The class of 2020 prepares to enter a changed world with graduation ceremonies swapped for socially distant celebrations. A top United Nations prosecutor is welcoming the arrest of a suspect in the 1994 landen genocide felicity and avoided police for more than 2 decades until french officers raided an apartment near paris sonia gago reports because if this is called this year he was one of the worlds most wanted fugitives 84 year old. The man accused of financing the militias that mascot 800000 people in 100 days during the rwandan genocide until his arrest in france he had been on the run from International Justice for 25 years. Kapooka had been indicted by the United Nations International Criminal tribunal in 1907 on 7 counts of genocide but the film a businessman managed to avoid arrest using his powerful International Connections to evade capture to go always had very close relations with irans government in france hes very well connected in elite circles are in paris and i think use arrested i will also raise questions about how much science he has received from the french government in recent. Kuga had been living under a full side dentity in this apartment in as. Near the center of paris he had previously lived in germany belgium the democratic republic of congo as well as kenya and switzerland. This morning we were surprised because when we went downstairs like all the neighbors we were trying to get out and then we saw a whole army of police preparing this operation because. His son in law had been arrested in germany in 2007 for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide the u. S. Had offered a 5000000. 00 reward for information leading to his arrest. In the chairman of the infamous ekta m Radio Station which he used to broadcast propaganda inciting ethnic hutus to murder to seize his arrest was carried out by French Police together with cooperation from belgian and british authorities now he will face the International Criminal court in the hague for his part in one of the worst atrocities in recent history sonny diagonal aljazeera. Thailand has begun the process of easing a lockdown that began in april shopping malls and install suggest reopened a nightly curfew will be short. A state of emergency will continue until the end of the month and all International Flights remain suspended until the end of june thailand hasnt reported any new cases of the coronavirus since friday an intern janitor call thailands deputy Prime Minister and the minister of Public Health he says the publics cooperation has helped to reduce the numbers of infection significantly and we cannot say that we are free of coronary virus. We cannot say that there will be no 2nd but what we can say is thailand is well prepared to undertake situation. Because a. Virus travels with people. Once we ease up the time we have to do to make sure that everyone understands how to behave and how to live their lives trying to bring them back to normalcy as soon as we can i think helen is no different than the places. We cannot be back to normal as. Tyrone. But we have to get acquainted with the new normal way of living for example if you ever come to thailand at this moment all people. Have their masks on people. At least one and have made the stand so d you know little by little it is to momentum people. Very good cooperation and thats why the numbers of the that they shouldnt have greatly reduced the 1st day of a week last week long lockdown in the chilly it in chiles capital santiago has left city streets almost deserted well then 6000000 people have been ordered to stay at home a Police Permit is required to gods side food markets and pharmacies though remain open the Health Ministry reversed the easing of restrictions on friday after infections increased rapidly over the past 2 weeks chile has more than 41000 cases aljazeera stories about who is monitoring developments across latin america from argentinas capital point to satirise. The streets of from the i will fiend empty as the chilean government tightened the lockdown in the capital city as you just said those above 70 years old were quested to remain in their homes those who wanted to leave their homes need to get a special permits from the police and violators will be fined with thousands of dollars as a host has also said of the amount of people infected in the country has doubled in this past week and most of those cases are happening in the capital santiago from the very beginning chile implemented a case where they called it a segregated lockdown where they blocked certain neighborhoods that had a larger amount of people that had been infected well that changed to dave the whole city is right now under lockdown theres been reports also that several hospitals are already filled their intensive care units are already filled and theyve been transporting several cases across the country so that those people could be treated even though the death toll is not higher over 400. 