International push for solutions and the game on south koreas baseball season restarts as the country eases restrictions on professional sports. India is launching one of the Worlds Largest repatriation missions to help hundreds of thousands of its nationals stranded across the world by Coronavirus Travel restrictions passenger jets and warships will be used to bring workers home back in late march india had suspended all flights into the country elsewhere the u. K. Has recorded another 693 deaths taking its toll past the 29000 that means it has now overtake initially as the country with the highest number of deaths in europe in home call restrictions are being lifted with cinemas and bars is set to reopen and secondary schools due to restarts later this month meanwhile in russia cases are continuing to spike more than 10000 infections have been reported now for 3 days in a row we start our coverage in india with Victoria Gate and. There are an estimated 70000000 indians who Work Overseas now some of those who desperately want to return home will be able to have gone to the Indian Government has given the go ahead to bring back indian citizens stuck abroad the travel will be done either by airplanes or naval ships all flights into india with suspended in late march because of the coronavirus epidemic since then those affected by the restrictions have been vocal in calling for a change of policy if you look at the 2 identical uploading the missions and the peace because they have been flooded by these indians what in saying that the. Other countries have been thinking oh that is an act why arent you being you know so this is basically a type of dignity in that the Indian Government says arriving passengers will be screened segregated and quarantined the critics are warning the virus may still spread. According to the information from the Central Government people be put on a plane without testing 1st with or they have coronavirus this is dangerous a plane has more than 200 people if one or 2 have the virus all the passengers will be in trouble the subjects the whole country and raises the possibility of the disease spreading further there are also concerns that poorly paid migrants may not be able to afford a ticket home who is representing stranded clients are calling on the Indian Government to do more to help. Good look at subsidizing or are only discounting these tickets specially for people who you know and if i do not have the economic ability of buying that but use of to get back home is estimated there are up to a 1000000 indians waiting to go home in what will be one of the Worlds LargestInternational Repatriation missions the tory gate and be al jazeera. The u. K. Government has defended the countrys rising death toll foreign minister dominic rob says accurate comparisons cannot be made until the crisis is over i dont think well get a real verdict on how well countries have done until the pandemic is over in particularly until weve got comprehensive International Data on all cause mortality but i think theres 2 points id make about the way the u. K. Has approached things there are different ways of counting deaths as we know weve had that debate in this country we now published data that includes all deaths in all settings and not all countries do that so im not sure that the International Comparison works unless you can youre reliably know that all countries are measuring in the same way and it also depends on how good friendly countries are in gathering their statistics. And as john paul explains from london where of course the u. K. At that figure is have exceeded those basically making the country now the place with the highest 1000 deaths in europe as john explains the figures dont tell the full story. The numbers by direct comparison dont tell us all that much what they do though is fuel questions which are being asked here almost every day of the government now or quite why this country appears to have been so ill prepared for this epidemic having had a good couple of weeks to look at with horror at the time of course what was happening in italy a country that had far less time to prepare and also a wider questions about quite why western countries in general in europe and in the United States were far less prepared or appear to be than Asian Countries take south korea for instance after all of this only recording just in excess of 250 deaths from coronavirus so they feel all the questions they dont necessarily provide very much in the way of balances the British Public are looking and listening all the time to pronouncements from government in the Daily Briefing and elsewhere from scientists and so on about when and it might be appropriate to start lifting the lockdown that speed in place in this country and others there looking of course at the reproductive rate of the infections from cocoa covered 1000 looking for that to remain below one this famous our figure the number of people that carriers with corona virus infect it is currently below one but not sufficiently below want to give them much wiggle room but theres an enormous amount of pressure from industry for business on the government to restart the economy the war is that if you go too far down the road in terms of saving lives you end up going too far down the road in terms of being able to save the economy and then ultimately that causes more problems than it helps down the line as it mentioned earlier hong kong is relaxing one of asias toughest lockdowns follow still weeks of the confections katrina has more now from beijing. The government and kerry lamb said that they were very confident that hong kong had stabilized its corona Virus Outbreak enough to be able to ease some of those