Kong warning countries to stay out of its affairs. Also ahead muslims mark the end of ramadan subdued eed celebrations under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. Announced on hamas with sports n. B. A. Basketball moves a step closer to restarting the concerned citizen talks with disney about possibly finishing the season at one venue in orlando florida. Ok lets get going now breaking news out of occupied East Jerusalem where the long awaited trial of the israeli Prime Minister is now officially underway Benjamin Netanyahu is facing 3 cases of corruption but he denies all charges of bribery fraud and a breach of trust harry force it starts our coverage for us. I need to be with them you know a week ago Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in for a record 5th term as israels Prime Minister after a political battle which lasted 17 months and through 3 inconclusive elections but his legal battle is only intensifying sunday is day one of his trial in 3 separate Corruption Cases in the 1st hes accused of asking for and accepting lavish gifts from rich acquaintances the charges fraud and breach of trust the same charges apply in the 2nd case it which hes alleged to have conspired with a newspaper owner to hamper the operations of a rival demanding Favorable Press Coverage in return a 3rd case is the most serious carrying the Additional Charge of bribery hes accused of trading regulator e concessions worth hundreds of millions of dollars to israels most powerful telecoms boss in return for extraordinary influence over the News Coverage on his website now senior who denies all the charges as long as he is Prime Minister you know what if theres a 2nd wave of corona where he really is the courts as he did in march which that we opening in the trial but you months if there is conflict in gaza theres conflict with iran or thats look its trial under the terms of the new Government Coalition deal netanyahu the Prime Minister for 18 months before swapping with his paramour rival now alternate Prime MinisterBenny Gantz Netanyahu as Prime Ministerial status could allow him to argue for trial delays in the National Interest and gives him influence over senior legal appointments israelis have seen scandals in gulf senior politicians before but never before a sitting Prime Minister in office in charge of faithful National Decisions while a same time sitting in the dock in court at offend and in a criminal case that could end up in his imprisonment. Resigned as Prime Minister in 2008 when he was investigated for bribery while mayor of jerusalem he was convicted in 2014 serving 16 months in jail under israeli law netanyahu would not have to step down unless hed been convicted and exhausted all possible appeals his legal fight is set to loom large throughout what he says will be his final term in office ok akiva eldar in west jerusalem hes a political analyst journalist and a contributor to. Welcome back to the news hour. What went through your mind when youre seeing the pictures of your Prime Minister going to court. Thank you have to punch most of to believe that im watching it. You know i covered so many Prime Minister since and im begging and shamir and ciaran and Something Like this never happened what really bothers me is the fact that. Netanyahu has managed to the state of israel and the israeli public on the defendants bench its not the trial of a Prime Minister i think this is the ultimate test of the pillars of the israeli democracy you know we had peter in the middle east you had the military could as we had the Prime Minister says and aided in so called the only democracy in the middle east what nittany are now is telling the israeli public and the world since i believe that every network is covering this trial is that the Israeli Police and these ready Law Enforcement are corrupt nobody is asking him how come the after more than 10 years that you are in charge how did you allow this to happen so its either what we see now is a Prime Minister sitting Prime Minister the longest as was mentioned before in our history is corrupt or something is corrupt in the system in the israeli democracy the israeli constituency voted for it anyhow again and again and even after we could read the indictment we knew that let alone the criminal. Actions that hes facing now he has to answer but the threshold of his moral conduct as a permanent. Still there is no doubt that he was taking money from millionaires there was no doubt we pay for his Swimming Pool and i think its a sad day no matter what happens if even if hes acquitted i think the derek has been done to this undermine israels Democratic Institutions and also i guess given what mr netanyahu has been saying just in the last hour outside and inside the courtroom undermined the israeli judiciary as well yeah absolutely. You could see im sure that you can show the scrutiny. A group of ministers senior ministers the minister who is the head of actually the minister of interior difference who is in charge of the Police Standing behind him when he makes his statement to it which was actually an incitement against his ministry what is the master of the young israelis what is the message that juice in across the the world that we want 2 countries or to the only democracy in the release what is the message so youre right he is undermining he is digging under the pillars of the very existence of israel as a democratic and jewish state. If what he says