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U. K. Prime minister Abbas Johnson refuses to fire a top adviser is accused of breaching lockdown rooms and. Police in hong kong 5 palates and tear gas at protesters who gathered in their thousands to denounce beijings proposed security but. We begin this news hour in libya where russian mercenaries have been fighting in support of war highly for half the hour and leaving the country the mayor of the town of bani walid has confirmed that theyre evacuating through the airport there after withdrawing from the capital tripoli follows a series of setbacks for half dollars forces have been fighting to take territory from libyas internationally recognized government lets go live now to mumbled saabs our heads who is in tripoli for us and we just how significant is this development. Well it seems to be very significant because remember that the measure that vance meant after his forces achieved over the past year is mainly attributed to that all of the russian mercenaries from the bagnall group that have been recruited by have to his forces and as you know that last month when the reports reveal that about 1200 the russian mercenaries from the group have been fighting along with his forces in southern tripoli so the mayor of benny will lead the city thats south of the city of daraa who stated that 3 flights took off from the airport of bernie will lead carrying get russian medicine to these who have been fighting along with that as force we do not know for certain why they are leaving the country at this crucial time because as you know couldnt lee have those forces out of news in the momentum on the ground came because they have been losing strategic locations including military camps in southern tripoli and also did. Need the near the tunisian border and the Government Forces have been advancing on have to force recently there was that all of the russian bursaries could have major consequences on half their forces on the ground well now does this put russia in a somewhat awkward position i mean we we did hear that u. N. Report some time ago that said there were russian mercenaries on the ground there but this is really irrefutable proof. Well the government recently has posted pictures of what it said as. Did the russian mercenary from the bag no group that the Government Forces that he covered his body near ains our neighborhood and they all saw the Government Forces posted what they call his belongings including his weapons in his wallet he had fought in currencies on him. And also from what he looks he looks like western. National government says that he is the dead body. Of one of the russian mercenaries from the wagner group who have been fighting along with that have to the forces meanwhile over the past months of the government have been the Government Forces have been posting videos and footage of russian mercenaries Walking Around and inside military camp the Government Forces say that the. Military individuals have been specialized in sniper weapons and also infantry weapons and they have been leading the fight in military the military camp of which it was controlled by have to the forces over the past 10 months thank you that mahmoud our headline for us in tripoli. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused police and prosecutors of conspiring against him he made the defiant remarks before his corruption trial began in occupied East Jerusalem from there herefore said reports. This was always going to be an extraordinary moment in israeli politics Benjamin Netanyahu decided to make it more so a clearing his intention to fight not just within the courtroom but outside in public against the whole concept of this prosecution but citizens of israel whats on trial today is the wish to eliminate the will of the people the attempt to topple me and the right wing camp over a decade the lift didnt succeed in doing so in the polls so in recent years they came up with a new patent so says that the police in Attorneys Office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not b. B. Bunch they tell of baseless cases and imagine a 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. In the courtroom itself what could become a defining image of israels longest serving Prime Minister in the dock facing criminal trial just a week after he was sworn in for a 5th term after the cameras were rejected his legal team asked for delays in calling witnesses well they argued about access to evidence the strategy to push the start of the main phase of the trial well into next year outside supporters sang and chanted and amplified the Prime Ministers message of persecution already in its 1st day of this trial is a window into just how polarized israeli politics is and Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies making no bones about appealing to supporters like these on the basis that the trial is not a criminal one rather a political coup designed to ousted from office but there are warnings that such a strategy risks further division this was the main anti netanyahu demonstration outside his residence. Netanyahu is accused of asking for and taking lavish gifts from wealthy friends of offering to him to one newspaper to get better coverage in another of exchanging hundreds of millions of dollars worth of regulator help to a telecoms chief again the better coverage on these new sites. Before court a glimpse of the power low was to come for a Prime Minister on trial theres no