A criminal scheme. Actually. The show must go on the ramadan Home Entertainment for iraqis in isolation. Into the news are good t. V. Company separatists in southern yemen have declared self rule breaking a deal signed in november with the internationally recognized government the agent based Southern Transitional council declared a state of emergency saying it would govern the port city and other southern provinces the Yemeni Government is calling it a coup against the government itself the s. T. C. Is supported by the United Arab Emirates the saudi backed Yemeni Government government warned of dangerous and catastrophic consequences. Well the crisis in yemen has many dimensions its fraught with both domestic and Regional Power struggles the war is rooted in the arab spring uprising of 9 years ago longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh handed power to his deputy but the rebel man sort had the that failed to bring much hope for stability the hooty movement took advantage of being 1000. 00 divisions and separatist ambitions and tensions rose on a regional level between sunni ruled saudi arabia and shia ruled iran which is accused of backing the who tease a saudi u. A. E. Coalition began its military offensive against the who had these in march 2015 and that was only supposed to last a matter of weeks and western countries fear the threat of attacks from al qaeda and i still affiliates based in yemen simon maven is a senior lecturer in International Studies at Lancaster University in the u. K. He explains how a number of different groups of trying to increase their influence in the country. I think its an interesting if all together and surprising so developments i mean those people whove been watching yemen for some time will have known that the s. T. C. Have got these these broader us peroration to close a section they want to break away from the states and stop wish their own state but with regard to what actually is happening on the ground i think that the situation is far more complex in terms of both the opinions of yemenis in the south than the extent to which the s. T. C. Of this of the Transitional Council can exert influence over these different groups but also with regards to the broader geo political dimensions of the conflict with regard to d to the be a morality support for the s. T. C. Which pits it against. The back because of the hoodie government saudi arabia and thats it thats a pretty fractious rivalry there starting to brew that the yemen has been struggling for the past 9 years or so now yemen has really suffered from the uprisings in the un rights that were brought about by the arab uprisings and its really struggled in the in the 6 years since the war started and has really opened up a vacuum so its essentially its a vacuum within a vacuum right now because you have all these different competing groups not only the political groups but then also tribal groups religious organizations including their affiliates and all of these Different Actors are trying to vie for him florence. Or the top story of course is that the corona virus toll is still rapidly climbing in many countries but china is marking a new sign of improvement it says that all patients have now been discharged from hospitals and the original epicenter well Health Officials also now god an 11th straight day with no deaths anywhere in china heard reported more than half of the countrys total cases and nearly 85 percent of the National Death toll residents there are still being tested regularly despite a relaxation of lockdown rules also a clock has more from hong kong this is the epicenter of the initial corona Virus Outbreak and of course engendering we saw this particular city sealed off was and generally 23 when live 11000000 people went into lockdown for about 3 or so months it was only when the numbers started to drop that they lift that particular lockdown so in january february at the pick of this particular Virus Outbreak in we hand we have the likes of thousands of cases being reported on a daily basis of course we had accounts for half the National Total of coronavirus cases in china and 3 quarters of chinas deaths but instead of we had the medical efforts are now being deployed elsewhere weve got the cases on sunday the National Health commissions reported 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country thats an area called helen jiang province and this particular province borders russia its about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region weve got a number of cities that been put in lockdown weve got public transport its been postponed or held for a period of time and this type quarantine restrictions in a number of those cities and we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region as it sees a surge in the number of cases. Is a professor in the school of politics and International Relations at the university of nottingham also in the u. K. He says the Chinese Communist party is doing everything it can to shield itself from any blame for whats happening. The Chinese Communist party hauls. A quote unquote monopoly off fools and that means. The communist party basically by default whatever they say must be true and whatever is reported that kind of counters that official narrative by default must be fought and saw based on this understanding i think its quite clear that we must not trust the carpet 19 statistics coming out of Mainland China we need to be quite careful when we draw like comparisons to other countries its all good to hold for example the british and u. S. Government to account for their lets say a belated response and i think that criticism is being articulated day by day but when it comes to Mainland