And muslims mark the end of ramadan subdued need celebrations under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. The long awaited trial of the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has officially begun even though he asked to be excused he was required to attend the opening proceedings on sunday to hear the charges against him they include bribery fraud and breach of trust harry force it is our correspondent live for us at the courthouse in East Jerusalem so harry just just walk us through how much evidence is there that the prosecution will try to bring to court against mr netanyahu. Well that there is there are thousands and tens of thousands of documents of evidence and that really dominated quite a lot of the back and forth within the court room but all of that happened after what was already going to be an extraordinary moment in israeli politics. That was turned even more extraordinary by Benjamin Netanyahu his decision to come and lambast the entire concept and process of the investigation and the trial and the personalities involved in bringing him to this situation at least in his telling of the story he criticized by name a senior judicial and Police Officials he said. That it was a delusional case that was being brought against him it was stitched up between the attorneys the investigators and the left wing media because he sees this as a conspiracy of various arms of israels older establishment ranged against him and his right wing populism and that was the message that he wanted to bring before he even went into the courtroom and i think it shows that were set for a pretty down and dirty battle between Benjamin Netanyahu and the the whole legal establishment of the country is this trial progresses in terms of what happened inside the trial there were a few headlines one was that his defense team was arguing that they needed a lot more time to examine the piles of evidence that they said were in front of them that there were some formats which could be searched properly with the word searches it was down to that kind of nitty gritty detail there are 2 other defense benenson this is well the chief shareholder in israels biggest Telecoms Company and his wife their legal team is arguing something similar neither defense team put forward any date for the 1st witness to be called and so its looking like the strategy is try to push this through till spring next. Here at the earliest and in terms of the that the appearance of Benjamin Netanyahu at his trial it was confirmed both defense and prosecution agreed that he didnt need to be at every single hearing Going Forward perry lets pause our conversation for a 2nd because mr netanyahu was talking just at the courthouse in the past couple of hours lets play that tape for you is a very slow and marshall middle name citizens of israel whats on trial today is the wish to eliminate the will of the people the attempt to topple me in the right wing camp for over a decade the lift didnt succeed in doing so in the polls so in recent years they came up with a new pet and so says that the police in Attorneys Office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing Prime Minister and thats to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years harry youve explained to us and hinted to us this will in effect be a very long process anyway but if he is innocent at the end of all of this given his accusations that hes been reheating today does that mean that other cases now have to be laid at the door of various members of the judiciary various members you know newspaper editors newspaper reporters because he seems to be saying there is a massive cold war donated web of corruption people who want him gone. Yes i mean theres been no indication so far that there will be some kind of counter investigation of the investigators that would lead necessarily to an attempt to prosecute anyone at the end of all this if indeed he is declared innocent but yes there are questions and concerns that have been made by a number of commentators and legal scholars about the possibility of retribution about trying to there already been attempts floated to try to rein in the powers of Israel Supreme Court at least and that is something that has been shelved for now but netanyahu and his allies in in right wing israeli politics feel that there has been too much intervention in that this is historically more of a centrist left wing elitist institution that doesnt fully ascribe to their notion of israeli democracy so yes there is certainly a concern there are also more immediate concerns the fact that he has negotiated Coalition Deal which allows him a good deal of influence potentially over legal appointments and there are those in the opposition who say that this is a criminal who could in the long run choose his own his own judges if this were to go to another round and appeal he doesnt have to step down until all of his peels are exhausted and he is finally convicted under israeli law so there are a number of questions as to exactly what netanyahu can do to follow through on some of the extraordinary accusations that he was making on the steps of this courthouse kyra thanks very much for staying with her story akiva eldar is a political analyst journalist and a contributor to c says the trial is being seen as a test of israels democracy. And to punch myself to believe that im watching it. You know i covered so many Prime Minister since Menachem Begin and shamir and sharon and Something Like this never happened what really bothers me is the fact that netanyahu has managed to put the state of israel and the israeli public on the defendants bench its not the trial of a Prime Minister i think that 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 coup the ties we had the Prime Minister says in ated in so called the only democracy in the middle east what netanyahu is telling the israeli public and the world since i believe that every network is covering this trial is that the Israeli Police and hes ready Law Enforcement are corrupt nobody is asking him how come that after more than 10 years that you are in charge how did you allow this to happen so its either when 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. Thousands of protesters in hong kong have been rallying against a National Security bill as proposed by jing it would ban all activities considered subversive and activists say it would be the end of hong kongs autonomy a dream brown reports. The panic of protest running from police dispersing crowds gathered in defiance of social distancing rules. A familiar arsenal was deployed to clear the streets of demonstrators angry about the chinese governments plans to impose a security law on the city why the whole culture through a series of greedy critical. Because the child is called his part of the week to support the people offering to press forward all the people in thailand all paid the communist party is far more dangerous than covert 19 you know and it could soon be dangerous the way flags like this calling for an independent hong kong oban is predicting the destruction of the communist party under the proposed law such sentiments could be defined as