presents different community challenging mainstream misconceptions and hope that by crates and hunting industry sions it doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people feel like i'm not smart enough to understand this truth is that anyway. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is that he was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. we. will close george floyd's brother says the fight is far from over as thousands pay their respects more than 2 weeks off to his death in police custody. hundreds of regular

refugees said to been stranded at sea for months have been detained in malaysia. illegal secret deals bogus lab data and cheap imports i'm just here investigates corruption in iraq he aquaculture. and angered by campaign is sending leaflets over the border north korea says that it will cut communications with south korea. and its full professional boxing is back in north america for the 1st time since the coronavirus lockdown last face the venue for a fight called the will take place with no fans in attendance. thousands of mourners have braved long lines intense heat and the pandemic to pay their respects to george floyd in houston the city where he grew up he was killed just over 2 weeks ago when a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest on his ear as john hendren

reports. george floyd's final journey brought him to his childhood home tell this is my way of speaking out just by being present i would like to know how that's going to the top of my lungs it's not. you know so many blacks and i can speak for every black man but for every one that i know know someone that has a friend a family member or a relative someone that died from police brutality and you need to stop at fountain of praise church mourners paid their respects to the open casket inside some who knew him others inspired by the national movement his death represents every one city so you can see why we need to do it so we don't have to do this again disobey the last sunday and we did as they cantered. as a collective whole disobey to last me in a room they came 15 at a time for up to 10 minutes with masks and social distancing to protect from corona virus for which floyd tested positive in april and in his autopsy george floyd's

body has traced the path of his life the 1st in a series of memorials began in minneapolis where he died beneath a police officer's knee and never was held in the state of north carolina where he was born both through thousands and now after this viewing in houston on tuesday there will be a funeral after which he is buried next to his mother. his death his inspired nearly 2 weeks of protests from washington d.c. to los angeles as mourners passed by floyd's casket in houston the officer who knelt on his neck derek children appeared in court in minneapolis officer doric children should be charged with capital murder because what he did was meditated he knew what he was doing he should be treated like any other civilian would be treated if they would murder somebody like the way mr play with murder on tuesday his funeral will feature the reverend al sharpton civil rights lawyer benjamin crump in a video by former vice president joe biden who met privately with floyd's family on

monday his death inspired a movement but his family says on tuesday they will celebrate his life which inspired them john hendren houston. george floyd's brother says that his family will not give up its fight for justice. i'm just right now free shit everybody come on out. here 1st a lot in. this town. i. thank god for. the coming out what. out of them that will be the day. michael brown. running. out we will. we will not walk alone.

mentioned former police officer derrick cho even has made his 1st court appearance he's facing charges that include 2nd degree murder bayless been set up more than a $1000000.00 in serious attention to name one of proceedings in minneapolis. it was a quick preliminary hearing as they usually are chauvelin gave perfunctory answers when called on and the judge gave the prosecution everything they asked for the judge set bail at $1250000.00 without any conditions but of show when can come up with 1000000 dollars he could get out on bail as long as he abides by the following conditions he does not leave the state of minnesota without permission he surrenders his gun and permits he does not have any contact with george floyd's family and he does not attempt to work in law enforcement or any kind of security job charges were upgraded last week once these minnesota attorney general took over

the case the 2nd degree murder charge in the state of minnesota means that the prosecution would have to prove that jovan killed george floyd intentionally or that he killed floyd while committing another felony it is predicted that the prosecution will take that latter strategy the attorney general has already said that this will be a difficult case to get a conviction on he is asking for the public's patience but of course protesters have 0 patience especially when lives are at stake democrats in the u.s. house of representatives to the legislation to change the way the police departments work some of those milt 8 minutes and 46 seconds before announcing the proposal that's how long george floyd was pinned to the ground for the seeks to ban choko expand the use of body cameras and create

a database of police misconduct by the legislation does not the defunding or dismantling of police departments and some protests as called for president donald trump says that he'd never allow that to happen. i'm very proud of them. they won't be defining there won't be dismantling of our police and they're not going to be any disbanding of our police our police have been letting us live in peace and we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you'll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but 99 i say 99.9 but let's go with 99 percent of them are great great people and they've done jobs that are record setting record setting iran has announced that it will execute a man that it says was involved in a plot to assassinate its top general custom solomonic a traditionally spokesman said that an iranian citizen gave information about