00 people have lost their lives it is expected to rise we do know that in santiago its largest cemetery already this saturday the people there have been digging graves not only in that in that cemetery but also in other regions because the death toll is expected to rise for u. S. President barack obama has made a veiled swipe at his successes handling of the pandemic saying that its exposed the lack of American Leadership speaking at a virtual ceremony for thousands of graduates he said that they have to seize the initiative while the nations leaders have fumbled their response to the virus more than anything this pandemic is fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing a lot of them are even pretending to be in charge of the worlds going to get better its going to be up to you. For many of the 3700000 Students Graduating High School in the u. S. Its not the celebration theyd hoped for alan fischer reports. Its not hope it was supposed to be chewed have been a pothole with lots of friends and a celebration of 4 years of high school instead its graduation marked with a socially distant stance with a family in a driveway. That when we are able to reunite with my friends that have gotten better sleep well away and were going to get out maybe. Maybe is graduation season in americas high schools big celebrations ceremonies and excitement the moment to move on to something new university or a career for the class of 2022 is moments and memories have been stolen away was nobody wants to go to school it sucks its boring at the end of your senior year you get to do all of these incredible things youve been working towards and you get that. And now i dont get that. Clear rodgers moved to the u. S. 2 years ago from the u. K. Where they do things differently graduation ceremonies are not common but ive grown up watching that sort of thing maybe its not like wow i actually get to experience. That that was quite upsetting jacqueline and id always ready to leave high school shes been accepted to university to pursue a career in nursing and watching how her world has changed in just a matter of weeks watching hope people have relied on Health Professionals makes it even more determined that sweet her future lies i wish i could be helping everyone right now and its kind of sad that i cant but thats whats also motivating me to still be a nurse is in case this comes back not everyone leaving high school has the same sefton too and it is a real not corn effect colleges and universities across america say theyre expecting to lose 20 percent of the students who have already enrolled many simply wont be able to afford it anymore and its not just a one year thing one in 10 say theyre already making other plans what would you want and help students in the last year of High School Plan for the future a future no least with uncertainty my biggest fear is that kids that were on the edge in that i would have been able to do more for. Are still going to not make a decision on what their person or plans are and leave high school and. Not knowing what to do 170. 00 schools are doing what they can to celebrate graduation virtual ceremonies pushing events back several weeks it wont be the same but then neither is the world the students are about to enter alan fischer aljazeera Arlington Virginia a massive Testing Program is underway in the chinese city of who han where the outbreak was 1st reported the 1st cluster of new infections since the lockdown was eased have been confirmed they are hunting reports. The people in this province have been battling the Novel Coronavirus longer than anyone else the virus started here in december last year and grew to Epic Proportions killing more than 4000 people in china alone after months of lockdown and move on the number of cases began to drop then this week there was a cluster of new infections a new Testing Campaign is underway to stop the spread the residents fear going to crowded Testing Centers could put them in danger but. I think some measures should have been taken for example people should be separated when there are many of them its not very good to have too many people gathered in one place some paper wary moscow not safety has become a hot topic especially on social media among the 11000000 residents of this latest Testing Campaign is voluntary i think its fine everyone to keep it on distant offline hof meters from the. Old office says the epidemic people have have a great sense of responsibility to keep our distance from each of us to reduce risks there are now nearly 5000000 cases of covert 1000 around the world more than 300000 have died what started in china may be returning for a 2nd wave leah harding aljazeera. Were going to weather update next here on aljazeera 10 trapped on able to join the parents dozens of babies born to sort of mothers a stranded in ukraine. And come mans best friend instead of coronavirus well tell you about a new trial in the u. K. Its a very picture across much of the middle east and the Arabian Peninsula has a bit of cloud again across the central and west of the saudi that all see as and this is where we could again see a few scattered showers maybe an often thunderstorm of the time which is the eastern end of the mad 38. 00 in jerusalem 39. 00 in damascus but particularly warm in addressing these time which is about 12 degrees above the average for this time of year elsewhere we will focus in on route 36. 