is legally and it proved to be factually correct that this is a witch hunt we now have a situation where a serving israeli Prime Minister has named members of the judiciary in other words at some point in the future if he is shown to be innocent there then has to be a case lodged against those individual people because if hes innocent it means that theyre corrupt and it means that there is surely by implication a level a degree of corruption which no country in the middle east has seen for a generation of sir. Well if you accept that there is a conspiracy where you have the police the attorney general that netanyahu has appointed and previously he was the secretary of an attorney house cabinet that there was a conspiracy of the media are the Law Enforcement. Institutions and now the court ok this is you know ridiculous but dont hold your breath peter it will take he is we have more than 300 witnesses that were subpoenaed just. Before we start with the difference. They are asked to day the his lawyers for 6 more months to study the material so and then of course if. He will not be acquitted if he doesnt get completely clean he will of course he will go he will take it to the Supreme Court to the high court he will appeal the death that will take another 2 or 3 years now is 70 years old there is. An assumption maybe its a speculation that in less than 18 months the president of israel will have to hand over. The. Presidency to someone else and that once the out will realize that this is the end of the his career and hes going to jail he may run for president and in this case the only person in israel that. Is immune would is the president of israel so this coincides with their attention with bennigans and whats interesting maybe. Is good very was the chris 2. Guns capital of course has barely been there in place for a week there in west jerusalem thank you so much terry for so is our correspondent joining us live here on the news from occupied East Jerusalem so harry lets just rewind by about what 181000 minutes or so predictably slightly predictably robust comments from mr netanyahu as he went into the building that. Well yes i mean in some ways predictable in some ways really extraordinary the fact that israel has never seen a day like this in its history and then for the man at the center of it all to stand on the steps of the court room and just lambast entire legal Law EnforcementPolice Establishment in the terms that he did he said that this was a delusional trial that it was cooked up that it was essentially an infection can confection of rumors and an invention against him and that he would hold his head high and walk into the court in that fashion and fight it off that is very much the message that his supporters out here have been amplifying and wanted to hear as far as whats been happening inside the court is concerned weve heard from listening i use legal team they are arguing for a spring 2021 starts at the trial itself. The there are other defendants in this case as well the. The single largest shareholder in the biggest Telecoms Company in the country and his wife their legal team also talking about the amount of evidence its required to go through their arguments about whether its possible to search terms within them and in the format theyve been given and so there is an obvious push to try to get this pushed back as long as possible the prosecution on the other hand the chief prosecutor is saying that the people of israel dont know. I just showed you the way they want to see this resolved as soon as possible and you talk just now about benny gantz he put through a pretty neutral statement talking about that you know being guilty and innocent till Proven Guilty rather than calling for reconciliation but the kind of device that just polarization were seeing on the streets today doesnt really look towards any imminent sign of reconciliation this country mary thanks very much. Lot more still to come for you here on this news hour including it might be one of the poorest places in the u. K. But this small town is taking the pandemic in its stride. Also had a crisis caused by the virus the World Food Program says more than 130000000 people could be pushed to the brink of starvation. And the sports news find out why one Baseball Team in florida is putting its entire stadium on to be in big. Thousands of protesters in hong kong have been rallying against a National Security bill as proposed by the Central Government in beijing the Police Responded with tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse the crowds demonstrators were blocking streets in the popular shopping district causeway bay the proposal would ban all activity is considered subversive and activists say it would be the end of hong kongs or ptolemy chinas foreign minister meanwhile reiterating that anything to do with hong kong is an internal matter one year old so warned other countries against meddling in its affairs during a Media Briefing in beijing little cunt sharif since the turbulence over proposed legislative amendments last june we have seen increasingly rampant activities by hong kong independence organizations and radical local ists in hong kong escalating violence and terrorist activities slowness excessive unlawful foreign meddling in hong kong affairs. All those displaced National Security in serious jeopardy and post a grave threat to hong kongs prosperity and stability and the practice of one country 