very strict measures that have been in place for weeks so starting from this friday groups of up to 8 people will be able to gather in public and theyll be able to eat together for example in restaurants previously that maximum group number was for also some key venue some key businesses will finally be able to reopen that includes jims cinemas in 3 years has some bars as well as beauty parlors and finally they also announce some opening dates for schools which many families have been looking forward to so starting from may 27th older High School Kids will be able to attend school but they wont be all at once Younger High School students as well as primary School Students will be able to resume classes from the beginning of june and now this follows weeks of corn a virus cases in hong kong dwindling in fact in the last 16 days there have been 0 new local infections the have been some imported cases but there have been very few in the Single Digits if any on some days and it also follows months of real real economic battering that hong kong has seen the the economy in hong kong declined in its 1st quarter this year by about 9 percent compared to last year so the government is very keen to get the economy going again but its not quite out of the woods yet the government said that theyre going to give every hong kong to dissin reusable mascot theyre expected to wear when theyre out and about and some businesses including night clubs karaoke clubs as well as saunas and bath houses will remain closed for at least another 2 weeks. Russia has reported the largest number of new daily cases of the coronavirus in europe with the total number of infections now exceeding 150000 else workers there have been complaining about their working conditions after 2 doctors fell out of a window and died that in baba reports. When digging graves instant petersburg russia 2nd city victims of coffee 19 a scene thats becoming more common on tuesday the country reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases in europe and now there are disturbing questions over Health Workers whove raised the alarm about their working conditions but after. This video on twitter shows dr alexander shoot off on the left and a colleague is explaining how she had been forced to keep working despite having covered 19 the colleague previously criticised the Hospital Management for protective gear shortages and was questioned by police for allegedly spreading fake news but another video made 3 days later apparently at the hospital seems to show surely pove by now being treated for the virus retracting their complaints. I feel right my temperature is not rising why did the this a thing to mattick have a runny nose otherwise all is well what we said was said when we were high on emotions. On saturday according to local state television quoting Health Officials surely power fell from a 2nd floor window at the hospital hes now reportedly in a Critical Condition in intensive care after suffering skull fractures the same sources say hes the 3rd russian doctor to fall out of a window in the space of 10 days the 2 others died 3 incidents which are being investigated by Law Enforcement or thirtys have prompted intense discussion in russia about whistleblowers in the Health System everywhere we have a lot of problems then a lot. Of hospitals. Enough. Doctors with all her off lights dont have enough equipment. Across russia the number of recorded covered 9000 cases stands at more than 155000 in officially the diseases killed almost 1500 people now. Remains the countrys worst hit region accounting for more than half of new cases and his 90 percent of patients are younger than 65. Cities remain on lockdown while much of europe looks to ease restrictions the russian government says theyll stay in place to visit vaccine. Aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has made a rare trip out of washington to meet with native americans and tor an Aerospace Facility in phoenix arizona that expanded its production to manufacture a respirator masks for Health Care Workers and im goodman is a republican strategist and joins us now from floridas star thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera this is one of the 1st trips that really donald trump has taken out of washington of course because of the current a virus pandemic and the crisis at schools in the u. S. And elsewhere weve also seen his Approval Ratings take a hit the latest poll shows that now 42 percent say that trump is doing a good job as opposed to 46 percent in april how damaged do you think this president has been by his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Well i think you know just listening to the rest of the lead up into this interview all over the world everyones having in a way to learn on the fly the president was no different here in america i think he did very very well coming out of the box he held obviously a lot of press conferences barbara i think when those are to wear a little thin he. Tried to look for an alternative and he are seen the alternative now where he visited arizona the honeywell plant where they are manufacturing 91. 