00 across into. The bad compared to those temperatures off into jerusalem and no real change as we go into monday and again developing late in the day across these western as assadi down into yemen and we could see wanted to show how we could see a fair few shot working their way into an old in areas of afghanistan and then go into madagascar for the next couple of days and youll notice things are looking a lot less wet really across much of Central Africa we have. Developed in late in the day particularly the dail say and also developing around Lake Victoria but it really is a much quieter picture quite a cross into south africa as well temperatures generally in the low twentys and then through monday is a similar story but again mostly dry even into the southern d. L. C. But really the rains developing generally run coastal areas of the d. L. C. d political ideals of grassroots activists and polished speech in its lines takes you inside the battle for the democratic party. And asks if its base is too polarized to take on the white house theres a generational divide thats real you might ironically see the outsider middle of the most corrupt incumbent president ever to clangs americas divided democrats on out his era. Hello again this is al jazeera lets remind you of the main news this hour the man accused of funding the militias who killed hundreds of thousands of people during a wenders genocide has been arrested. Was found hiding in france some false name after avoiding police for nearly 25 years. Thailand is easing a lockdown that began in april shopping malls and Department Stores have reopened but a nike curfew will be shortened by an hour and a state of emergency will continue until the end of the month. The 1st day of a weeklong lockdown in chile as capital santiago is left city streets almost deserted all the 6000000 people have been ordered to stay at home. At least 11 firefighters have been injured in an explosion at a cannabis oil factory in los angeles they were responding to reports of a fire when the blast happened the facility was producing a concentrated form of cannabis spenny fractured using highly flammable butane gas neighboring buildings also caught fire hundreds of firefighters distinguish the blaze is about. The Syrian Government and the Al Qaeda Affiliated group taria have conducted a Prisoner Exchange in aleppo. Was. The government released for fighters while higher. Released a colonel a soldier from the syrian army was carried out of the crossing at west of aleppo with the help of the syrian red crescent several prisoner swaps have taken place in aleppo over the past 18 months some nigerians are complaining about the rising cost of food during the holy month of ramadan some items are twice as expensive and prices arent expected to drop again soon amid address reports now from the capital abuja. Daisy shops for the familys next meal shes a regular at this small market in the hurt of the city by sis prices have increased dramatically since the start of ramadan the prize is. You know what you get for like. 5000 like 10000 and you just have to keep buying the children not whole consumers say price rises during ramadan happen every year nigeria abundant its price control on commodity boards more than 30 years ago but many here say those boards to protect consumers from exploitation and with workers wages not last in through to the next paycheck many want them back. Mohamed in a sort of days ahead of the markets Traders Union he says 70 percent of his customers are staying away but the price increases are not entirely the fault of traders the surely. Its all because demand outstrips supply when there are shortages the prices will increase when you factor in the cost of transportation we see that a lot these past few weeks so the increases then automatically transferred to the buyer its particularly difficult now with ramadan coinciding with 1000 pandemic with workers forced to stay at home due to lock downs. Many consumers say theyre cutting costs and watching what they spend and very soon they could be hit by price rises because of the muslim festival of the isnt far off. Comedy agrees aljazeera. Burundis ruling party has staged its final rally ahead of the countrys general election next week could stay and. As its president ial candidate hes a close ally of president own currencies or is stepping down after 15 years in office un and Civil Society observers have been refused permission to monitor the elections over the past few months and especially the last few weeks during the campaign that kicked over on the 27th of april that the the ruling party in the government is really trying to show that this is that this is illegitimate electoral process so that means that there are currently 7 president ial candidates with 2 main ones they have been able to campaign freely to organize rallies and to to mobilize the population to to give the impression to the bruni ns and the outside world that this is a legitimate electoral process 3 female zimbabwean opposition leaders who went missing following a process this week of been found on a roadside outside harare they say they were taken into Police Custody before being beaten and sexually assaulted the Opposition Party leaders say that forces working for the president were behind the abduction. Kenya has stepped up border restrictions to slow the spread of the virus spanning travel to and from tanzania and somalia Truck Drivers are exempt but have to be tested before they can cross the perimeter kenya also extends the ban on movement between nairobi and bassa until june 6th the country is under a nationwide dusk to dawn curfew. A key Border Crossing between pakistan and afghanistan has reopened after 2 months allowing stranded afghans to return home the talk im crossing was closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus leaving thousands stranded on both sides many had been waiting at the border for a week travelers had temperature taken as they crossed on foot. But about. 