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with israel if it an excess more palestinian land in the occupied west bank. we begin in brazil where a 2nd health but history has left the job in less than a month they'll quit after criticizing president job also laura's handling of a pandemic brazil has more than $200000.00 cases and it's not the only country in latin america that's suffering infections are rising faster than ever in mexico but the lock down that is being eased us on the run betty reports. nelson teach stepped down as brazil's minister of health after just weeks in the job as president became increasingly at odds on how to deal with the coronavirus spend there make. repeated lee criticized his minister s.

too timid in his efforts to reopen the economy the last straw came after the president issued at the creed declaring gyms in beauty parlors essential businesses without consulting him but in his farewell press conference staged refrained from criticizing the president life is made of choices and today i chose to leave i tell you that i give the best of me during the period i spent here it's not a simple thing to lead a ministry like this one in such a difficult time. is the 2nd health minister to leave his post since the start of the crisis his predecessor. was fired in april for resisting also now risk promotion of an unproven drug to cure 19 and his unwillingness to impose social distancing orders all this happening as brazil passes france and germany and the number of confirmed cases in the daily death tolls keeps getting higher the governor of the state of sao paulo where a lockdown remains in place despite the president's wishes as we knew this attack.

president remember that so far 14000 brazilians have lost their lives we are not in the game we are facing a serious crisis of health lost in the economy. but if brazil situation seems increasingly dire it doesn't look much better in mexico where infections are growing at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic. despite that president lopez obrador announced a partial reopening starting a monday assuring its people that the pekin infections as been reached john. we are at the point where we are beginning to have fewer cases but we have to be careful and not take it easy yet on friday clowns appeared at various mexico city metro stations making sure passengers wear a mask wash their hands in maintain social distancing but what's clear across the

region as latin america enters the worst phase of the pandemic is that this is no laughing matter alison and al jazeera follows the teller is from the woodrow wilson center in washington he says that brazil could soon become the 2nd most infected country in the world. also not a will not change his attitude he cannot do it he is incapable of understanding since very she of this state thinks it's all a ploy against him. and the fact of the matter is however that brazil is had that in a very awful direction brazil could become in a few weeks' time the 2nd largest coal the country in the world in the slums of rio in the slums of sample and all of the other major cities in brazil that happens to have 30200 and. 10000000 people.

and all of this is could be catastrophic is already catastrophic in cities like money now was the heart of the amazon and the man doesn't seem to understand this. hopefully someone near him will be able to explain the severity of the crisis to mr bowles on the. chile's president has ordered a total lockdown of the capital santiago sebastian pinera made the decision after infections in the city went up by 500 percent in just 2 weeks more than $8000000.00 people will now be confined to the homes in america and it's under see a new been reports from santiago. air force planes airlifted patients from chile's capital to hospitals in faraway cities while in santiago ambulances waited with sick patients outside a hospital emergency room entrances for up to 10 hours tens of thousands of

residents ignored calls for social distancing i think huge for essential goods ahead of the start of a total lockdown something presidents of us camping it ahead said would not be necessary. but the explosion of code 19 infections in the capital up by more than 500 percent in 2 weeks dashed his hopes of controlling contagion without shutting down the economy. we are fully aware of the difficulties the restrictions and the shortages that a lockdown means for the chilean families we're going to make the up mice if it to facilitate food medicine and other basic services during the quarantine might pull it out and it is. receiving an emergency shipment of ventilators at the airport the president appealed to opponents to unite in the face of a monumental threat behind me is the entrance to sunflowers general cemetery inside grave diggers have been working around the clock in order to meet and in fact

surpass their yearly quota of tools in order to be prepared for the worst but many people believe it 7 have come to this so. the government had boasted that chile was doing better than its neighbors ignoring earlier pleas from doctors and mayors like rudolph carter to declare a total lockdown before infections got out of control. we have to say it very clearly without panicking that these next 2 weeks are going to be the hardest speaks in the history of chile since the 1973 cool we're going to have dead people you're going to have hurt families. police will be on the lookout not just for those who violate the quarantine but the traffickers who are using delivery services which are allowed to circulate as the perfect cover for distributing illegal drugs chilies anti-narcotic squads have already made more than $200.00 arrests multi-center. they misuse well known brands of delivery services to deliver

drugs instead of food or medicine why because a policeman probably won't suspect a delivery man on a bicycle that's why we're cyber patrolling the social networks to try and identify the traffickers on. the battle to stop people from violating or abusing the quarantine is on now the chilis doing good most agree is the right thing but not necessarily soon enough you see in human al-jazeera santiago. correspond a spec is the founder of china today an online independent news platform he says the coronavirus lockdown highlights the inequality in the country the grown a virus outbreak in chile has been a bit of the story of dialogue in america it's it's an inequality thing it came in to. health do the wealthier parts of santiago where people have private clinics where they can do their career guaranteeing at their houses but now it went to the