00 masks and will be a part of other productive protective equipment be coming online this is part of what america and i think the world is going to start to starve for which is a shot in the arm we know we have a health and we fear we also are looking at an economic endemic and its nice i think just to get a sense that maybe tomorrow will be a little bit better than yesterday and i think that barbara is what the president is trying to do youll see a lot more of it in the days ahead and as for the polls the polls are you know snapshots in time the polls really going to count start to count as this fall when i think the American People have a much better read on how the administration has done with the coated disaster. I mean of course youre right in saying that the coronavirus has you know caught a lot of countries a bit unawares and a lot of countries are having problems for haps not as many leaders are quite as optimistic as President Trump and not as many leaders made the kind of comments that he made a deal in the Coronavirus Task forces for example saying that people should drink disinfectant which is one of the reasons that those press conferences arent happening anymore and hes also a president in an Election Year and a president that thrives in front of a crowd and big rallies which cant happen right now how much do you think that damages his prospects for reelection. Well i think it he has to revisit how he campaigns as everyone has asked joe biden whose Biggest Campaign trips have been between his den and his kitchen as hes trying to communicate out from his home in delaware and change things but isnt it its kind of strange to say this barbara but even today in arizona where he was actually distance in the press conference we just saw from some of the others the governor of arizona and some others of the income Indian Country you cant relieved i think to get out of washington out of being sequestered him back into play but in the end a bottom line in all this in the in this election to come is is really whether or not people want to change horses in the middle of a tremendous challenge of tremendous hit not just in terms of our security but our Economic Security i think thats where the president s going to have a strong game when its all said and done and that the polls are going to be all over the place the pain and how we feel about how things are going today but its really what we want to do moving forward and whether or not what the president has done which is that basically barbara say to americans lets get at it its in of that but if i look thats been really only give me for interrupting about if you look at statistics well beyond the polls its nearly 1200000 americans infected nearly 7000 thats the infection reembrace who is rising is the president putting campaigning issues ahead actually of the safety of the United States and americans i think you know barbara he said constantly from the beginning to this that hes putting the health of americans 1st but as president unlike tony shes on an amazing job of trying to give us a sense of what the Health Aspects of this pandemic are as president youre responsible for every other part of life as well and its not just the the the thirst that people feel wanted to get out there again to try to feel some sense a. Normalcy again we have to make some very tough decisions and so theres a precedent about where those lines are and were not going to know whats you know how it all kind of turns out until we get out there and we start to try things and so were going to push the all blokes were going to as Kevin Mccarthy in the house said were going to learn to crawl walk run now we might be doing more crawling than one right now but at least i think the president is laying out kind of a of a path that america is going to say ok i think maybe just maybe i can see some of the light at the end of this tunnel had a good one republican strategist speaking to us from florida good to get your views thank you thank you barbara. Plenty more still ahead on the news hour including an attack on press freedom the president already got to test their cues the of being behind the shutdown of the philippines t. V. Network. And the President Trumped the nie is the u. S. Is behind what it calls a failed coup in venezuela despite the capture of 2 americans. Iranian scientists are collaborating with their chinese counterparts in an attempt to improve testing for the coronavirus iran is one of the worst hit countries in the middle east with more than 6300. 00 thats the from tehran. In laboratories like this all over the world scientists are trying to answer the same questions how can covert 1000 be stopped is there a cure when will this Global Crisis be over at the Pasteur Institute into iran iranian experts are working with chinese colleagues to try and improve testing for the virus something that has been a challenge since the early days of the outbreak so im coming here. Just to have a 10 to. Condense on training on how to use the test because you would seem all right out here but it has to if you please stop im sorry our interview with the visiting expert was cut short by security i mean i mean you know the government here has been criticized for responding too slowly to the pandemic and it seems officials and remain sensitive about anything related to its coronavirus response. Set up in 1920 the campus into herat is named for french scientist Louis Pasteur a 19th century pioneer of modern medicine this institute runs dozens of labs and employs hundreds of staff across the country the government Hopes Research and development here will enable iran to export diagnostic kits and medical equipment this facility is nearly 100 years old and one of the largest of its kind in the middle east for years scientists in these kinds of labs have been fighting all manner of diseases Infectious Diseases and now their priority the inescapable priority for these men and women is to try to find a way to fight over the 19 why is the virus more severe in some patients does it mutate and can survivors develop immunity. Answers to these questions and the discovery of a vaccine in a place named after a pioneer in the field would be an Outstanding Achievement and the head of the institute made it clear that is the ambition. Were worki