persist beyond the health crisis counseling questions is. just nothing we are now approaching across route this is an opportunity that we must not miss the stream on al-jazeera. we could be forgiven for leaving the president's words in our. principal. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden condemns donald trump's handling of the nationwide police brutality protests. these are not acts of peaceful protests. these are acts of domestic terror. the u.s. president threatens to deploy the military the state governor has failed to end violence some protest sites.

i'm adrian for get this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up a new report says that china delayed sharing vital information about the coronavirus as the world health organization was praising its response back in january. and how the virus on top of years of drought is eating into profits for a vital cash crop in zimbabwe. a president who traffics in fear and division a scathing attack launched at donald trump by democratic presidential hopeful joe biden he's accused him of fanning the flames of hate as he spoke about the death of a black man in police custody it's been a week now since protests began across the united states off the killing of george floyd in minneapolis last monday. kid 3.

george glorious last words with you didn't die resume. you still being heard include all across this nation. they speak to a nation where too often. just the color of their skin put your leisure to risk the country's cried out for leadership leadership the key to 9 is leadership that brings us together leadership that can recognize pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for a long time donald trump is turning this country no battlefield riven by all resentments and fresh fears he thinks division helps in. his nurse this is the most become more important in the nation's well being that he leads i ask every american i mean this is the bottom or ask every american look at where we are now and think anew this issue we are barely an hour off that speech by joe biden

president trumpet his wife visited a shrine in washington d.c. the president didn't address the press as he posed for pictures just outside the shrine on a ring the late roman catholic pope john paul the 2nd this is the 2nd day in a row he's visited a place of religious significance his visit to a church on monday caused a whole lot of controversy to say the least more on that now from mike hanna in washington. a peaceful protest outside the white house has dispersed forcibly. gas rubber coated steel bullets and stun grenades so used to force the demonstrators further away. a few minutes later the reason becomes clear in a display of pure political theater the president and former reality star walks out of the white house across pennsylvania avenue and through lafayette park which had been surrounded by protesters during the day he arrives at the sin john's episcopal church which had been damaged in overnight and wrist holding

a bible the president tells reporters we have a great country he did not enter the church to inspect the internal damage but instead beckoned to some of those who'd walked with him to join him in front of the cameras. i imposed a curfew at 7 pm tweeted the district's mayor a full 25 minutes before the curfew and without provocation federal police used munitions on peaceful protesters outside the white house an act that will make the job of the d.c. police department offices more difficult shameful the timing and sequence of events points to one possible interpretation that a peaceful protest was disrupted to allow the president of the united states a photo opportunity a short while the president spoke in the rose garden even as in an extraordinary moment the protesters outside with being dispersed and he essentially threatened to

invoke martial law if the city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them my this is entering controversial territory in terms of the insurrection act the president can deploy troops domestically but only in a support role and only at the request of state governors or legislatures he really does not have the right to implemented in of 50 states which is what he was saying to me not all 50 states have anything going on and it's got the governors still would have the say so with it. the district of columbia has no governor and the president is legally allowed to unilaterally deploy military forces in the area which he has already done. in unprecedented scenes military police are deployed alongside law enforcement officers in the capital of the united states. as

a 7 pm curfew passed an evening the crackdown on protests continued lines of police advancing ominously almost defying the curfew then the arrests began at parity in accordance with the instructions from the white house a few remaining protesters walking past the lincoln memorial for a mind of a better and possibly kind it time mike hanna washington let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly helka kempley the visit to the saints john paul the 2nd try and what was a lot about. well it was on the president's schedule as of last night but he is being criticized even from some that you made out expect that criticism to come from a fact we've had a statement put out by washington's archbishop saying that he finds it baffling and referee has civil any catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously

