U. S. Break. Also this hour no longer fair just lovely a popular skin lightning cream is renamed after a backlash in the wake of the black lives matter protests. And in sports the house of the 2023 womens world cup will be announced later on thursday and joint Australia New Zealand bed goes up against colombia as they all drive to stage the competition for the 1st time. We begin with new developments in the global Aviation Industrys efforts to survive during the coronavirus pandemic more than 40 Major Airlines have been forced to ground their entire fleets many have suspended over 90 percent of their flights australias Largest Airline quantas today announced 6000. 00 jobs are to be cut in the pit to lower costs as it fights to stay in operation across in the u. S. Air travel is still down more than 92 percent as compared to last year even though some flights have resumed since april in germany tons of the 2nd Largest Airline in europe has signed a deal to secure a 10000000000. 00 government rescue package. Lets turn now to dominic cain joining us from berlin so this is on the face of it don the good news for the. On the face of it good news for the tons of pizza but remember this deal needs still to be approved by the shareholders of loved ones and the devils in the detail that because in order for the shareholders to approve this deal they have in effect to accept the dilution of the power of the shares that they own and that has proved to be a Sticking Point for some quarters amongst the shall hold as from the German Government perspective yet theyll be acquiring 20 percent of the stock of tons of the shares that is and the economy minister a key ally of Angela Merkel to the pits of fire from the Christian Democratic Union and said this is the best deal because it will safeguard 100000 jobs clearly has been very badly affected during the pandemic but as i say this is got to get the approval of the shareholders theyve been in a digital a Virtual Meeting there for several hours were expecting the federal finance minister the social democrat or shots to make some sort of statement after we know the outcome of the result of the shareholders vote the other hurdle of this deal has happened to get over today has been approval by the European Commission by the e. U. Institutions because in the government acquiring such a large stake of lufthansa the state aid rules which apply across the European Union have to be here to the European Commission said will this deal does that here to those but of course as i say that the cafe at here is will the shareholders indorse this deal dominic thank you very much. Well as we mentioned australias biggest carrier quantas is laying off thousands of staff as it tries to survive the Global Pandemic the airline says it doesnt expect the nations borders to open at least tourists for the coming year yes nicolas cage. Right now qantas is meant to be celebrating its 100th anniversary instead its dealing with the biggest crisis in its history the Israeli International airline has fired 6000 staff and another 15000 workers will stay on leave for moments this crisis is still here it was very very hard and the impact will be felt for a long time particularly im sorry to say the impact on our people. With borders closed and flights grounded quantas says the ongoing collapsing global air travel left had no choice but to cut 20 percent of its workforce its a huge setback for the Aviation Industry 100. 00 planes will be grounded for at least a year with a stroller as International Borders predicted to remain closed for tourists potentially into next year to be not english this next Financial Year july next year we may start seeing some International Services and that will on against the 50 Percent Union groups have strongly criticized the cuts quantas officials hope to save 10000000000. 00 over 3 years is a lot for medi restructuring and change the culture because its a sea alliance or a job enough to see the opportunities that this will bring that will survive and flourish into the future the losses come after his trial his 2nd Largest Airline virgin was placed into whats called voluntary administration in april after it failed to repay billions in d. H. And is happening while unemployment levels are rising because of the pandemic qantass decision is a signal that the pain from this Global Health crisis wont be over any time soon gauge aljazeera camera david is a consulting editor flight and formerly of pilot he says Airline Bosses have to make tough decisions we are in a situation that the industry has never faced before its a medical emergency and airlines dont expect to have to deal with things like this. They do know that they have. A domestic market and Australian Domestic flying market which probably will recover and is already beginning to recover now of course australias population is only about 25000000. 00 so its not as big as the usa where the domestic market is already recovering quite well australia doesnt think its going to open its borders d nonessential travel is for a year and that cuts now the whole point is is International Division and incidentally it looks as if theyre opening up or very very soon will open up Australia New Zealand services so that you know thats something. Lines like wants us to do but no the main factor here is the artificial closure of the borders for you know medical reasons to stop the spread of co bit the measure under which is being assisted is a temporary measure which is purely cove age related its not a measure which would the e. U. Would normally have allowed to stay with aviation Pakistan International airlines has grounded a 3rd of its pilots 150. 