saddam on his whereabouts to the cia and the israeli intelligence agency mossad last october so the money was killed by a u.s. drone strike in iraq in january libya's national oil corporation says that an armed force which it didn't identify has entered an oil field in the south and demanded that employees shut it down in a statement the company told its workers not to obey the orders as they come out of pipeline running from shahada shara oil field reopened on sunday on to being closed by fighters in generating warlord khalifa haftar us forces seized the fields during an offensive early last year let's go live now to tripoli al-jazeera some of the work that is the force tell us more about the story of this oil field the board. well. oiled field the 700 kilometers south of the capital tripoli is the

country's biggest oil field with the production capacity of about $300000.00 barrels per day half of that production goes to exports the other half goes to a. compound what it's being given you find in the oil refinery there and being distributed to all the cities and towns in western libya. it's a major loss for the country and for the n.r.c. their national oil corporation that's the state oil for which it has declared that what's called for sure talk of to prevent any legal measures taken against there and see from foreign companies pardon odds of that have partnerships with the n.o.c. in the running the oil fields now according to the national oil corporation an armed group stored in what their oil field ashar oil field and pulled weapons

are on the peaceful workers there forced them to shut down production only 3 days after production was that it is you and now the n.o.c. the state oil firm also posted that the on with the group that stored with the oil field belong to the petroleum facilities god. in the southern region which it has affiliated or has. is affiliated to there was a lot have to now as you know. and that this is impacting libya's economy given the fact that oil revenues are the bag borne of libya's national income and the oil since the oil christened in center in libya. was blockaded by armed groups loyal to have to. be years ago. the country has been

relying on lee on an oil field oil fields in southern net libya now the state oil firm said that it's addressing the general prosecutor to take all legal measures against what he calls the criminals who caused the shutdown of the oil field a free and under serious mahfood to what had reporting live from tripoli many thanks indeed elsewhere in libya forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government continue to push back the forces of the war coming after the now in the city of sirte it's not a train that is nearby we're seeing a dramatic shift in the balance of power on the ground. that's mostly in part to the turkish support to the internationally recognized government of national court . now just to give you an idea 12 weeks ago we were we were seeing a possible takeover of the wara for 4 huffed there's forces zora is on the

border of of tunisia it's in western libya and since and that's dramatically changed. just weeks ago in the in mid april the g.n.a.t. was able to take over several cities and towns on the western coast of libya shortly afterwards they took at woodchip air base with this which is south of tripoli and just and just last week they were janay forces were able to get to take control full control of tripoli. after the forces were were in tripoli for over 14 months they were in the southern suburbs of tripoli so that the there's a big change after tripoli the gini forces successfully took over to the huna to who know was have theirs last stronghold in western libya and now we're seeing them building on that momentum the je ne are continuing on to sirte we heard today that the oil fields were shut down today by an armed group whether that's maneuvering by

half there's forces in any possible negotiations is yet to be seen a video has emerged that appears to show military officers from the united arab emirates training forces loyal to have to. do. that being trained on a russian made defense system called the s 10 russian must mean it's been instrumental in helping us forces have said i'll go well is from johns hopkins university foreign policy institute he says this new video is yet more evidence that the u.s. involvement in the libyan conflict. united nations report says that the u.a.e. has conducted over 850. drone attacks on tripoli over the last 14 months there is now the u.a.e. had at the u.n. had now an open investigation. for u.a.e.

involvement in libya so the us to libya is absolutely critical it is also the country reportedly that paid the price or their cause for the wagner group to enter into. the service so. it has been without. political military and also support there would not be where he is today so today we. are directing you a involvements in libya and in the attack on tripoli and you know all of the humanitarian consequences that. this is the 0 still to come on the program we'll tell you why locusts opposing a big economic threat to pakistan the coronavirus what. it's for we'll hear from one of the world's best with footballers who feels that her sport is being left behind.