misused st john paul the same pope john paul the 2nd is that our defender of rights of human beings he would not condone the use of tear gas for a photo op in front of a place of worship and peace no to be clear the shrine that the president visited this morning is was a photo opportunity it's where the president the 1st lady laid a wreath but what many have been so frustrated with is the photo opportunity described in my account as package the one where protesters in advance of a curfew in washington d.c. were cleared out with tear gas so that the president could stand in front of st john of his global church over all of what people are criticizing of position of to the president and his heavy handed approach but the president is defending his actions ajor it in fact he has issued another tweet where he has once again called on cities that are experiencing violence in the evenings and not the peaceful protest of the day to call in the national guard and now we're getting

a sense of what that looks like at least on monday evening $18000.00 national guard assisting law enforcement in $29.00 states we know that here in washington d.c. an additional 1500 were added we also know that there is an increased military presence now around the pentagon as well 'd as military bases in and around the washington d.c. metro region so it's clear that the u.s. president has doubled down in the face of criticism on what he says is an oath to protect the american people even as the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden is a key. using president from a fanning the flames of hate right kitty many thanks data serious to me how could there a white house correspondent reporting live from washington let's bring in steve clemons who's editor at large for the hill he's also the host of out as there as bottom line just barely an hour off to joe biden's.

presidential almost a dress we have the president going to another. place another religious place the sun they said gents' saint john paul the 2nd shrine in washington what's the president up to his days i think the president is very much engaged in worrying about that november election and he is creating election photo ops to appeal to his base many of whom are evangelicals or who are religious and other denominations of the christian the christian church and so he is doing something which we haven't seen him do much other is he's going to a lot of churches all of a sudden in a time of crisis because i think he's trying to convey that the kind of law and order president that he declared that he was yesterday is somehow tied into religious ethnic and religious domination if you will. it's

a bizarre concept to me but i think that is what the president is trying to do in this strange time and it's a harsh view of religion not a forgiving and tolerant and inclusive view of religion. on the one hand the president threatening to bring about martial law on the other as we saw earlier his presumptive rival in november election talking about peace reconciliation. don't look every much the elder statesman the that he is one of one of the make of that. well late as you and i discussed you couldn't get a starker contrast between the 2 we have a president who as he said on the day he was inaugurated presenting an image of carnage in america of america on the edge america divided the president is delivering that message and in a way that he told americans when he was inaugurated that that's what he had to fix

but to some degree he sell create that and help passion that today in his response after the murder of george floyd this black man in minnesota i think joe biden running for office has had a hard time getting traction getting visibility responding but today he got that he got a moment to show americans what the calming influence of a leader could look like and i think right now we have you know 2 profiles and they are both running for office we have to remember that joe biden as calming as he may look he's making a calculation as well as how he has to look and posture to try to appeal to americans as they you know approach an election months down the road of how it is the president's base responding to his his current behavior and his handling of this current crisis. you know we've all been amazed by the resilience of the

president's support in his base and i haven't seen the latest poll numbers i am back and forth between washington d.c. as i told you i was in the midst of those protesters yesterday and in the city but i'm residing in rural maryland which is very much trump land there are boats out on the river in front of me with a giant trump flags on them and they have not come down i've seen today going back with flags so there is continued. to be an energetic support for the president you have to remember he has called out his make america great again followers this mob got followers to go to some of these places in the cities and to meet these protesters and he hasn't said to clash with them but to be there and at the same time he's talked about new orleans of 2nd men 2nd amendment rights which are gun

rights in the united states so this is code language of be prepared carry your gun stand strong and it's a dark kind of nationalism that he's appealing to in some americans who are still strongly supportive of him could start to save many thanks indeed see flemister live in washington thank you adrian protesters from across the united states a continuing to take to the streets to decry police brutality that are demonstrations in more than 350 cities many of them a planned by the group black lives massah along with police forces national guard troops have also been deployed at least 23 states in order to handle the protests they've been ongoing in new york city too and some of them there have taught violent many shop windows were smashed of luce's and police moved in to make arrests a curfew was imposed on 11 pm at an even stricter 8 pm go home order will be in place on tuesday new york's mayor bill de blasio condemned that incident on monday night in which 2 officers were injured after being struck by

