storm with it look at this is actually time outs video so it shows a storm coming in very very rapidly it wasnt quite that quick but down on the ground this is waltz it actually looks like that weve got these very very strong winds a rainy blowing that rain so actually quite dangerous visibility extremely poor but the good news is that that system has cleared well out of the picture so through thursday dry bright Clear Conditions weve got this line of cloud further to the south across Arabian Peninsula this may well again just be one of 2 showers maybe a scout of the storm but the winds are going to change in direction so sunday by friday coming down from the north it should feel a little bit better that freshman cooler even so 34 on a very warm 40 celsius across into dubai now the rains very heavy cool seasonal rain throughout much of Central Africa but theyve been particularly heavy and will still be heavy through because as tanzania up into kenya and also pushing up into southern areas of somalia also very heavy out tools the west across into kabul and into nigeria all the while though it is fine and dry throughout much of south africa and a warm day in cape town a 24. As italy went into Lockdown People in power are asked to filmmakers to document the effects on ordinary people from the immense suffering and loss the forgotten abandoned or exploited to sing a longs every day heroes and hard only acts of kindness the stories they capture reveal how the virus is forcing society to take a look in the mirror and exposing its inequalities coronavirus lockdown italy people in power on aljazeera culturally i believe the muslims had a far greater effect on europe than europe proud of the middle east policy the crusaders fought for all this list because they failed to recognize the moment but there was another holocaust it was in the the List Campaign of colonization that exploded religion in the name of the cross of the crusades an arab perspective the find a pursuit liberation on a jersey. Youre watching algis there are a minder of our top stories this hour venezuelas president has broadcast video of 2 alleged american mercenaries accused of a failed coup attempts because but there are says the u. S. In colombia were behind the operation to overthrow the. U. S. Secretary of state my pov buyer has doubled down on accusations against china saying the country could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths if it had been transparent about the 100 our break earlier. Ageing hit back at us threats to reimpose tariffs as punishment for the pandemic. Strains followed has voted to extend the state of emergency for another 2 weeks Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez wanted the extra time to ensure his country one of the worst hit by the outbreak can have a cautious a return to a new normal. Iraqs parliament is holding a confidence vote in the cabinet of Prime Minister designate mostafa timi the previous government collapsed last year after widespread protests many of which turned violent iraq already struggling after decades of sanctions war and political corruption is now facing further strain your Global Economic woes and of course the coronavirus smile a whole team is live for us in baghdad so what are we expecting out of parliament. Well it is widely expected that most of the me will secure sufficient support in parliaments to get his cabinet through but at the moment there are still negotiations that are ongoing Political Parties are still meeting and the list of ministers is still being amended even though the session was supposed to start at 9 pm local time of course the political process and the government formation process in iraq is extremely opaque and are predictable so well just have to wait and see how that vote turns out but what we do know is that the ms biggest factor is societal and the Political Party of powerful shiite cleric mokhtar the al sutter he also managed to secure the support of the 2 Major Kurdish parties as well as the sunni parties of the speaker of parliament so he looks as though he has managed to secure sufficient support and what that support really comes down to is the distribution of ministerial polls through a system that is known as the apportionment system or more in arabic which is basically a way of buying Political Support by giving certain parties control over certain ministries and that is what is being negotiated at the moment what is important to say that this apportionment system is something that has long been opposed by the protesters that forest caretaker Prime Minister the 2 step down and what we can see from this government formation process is that the political establishment has basically weathered this storm it has managed to survive it has managed to retain the Current Power sharing system that has been has been largely in place since 2003 and the status quo is expected to be preserved through this vote of confidence whether or not with the will in the past remains to be seen lets remember that he is the 3rd person to be nominated as Prime Minister this year since Prime Minister either of them at the resigned and his 2 predecessors failed to get the necessary Political Support thank you for that day. Seen live for us from baghdad. Well to south korea now which is among countries lifting coronavirus restrictions it only reported 2 new cases on tuesday both people arriving from brought this containment of the virus has been widely praised so lets take a look at some of the details soon after the infection was confirmed in january testing kits were quickly approved in patients isolated tracking apps and drive through testing sentence to trace and contain the virus were all introduced early on along with fines for breaking quarantine the number of infections had a peak on favoring the 20 knife and the co flattened significantly after that by mid april new cases were reduced to Single Digits allowing the parliamentary election to be held 255 South Koreans have dived more than 10000 cases recorded. Dr jerome kim is the director general of the International VaccineInstitute Based in seoul explains how south korea contained the pandemic quickly. And you look at you know covert 1000 in korea or in italy. I think that one of the things was that it was a relatively singular introduction it came in to take into that into the church in it and spread among Church Members and spread from there in the United States