Released from prison to home confinement due to coronavirus concerns. Parts of a Chinese Rocket crashed to the earth and the most significant uncontrolled descent of space time in decades. The European Unions urging leaders to reopen borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic tourism makes up 10 percent of the blocks economy and the e. U. Says the industry is now at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken that tasha buffet reports from paris. A glimpse of war going on a holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barrier separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience the most holiday makers a used to but one that complies with new social distancing rules we hope these barriers wont be the future for beaches we dont want this but if this is necessary and if People Safety depends on this sort of device then so be it we just want to work we want to get going in march borders in the European Union was shot and nearly all travel stopped because the coronavirus pandemic a huge blow to the Tourism Industry one of the blocks main economic sectors as some countries begin to ease their lock downs the European Commission has presented a rescue plan for the Tourism Industry its recommending vouchers instead of refunds for Council Travel sanitary measures for hospitality and transport services and the reopening of some borders of course this is not going to be a normal summer not for any of us. But when we all Work Together and we all do our part in the ways the commission is setting out today then we dont have to face a summer shock at home or a completely lost summer for the european tourists industry some countries say that they are already considering lifting some travel restrictions germany says that it wants to reopen its border with fraud switzerland and austria and britain and france say that they wont impose quarantine for now on people traveling between their 2 countries paris is one of the worlds most visited cities the lockdowns been eased but monuments Museums Hotels and restaurants remain closed the french government has advised people to holiday in france this year after 2 months at home some people cant wait to travel not worried about health risk and are really worried here to be able to travel abroad and outside france will be a valid i have a holiday home in spain and want to go but for now there are restrictions but i want to go we cant stop living more than 6000000 tourism jobs in need you could be lost unless the industry is revived the European Commission says the challenge is to encourage the sectors recovery but prevent a resurgence of coronavirus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talked about how just 0 paris a coronavirus lockdowns been imposed on a city in northeast china the 2nd this week new cases are raising fears of a possible new wave of infections katrina you reports from beijing. While the rest of china returns to Something Like normality a lockdown has been imposed on the city of g. Lane for 25000000 people have been told to stay home and public transport is at a standstill neighboring should line city was locked down on monday more than 20 infections have been identified in dillon province since the beginning of the month but experts say it isnt a 2nd wave of disease. Whenever new cases emerge the Monitoring System will detect and track the cases will curb the spread of the virus in no time in china is at the center of the outbreak the discovery of 6 new transmissions has spurred plans to test the entire city of 11000000 people district authorities have been told they have 10 days to complete testing the details are still being discussed testing in some areas began this week. Analysts say the plan could cost up to 254000000. 00 and requires the rapid expansion of Testing FacilitiesTesting Capacity reached 46000. 00 people today last month the people who live there say theyre not surprised a new class has been discovered so we know that a 2nd wave is coming any way theres no way we can you know prevent. The new infections. And thats on that 00 you see what. Series and we. Knew the Chinese Government has reported about 83000 cases nationally with more than 2600 deaths since the virus broke out in december with just a week to go until Chinas National Peoples Congress the biggest political gathering of the year the government here is on high alert the communist party wants to project an image of strength and victory over the virus and these 2 new classes threaten to compromise i just want to train you al jazeera thank you. And taliban says the Afghan Government has made a declaration of war by resuming military operations against the armed group that follows separate attacks on a funeral on maternity clinic on tuesday which killed at least 56 people the taliban denies being involved Alexei Obrien reports that was. In the Eastern Province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggled to contain a grief. And anger. 7 then i think you are to a problem although one of. My brother is maya was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast i saw several dead bodies on the ground and i was trying to call my brother but his phone was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. This attack on mourners. And another as a. Maternity hospital in the capital kabul later afghanistans president going on the offensive all but. Despite our repeated and from the International Community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for Public Places and the 4th attacks and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups are ordering Afghan Security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies of the taliban denies involvement in tuesdays attacks its fighters have largely refrained from targeting city since february when leaders signed a deal with the United States for the withdrawal of american troops and to pave the way for talks with government leaders in kabul the taliban now accusing the government of creating obstacles to peace today programme marks a milestone towards this integration of this agreement and less trusting of measures are taken immediately by all sides and by the taliban. Under the agreement the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks by other groups such as i saw and its affiliates state suffered some. States they need haitians and the americans and knowledge. Of the attacks against. Pressure on Islamic State in chorus and province i still says its fighters were behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people oh it was the un has expressed a shock and revulsion at tuesdays Maternity Hospital attack which killed you born babies mothers and nurses. U. S. Secretary of state is urging the Afghan Government and the taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice alexia brian al jazeera. Sudan is rejecting if you open plans to start filling the reservoir of the largest hard to electric in africa the sudanese are calling on both ethiopia and egypt to resume stalled talks to settle their dispute is gypped and sudan fear the newly completed on the river nile will reduce their supply of water are essential for agriculture over morgan has more from the sudanese capital khartoum. What sudan has rejected is not signing a complete agreement because that was not what was proposed by ethiopia if you appear proposed signing a partial agreement that would pave the way for rates to start filling the dam and said that they could negotiate the rest of the feeling as they go on that something sudan says is not going to be possible because to start filling the dam there should be a Cooperation Agreement between the 3 countries as well as other legal agreements several rounds of talks between the 3 parties have been held here in harlem last year all of them resulted in deadlocks which was why the talks were moved to the United States in late december early january now the 3 