3 months ago when the talk on border was closed due to the coronavirus outbreak we were stranded in punjab pakistan we faced many problems there we couldnt work during this time i have been stranded in pakistan for more than 2 months i was in the time it took me 6 days to reach the Border Crossing due to bad traffic for more than a week many of clan citizens including women have been waiting at this border to enter understand they are in a bad condition dozens of babies born to surrogate mothers in ukraine have been left stranded after the border workload was closed to foreigners preventing new parents from collecting offspring of a serious cattle lopez hard again reports. Well you know these newborns were supposed to be at home in her nursery. Theyre stranded in a facility run by a reproduction clinic in ukraine they were born to surrogate mothers for foreigners but with the countries close borders the parents can travel to them and nurses are now looking after them. On the muzzle was a minit rental cat cannot be replaced with a thing else no matter how professionally a person looks after babies the psychological and emotional connection must be established within the 1st days of a babys life we tried to some parents photographs of the children and organize conference schools but this cannot substitute direct contact with the issue was raised when the owner of this reproduction centering released a video showing dozens of babies waiting for their parents its estimated that across ukraine nearly 100 infants are in the same situation at borders remain closed and lockdown measures are extended many fear the number could quickly rise if you order. Children here facing a big problem they cant go to their parents who are in china france spain italy the us and bulgaria theyre all in the same situation because the borders are closed. Ukraine is one of the few countries that legally allow service e for foreigners with a weak economy many women turn to the controversial industry where they can earn about 15000. 00 for each pregnancy the Foreign Ministry is now trying to find a way to allow parents to travel to ukraine to pick up their infant were going to get them but. We have some parents who are 50 to 55 years of age theyve been waiting for this child for 20 years and they were given this opportunity for the parents of these newborns a journey years in the making will have to wait a bit longer. So the young aljazeera. With instructions being partially lifted in england people on britains southern ca. To worried about visitors flocking to the seaside rory chalons reports from brighton. On any normal sunny may weekend brighton would be welcoming visitors with open arms more swimmers more splashes more sunbathers out of towners and daytrippers but 2020 isnt normal and as england eases lock down restrictions brighton like many of the countrys attractions and beauty spots is worried too many people will come flocking its really painful to be asking people not to come here but we need to be clear with people that we dont believe for that safe to do so just yet our local services the console police and health are all focusing on keeping people wow so we dont want to be stretched with some people deciding to. Go scotland and wales havent changed their measures earlier in the week the Prime Minister johnson replaced englands stay at home message with a more confusing stay alert and told people they could spend more Time Outdoors and travel further pedro and for on to and their kids have emerged from lockdown in redhill an hours drive away the 1st trip in 2 months is grey its of course we are left no we didnt exactly where we are right now theres no one nearby 20 metres you know. And you know we had to go out and take some fresh air because hes had to be. In a building you know 24 hours just will disagree maggie is that you know perhaps the councils dont come message got through perhaps Police Checking cars outside the city limits was also dissuading people but certainly the beach wasnt overrun on saturday whether or not people should be visiting englands beaches and other beauty spots isnt the only lockdown issue being debated in the u. K. At the moment theres also been arguments about the governments intention so at least partially opened. Primary schools early in june. Teachers unions and the British Medical Association dont think the plan is safe enough yet and the government is trying to reassure them this face return is in line over European Countries are doing to get their own schools colleges in this respect i know lots of you will be worried about sending your children to school every one of us wants for the very best for our children and i know how stressful this time has been for all families right across the country i want to reassure you that this approach is based on the best scientific advice in brighton the idea got a mixed reception that agree with an off a week younger children is not going to be possible for a poor 5 year out to be i think the kids dont have enough time to home have you 3 daughters i think theyre pretty ready to go back to school i clearly you know for their features its a good idea to go back to school and keep learning. With plenty of slips and stumble so far the u. K. s slow climb out of lockdown isnt proving easy. Bryson. Researchers in the u. K. Think that sniffer dogs may be able to tell if people are infected with the coronavirus before they show any symptoms it could provide a fast noninvasive way to detect the disease 6 dogs will be given samples of the smell of infected patients and taught to distinguish it from people who dont have the virus in the study were him to determine whether people who have 1000 have this