an israeli settler convicted of murdering 3 palestinians in a fire bomb attack in 2015 is year to be sentenced shortly they only survivor of the attack was a young boy who's still receiving treatment for his burdens al-jazeera abraham spent time with his family in the town of do about in the occupied west bank. is really prosecutors one conviction last month against the israelis. but the only survivor of the crime continues to suffer. his parents and 18 month old brother were killed 5 years ago. settlers attacked the family home with a fire bomb leaving the 4 year old with serious burns he now lives with his grandparents. i forgot everything i don't have many memories of my parents. his family says he saw more that he wants to remember israeli settler i mean on

been you leader was convicted of 3 charges of murder attempted murder and arson the court said he's carried out a terrorist attack but acquitted him of belonging to a terrorist organization. around middle of the civil sentencing won't mean much to me as it won't bring my family back or reunite them with. them for years but i hope that it serves as a deterrence for settlers many here say the killings are the worst crimes to have been committed by israeli settlers in recent years they say settlers have the support of israel's army ound judicial system and that their presence in the occupied west bank is a crime in itself settlements are considered illegal under international law israeli settlers are tried in civil court unlike palestinians who undergo military trials the suspected killer of eyeshot robbie's under house arrest as the court case against him continues she was killed by rocks thrown at her car in the west

bank 2 years ago speaking in their home in biddy a village north of the west bank her husband says he lost the love of his life. all 4 female grandchildren born after her death are named the high by then there's a lot of there were 4 suspects then they came 3 but now they're prosecuting one although they were more accomplices if the perpetrator was palestinian they would have a recent my whole village israeli human rights group dean has been documenting attacks against palestinians for the past 15 years it says only 8 percent of israeli police investigations and settler attacks lead to indictments. there is a government policy not to implement laws on the settlers which in the end helps implement the occupation strategy of controlling more palestinian lands. family and friends are trying to help matt get over his loss his burns are getting better with

with this painful these are treatment but some of the scars are not visible and might never ever heal and that he edges the the occupied west bank on his ear as harry force it is live for us now outside the cotton lid close to what one of the when is this sentencing due to happen hereon what's the mood there . studio happen in the next hour or so it's due to get on underway at the top of the next hour so far things are pretty quiet here but i think 2 things stand out for him and he does report just one that the rarity of such an event that this kind of conviction of someone in a crime such as this a settler and so there will be an equal amount of scrutiny on the sentence that there was on the conviction itself to see whether it can be what the family we're

talking about a terrance and also from the family itself just that was very much the message that they gave us here last month when we covered the conviction of bennett leo saying that that yes there was some satisfaction that the that the process had had worked to some extent that a sentence had been passed or other the conviction had been achieved but that it didn't change much in their life in terms of the devastation that they felt that 3 loved members of their family simply vanished in flames that night or at least they they were so badly injured that they died the the mother and father some weeks after the event it was such a devastating attack such a high profile attack for this country that there will be a great deal of scrutiny on what happens here and of course on what the family will say afterwards as well. officers harry forsett live in lives near to tel aviv many thanks indeed harry. with

a fall in the oil prices countries like iraq are looking to diversify their economies but corruption is making it pretty difficult to estimate a full team has already skloot of reports on the challenges that face iraq's agriculture sector. harvest season in iraq is in full swing as part of the government's grain purchasing program to encourage cultivation farmers are entitled to sell their produce to state run silos at a preferential rate but they face many obstacles runs up from the use condition of the silo because of the lead in the lab results say that some of the products of flaws in cannot pass some farmers waited for 10 to 12 days outside the solid doors and this is caused a lot of frustration among the farmers and the syria. at the heart of these delays lies an entrenched system of corruption farmers traders and government officials told al-jazeera we investigated these allegations watched by security and

government officials we gained access to the title and it's lib oratory this is where the decision is made on how much money each harvest will fetch farmers earn up to $460.00 per tonne for the highest grade of wheat but they're left empty handed if they're greenstone to meet minimum quality standards for this particular harvest was rejected because the left found lentils inside the sample to serve in what would agree that the rate of acceptance is very good but we have found some quantities that contain lentils. these statements have startled many as no lentils are cultivated in the area farmer say reports of impurities aim to extort bribes of up to $1600.00 per truck to add further pressure farmers are left to wait for days sometimes weeks outside the silo. tired of waiting this

small scale farmer decided to sell his hard earned harvest to private traders for as little as half the silo price was. rubbish says there are flaws or they'll tell you to come back later so you keep coming back it's expensive for you it'll cost a lot if you sell it here at the wholesale market is better than selling it asylum . so what do the traders do with the wheat this wholesaler openly admitted to selling to the silo which is supposed to deal only with farmers not traders. those who pay will be received and most of them are traders this is the truth it's all about money if you give money your product will pass if not it will get rejected al-jazeera obtained a parliament report dated april 2020 which confirms that merchants sell wheat under the names of farmers and manipulate the evaluation process in coordination with sila management the report also found collusion to import cheap wheat from kurdistan and neighboring countries which is sold to silos at the preferential