leaving his 1st Cabinet Meeting of the new coalition talking about iran the economy and governing for all his form a fierce opponent and now alternate Prime Minister in a rotating Coalition Deal spend against released a statement saying that the oath was innocent until Proven Guilty calling for reconciliation of Benjamin Netanyahu says this will be his last term in office he will spend a good deal of it fighting not just for his innocence in court but against the very institutions that accuse him of breaking the law are equals that aljazeera occupied East Jerusalem joining me now is nice enough 3 a lecture and no City University london thank you for your time just talking to us of a kind about these charges how serious are they want those sort of penalties do they do they carry and well sort of tactics are we likely to see from both sides here. These are very charge serious charges that relate most to corruption as we saw in court these are usually treated seriously especially for somebody who is as senior as the Prime Minister and were talking about 2 years of. Jail sentence here some of the tactic is that which has started early on but weve seen today. This idea has gone to try to. Make it a political spectacle so rather than focus on the legal arguments or the evidence has. His ham and his party are going to push in the direction of saying that it is whole it is all a political conspiracy against him and against and success and against the right wing politics in israel as a favor for saying netanyahu after 18 months has to hand over power to then again if his trial is still ongoing after he hands over power does that change anything legally. Legally no because he will cause hes still will be the defendant in his and this trial. Witnesses will give evidence it etc all of all hold everything where the trial will go ahead the only defense is probably go going to say that he has now he will after. Giving up his position as Prime Minister he will have more time to be in the court and also. Deal with his defense and so things might go a little bit faster that some analysts have expressed concern that everything that netanyahu does while his trial is ongoing will be looked at from the view of the fact that his trial is ongoing the anything he does might be seen to be trying to perhaps detract attention what do you think. Of course and its not only just when this trial is ongoing even before that were talking about you know last few years most of the points many of the decisions that were made there was always a cloud of doubt about the motivations behind them especially when it comes to appointment of. Judges or point of. For. For enforcement of or appointment of. Law enforcement personnel so this is going to continue and this also d raises the bigger question of couldnt a sitting Prime Minister do his or her job properly where there are fiercely criminal charges which is of course an important question and words to the Supreme Court to preserve the last month or so decided that. Sitting Prime Minister doesnt have to resign even if there are facing criminal charges thank you for your time a muslim on their electorate no at City University london. Resisting fierce pressure even from within his own Party British Prime Minister Abbas Johnson is standing by Senior Adviser Dominic Cummings theyve been growing demands for cummings to question or to be sexed it emerged that he drove 400 kilometers to his parents house in late march when britain was under a Strict Lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus the day barber is live for us now in london so in a dream Abbas Johnson is unwavering in his support for cummings in the face of really some pretty tough questions. He really is and its something of a surprise how robust his defense was i mean over the last 24 hours there has been a real evolving situation where the press revealed details of mr cummings his journey their number 10 downing street put out a statement saying that for example the police had not spoken to mr cummings his family then the local police said yes they actually had done so there has been already a heightened sense of of annoyance if you like about the way that number 10 were handling the story and then a lot of people might have been asking themselves would Boris Johnson in fact express some kind of regret perhaps the confusion if nothing else given the growing sense of anger over what mr cummings seems to have done not so tall he said that he acted legally responsibly and with dignity as i said i looked very clear ive seen a lot of stuff in the last few days about this episode of self isolation by mr cummings that does not seem to correspond remotely with reality and. As the as far as i can see he stuck to the rules and he he wanted legally and responsibly and with the with the soul of the sole objective of avoiding such contact as would spread the virus. So dave has there been any reaction yes and also can you remind our viewers of why Dominic Cummings is so important. We show on mr cohen is hes important because he was brought in by Boris Johnson last summer when he became Prime Minister and oversaw really a purge of people in the cabinet that didnt see eye to eye over bricks it of course mr cummings led the leave campaign hes very controversial has actually been found in contempt of parliament before for refusing to answer questions but hes got the loyalty clearly of mr johnson some people say that thats why Boris Johnson was so robust and didnt give an