thing to do you were and then train dogs to detect it and were very grateful to the u. K. Government for supporting this very Exciting Research and it builds upon years of research that weve already done as a team to demonstrate that people who have a malaria infection have a distinctive body odor and weve shown that dogs can be trained to detect that with very High Accuracy so if this is successful and we show the same for kuwait 19 this could completely revolutionize the way that we are tackling this disease in italy the daily covert 19 death toll has fallen to its lowest more than 2 months but the countrys Tourism Sector has been badly affected this is usually the start of peak season and as Priyanka Gupta reports hotel owners cant wait to get back to business. Empty tables deserted holds rooms steeped in history left without visitors theres no one to the gilded walls of italys finest nazi hotels instead of course the silence on the once bustling terraces the symbol of a pandemic that swept through italy leaving thousands dead im devastated its economy is that this hole would have been crowded noisy with people chatting at the bar visitors passing by and appreciating the beauty of these halls now its empty lonely it is the 1st time in almost 80 years of the history of this hotel which was built in the thirtys is empty and closed. But there are signs of hope the government is allowing people into and out of italy from early next month free travel within the country will also receive a number youre going to get we look forward to the reopening of borders and then there might be the possibility for travel forecasts and not positive but we are very optimistic. A low italys coastlines hotel owners are preparing for a different kind of summer but on the other were ready to host tourists who come to the veneto coast in these last weeks we work to adapt our beaches our hotels and our campsites to the Current Health emergency we were able to guarantee the celebrity of a seaside holiday caution is critical for any industry that contributes per 1000 percent to italys g. D. P. And employs more than 4000000 people the Economic Impact of the pandemic has been devastating for the london were estimating they will lose about 18000000000. 00 in 2 risen this year but we need to understand what will happen from tomorrow on wards if hotels have a possibility to reopen in june giving foreign tourist the chance to reach italy we will limit those damages with many countries district and a travel tourist numbers are predicted to fall by between 60 to 80 percent this year closely but many hope that with not the childrens business can get moving again and the lights can finally be turned back on. And 0. An italian artist has used an unusual medium to display a message of hope in the middle of the pandemic far from being used to signal dangerous to follow cargo let flairs to act as a big can for what he called a Better Future for his country his artwork in the Cathedral Square of brass an ornate in the dollar by fountains could be seen up to 10 kilometers away. It is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines i was there of the man accused of funding the militias who killed hundreds of thousands of people during the rwandan genocide has been arrested for this year and was found hiding in france under a false name after avoiding police for the early 25. 00 yes thailand is easing a lockdown that began in april shopping malls the Department Stores have reopened but a nightly curfew will be shortened by an hour but a state of emergency will continue until the end of the month thailand hasnt reported any new cases of the coronavirus since friday the 1st day of a week a week long lockdown in the chilean capital santiago has left city streets almost deserted more than 6000000 people have in order to stay home the Health Ministry reversed the easing of restrictions on friday after infections surged across the capital over the last 2 weeks to raise a boat reports from the very beginning chile implemented a case where they called it a segregated lockdown where they blocked certain neighborhoods that had a larger amount of people that had been infected well that changed today the whole city is right now under lockdown theres been reports also that several hospitals are already filled their intensive care units are already filled and theyve been transporting several cases across the country so that those people could be treated a Testing Program is underway in the chinese city of new holland where the outbreak was 1st reported the 1st cluster of new infections since the lockdown was eased has been confirmed now many people are worried that going for a check could expose them to the virus. Face 11 firefighters have been injured and there was an explosion of a cannabis oil factory in los angeles they were responding to reports of a fire when the blast happened to the same as he was producing a concentrated form of cannabis many factions using highly flammable butane gas. Policy has staged its final rally ahead of the general election next week. And. Hes a close ally of president. Whos stepping down. Those the headlines the news continues here off the fault lines next. The story of. The family. School. Chimps faced in captivity they came for me. They told me son. I saw so much pain in the. Aljazeera. Stop the world in its tracks the battle for the future of the u. S. Democratic party was in full swing. To clear this would eventually emerge from
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