a truck during protests. but will not tolerate violence of any kind we will not tolerate attacks on police officers we will not have power a hatred being created a police officer was hit by a car yesterday appears to be quite purposeful that's unacceptable police officers shot at unacceptable does not move us forward anyone does that is a criminal not a protester we can not move forward in less we stand up together. we'll get a weather update next year on al jazeera then we'll examine how journalists become a target for both police and some protests. a high risk area the 1st coronavirus death is reported at a reading a refugee camp in bangladesh leading to warnings from the united nations.

the. head of the pencil rain into central and southern areas of china you can see they found streaming he says in the last few hours it will continue to push that rain towards the east coast it does mean a wet day in shanghai on wednesday very heavy amounts of rain these are all the seasonal rains you see typically this time of the year but find most across the korean peninsula all that towards japan it will stay fine as well as we go through thursday the rain generally staying further to the east but still very much in the forecast across the southern end of the china we might have a thunderstorm in hong kong with a high there over $33.00 and then down across and in tunisia plenty of showers and thunderstorms here becoming very widespread and quite heavy throughout much of borneo but also across as the myanmar thailand on it towards vietnam and some heavy rains to western as a some asha one of the driest falls in the next couple of days is going to be java and to the east of that if you will of those scattered showers throughout the philippines as well but again really the heavy rains into these northern and

western areas of borneo and then to india well we have seen finally the arrival of the southwest monsoon pushing into more southern areas but what we're watching for the next couple days is this this could develop into a tropical cycle of what it was sunday produce is very heavy amounts of rain throughout all these west facing areas and then by thursday it is expected to actually move on shore but some torrential amounts of rain and this could lead to some localized flooding. mass protests forcing the government's hand but are we seeing the whole picture was listed of john. kerry there as we follow journalists on the front line this is christian was a printing press committed to reporting the facts police officers of pointing guns at journalists and say stop headbang hong kong fact and fiction truth is in any way

on al-jazeera. hello again this is al jazeera roger the main news this hour u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has condemned donald trump's response to protests over the death of a black man in police custody he's accused the president of making countries to visions worse for political gain. president trump was visited a shrine offering a late roman catholic pope the archbishop of d.c. washington d.c. condemned that saying that places of worship should not allow themselves to be used in such way. thousands of protesters from across the united sates continue to take

to the streets to cry police brutality curfews a poster number of cities including new york for the 1st time in 17 years. but he journalists covering the protests have come under attack by police officers even after identifying themselves that's a violation of the us 1st amendment protects the press shot at palace reports. this was saturday in minneapolis royce's journalists were filming protesters just after curfew came into effect. on tom according to the crew was shot by the bullets despite wearing priest's passes of this month with priests and holding a t.v. camera they sustained injuries to the arms nic and face a day earlier in minneapolis as seen in reports it was handcuffed all pool cost in lives not enough ok do you all know i am under arrest or. why why am i under arrest for his crew was also all rested and there was this woman l

a times reporter i had my notebook in my hand when the minnesota state patrol was advancing on protesters and us we identified ourselves as price and they fired tear gas canisters honestly point blank range. but these social journalists didn't stop minneapolis as protest spirit so did incidents of police assaults and detentions from oakland. to outside the white house where a b.b.c. cameraman was pitch perfect for. the reporters committee for freedom of the preschool the targeting of journalists ripper hence a bow and clear violations of the 1st amendment journalists are the eyes and ears built into the us constitution that the journalist would be a checks and balance on not only government but institutions the government as well

including the police price price. un special repertory. us police actions towards protesters and the media involved possible violations of international law by impress reason. there is a bit of impunity that journalists are impeding the police's ability to do their job not understanding that the press has an important role as evidenced here in louisville kentucky to tell you are you ok. ok katie are you ok rob it was really good said ok it's just palpable at the close by they would take away any of that. now if you're going to play directly out directly why are they doing it in a healthy democracy journalists hold power accountable and those people that