lower income parts of something i will where people live closer together lots of people active in informal sector who need to get to work to put food on the table and also the public health care system there totally collapsed in the last couple of weeks so it's just a completely different situation at the moment is like a different pandemic logged on originally they said it will last for one week health experts internationally say a lockdown should at least last 2 weeks but there are people in the more rich parts of some of the go who left actually before the lockdown started tonight at 10 pm to their 2nd homes outside near the coast so they're leaving and journey quarantine it's very very we'll see especially in those lower income parts of something i wish people will really go by the rules imposed by the government. a 3 trillion dollar package aimed at helping the struggling to deal with the fallout from the pandemic has passed its 1st hurdle in the u.s.

but president trump is threatening to veto it he's also vying to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year a deadline that medical experts say is unrealistic heidi jocasta reports it's at no time since the great depression have such a large number of americans sought help after losing their jobs and never in u.s. history has their spending at stores and restaurants fallen so quickly and so far now some of the members say let's take a pause let's take a pause do you think this virus is taking a pause do you think that the rent takes a pause do you think that putting food on the table and where the hunger that comes if you can't takes a pause house democrats advance yet another coronavirus rescue package on friday the 5th of a pandemic this one totaling 3 trillion dollars it seeks to extend unemployment benefits and send more checks to american families and would bail out the postal

service and address election security republicans who control the senate have called it a partisan ideological wish list that will never become law the senate will not consider this bill the president will not sign it into law speaking from the white house rose garden into a background symphony of truck drivers protesting his handling of the pandemic president trump announced the formation of a fast track program to develop a vaccine and have 300000000 doses available by january when a vaccine is ready the u.s. government will deploy every plane druck instilled required to help distribute it to the american people as quickly as possible but trump in facades that with or without the vaccine the u.s. economy is ready to restart that's contrary to the advice of government health. michel's who've warned reopening too soon could trigger another outbreak now people are getting

a little antsy with the mass. they really want to come out more than 2 thirds of us states have now canceled or significantly relaxed stay at home orders now as more people and their weeks of social isolation it's far from clear how safe is the world they venture into. castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland the u.s. department store j.c. penny has become the latest corporate casualty of the pandemic it's now the 4th major american retailers a file for bankruptcy protection the company has almost 850 branches and employs 90000 people that have been suffering from severe financial problems for some time alone made things worse. a weather update next to 0 then also peak season up to 100000000 jobs short brisk as the pandemic forced the travel industry to come to a host. of warnings of a 2nd wave of infections as england allows people to return to war.

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meaning. in another life and witness documentary on al-jazeera. the. hello again this is al-jazeera let's take a military much of the made news this hour brazil's health but history has resigned after less than a month in the job nelson teach disagreed with president jaya boss norris policies on controlling the coronavirus and the mic strictly lockdown measures have come into effect in chile as capital $7000000.00 residents in santiago have been placed under quarantine the health ministry reversed the easing of restrictions after a surge in new cases and u.s.

president donald trump has threatened to veto a coronavirus aid package approved by the democrat controlled house of representatives the 3 trillion dollar plan would be the largest rescue package in u.s. history. from the beaches of bali to the shopping malls of jubei tourist spots that used to draw millions of visitors have been left devastated by the pandemic the economic effects a stark. portugal's tourism depended economy shrank by nearly 4 percent in the 1st quarter of 2020 france's struggling to avoid a similar 4 last as an n and has announced a $19400000000.00 investment plan for its tourism sector authorities in indonesia's tropical island of bali said that they've controlled the outbreak the beaches there won't open until october and it's not just human livelihoods at risk with tourists gone as a lack of money to protect endangered wildlife like black rhinos so the public ash believe is the secretary general of the world tourism organization he says that

global passenger numbers will be down by 70 percent in 2020 but the recovery is possible we are talking about millions of jobs around the risk $100000000.00 of jobs under his will wait and it's not going to tourism we're going to which can recover but without it was can and has a possibility to recover and to help this jobs and the people who are in that sector so our recommendation is to start start and mentally people will start domestic trips and then the next step will be international flight we are working very hard when people are no worse to establish their steps traveling home to code we call it and i'm sure that safety and health one of the most important thing of course but there are possibility i think to recover and to start

and to come back to normal life many workers in england the been allowed to go back to their jobs and people can now spend more time outside but there's concern that moving too quickly to lift lockdown restrictions could lead to a 2nd wave of infections journal home reports. at 1st glance this is almost a picture of normal life it's a london suburban high street emerging from lockdown after the government allowed a partial return to work in england this week but for some it's all too much too soon what we're seeing already in london at any rate with the high densities of travel on the london underground and on buses should certainly give us cause for concern because those are situations in which the transmission of the virus is very likely professor martin mckee is part of an independent group of scientists and public health experts examining government policy on covert 19 they've called parts of it dangerous the easing of restrictions premature and they question official