price as if it was local produce we put these allegations to the general manager of the iraqi grain board at the ministry of trade. in all the silos we have oversight bodies and the farmers can complain against any employee and we will send this employee for investigation but just based on talk here and there without evidence we cannot act iraq is in dire need to develop on all sectors of its economy such as agriculture and to increase its full self-sufficiency as the country has the coronavirus pandemic and the fiscal crisis but to achieve that the new government will need to tackle corruption and mismanagement in the state's bureaucracy so i want to hold in al-jazeera itself that. is a political analyst based in baghdad and joins us now live via skype good to have you with us. just how widespread is the problem of corruption within iraq's

agriculture sector. you know if you are there for all the good you are for corruption there are 2 separate it's not only i think upset or if there were not and it's currently in our economy of course that. governments set it off where i could duty if the government didn't even but he said government has not. sure as he gets that always to say that it will fight corruption we will answer corruption we don't tolerate corruption but unfortunately should it's treated and almost everywhere and they've never been in a system so far one of the problems in iraq is the corruption which prevents any kind of developmental. suit to encourage iraqi families to produce wheat the government is buying it from the middle high

a price but that is is exacerbating the problem isn't it. absolutely i mean you know i think it was higher price. than interest farmers. produce wheat bugs at the same time it's always that those flow different kinds of corruption one of them is pressuring the farmers took a ceremony that they're under the table so that governmental employees and order to their products are taken by the government but this are those are there other have they. really strong neighboring countries or even from kurdistan which is also a low price and tried to. present it as a product also iraqi spots and again this is another way to.

upset that iraq's security so this is a big program. and it is that as we saw in some of his report just a few moments ago about that the consignment of wheat there that had lentils in it is that how how how. a shipment would be tainted with lentulus is the fact that it that it's come from perhaps even outside the country and it's being passed off as a rocky. well. there are other. things which are minds to analyze the situation broadly the farmers themselves they had that meant in order to put more weight and to accept broader. probably this is an excuse that there was not treaty meant end to it so as a lead story an end to it and so i mean there are different ways which the government employees started to pressure their farmers either the same times i

wouldn't say that all the farmers are socio and all honest and. if they're not trying to find their ways and achieve. their way in order to get. profits out of their problems all right good to talk to somebody thanks indeed eleonore that in fact that. right let's get a weather forecast is weather some folks thanks very much i suspect if you spoke to friends and family back home recently they would have told you that summer appears to be on hold just in time for the easing of the restrictions of course we'll see improve over the next couple days but if you're wondering where the summer is the warm sunshine that is for the race you can see those clear skies across that a society of europe colin sherry further west is the pointing the cold and cherry and then in between we have seen some huge downpours to central parts of you this is the northeast of the czech republic where heavy and foundries showers have resulted in well the water levels rising around

a meter or so and here we can see the results holds that the sherry right is set to continue across so central areas all tied into this intense area of low pressure just around northern italy southeastern parts of france extends its way up towards the eastern side of here towards the baltic states but that's where the heat is like of that red colors there balmy conditions in here 31 celsius 26 in moscow when you can actually follow that heat right up into the arctic circle would you believe temperatures here getting up into the mid to high twenty's over the next few days as we go on through the next couple of days we will gradually see the warmer weather just pushing back towards those western shores so we will gradually improve if you're patient plenty of showers into central and eastern parts as we go on through the remainder of today where the stay the showers in a similar area temperatures struggling to get to just 15 celsius there in london on wednesday but it does form a patriot for the weekend and rather a bit of that than the 42 degrees that we've had here and many thanks indeed. still

to come here on the news while latin america struggles with a pandemic we'll take you to one country in the region that's managed to contain its outbreak. fighter jets from taiwan and china face off briefly at a tense moment. and in sports the financial cost of the crew. virus hits brazil's plan to host the next women's world cup. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such tomatoes as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stigma we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for a future generation the brash pioneering future energy white supremacy is on the

