Russias president leads muted ve Day Celebrations as he faces a dramatic rise in new cases. Bars and nightclubs shut in south Koreas Capital after a surge in new infections is linked to party goes. In the return of the ultimate fighting championship its a bump as one of its fighters test positive for corona virus but as things stand they come back then to florida still goes ahead and storms. Will begin in libya where forces loyal to all of the have to have fired at least 80 rockets into tripoli is only functioning airport its believed a civilian plane on the tarmac of material was hit one person has been killed after it has been trying to take control of the capital for more than a year now as attempts have been repelled though by the u. N. Recognize government for more on this story lets bring in mahmoud up there while he joins us from tripoli so hes been shelling the city but have has half those forces progressed at all. Not at all not at all because a member they have been targeting made to get airports since the launch of their military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli in april last year remember him 80 get airport is located in within. Populated areas in civilian areas in the north side of the capital tripoli which is very close to the cost of those forces from their locations in southern tripoli have been targeting the airport with rockets and in other cases with air strikes now according to the government sources half those forces told to them 80 get today with their nearly 80 rockets some of these rockets landed in Populated Areas and killed one civilian and injured a number of other civilians their Health Ministry has been sending ambulances embolisms have been rushing to the area in diversity of an 80 year old trying to evacuate civilians and meanwhile it has been calling the ministry of health has been calling on civilians to stay at home because of possible for other attacks now the ability go. Marketing company thats part of the state owned Oil Corporation has just posted that one of its jet fuel tanks. To get airport was hit by one of the explosions and was sit on fire and the firefighters have been trying to put. The fire meanwhile this video is in the vicinity of what made to get airport are still in a state of panic and as you know sami that he made to get airport is the only operational airport in the libyan capital tripoli and it has been used by the government to send patients and those to the to receive medical treatment abroad but the. Meanwhile it seems that the Health Service forces have not been a desponding to the International Calls especially from the United Nations to refrain from targeting get it is eventually. Sources of what it is actually in a matey get airport tell us that one civilian plane was hit and damage it by their rocket attacks along with other infrastructure inside. Airport and also that includes a new headquarter that was under construction for the United Nations one Maintenance Workshop also 4 planes was also hit in so they made a good will to remember sami that the attack on a ticket airport comes only 2 days after it have those forces attack on the vicinity of the turkish and Italian Embassy in the neighborhood in central tripoli killing 3 civilians actually 31. 00 civilian and 2 Police Officers excuse thanks so much from a hold on the line. Now in my baby is a senior fellow at the Atlantic CouncilWhose Research focuses on libya and he joins us now from toronto good to have you with us so have those forces were losing ground until recently now i hear theyre showing the airport is this a case of a continuation of the stalemate or is there only one side thats winning the battle right now. Well its not really a continuation of the stalemate essentially if you look at this that this takes over the past but say 4 months you had from january to march about 80 percent of civilian casualties being directly attributable to the Libyan Armed Forces under the leadership of khalifa huff there in april you have about 180. 00 casualties with 3 quarter of these also there rightly it such a beautiful at the that if one of the and these casualties ever really manifested themselves as soon as the Libyan Arab Armed forces experienced some military losses so what this points to is the fact that these attacks against civilian infrastructure then on civilian neighborhoods are actually systematic. Retaliatory measures re really for punish punishing civilians or tricky to military losses but unless someone intervenes to stop this or actually even call it out which rarely happens unfortunately this wont stop at this juncture why is it have to force is targeting civilian infrastructure in this way now it is this the result of a perception on the part of his forces that some of these civilian areas and tribes are no longer supportive or no longer neutral towards him. Well its i think its of the magic of Different Things really by design launching an offensive on tripoli in and of itself would have caused civilian casualties in the 1st place theres no absolutely no way that a military takeover would have been possible without some civilian casualties the problem at this stage is that the social legitimacy or any perception lets say of the legitimacy of the libyan our armed forces or of khalifa how there is a potential military leader have completely dissipate that most of the residents in tripoli because they realize that if previously some of them believe that this is actually a cohesive disciplined army now a year on having seen the way this conflict has been for and having witnessed. Both sides that really behave but particularly the Libyan Arab Armed forces the 8 they really equate them with the with the militias that are in the capital in fact the militias that are in the capital now and are defending lets say tripoli actually have more legitimacy in the eyes of most of tripoli its residents and then of course the Khalifa Haftar the battle for libya in many ways is a proxy war now on the one side youve got an internationally recognized or u. N. Recognize government on the other side youve got to ask why are some countries supporting a strongman. Well bill its a really big question a would say its symptomatic of Different Things one of which is you have them really look at who is supporting a strong man and who is actually influencing states that are lets say neutral or not intervening now so youve got really states that are like that you either have a certain ideology lets say and the islamists that have the coup in egypt for example that want to extend this blueprint to libya you have states like france was foreign policies influenced by the u. A. E. To a certain extent and then youve got other european states that are really cant have a cohesive position and the United States that really is slowly actually not projecting any influence in africa and the middle east so this lets say perfect storm this conducive to a very Simple Solutions like the assumption that libyas like slips that ability in libya could be achieved by a strongman and unfortunately the symptom of that is what we have today every year long war where the supposed draw man is not even able to capture the capital despite being backed by roughly lets say between 4 or 6 countries directly intervening on his behalf are good to get your analysis on that and i badly thank you focused on the government has started lifting long town measures despite the number of daily infections soaring come on high theres been speaking to people in the slum about about how they feel about the change. Although the number of go over 19 cases has now so far 27000 the government has decided to aid the restrictions on the demand of traders who said that they were losing revenue and they were rising cases of unemployment the ministry of planning warning that up to 18000000 people may be unemployed by the time this crisis hits big however there are reservations about opening up the markets again people our why there is such a move could lead to an alarming rise in the number of infections the government of course has