China. As this is the origin of the corona Virus Outbreak and this is of course something that secretary sitting is. Perhaps ashamed ops and so the highest it has been going into all the drives to kind of deflect criticism of this fact and theyre now increasing reports that. Conspired is actually orchestrating a global this Information Campaign courageous chinese citizens are attempting to kind of break through censorship but unfortunately just yesterday we learned that. Some volunteers in china tried to document what really happened in and that theyve been harassed by the authorities and so lets bear in mind Health Professionals who just wanted to share information with other professionals like dr levy when young they they couldnt speak their mind and on his deathbed he said china should no longer have censorship and citizen journalists would try to report from the front lines like to ensure sure needs of us they were immediately caught and and gagged. Or britains Prime Minister is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after he was in intensive care Boris Johnson facing criticism of his stand his governments handling of the crisis including critical shortages of personal protective equipment for Health Care Staff and the lack of testing public calls to ease the long also increasing hole is in london with more on what Boris Johnson can expect as he gets back to work he returns to the helm of a country. Currently in its 2nd 3 week period of severe restrictive lockdown measures that has reached the peak of its epidemic but not yet seen a steep decline still posting perilously high numbers of new infections and fatalities passing the 20000 person mark hospital deaths that is on saturday there is still persists and shortages of personal protective equipment for Frontline Health care workers a government target to hit 100000 tests a day by the end of this month looks a long long way away still and there are louder and louder calls on the Prime Minister on the government to give Greater Transparency about its plans for a timetable for an exit strategy the opposition is saying the public must be kept in the loop about how and when the lockdown will end Business Community leaders and even senior figures in the Prime Ministers own party is saying its got to end very very quickly if were to avoid destroying the economy altogether so hes got a lot of things that hes got to work out presumably the most important priority will be to try and figure out how to communicate to the British Public quite what is going to happen next and in order to do that hes got to resolve that central sort of predicament whether and to what extent on the one hand to follow the calls of business and those in his party to end the lock down to save the economy and on the other hand whether and to what extent to heed the rather more cautious calls of the scientific and medical community who say now is not the time the numbers are still too high. Well over the past few weeks ive been speaking to a range of voices from across the u. K. Who have different experiences of the lockdown so lets speak to peter downey he lives in the city of chester in the northwest of england peter good to have you with us on aljazeera your you work in construction and your company and your Management Team acted very quickly when they saw there was a problem with corona virus when they were on holiday and maybe in directly saved your life to. Yes so. No 22 directors were always in. France you know you switched florida. In the draft it was in under order and there were this is about 11th 12th of march and they were quite concerned that were finally in those countries and i couldnt believe the then things hadnt happened with ourselves. So they were sending emails back to the business to say we had to take certain measures and by the time you arrived back in the country we kind of they shouldve i think it was 4058 and they come on the planet would set everybody their business and that. You know we dont would isolate basically work from home sort of this is a week ahead of the of the law. And you know yes possibly it could save my life on the basis that i was a Vulnerable Person you know how to quadruple bypass 10 years ago and i was listed as possibly one of the people who would have to i select the 12 weeks because it turned out that that wasnt the case but i was fortunate because one of the directors that did come back that isolated himself as well he in fact had a mild. Version of the virus in his subject with it actually was this so if weve all been mixing together your office before the destruction of lockdown and social distancing that could have been. Difficult for me indeed and of course you work in a Construction Industry thats had its own ups and downs over the past 2030 years you have much experience of that how difficult has it been for you to actually organize furloughing the company and saying goodbye to colleagues for an indefinite period of time. You know thats really strange i mean i think when we 1st show not a word further we all rushed to google to see what really meant. And it was possibly surprising that chance to come up with a plan that athlete better than most countries plans and for that i think we should be grateful it allowed patients to. Check stock of how they could survive and basically last call themselves so we could come out of it and the other side who know where not will be. But were certainly a better position to do that with a 3rd of the machine. We have a lot of its a labor intensive company you know we had 5060 people in the business and it was becoming impossible to guarantee their safety so the business had to. Should itself down and then suddenly a 3rd came along and the caves i