you had multiple introductions you had multiple introductions and 2 new york multiple introductions on the west coast as well and before they knew it they had a significant number of infections and deaths in south korea they were on top of it and so it wasnt only testing though i mean because testing that was only a part of the answer part of it is also knowing who those people might have met up with during the course of their daily lives and might potentially have transmitted the infection too so the ability to test and the ability to identify people who might have been exposed and to isolate those who were exposed and to test them for infection was really also a critical part of the success in fact if you look at the governments criteria for stopping it was you know having infections lower than 50 per day and then also being able to successfully trace 95 percent of the contacts of people who came down with the infection so its its not only testing but its the ability to identify those potential contacts and to isolate them as well because they could potentially also be the source of new infections. The coronavirus demick can government restrictions are causing many challenges for Health Workers worldwide one of those challenges is preventing diseases such as tuberculosis which is estimated to kill 3 people every Minute Research by stop t. V. Partnership its a network of International Organizations and nongovernmental organizations says lockdowns could lead to an additional 6300000 cases of tuberculosis in the next 5 years almost a one and a half 1000000 more people are predicted to die of the disease without treatment or diagnosis the Research Predicts it back to the same level of deaths and infections from 8 years ago. To 2 is the executive director of the stop Tb Partnership and the un backed coalition of n. G. O. S government offices and patient groups aimed at eliminating tuberculosis worldwide she joins us now live from geneva thank you for your time so you must be pretty frustrated at this situation. Yes we are and yes i am actually its a bit see coming to be honest with you because ok is the fact that it turns out as back in time if anyone wanted to do it travel back in time here we are going back to the levels of 20302015 in terms of the t. V. They thought but there will be a lot of live see back there is a lot of suffering and a lot of that that will happen you to eat you think you not we would want more the koran are fine with the impact on the east mean we model of the meat the geisha ethic the ethics of the mitigation measures they can for the fun they need on this so the lockdowns. Which lead to obviously theyre upping the services or reducing them use the staff reduce the number of beds in the course that those and also in fact the heavy heavy the access of people to the Health Service also intended to play i mean the world has to fight coronavirus 1000 and to avoid Health Systems being overwhelmed what what is the alternative here. The identity of these 2 keep in mind that rather than all of us finding completely just whats caused it there are people in this world that that is suffering as we speak for other things then cause it so it means to us they it is possible if we think properly to ensure that people that need that t. V. Service but use not just t. V. These my lady are cardiovascular h. O. Each others have the possibility to go to the clinics that the hospitals are able to. Offer the services that are needed and that not all of the health stuff has to be removed and the only one taking care of the puppy because what we do know is basically we are creating additional lifes lost as well as an additional suffering for the people thats what we do we forget that there are other things there in the wild leaders had pledged to eradicate tb by 2030 is that goal still sees a bill. As it is right now no we have gets by 2022 established by the Un General Assembly and president s and we were pretty on track to reach these 2022 that are get sent to. Dream that we would end by 2030 you know you could be we dont have a vaccine to be that hes off thousands of years and despite of that we have 2 or 3 vaccine candidates for which we are looking to have them available on the market on 2027 ok and. Then he be good discrepancy with what is happening even paying too much attention in one direction now and forgetting about all the needs for implementation and research one of the other diseases that exist there it is how does that impact on a lot of various sort of that flow on effect doesnt it well actually if time has to take a detour there executive director of stop Tb Partnership thank you. Let me american countries like brazil ecuador and mexico its not just the governments battling the virus organized crime gangs have been quick to publicize their efforts and come back in the spread in stockholm and reports. Hes about to be punished for heading out during quarantine. But not by the police by the m s 13 gang you know salvador theyve been taking action against violators of coronavirus curfews in their territory. And so the criminal groups across latin america the chief concern and list say isnt for the greater good but strategic gangs. The fact that you are seen as. An avalanche area controlling authorities in your communities has some benefits in terms of holding that and a certain moments will be 13. Trolling secondly even their use and sort of interaction going and gangs that they are able to implement some initiatives on only sees increase their its all in their interest. Further south in brazil gangs in a couple of 5 villas in Rio De Janeiro which usually get their money through street crime and drug dealing now in Public Services says Fernando Browne Corley so what theyre doing right now hes basically. Trying to promote a lockdown of. Who should be on the street and about time but also i think i get doctors i make it mad trying to keep this straight and yesterday basically trying to look like a state and says brian cawley charging residents the socalled taxes that go with that. I mean again its all old news to mexican criminals whove long played the good hearted outlaw with the coronavirus theyve simply stepped up their published take on him. Just look at this slickly edited video of the new Generation Cartel handing out food parcels the citizens think its leader. And here reportedly a sell of the sin aloa cartel with a packages for some reason with Osama Bin Laden