rise in the u.s. it's an undercurrent that is bubbling up has mainstream extreme ideas this is the 1st step toward taking on america that. fault lines examines the doctrines feeding hay traits that all too often deadly consequences what are you telling your congregations about safety we have to be concerned conspiracy to massacre anti semitism in america on al-jazeera. who are. 4. other good adrian for to get here in doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines thousands of mourners been paying their respects to george floyd at

a memorial in houston texas where he grew up his family says that it will continue its fight for justice floyd's funeral will take place later on tuesday. libya's national oil corporation says that an armed force which it did not identify as entered the oil field in the south and demanded the workers there shut it down the company says that it sold employees north to a bay those orders. and videos emerged that appears to show military officers from the united arab emirates training forces loyal to the warlords coming from huffed in libya russian most recent been instrumental in helping oftens forces. the afghan government has released another $250.00 taliban prisoners bringing the total down to more than $3000.00 it's part of the doha grim and the u.s. taliban deal signed in february stipulated that the afghan taliban set free 1000

security forces in exchange the prisoner swap is said to be a confidence building measure before talks between the government and the taliban to this idea seem that has more now from kabul. the prisoner swap continues in afghanistan in the early hours of this morning the government has released 250 taliban prisoners so far the taliban has released approximately 500 security forces and this is one of the most important steps toward in traffic and talks the complete of the prisoner swap the u.s. special representative to afghanistan didn't make that has spent the last 2 days in doha and in islamabad in doha he made the senior leadership of the taliban and in islamabad in pakistan he made the top military officials and today the top military chief military of pakistan has arrived to afghanistan to kabul where he met the president of 20. more than $260.00 rohingya refugees have arrived in malaysia

despite efforts to stop them release intercepted boats of the other developing car we reported to see for nearly 4 months hundreds of other rohingya refugees fit to be stranded zeros florence louis is live for us now in kuala lumpur what more do we know about this boat and. who were on board. while the malaysian marine police said they acted on a tip off and found the boat on monday morning now they were preparing to turn the boat around and push it back out to international waters when they found that the boat had been deliberately damaged to such an extent that it was no longer sea worthy so they detained the wrong instead now on board the boat they also found the body of a dead woman now the rohingya have been detained have since been taken to a government camp and a senior minister said at a press conference on tuesday afternoon that the government will not allow these refugees to remain in the country now it's the senior minister said that the

foreign ministry is going to hold discussions with bangladesh if it is indeed confirmed that these people had set sail from bangladesh for bangladesh to take them back or alternatively it wants to hold discussions with the un refugee agency to have them resettled in a 3rd country as soon as possible no rights groups and activists have been saying for the last 2 months that they believe a couple of boats were just at sea in the bay of bengal or the andaman sea having set sail from either myanmar where the remainder are being persecuted by the myanmar government or bangladesh where hundreds of thousands have a state to to to escape persecution in myanmar now and these same rights groups have also expressed concerns about the welfare of the rain guy who tried to flee by boat now we saw in april in masticated refugees being helped ashore after a boat. after a boat had been adrift at sea for months before it was rescued before before it worths rescued by bangladesh authorities and survivors of that journey talked about

how they had to endure starvation and dehydration and even suffered beatings at the hands of human traffickers and they said at least 30 people died in that journey and we don't know the conditions of the people who've been detained in malaysia but if past incidents are anything to go by then they would very likely have also gone through a pretty harrowing journey. i was there as florence lee reporting live from kuala lumpur many thanks indeed for. in hong kong protesters gathered in shopping malls across the city to mock the 1st anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations several people used their lunch to support groups who are singing and chanting as police stood by while desirous divvy a good part of this in hong kong and says that more protests are expected. this kind of lunchtime protests happens almost every day and many may disapprove 50

people here are counting protest slogans and on the government in public to preserve the freedom. but today it takes particular significance to be given to the anniversary of the mass protests against the county's next to defend building downtown that law would have allowed hong kong suspects to be tried in mainland china it was shelved but not before it ignited 6 months of almost daily violence protests against the government the protest movement has somewhat been subdued by the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing restrictions which are still in place. but it seems the protests have now taken a new urgency we came out here don't want to follow the hong kong people we also want to tell the world we are human beings we are entitled to be free. and did a poll and if someone came into your house and destroyed it and we don't come out