subversion. Familia slogans rang through the calls way bay shopping district there was not a place for families on this sunday afternoon there were many arrests as protest has occupied some of the citys busiest roads hong kong finds itself caught in the middle of a deepening cold war between china and the United States and it could be more economic pain on the way because washington is now warning that its going to review the special trading relationship that hong kong currently enjoys with the u. S. Another sign of what chinas top diplomat says is foreign meddling in hong kongs affairs whitewashing external forces are illegally interfering in hong kong the fears which is cause serious harm to chinas National Security interests. It is still not clear if the new law will restrict protests like the chinas foreign minister insists it will only target a narrow category of x. The law is not expected to take effect until inquest but before then are a number of sensitive anniversaries including the 1st protest that marked the beginning of this movement adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. The Chinese Foreign minister also accused politicians in the u. S. Of spreading lies about its Coronavirus Response katrina you has more on that 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 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 latrobe relationship he said that it had been brought to the brink of cold war and for 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 and anti chinas 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 ignored the most basic realities of the fabricated too many lies 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. Still ahead on aljazeera a crisis caused by coronavirus the World Food Program says more than 130000000 people could be pushed to the brink of starvation. Indigenous communities at risk the virus is spreading fast and far in brazils amazon region. However we got the rains popping up once again across southern parts of china are we going to see dry weather for the time being a little further north well see some showers long spells of rain is this cloud makes its way through and as it sinks a little further south which in a swiss that wet weather really will set in with a vengeance as we go on through the next couple of days some flooding looks likely for many will say that whats the weather coming in across southern parts of china to the north of that nazi bad fun and dry there in shanghai on monday make the most of it because as we go on and see what shes day that wetter weather will fade in here and you can see how the intense downpours the flooding rains they continue across a good parts of the area further north of the some showers around the Korean Peninsula lossy dry for japan but the chance of some showers coming in here over the next day or so 25 celsius the top temperature in tokyo plenty of showers into indochina conservation cambodia thailand seeing some heavy showers from time to time not see bad in borneo as we go through monday but the seasonal shallowest at that nevertheless and they will be a little more live as you go through choose de la the showers continue into the southwest of india showers there into sri lanka further north into the northeast of india up towards bhutan where we will see further flooding rains. Isolating times the listening. Post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of this story now from the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look its reality we have to reject the law exposing the ticks triathlon if the rhetoric and claims but they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight guide to the media on aljazeera. Lets get you right up to date with all the top stories from aljazeera the corruption trial of the israeli Prime Minister has begun Benjamin Netanyahu denies charges of bribery for the breach of trust he says this is an attempt actually to topple him in any way possible. Thousands of protesters in hong kong have been rallying against a National Security bill as proposed by beijing the Police Responded by using tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse the large crowds. And the Chinese Foreign minister windy has accused politicians in the u. S. Of spreading lies about its Coronavirus ResponsePresident Trump maintains the virus came from a local rotary. Calls are growing for the u. K. Prime ministers chief advisor to resign over claims he broke lock down rules the government has defended 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 or should be sacked 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 for 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 broad interpretation of latitude in the rules that makes it untenable for dominic to stay in our correspondent need barkha more now from london on the rising pressure cummings and the conservative government are now facing. 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 allegations of build upon the 1st of the geisha that he had traveled hundreds of kilometers to the northeast england when he and his wife were suffering from coronavirus symptoms in the search for help really when it came to looking after his 4 year old son he said he stayed in a good jason property on his parents a state and now 2 more allegations that he may have left that locked down in that house on his parents the state to travel to a beauty spot several kilometers away where one eye witnesses reported that he was seen walking woodland with his wife also another claim from an eyewitness that he was seen back in the north east of england in april after having been seen here in the capital london so many cummingss mishal claims that he was up in the northeast of england illegally and was there reasonably looking for support for his child seem now to be under the spotlight we wait to hear exactly what the government may say now what officials from the cabinet have been saying is that he will not resign and they stand by Dominic Cummings in all of these allegations. Millions of muslims around the world are celebrating adolf that are marking the end of a month of fasting is one of the most important festivals in the islamic calendar but this time the coronavirus and then it was brought about unprecedented restrictions in some countries where prayers and mosques and public celebrations are barred as priyanka gupta. Goes further its one of the most important most investable. But this year its been celebrated under the shadow of a global pandemic. Only and an asia there were no hugs no bearing gifts and no visiting families. The Worlds LargestMuslim Country has one of southeast asias highest number of called the night infections and deaths worshippers were barred from offering prayers inside mosques and open fields. I am also not going to live but resigned myself i performed i had prayers in the midst of the plague of covert 19 only resigned to allah hopefully our luck will lift up this does a yes. In saudi arabia the grand mosque in the holy city of mecca was lost the empty. Worshippers followed strict social distancing measures while marking the end of the fasting month of ramadan. Mosques across the kingdom are close footprints.