2 systems. Well al jazeera is correspondent adrian brown has been among the protesters in downtown hong kong this is an unauthorized protest the police would warn people not to take part in it and of course it also contravenes shows social distancing rules which are still in force here in hong kong which banned gatherings of more than 8 people on the streets will clearly that has been ignored on sunday initially the people were coming out to protest against something very different a National Anthem law but when beijing announced it was going to impose this wide ranging security law in hong kong that brought out hundreds and thousands of people on to the streets in numbers we havent seen since january which of course is when covert 19 1st appeared in hong kong now the protesters have been carrying banners calling for an independent hong kong theyve been carrying posters saying that heaven will destroy Chinas Communist Party this is an example of what chinas government wants to snuff out and of course once this bill does become law then the sort of sentiments that weve seen expressed here today could well lead to arrest and imprisonment in the future but i think its quite clear that the protesters that ive been speaking to today are not going to be deterred by the threat of this new law and i think with all the sensitive anniversaries it we have coming up in the next few weeks including the june the 4th i think were going to see more and more protests and i think we got a taste here in hong kong today of what is to come. Chinas foreign minister one need has also accused politicians in the u. S. Of spreading lies about its response to the coronavirus pandemic katrina you has that angle of the story from beijing. China wants cooperation with other countries and world bodies but will stand up to any challenge to its sovereignty or its message that was a key theme from foreign minister one year at his press conference in beijing he appeared to show a very little patience for any International Criticism leveled at china in fact he appeared quite torn death to it in particular he focused on chinas relationship with the u. S. He said it was important for the 2 countries to Work Together as the worlds biggest developing country and the biggest developed country and to show Global Leadership and respect each others systems whether he acknowledged the deterioration of the via lateral relationship he said that it had been brought to the brink of cold war and through this he laid the blame squarely at the feet of u. S. Politicians he didnt name any names but he said that u. S. Politicians have been engaging in an anti China Smear Campaign around covert 19 and had been guilty of spreading what he called a political virus. Political virus used to be used about unity to attack and they discredit china some a politicians have to ignored the most basic realities of the fabricated too many laws but his strongest words for the us were around taiwan he called this issue a red line and said the International Community needed to respect the one ton of principle and using quite strong words he said that the u. S. Was dreaming if it bought it anyway it could prevent reunification future we advice the u. S. To throw away on realistic fundus ease and the let go of domestic political calculation which we are telling the us not to challenge chinas bottom line and finally he defended china from any accusations that it had mishandled the corona Virus Outbreak he repeated words that weve heard time and time again from beijing saying that beijing has acted responsibly and with transparency and he also said that the World Health Organization needed to be supported and strengthened and not the opposite. To europe now calls are growing for the u. K. Prime ministers chief advisor to resign over claims he broke lock down rules the government has been defending Dominic Cummings after he drove more than 400 kilometers from london to his parents home when he was supposed to be in self isolation a number of m. P. s have now demanded he resign albie sachs including a member of his own party. I think its a question of when he has to go now not if i think his position is untenable its because of dominics slogans around the these rules that mums and dads grannies and grandpas across the country will have felt that they had to stay at home if covert got into their families and of course they too care about their children but they knew they had they must stay at home 7 days the 1st person 14 days for the others and now it turns out they could have been driving around the country with symptoms perhaps perhaps for hours to get to a position of more convenient childcare this requires an extremely rude interpretation of latitude in the rules that makes it untenable for dominic to stay in. Correspondent needs. Dominic cummings hes not an elected m. P. But he is right at the heart of the British Government and the pushback against qubit 19 so just take us through the latest allegations against him. And youre right in saying that dont it cummings is a key figure within British Government he isnt an elected official as you rightly say but he occupies a very very close position at the heart of government as the Prime Ministers chief advisor so these allegations that he may have broken the Strict Lockdown rules that existed in march over also a possible dent to the entire government credibility as well the latest allegation to build upon d the 1st of the g