to protect our families then we have failed as hong kong. and have failed the next generation in the near future beijing's government is planning to impose a national security law that is expected to restrict freedom of expression in hong kong that could criminalize events like this taiwan says that its air force of war has warned off chinese fighter jets its cup. it says that s u 30 warplanes approached the island southwest on tuesday briefly entering its airspace china has ramped up a course island and circled the drills since pro dependence president saying when it was selected 4 years ago beijing considers taiwan to be part of its territory graham on the web is a geo strategic defense analyst and research fellow at the s. rajaratnam school of international studies explains why china would see this incident as an intrusion i one of the chinese government isn't perceived to be an

independent fully independent of the us all run entity in its eyes so it is a non issue a nonstarter on the chinese side but for the taiwanese this is very disconcerting because this is part of us as the policy of intimidation and in our resolve plans are the ones moment in which this intrusion. adds to a number of intrusions already this year in 2020 i think this intrusion we're looking at 10 incursion into a time when users we are as you know the hong kong issue is there's relations what's going on here. the chinese communist party who is on something i'm on a pressure a pressure and this pressure is exultant by the chinese populace themselves who are expect china to have a farmhand on its various territories all current and future territories and taiwan which at some point needs to be cooled by the i mean and so are china be perceived to be weak and therefore. using these intrusions to make

a point on the titans are. swarms of locusts spreading across pakistan opposing a bigger threat to the economy than the coronavirus experts say the insects came from parts of east africa they've been damaging crops and orchards since april agriculture accounts for around 20 percent pakistan's economic output let's go live to islamabad and speak without a serious kemal is this locusts problem impacting on the food supply chain kimo what's the government been able to do about it. as far as the. region is concerned it has had no immediate effect although it had damage to mangalore sugar cane and wheat crop. that. did a very large enrage and indeed encompassing. which it calculated at about

$57000000.00. that's more than double. cropland printed t. 1000000. there are. still had a cotton crop and defeat is also a major foreign exchange and the fact that 50 percent of its labor it employed in the agricultural sector so didn't gate and situation the government declared an emergency back in january and then the pandemic spread across the ward and may government again decided that it would have to make the national. education. train dad now find out. training the local farmers

district administration to go. and. now giving it helicoptered for a.t.o.c. sprayed so engaged or gave. given the fact that country had already i really am from the effects of the pandemic would ever logic a tinge of infection being a poor day and added thread dead up to 40 percent of stunned agricultural output could be affected. in time to battle against time plus the fact that he didn't not very far away and that chord exacerbate an already complicated problem out serious come on high to reporting live from islamabad come on many thanks indeed. north korea is threatening to cut all communication with south korea it's safe to use agency says that it will close a hotline as a 1st step towards ending all contact going once sold to stop defectors sending

propaganda leaflets back over the border south korea's unification ministry is pyongyang to keep communications open and serious rock mcbride in seoul says that relations have been going backwards for months now. certainly for the south korea this is being regarded as a very serious setback into korean relations we've had hints that things have been moving in these this kind of direction in recent weeks attacks from the north are being getting particularly bellicose and then last week we had direct threats from north korea that they were going to close down this liaison office that exist in the border city of case on between north and south if south korea didn't stop these groups of defectors as they often do releasing these balloons that float across the d.m.z. with north korea carrying propaganda messages against the north it is something which always outrages north korea and they have now used this a stent simply as the reason why they are cutting off these lines of communication

interestingly when they made this threat last week the south korea north already has moved very quickly within a matter of a few hours in trying to bring in some legislation to make it harder for these groups to fly balloons so it does seem as though the south koreans realize that we were at some some sort of tipping point while they have the north koreans are now seem to be carrying through on this threat to cut all these lines of communication are these lines of communication most of them have been established since 2017 which is when the relations between north and south were at their lowest ebb and it means that if they go through with this threat to cut this last line of communication today tuesday the only means of direct communication between north and south would be by megaphone across the barbed wire which is puts it back in the bag old bad old days of 2017 but what of course we don't have is the same level of tension because of the nuclear missile testing with south korea will certainly hope this does not herald a return to. mexico has begun to reopen despite

a surge in the number of corona virus cases and deaths the deputy health minister there is leading the response but his methods have been somewhat controversial al-jazeera is john home and sat down with him his name is lopez got tell he began by asking him if mexico is on a knife edge in mexico in every country though when u.s. start opening day it takes hold back again we are prepared to mourn it are on they the bases where they were in this state in each state in the each locality where. if we see things are not going with we must act what do you think of the president heading out on tour while you are telling everyone please. stay at home the president is working he's doing his job does it not seem to you that well help me out