function and the u.s. constitution looking increasingly vulnerable shelob ellis al-jazeera. there's been an explosion in the afghan capital kabul police say that a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in the city's diplomatic district one person one person is reported to have been injured. china has reportedly delayed releasing vital coronavirus insulation to the world health organization according to the associated press beijing withheld a genetic map of the virus for than a week it happened as the world health organization was praising china for its response to the outbreak katrina you reports from beijing now this report threatens both the credibility of the world health organization and of china after trolling dozens of interviews and internal documents reporters from a.p. found that china was not forthcoming when it came to providing information about the virus during the early days of the outbreak that it stalled in terms of providing the virus genome to the public and also many world health organization

officials were kept in the dark it also said that publicly world health organization spokespersons praised and rewarded chinese china's efforts but only in an attempt to coax more information out of the government now this flies in the face of the line that we've heard from tons foreign ministry for the past few months and indeed from president xi jinping himself who has said that beijing has always been forthcoming transparent and responsible when it has come to providing the international community with information about the pandemic and providing the world health organization with information as well president xi jinping has said that he promises to contribute true $1000000000.00 to the organization over the next 2 years but at the same time the report also goes against what the trump administration is saying it has accused the world health organization of colluding with the chinese government now it seems that they did praise and they were biased in their public opinion of china but it seems that the reason for this was very

different to what it appeared to be to the public. germany has pledged $140000000.00 in the u.k. more than $200000000.00 in humanitarian aid say yemen a virtual fund raising conference is being hosted by saudi arabia and the u.n. to support the war torn country a saudi u.a.e. led coalition has been fighting hooty rebels in the yemen for more than 5 years landslides have killed at least 20 people including children in india's northeastern state of. the been days of heavy rain in the bark valley region state inspectors say that most of the makeshift homes that gave way on tuesday morning were built on unstable land near hills rescue teams locals are still searching for survivors. officials in bangladesh of confirmed the 1st covert blamed team death among among rohingya refugees a 71 year old man died in the long camp which is home to $600000.00 displaced we're

hearing that from me and he was among the $29.00 people who tested positive last month 15000 refugees are being put under quarantine the un has warned of a severe impact in the overcrowded camps but we still have a is a spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for refugees and says that there's an urgent need for more testing in order to stop the virus spreading in the world's largest refugee camp. we've been preparing to produce her for several months for 3 months we've been aware that the pandemic was spreading the numbers have been increasing in bangladesh and we've been preparing with the government and with on monetary and partners and as you know the press case was was confirmed just over 2 weeks ago and since then there are 29 contract cases and in the meantime in the period we've also managed to open 2 facilities and which will be used to serve and to care for patients with their most severe symptoms of these are called severe acute respiratory infection isolation and treatment facilities either another 9 of these facilities that are under construction so we're hoping that they can be completed

in the next 3 weeks and the other issue that we really need to focus on is increasing the amount of testing being done to ensure a reduction of the transmission and the actually the testing of an cox bazaar has just received a new p.c. or testing machine from the world health organization so we're hoping to increase the number of tests per day from 200 to 500. tobacco is crucial to zimbabwe's economy it brings in foreign currency and that helps with cash and fuel shortages but the coronavirus pandemic is making all of the more difficult. for the farming village the bitterest. isn't having much luck with this tobacco after more than 15 years of farming he's only managed to grow one hit to the season he blames years of drought and now the coronavirus pandemic that's led to lock downs and travel restrictions. of groups we can only send one percent to