sides met along with the u. S. Counterparts there in the us in washington and they have agreed on a schedule to fill the dam but they were not were able to work out many details such as how to operate during drought season and they said that they were not able to identify or determine how to identify what the drought season would be to each and every country and sudan is concerned that the dam if its built and if the thoughts being filled it will have an impact on the amount of water it receives via the blue nile egypt is also concerned that the amount of fresh water sources would reduce greatly especially with Climate Change and with more than 90 percent of its population relying on the nile but if youre saying that the dam would help elevate the the social status of many of its citizens so it will continue to work on the dam and will start filling it by july so right now what the Prime Minister of sudan of the lambda is proposing is a virtual negotiations between the 3 sides because of the pandemic. Virus pandemic and thats something the 3 sides are yet to respond to so were going to have to wait and see if egypt if europea and if your people will agree to the proposal of the sudanese Prime Minister and if talks will get back on track before if you pay starts filling the dam by july. The u. S. Claims hackers backed by the Chinese Government are trying to steal the work of corona virus researchers both the f. B. I. And the department of Homeland Security have Want Health Care and pharmaceutical workers to be on alert for potential Cyber Attacks the u. S. Has repeatedly said it has quote enormous evidence that covert 19 originated in a lab in china china dismisses the allegations as groundless. The u. S. President s former Campaign Manager pomona fords been released from prison to home confinement and serve the remainder of his sentence there because of concerns over coronavirus the 71 year old was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison on tax fraud charges and following special counsel Robert Miller as investigation into election interference White House CorrespondentKimberly Hawk and has more from washington paul mann afford much like Many Americans who are being released from prison right now due to coronavirus this is something that prison advocates have been trying very hard to get through and congress listened in terms of some of those quite a virus packages that have been passed what this means and what this provides for is that those in prison who are of advanced age have preexisting Health Conditions or even concerns that in captivity they could not follow the social distancing guidelines of being approximately 2 metres apart that they can be released to finish the remainder of their sentence at home confinement so under this legislation it was requested by a whole man a for the former Campaign Chair of Donald Trumps campaign that he spend the rest of his sentence at home confinement there is a lot of leeway for the bureau of prisons to grant this and we understand that that was the case so he is serving his 7 year sentence only it served about 30 percent of it now he gets to serve the rest of it at home. Still ahead on aljazeera coronaviruses on every continent but well have more on the other deadly virus sweeping through in america. A lot done in the u. S. How light is chefs to what up some new Creative Ideas to keep the restaurants of global. Head of the most secure a fine across much of the middle east and the Arabian Peninsula the winds have been pretty strong they will still stay gusty for a day yes and they can see further to the north and east we have got quite a base class but that certainly hasnt been the case across the cemented about the training of these lovely clear skies across into Beirut Lebanon and so very nice to get out there and enjoy a spot of sunshine and warm sunshine will continue on thursday 25 degrees in berries a warm day in damascus and then across into iraq this is where once again we could house a fairly strong wind blowing up the dust and also the clouds back in the forecast really across the central Western Areas a saudi in effect that could of course just produce one of 2 showers maybe even a scott a thunderstorm but by friday temperatures still in the high saw the not too bad in doha with the high the a 31 degree celsius still a few showers to carry away from Northern Areas of afghanistan 20 is your high in kabul a fairly quiet picture all across much of the Central Africa you can see here we have got the usual ray of showers but nothing particularly heavy and again a bit of a break from those heavy rains as persistent rain through coastal areas the towns there and up into kenya by friday the rain and little bit heavier particularly throughout the towns there on the show as a back into the south south africa. I easily test. And trace frank assessments why is it its only struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind the herd informed opinions its going to be much more challenging in a place like even theres one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the days global headlines as india dumb enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on aljazeera. Move forward. Youre watching out is it a reminder of our top stories this hour the European Commission is pushing some Member States to lower border restrictions in an effort to restart tourism under its proposal regions that have contained the virus would open up while others would keep restrictions in place. A coronavirus lockdown has been imposed on a city in the northeast china the 2nd this week new cases in g. Leno raising fears of a possible new wave of infections. President Donald Trumps former Campaign Manager paul manifold has been released from prison to home confinement the 71 year old is serving a 7 year sentence on tax for charges that followed special counsel Robert Millers investigation into election into feelings. U. S. Secretary of state michael peo has been visiting israel for talks with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu a unity government formed by netanyahu and Coalition Partner benny gantz is to be sworn in on thursday i mean fawcett has more from west to lose them. My compost 1st foreign trip since the start of the pandemic and the exceptions that required to be made to israels strict quarantine regulations raise a pretty obvious question why now and why the urgency well he and Benjamin Netanyahu the israeli Prime Minister in comments before a 3 hour session of talks they alluded to a number of topics for discussion iran the coronavirus pandemic itself but theres a lot of attention of course on one of the most controversial policy platforms of Benjamin Netanyahu as he prepares to join his former rival benny gantz in a unity government going to be sworn in on thursday that policy being annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank the key question is exactly what will the u. S. Position on that be because in the Coalition Agreement it is clear that it is required to have u. S. Backing before that can go ahead and there have been mixed messages coming from the u. S. Administration on that front so far both men talked about it neither gave very much away now were about to form a National Unity government tomorrow. I think that this is an opportunity to promote peace and security based on the understandings that will reach with the President Trump in my last visit in washington in january will get a chance to talk about the vision for peace without some months on from the day that you came to washington when President Trump announced that vision for peace when you were there there remains work yet to do and we need to make progress on that im looking forward to it after those talks with netanyahu then met israels soon to be alternate Prime Minister benny gantz who has an entirely different position on annexation from that of netanyahu he wants to see a dela