think are why fine indeed lets talk about chester the city that you live in its famous for being a roman golf that tudor victorian georgian rich history its a tourist trap all of those people visiting the United Kingdom tell me what its like to live in your road right now and what your city looks like. Well its exchange dramatically i mean hard to say i havent had probably 3 in isolation but. The streets full of cars and. People you know you see people walking but its so quiet theres no traffic hardly any deliveries. Chester hes our city pictures and. Its quite surprising just you know you could call to check on a saturday and. You shoulder to shoulder with everybody its not betty who come into a very busy time of the year when a lot of tourists and well tourists from all around the world visit chester and interests its just. You know sad to say. You know the way the city is at the moment indeed i mean youve as you say had to isolate along with your wife elizabeth but its been difficult perhaps to see your extended family things that clearly in the flash. Yes i mean the hardest only i have 2 granddaughters. To florence and theyre. Theyre sort of 4 year olds so theyre just starting to really recognize whats going on around them and no one lives quite close by heidi and she just slow to ride a bike so they take the time out you know sort of their one hour exercise and theyre not far from a slickly chamish by a private way so their visit and the sound of the complications while we wait until the window moer granddaughter florence shes on the loose or chest so while she said youre on a bike as well its not as easy to get across so weve shied. Whose face time and its 6 its been wonderful to be able to still see the same time heartbreakingly not not to be able to hold them and thats probably one of the hardest things we found because as grandparents. I mean you just enjoy your grandchildren so much and we did see you know a lot. And not to see them in person is difficult im sure and of course its difficult at this moment in time in your story reflects that of many millions across the United Kingdom peter downey thanks very much for joining us from the city of chester anyway i think you thank you well spain has recorded its lowest death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past day as the number of new infections also dropped its raising hopes that spains Strict Lockdown restrictions are beginning to pay dividends. But some parts of that lockdown are being eased millions of children are being allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 6 weeks but its only for an hour and they must be accompanied by an adult and stay within a kilometer of home and public parks remain closed spain has the worlds 2nd highest total number of infections after the us and europe 2nd highest number of fatalities behind italy marta heroes more from the spanish capital this is a big relief after 43. 00 days of street lockdown children under 14 are able to go out for a walk only for one hour one kilometer away from their home and back and with one adult each adult can take at least 3 up to 3 kids of the same family so what weve seen today the big picture in spain have been all these parents with the kids with their bicycles with the scooters weve seen plenty of Police Patrolling drones warning all the parents and the kids to keep to keep the safe safe safety distancing and. Plenty of kids and all the parks are closed in spain on the playgrounds of course so the access is impossible so these kids have to to exercise or to walk with their own by their own means and with the parents so there are scientists spanish Prime Minister yesterday said that if this continues this slow down trend continues according to 2 ministers sources in the past 34 hours we were just at the lowest death toll. In a month 288 new fatalities in the past 24 hours and 1700 new infections if this trend continues next week and we can see dont point out to sect to exercise individually so we might have another picture as well. Aaron valentine is a clinical psychologist at syndrome medicine she says a gradual transition can help children adjust back to normal life. Well theres a number of different ways that children can be impacted in a lot of it will depend on the childs temperament and personality and how their family is handling the lockdown but certainly time away from friends all in their routines can be quite disruptive stressful and then with the news about corona virus not understanding everything can also be a bit anxiety provoking so im sure theyre looking forward to some opportunities to be getting out now in spain its probably not enough but they still start out slowly anyway you know the changes can be overwhelming so starting with this 111 see helps children kind of ease back into different routines and different schedules and i think you know different children might be really excited others might be a bit anxious so it gives that little bit of flexibility there for children come out slowly and starts to see whats going on as well see maybe see friends while theyre walking on the streets it wont be enough but its a nice start well i think its a really nice opportunity now for parents to be having some mindful conversations with their children about what they want to do in the coming months making some plans together about how to return back to routines that they liked and maybe incorporating changes that worked out really well for them in the in lockdown or important he inhabits that they develop so its an opportunity to really plan because the doors are actually being opened in one day. Italy has reported 260 deaths from coronavirus its lowest increase in 6 weeks it comes as the government p