the ocean floors to sell for us even if we are not here with a price we can't argue with you because we were not there to negotiate prices for. tobacco is the 2nd biggest foreign currency earner after gold lost the country and nearly $800000000.00 exporting mainly to china and europe now because of covert 19 international buyers can no longer get. many small scale black tobacco growers acquired land ceased from white commercial farmers 2 decades ago it was part of the government's controversial land redistribution program for its controversial land reform about 20 years ago we had roughly 2000 commercial farmers growing tobacco now there are tens of thousands of them by most a small farmers some plotting as little as i have. already in an economic crisis long before the pandemic it's dead serious means the government can't borrow enough

money from foreign lenders for a bailout many of those lenders lack confidence in the political leadership people rather bring equipment to zimbabwe knowing that least with equipment it can get to the people best in major challenge so it's an issue of confidence are we confident enough but give me being more government money that. is really big question is about 300000 farmers are stockpiling their tobacco until global lock downs and an international travel regimes they say only then might they be able to salvage something the season. al-jazeera beatrice. during a lockdown in the philippines capital manila thousands of essential workers resorted to bicycles after public transport was shut down restrictions begin to ease some hoping that the habit will stick around john allen duggan reports. gridlock has long been

a way of life in one of the world's most could just sit city's most of the routes in manila are packed with nearly every type of vehicle and it is anything but friendly to bike. but for andrew o'malley who works as an emergency doctor in manila choosing to use his bicycle is an act of defiance 4 years ago he ditched his car and got a bicycle he says it has made life easier for a particular mythical new costs me 45 minutes so when i started writing made by it was cut down to 15 minutes and i realized. i could save lot more time and even sneak in some exercise along doing. so he invited us to cycle with him on his way to work through. the t.v. you have the programs for how do you know but like for so many people here biking in manila requires attention and strong navigational skills.

would have and his wheel had a flat tire. and inconvenience but he says he doesn't mind since he doesn't live too far away from work. biking in manila often means navigating through its busiest streets a journey often fraught with peril but the transportation ban imposed by the government has forced many here to embrace cycling to get around commuters here spend an average of at least 16 days a year stuck in traffic advocates see the government has to change the way he sees urban planning we ought to be. able to the science infrastructure and the science policies to make sure that the wave of bikers that's about the part that bikers are safe because otherwise if we have an increase in the bikers without the c b then we can see definitely a big wave a big increase of road crash tests cyclists here tell us the lockdown has made

biking a much more pleasant experience here for the past few months but not for long the government is using its restrictions and millions of filipinos are going back to work but public transport is still limited that's why many advocates here believe more people will now be cycling they say it's the perfect solution in a post pandemic new normal. biking is good for the environment physical fitness and yes even social distancing. similarly dog at al-jazeera manila. it is good to have you with us hello adrian sitting in here in the headlines on syria u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has condemned donald trump's response to the nationwide protests he's accuse the president of breaking the country's

divisions was the political game protests began after the death of a black man in police custody last week when peaceful protesters disturbed in order for a president and pressure from the doorstep of the people's house the white house using tear gas and flash grenades learned to stage a photo off. my father was one of the most historic churches in the country or at least in washington d.c. we can be forgiven for believing the president's words. that in principle were just an hour after that speech president trump visited a shrine on a ring a late roman catholic pope but the archbishop of washington d.c. condemned it saying the places of worship should not allow themselves to be used in such a way on monday police forcibly clear peaceful crowds near the white house so that trump could walk to a nearby church on monday thousands of protesters from across the united states

continue to take to the streets to condemn police brutality curfews that been imposed in a number of cities including new york for the 1st time in 70 years. there's been an explosion in afghanistan's capital kabul police say that a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in the city's diplomatic district one person is reported to have been injured as china reportedly delayed releasing vital coronavirus information to the world health health organization according to the associated press beijing withheld the genetic map of the virus for more than a week in january landslides have killed at least 20 people including children in india's northeastern state of assume that in days of heavy rain in the black valley region rescue teams of locals are still searching for survivors. there is the headlines money is here on ars is there after rewind next.

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