00 of them after an investigation found the cheated to get their licenses the inquiry found that out of a total of 860. 00 pilots in the country 262. 00 had someone else sit their exams and another 82. 00 were either under qualified or they forged to fit people who cheated were discovered after an investigation into a plane crash in may which killed 97. 00 people the crash was caused by human error come on has more now from islamabad. In speech while you. Are reading day of the National Airline record one of the pride of the country did gain many our day. When we rode with the. One youre going to be in the region he has plagued the organization i just radiate he will drop me a job for coming in for an landing in game or over toward the runway out there we did when discovered dead to find youve had a few weird regain the same thing happening recently in dire straits did you mention and so do will be going to give in preventive measures dont really need to be going on and you need your p. C. To ensure their safety and all the regulation for your and of god this is why even though it would be important to be ready the government does something or not because even in the box theyve been several inquiry the no action and been taken your life now under government to see where did they will face this each. Well the exact steps the stages it takes to become a commercial pilot vary from country to country but all pilot should meet criteria as agreed by the International CivilAviation Organization a private pilots license is needed 1st that requires completing a course with around 40 hours of flight time they then need to pass a number of theoretical and medical exams before they can start a commercial pilots license course that course typically means logging 100 small flying hours pilots also needs an instrument rating and multi engine rating and sometimes a bachelors degree to be eligible to fly for the top airlines all of this takes a significant amount of time and money as much as 80000. 00 u. S. Dollars lets bring in david kelly from edinburgh hes an accident investigator with aviation Safety Consultants david good to talk to you again would you fly with p. I a today. It would certainly cause me to have distinct worries as to whether i should fly with them or not however in my industry then when im getting the call to go to an accident site then i go because the risk is relatively low in comparison with all the other risks so on balance the answer would be yes as we know that corrective actions are being taken at the moment im i going too far if i say given the numbers that were talking about here 260. 00 plus p. I a pilots somebody high up must have had an idea that Something Like this was going on. It would certainly be reasonable to assume. In many cases a corrupt pilots license is that ive seen that as being Institutional Corruption as well as just an individual official taking bribes or not doing their job properly and checking the background of these pilots and also you know when it comes to adjudicating exam results if somebody say gets a b. Plus but jury in the teaching process theyre clearly a c. Minus or a d. Plus why was there not a connection between what their instructors were presumably fitting back to the company and what the company was how the company was reacting when it was looking at oh weve got all these guys who are getting good grades and that they are now officially pilots. Its a question of a disconnect in the system that when you turn up with your 8200000. 00 a Flight School that may not really be related to the airline you go to train with. A Flight Schools to get a result than the very much expectation that if you handed over under a 1000. 00 then you will get a license at the end of it and there may be no questioning and no feedback between the training schools and the regulator issues the license and then you go on from there with your commercial license to train for Something Like your airports rating or going rate ching somewhere else and theres just several disconnections within the system that usually takes the investigators go back through everything with a fine tooth comb later on to find out under the strictures of aviation law or National Domestic law should there now be a criminal case leveled at these individuals in as much as were calling them pilots they werent pilots there was much of a pilot as i am and im not a pilot so occurs to me that theres something that they could be charged with perhaps under International Aviation law when it comes to in danger in life by default almost because if youre the guy saying oh i can fly that airbus a 351 hello no youre not because you havent got the right qualifications. Indeed the way that International CivilAviation Organization works is it produces a series of rules which are then implemented nationally by the individual countries known as contracting states so it would be up to the contracting state in this case are starting to use its own internal Domestic Legislation to find these pilots for having fake off occasions academic or practical flying off actions is it possible david to estimate for us the reputational damage to this particular carrier given that coronaviruses kind of filleted the Aviation Industry anyway. I think to some extent it will actually benefit from that but the news media are looking elsewhere much of the time