inch people willy might have expected the message to acknowledge more the sacrifices that people have been making on the lockdown which is at the heart of would you have allowed anybody else to do this kind of journey for example the leader of the opposition kiss starmer has said the public will be forgiven for thinking there is one rule for Prime Ministers the Prime Ministers closest adviser and another for the british people he said that Boris Johnson failed the test here and he says that this could under mine confidence in Public Health messaging from the government thats been picked up by Tim Montgomery a well known conservative journalist former advisor to Boris Johnson who said that cummings must go partly because this will undermine the governments efforts now to ease the lock down including getting people to send their children back to school in early june something Boris Johnson tried to reiterate at the Daily Briefing but which is of course getting hidden by these growing controversy and then there are a number of conservative politicians who are angry about it saying that their constituencies constituents rather contacting them saying for example they couldnt see their dying parents because of the guidelines and yet mr cummings is allowed in their view to get away with it so its not going to go away thank you then but their cost about minutes from london. And more ahead on the news including not enough everyone families in senegal forced to make their case for food pandemic for instance starvation for millions worldwide. And under the shadow of coronavirus subdued celebrations for muslims marking one of their most important holidays. Spiralling numbers of covered 1000 cases in brazil are leading to more speculation that the u. S. Will announce a travel ban brazil now has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the u. S. Confirmed infections a nearly 350000 more than 22000. 00 people have done late for the true total could be even higher testing rights. I think that will have a 212 after. Today with respect to brazil and just like we did with the u. K. And europe and china and we hope that will be temporary but because of the situation in brazil were going to take every step necessary to protect the American People so that sounds like you are looking to cut off travel from brazil in the southern hemisphere. Do you. Say brazil and well take a look at the other countries in the country by country basis for sure. It is monitoring developments from the sounds or so it looks like a travel ban with brazil is on the cards in the u. S. Has there been any reaction. Well not so far and im coming from brazil the government there is waiting for a confirmation coming from the United States although its clear that this ban will most likely arrive in the coming hours similar to what the u. S. Has done previously with countries that had become the epicenter of the crisis 1st banning non u. S. Citizens traveling from china our people that had been in china in the previous 14 days and then in the same happened with people traveling from European Countries that had seen a big jump in the number of coronavirus cases its clear that washington has been falling over this decision for the past week as the number have been going up in brazil we 1st heard the possibility of it coming directly from President Donald Trump on tuesday said the government was indeed theyre considering it in that you dont want people arriving in the u. S. That could infect more americans and also then one people then to go back to brazil and bring more infections there giving the fact that its clear said that brazil was going through a lot of trouble so were going to have to see in the coming hours d if there will be a confirmation and if indeed there will be a response coming from the government here both or not in brazil. And we will of course monitor that but incredibly giant also not doesnt seem too fazed by the spread of coronavirus in his country because hes facing another sort of scandal. Absolutely youd expect them to be given the fact that now brazil is the 2nd worst affected country anywhere in the world after the United States instead they his presidency is being consumed by all these accusations some of them have to do with his mild response to depend they make hes been playing and down from the start fighting with openly fighting with mayors and governors who have imposed isolation measures against the will of the president and now hes being accused of interfering game 2 Police Investigations concerning his son from a former minister of justice of this cabinet that man being says show model who is also a can see there the Anti Corruption side in in the country of brazil as it was now going after ball so natural and also a lot of brazilians had that depressing view of the. President both sinatra and his cabinet members in a video of a recent Cabinet Meeting that was shown at 2 days ago in brazil where both the natl is attacking the police chief of nato also the federal police chief and also is ministers didnt really talk at all of the response to the coronavirus making practically no mention of aid so there are a number of ministers in saying that mayors and governors should be sent to jail for imposing isolation measures that this Court Justice also should be sent to jail because they gave the last word to those mayors and governors the minister of vironment also was the only one to really mention the coronavirus saying that the government had to tak