messaging like the new instruction to stay alert and use common sense about social distancing rather than simply stay home to tell people that they need to use their common sense when we're dealing with a virus a piece of r.n.a. that most people are completely unfamiliar with them terms of the transmission the dynamics and so on it's really quite quite problematic it's not just scientists who are worried the care home sector remains in the grip of its deadly epidemic that has seen a quarter of all u.k. lives lost among society's most vulnerable people and doctors and nurses on the health care front line are being told to brace for a 2nd wave doctors and nurses are absolutely exhausted the 1st wave of this virus and this condemn it was. has drained as physically and emotionally and the toll is going really huge at the prospect of going back to that's going back to where we

were 8 weeks ago is really really horrifying to be perfectly honest the 2nd thing that is really again incredibly worrying and anxiety inducing for us on the front line is the lack of p.p. and there's never been enough p.p. there wasn't. 1st time around if we're going if there's going to be a 2nd spike and it's very much like there will be there is definitely not enough people for health care workers in the country to be adequately protected the government insists it's following scientific advice and that a phased lifting of the lockdown depends on a falling infection rate but the scientific and health care views i've been listening to are adamant there shouldn't be any lifting of the lockdown until test trace and isolate mechanisms are in place to control future outbreaks and they're not in place yet and while research by public health reveals that infections in the capital down to just 24 a day in the northeast of england the daily rate is still around 4000 so

a national strategy based on an average infection rate carries greater risk for some than for others and could see good news turned bad very quickly jonah how al-jazeera london. dozens of baby disappeared left stranded in ukraine because of restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus the babies were born to surrogate mothers that are due to be collected by parents from the u.s. europe and elsewhere they're being cared for in a hotel on the outskirts of the capital kiev like many countries around the world ukraine has closed its borders to foreigners. slovenia has become the 1st european country to declare an end to the pandemic the government says the spread is under control and that there is no longer a need for restrictions e.u. residents are free to cross into slovenia from austria italy and hungary at certain checkpoints on most normal e.u. nationals will have to undergo a 40 day quarantine in the last 3 weeks several countries have reported cases of

children being hospitalized or dying from an inflammatory illness that similar to the rare callus a case disease the world health organization says it's studying a possible link between covert 19 and the illness. reports from europe and north america have described a small number of children being admitted to intensive care units with a multisystem inflammatory condition with some future is similar to color circus this is an toxic shock syndrome. initial reports hypothesize that this indra may be related to 19 it's critical toward a gentle and carefully caracter eyes this clinical syndrom to understand causality and to describe treatment interventions on $1200.00 rang a family is placed in quarantine at the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh

the decision comes a day after the 1st covered 19 case was detected jump jhoom reports in conscious bizarre preparations to combat the spread of covert $1000.00 were underway well before the 1st case of the disease was confirmed among the writing a refugee population. extremely concerned about the devastating toll the virus could take on one of the world's most vulnerable communities the united nations refugee agency has been working hard to construct isolation shelters and quarantine facilities at the moment the target is to have 1100 and isolation treatment beds available which will be both for the refugee population and the local bangladeshi population but at the moment it doesn't reach the tigris. around 1000000 rohingya refugees reside here a place where sanitation has long been inadequate an area so densely packed that social distancing is nearly impossible. because refugee population in the area we

have had more than 40000 people living briskly economics it's very very challenging and in terms of hygiene motion we have established handle she still is all over the camps. for months anxiety and alarm have been growing in the camps as a population so traumatized by the violence they fled in neighboring me and more now has to contend with the threat unlike any they've known before. aid workers aren't only concerned about the health of the rohingya you can see you know there's a big cost community and got to build up not just joining us so how to really make sure that this is extended to both host community and going up you can see more than 100 bangladeshi host committee people are already infected in gaza over 90. bringing the refugees have long dreaded this moment living as they do in the kind of squalid conditions that are ripe for the spread of the coronavirus realizing

again what little sympathy their plight in genders from an international community continues to largely ignore them. jordan's king is warning neighboring israel against plans to and explore palestinian land king abdullah says the move could start a massive conflict in the region israel has vowed to annex illegal jurist settlements of the occupied west bank and the jordan valley this would end the long stalled peace process make it almost impossible to establish a palestinian state. by the time being aware efforts are devoted to the. to do provide take action in order to avoid any action in short of a negotiated do is to. i for sure and support of the. filament of the international law international law has to be of help here there and