and Many Airlines are contracting by 30 to 50 percent at least for the next 2 to 3 years we have an estimated 30 percent of pilots in pakistan across the 3 major commercial airlines. Im sure its a flaw in terms that basic licenses at the moment so the potential is that the airline could carry on almost unaffected with its coded recovery plans without actually taking great notice of every alternate flight between pakistan and the rest of the world being counseled so there will be some reputational damage but im sure the system once people have confidence that it will be fought not if its just see if they pardon me for interrupting you there david thank you so much for coming on david leave there in edinburgh plenty more ahead here on the news hour including. Back on the streets of lebanon protesters are fed up and demanding government tackle the economic crisis. Financial pressure caused by the pandemic pushes tens of thousands of migrants out of the bangladeshi capital. And in the sports with far of the resumption of top level golf in the United States hits big problems has that story in about 30 minutes. Sudan has written to the United NationsSecurity Council about its concerns surrounding ethiopia filling a reservoir on the blue nile before an agreement has been made lets go straight to heaven morgan our correspondent in khartoum hippa hi there welcome back to the news our whats in the letter. Well sudan has sent a letter to the un Security Council over a mind saying that it does not accept if youd be unilaterally filling the ground if you can run as their own stammers of war without reaching a deal now this is not the 1st letter of the 1st letter was sent this month due to the same issue because there was no deal between sudan and egypt but a lot has happened since that 1st letter was sent and this letter weve seen ministers from the 3 countries meeting virtually to try to iron out their differences weve seen them trying to make a deal so that if european starts filling in stem with a deal in which all 3 sides say is necessary but weve also seen things go back to where they were when when the talks started that is no deal between the 3 sides and if youre saying it will fail its them and early july so sudan has repeatedly stated that its going to try to bring the 3 sides its taken the file from the from the hands of the ministers of the 3 countries to the Prime Ministers of the 3 countries to try to resolve the outstanding issues now they say all the technical issues have been resolved issues such as how long it should take to fill the dam how much water should be released but what is left is the legal issues and that is the crucial part because if the legal issues are not sorted there is no binding agreements or anything that they have agreed including the technical issues is not binding if it doesnt have to commit to it and that is a concern that is coming from sudan and egypt and sudan has also stated that its concerned about the safety of their series them thats a dam in Blue Nile State the 1st them that is in the sudanese territory from on the blue nile and its about 100 kilometers away from the ground if you pronounce them so lots of concerns about what will happen to that dam and sudan is trying to make sure that a deal is reached and that talks resume but at the moment it looks like the 3 sides are all adamant egypt has moved it to the un Security Council as well and if it has said its unfortunate its feels unfortunate that things have moved to the to this level but its adamant that it will fail its damn starting early july. Do you get the feeling that the goodwill on both sides to get this sorted. While all sides have said that for for a deal to be reached there has to be political will and it doesnt seem to be it doesnt seem that all sides have equal will if he if he has been saying that it does want to continue negotiations it wants to reach a deal but its also saying that egypt wants to take over wants to bring back and all the agreement over the nile share that goes back to the 960. 00 s. And that is unacceptable that it doesnt get if youre here and the fuse of its share of the nile waters so it looks like there are concerns there is historic tensions that are involved in this issue and it looks like the political will is not equally shared between the 3 sides now the Prime Minister of sudan of the lamb doc has initiated the latest round of talks and now people are hoping that they will be able to come back together based on the draft proposal that was presented by the Prime Minister but at the moment it looks like the political will between 3 sides are not equally shared and that is why they cannot come back together to the negotiating table to resume talks ahead of the filling of the dam ok thanks very much morgan our correspondent there reporting live from khartoum lebanons president is warning there is an atmosphere of civil war in the country michel aoun was addressing a National Dialogue conference on the long winding economic crisis but the opposition boycotted the meeting people in lebanon have been protesting since wednesday nights they say theyre fed up with rising unemployment widespread poverty and sectarian tensions lebanons economy has lost more than 70 percent of its value since october the coronavirus could 1000. 00 measures are worsening the situation so in order has more now from beirut. President called for the socalled National Gathering he invited former Prime Ministers former president s the heads of the different Political Par