labels that even the daughter of imprisoned drug lord chappell has handed out 2 packages with his face on it but some of the groups on even putting up the money themselves. Where half. A half are in. And. I know. Displays of neverland and im some have already started stealing. And tire tracks. As well. Mexicos president has said it is better if they just dont kill it but at the gun law they shouldnt go around like rulers who think that just like you know they are forgiven. And thats just the thing in mexico the murder rate hasnt gone down and it only on the lines that here and elsewhere in latin america these groups have no problem with killing in and terrorizing communities and no amount of robin hood posturing is going to change that. But what may change say on lists is the amount of power a criminal groups can accrue by strategic could be and that should be a worry to any state john homan aljazeera mexico city. Still ahead on. Space tests a new design a raucous. The air. China is the lead in the crowd a virus pandemic slow its ambitions in space a prototype space module blasted off on a new generation of Rocket Technology the unmanned vehicle reportedly designed to carry up to 6 astronauts china has big player tans for space travel despite the global recession on the horizon because of the pandemic china is building a space station that said to be complacent by 2022 over the next 2 years 8 missions 4 of them crude will complete work on the project before that is a mission to mars china plans to launch an unmanned probe to the red planet later this year and in about a decades time china hopes to launch a manned mission to the moon the us is the only country to ever land humans on the lunar surface the last time that happened was a 972. 00 there and wright is a space journalist and commentator explains what message china is trying to send with its recent push into space. This is a real worry for the americans thats not just me saying it the the head of nasa said it at a briefing this morning when he was talking to Analysts International analysts he said that he was concerned that the impression was building within the american establishment that china was beating the United States his argument is no theyve been doing extraordinary things theyve flown beyond pluto and theyve been landing on mars now for many many years and they are already involved in the space station project but theres no question that china is nipping at americas heels and theyre picking prime topics prime areas of research where they think they can become predominant theyve also got some hidden agendas on this mission one of the most interesting being that in fact the main experiment will be tomorrow when they will sire this capsule sorrows into space and then send it back to earth at the sort of speed you would expect for a moon landing return mission so theyre signaling to everybody very delicately that this Human Mission to the moon is a priority i saying in space but a lot further into space and facts were applied at roughly the same size and temperatures as exciting scientists and theyre investigating investigating while there whether it could sustain life dubbed kepler 1649 see if the spacecraft went to discovered it the 5 represents one of the best chances at i have been to the alternative to the planet is 300 light years away which is relatively close in space to us and all but a socalled red dwarf star. Well francesco diego is a Senior Research fellow in the department of physics and astronomy at University College london joins us now live thank you for your time how exciting and significant discovery is this. It is it is very exciting to find an object in order to get other star very similar to our own on planet 56 i. Q. Of course although the excitement has to be taken with that you could be professor of asian star. This planet hes already doing is not exactly like this only support of the size of the sun hes much cooler started at 40 separate studies have red dwarf star on the planet needs to be very close to the star in order to get enough energy to acquire these what we call the conditions for a liquid walked on the surface of the planet which is one of the conditions for life but it would eventually paint a picture for us if we can 0 in terms of the the information we know and the picture of what life is like on this planet we know its going to a super short year and to earth times at least 19. 00 days to go around that sun what else do we know whats it like. It to serve it if he called the the only data we have is that the planning goes in front of the study releases a look at the beginning of the start which is of the Kepler Mission that dec 5th im the only recent gave them to fight in the outcome of kepler i think if either this planet that was she was a blonde it was not i think or teaching early on and thats what we have. The possibility of we could look to jesse depends on the temperature we know more or less where the temperature will be with the star and this closeness to the star that would be fine but the other condition is that the planet nice to have a not much fear a heavy atmosphere that keeps the pressure the atmospheric pressure to keep the they want to liquid on the surface that is going to be a bit difficult i mean how do you find that out will we ever know if this planet does have life on it. Well its a long way to go we need to have some way your fire spectroscope because in fact my institution University College london is you know mission that is going to measure the compositions the chemical compositions or the almost years of the successful up planets and that the presence of whatever that has been gone already the presence of oxygen or ozone and these gases are related to life but i must say another thing that these planets usually theyre very close to the star and they will be tidally locked so they dont spin like the earth thus they would be kind of not having day and night so to speak and that is another another condition that these last in most of these cases so we have to acknowledge that we are not a unique place still in the universe despite all these billions of beautiful planets we are in a unique place and we have to preserve it just really is spocks the imagination though doesnt it thank you so much for your time really good to have you on the program again your insights good luck with your research. 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