said that they will go into another log down should that happen by the head we have been able to see most people are bolivias to the dangers of the pandemic not falling the s. O. Paid and it will be important to see how this all plays out because progress on it now going into our unchartered uncertain territory and no one knows what the ramifications of reopening the markets and public place they will be our schools and colleges will remain closed large malls will remain croll there will be a ban on congregations but the religious leadership of certain sects said and pakistan is already warning that they will defy any ban on those larger gatherings so indeed it is going to be a challenge and it will of course be putting nerves on edge because the medical community had already informed the government that such a move could lead to an exponential rise in the number of covert 19 cases which would put a lot of pressure on a country like pakistan with your knowledge ready struggling with its economy and the effects of the pandemic. Russia is marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war but large scale Public Events have been because of the pandemic w. H. O. Says russia is experiencing a delayed demick cases have risen by more than 10000 a day for 7 Straight Days pushing its total to nearly 200104 people died on friday that brought the total number of deaths past 1800. Serious oksana brown joins me now live from moscow so how is ve day being marked there amidst a lot down. Well in moscow looks very unusual for this big day in russia and its empty ghostly it was supposed to be a big showcase for russian president Vladimir Putin many World Leaders were invited some of them and confirmed their participation like for example french president emmanuel mccrone. But nevertheless when the epidemic started and march the kremlin had to make this very very difficult decision for them to bust cone the celebrations but the parade. Which is going through quite a tough time at the moment partly because of the recent polls showing that hes actually having the los Approval Ratings figures since he came to power and also a condom is deteriorating so this would be very handy to have this big celebrations here nevertheless its called it proved so the parade was postponed which had been every year showing in 47 russian cities including moscow and immortal regiments this annual big massive more church of hundreds of thousands of people who would carry the portraits of their relatives who died in the world war 2 had to be online. Today showing up to the public for the 1st time in the month of his own self. Isolation and he gave a speech he said that also although he didnt mention anything about the pandemic he said that russia will definitely have a big. Parade and immortal regiment for that and. Also he said that as long as russia staying together theyre invincible. Around oksana brown there thanks so much more still ahead on the news hour including demands for home deliveries. Some kenyan drivers are missing out on profits tell you why. Fear and anger in colombias private prisons are 30 percent of inmates in one jail infected with corona virus. N. B. A. Players take their 1st tentative steps back into training joel have the latest coming up. The mayor of south Koreas Capital seoul has ordered all bars and clubs to close over concerns the virus could be spreading there the government began relaxing its social distancing measures after a drop in new infections but in seoul there were reports of new cases linked to some bars and nightclubs which prompted the order to shut down. For more on this lets speak to pollen she joins us now live from hong kong so how much of a setback is this to the whole containment policy. Looks i mean south korea had reached the peak of its infections at the end of february and fought really hard not through lock downs but through aggressive testing quarantining and a strict social distancing regime to bring those numbers down as you said and by the end of april and early may new infections were just in the Single Digits but this now is becoming a cautionary tale for south korea and letting its guard down too soon this latest a cluster of infections 10 to one man it 29 year old man who on thursday was identified as having corona virus it was then revealed that he had visited 5 bars and nightclubs over overnight on may 1st which was the 1st few days when south korea was easing its social distancing measures that happened to be a long weekend to use of people from all over the country happened to be in the area to celebrate south koreas overcoming their outbreak so now about 40 people have been identified as testing positive link to that cluster but it goes much further than that in fact the district now says they have to track and trace about 7000 people who may have visited the area over that period of because of what theyre calling silent spreaders or a secondary infection so its not serving as an example or a test case for the rest of the region and other countries for instance germany which had a similar to dick trajectory to south korea as far as infections go which is now opening up china also which is now easing restrictions and opening up and hong kong in particular which this week is now opening bars and entertainment to areas or thanks so much to big appalling. Then i think states has blocked efforts by the u. N. Security council to adopt a resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the pandemic washington objected to the language in a motion referring to the World Health Organization the agencys role in the Global Crisis is the subject of a growing dispute between the worlds 2 Major Economies our diplomatic editor james bases more. Here stonier the current president of the Security Council invited other members to an unofficial meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in europe speak 945 also marked the birth of the United Nations and the multilateral system but its a system that many believe has failed to respond in a unified manner to cope with 19 its now 6 weeks since the u. N. Secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war that is why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the worlds. It is thank to put out a conflict on lockdown and focus the gather on the to fight of our lives in the weeks since then an unseemly battle behind the scenes with the Security Council unable to agree on the words or resolution to back the secretary generals call after President Trump said he would cut future funding to the World Health Organization u. S. Negotiators blocked any reference to the w. H. O. In the resolution while china threatened to veto any resolution that didnt mention it this latest version of the u. N. Draft resolution includes compromise language is though the references to World Health Organization it talks about the United Nations and its Specialized Health agencies in reality theres only one of those and it is the w. H. O. Negotiators thought they have the agreement of both china and the u. S. To this text but when senior trumpet ministration officials in washington saw it they objected taking us back to stage one deadlock james plays out zira of the United Nations. Nigerias government is warning many states could soon run out of beds in coronavirus Isolation Centers the number of cases continues to rise across nigeria particularly in parts of the north and in the commercial capital lagos a Clinical Trial involving the dr hydrochloric or your own code with 900 patients is set to begin in the city. Business is booming for online and Home Delivery services because of coronavirus restrictions but in kenyas capital some of those going door to door say theyre not seeing any of the profits so this struggling to make ends meet welcome web reports from nairobi. Its been more than a month since pubs in nairobi like this one popping with life. Kenyas government closed bars and restaurants to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But the resteal life. In the kitchen. 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