everywhere colored again the is a senior fellow at the middle east institute and says that israeli annexation plans could pose a threat to the jordanian monarchy. jordan is one of 2 countries that has a peace treaty with israel it has the longest to air countries i should say has the longest border with israel along the jordan river. and when the king himself comes out and essentially puts his relationship with israel and the treaty with israel on the line it's very very serious you know or or the monarchy in jordan. an end to the 2 state solution which this plan and annexation is really aimed at achieving an end any prospect of a palestinian state poses not just a strategic threat but quite possibly even an existential threat to the monarchy in jordan dozens of palestinian protesters have been injured after israeli forces

fired tear gas into a crowd have happened in some way a village in the occupied west bank the group is demonstrating against illegal settlements and holding friday prayers in an area threatened by an exception illegal israeli settlements have already been built around the village lebanon's leader is seeking a financial lifeline from the international monetary fund talks began on wednesday the government wants some 4 $1000000000.00 to avoid bankruptcy but the u.n. is warning the blank checks won't be handed out of zeros anahata reports from beirut. trucks carrying fuel have been seen heading to illegal crossings with syria it's a decades old trade along the poorest border and it's costing millions of dollars a year because fuel is subsidized by the state which is facing a shortage in foreign currency reserves lebanon is in crisis the government is seeking aid from the international monetary fund but stopping smuggling is an obligation under un resolutions that successive governments have failed to achieve

i believe that many many other areas that need to be covered if you would like to control the borders fully and to prevent all sorts of smuggling. including one from seeing it including groups including people of. every sort and country must control borders and there is a long way to go authorities plan to set up a new checkpoints and close eat legal crossings but critics say tighter measures are needed it's well known. for instance is getting its own through the bennies border genuine all the international all the international community is standing on to see that it's wardak to control its border with syria hezbollah is saying the opposite and this put into question the i.m.f. has the iranian backed group which along with allies control political power called

for cooperation with syria and criticized talk of un forces along the border lebanon's government calls itself independent but it is seen by many in the international community as controlled by has a lot of proof that the united states and other countries designate a terrorist organization but tensile donors have hinted that they don't want to see the group's power solidified in any bailout plan but they have made clear what they expect after years of mismanagement and failure to address among other things corruption and the reform of the judiciary but international. and it would like to see as a tangible monifa station over is often determination of. the politicians of the politicians of the country and of the government and government's ability and political space to deliver discount of reforms but name need to move and implement reforms there is no blank check there is no savior on the white horse coming up on

a clear statement that if lebanon's government really wants the financial help it needs it's going to have to make changes it's of voided up to now senator. good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera brazil's health but history has resigned after less than a month in the job nelson teach disagreed with president jaya both on our us policies on controlling the coronavirus brazil is the worst affected nation in latin america with close to 15000 deaths i view the feat that life is made of choices and today i chose to leave i tell you that i gave the best of me during the period i spent here it's not a simple thing to lead a ministry like this one in such a difficult time strict new lockdown measures have come into effect in chile as capital 7000000 residents of santiago is now been placed on the quarantine the

health minister reversed the easing of restrictions after a surge in new cases u.s. president donald trump has threatened to veto a coronavirus aid package approved by the democrat controlled house of representatives the 3 trillion dollar plan would be the largest rescue package in u.s. history. and trump has vowed to deliver a corona virus vaccine by the end of the year medical experts say that it would be possible to develop a vaccine until well into 2021 initiative announced by trump is designed to speed up research and approval for the 14 most promising potential vaccines the u.s. department store chain j.c. penney has become the latest corporate casualty of the pandemic it's now the 4th major american retailer to file for bankruptcy protection the company has almost 850 branches and employs 90000 people that have been suffering from severe financial problems for some time the lockdown has made them worse dozens of babies

have been left stranded in ukraine because of restrictions to control the spread of the coronavirus the babies were born to surrogate mothers but it used to be collected by parents from the u.s. europe and elsewhere. slovenia has become the 1st european country didn't to declare an end to the pandemic the government says there's no longer a need for restrictions e.u. residents are now free to cross into slovenia from austria it's only at hungary that certain checkpoints will most normal e.u. nationals will have to undergo a 14 day quarantine and jordan's king abdullah is warning neighboring israel against plans to annex more palestinian land king abdullah says the move could start a massive conflict in the region israel has vowed to annex illegal jewish settlements in the occupied west bank and the jordan valley or those that lines the news continues here on of his era of the top 2 of his era next. he's going to the polls for general elections. but with the u.n.

concerned about the threat of violence many want to if they can be free and fair. and want to face to face of kevin 19 have fun times. in the indian accents on al-jazeera. see. september 26th seen nearly 2 months before but then presidential term the donald trump's election president barack obama spoke at the u.n. general assembly via address this hall 'd as president for the final time. let me recounts the progress that we've made a quarter century after the end of the cold. the world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before. but with millions of people displaced worldwide. unresolved conflicts from yemen.