a bit here i'm trying to get everyone in the house if it's not an absolute emergency set an example i understand i don't understand the position i may sympathize with the concerns people sometimes feel about that but at same time i'm aware that there's this over reaction to what they were any breath is a precedent i guess but this picture of the president dos do you sometimes regret not going harder on the core and lived in the period when mexico was in in real lockdown you couldn't get this a bit more under control them if you are detained shown that me arose from law enforcement the use of police or military force is sort of a perfect way to have a clash we remove the incentives to go out you have no job to attend because it's close you have no school to attend because it's closed why

would you go out it will make sense the problem with that is the people are still going on and they and they have been all through the corps and that's correct it is well known they community mitigation has its limits as well as conventional has its limits the world health organization. there are to this code it was pressed that's what you've got to do you've gone the other way we said this kind of phenomena is cannot be measured directly incommensurable therefore we have no respect asian to make sure by direct observation the real boards in of case. brazil's government is defending its decision not to release total death toll figures for curve it 19 instead of publishing that number state health but has to say that they will only release data on daily deaths they argue that this will allow them to focus on immediate challenges but critics say

the president has mismanaged the pandemic and is trying to downplay the extent of the byre us by hiding information. latin america is now the world's worst hit region but the caribbean island beijing of cuba is bucking the trend it's gone 9 straight days now without a single virus related death al-jazeera is not a hollow reports. this is become a relatively normal scene in havana cuban doctors going door to door screening for any symptoms of coke at 19 you know if you know i'm on the it's a strategy that has apparently paid off monday morning 9 days without any new coronavirus deaths in the country if those who don't are there most of whom i believe that these results are based or care protocols they are based on the facts 1st early detection is important because we can do that take the person with several days of evolution of the deceased would cyril days of symptoms the bus abilities or decrease an early addiction is achieved through screening through case

funding in. many latin american countries are struggling to curb coronavirus contagion but compared to the rest of the region cuba is miles ahead when it comes to containment and white don't i might we see once again that despite having the difficulties we're going through our country has managed to control the epidemic and has achieved figures that are reasonable relative to the rest of the continent and despite not being developed countries we've achieved good control of the pandemic. the streets of the cuban capital are once again filling up albeit with a great amount of care as many who bench or outside do so wearing face masks which have become mandatory by the government refusing to wear one could lead to a fine arrest. cuba's success in mitigating contagion is being seen as a ray of hope for the region though international health experts warn that in other parts of latin america the hardest days are still to come so there's

a lot of work that needs to be done and we need everyone to remain focused on achieving the goal at hand which is stopping this pandemic which is suppressing transmission and saving lives and there's a. a lot more work to do so let's celebrate the successes that we do have but let's remain focused on the remaining work that needs to be done because unfortunately this is far from over. with no new reported deaths in over a week authorities have declared the outbreak in cuba under control. zita. british energy giant b.p. has announced plans to cut many $10000.00 jobs the company says that it's been forced to axe close to 15 percent of its global workforce after the pandemic slashed demand for oil majority of the job losses will come from officers stopped. us prosecutors have accused britain's prince andrew of evading questions over his links to the sex offender geoffrey epstein they say that he's trying to give a false impression to the public that he's cooperating with the investigation u.s.

attorney general geoffrey berman says that prince andrew has repeatedly declined requests to shed and interview abstain died while in prison awaiting trial last year. just ahead of him all that is a new start for boxing in north america as faces weigh in for the 1st time since the coronavirus law.

who knew. the all. a good time for sport here's a big thank you so much as your more professional boxing is making its return in

north america for the 1st time since the coronavirus lockdown last vegas the venue for a fight card that will take place with no fans in attendance 12 boxes taking polls with each permissive to support stuff ringside the teams are staying in a sealed off rooms next to the venue everyone involved was tested for coronavirus on arrival last saturday and they've been through the same procedure on monday at the weigh ins that well let's talk now soon folks a broadcaster gareth a davis great to have you on al-jazeera just how much is riding on the success of this events and what will they have learned from the u.f.c. which is already been hosting events behind closed doors. good morning andy thank you for having me and well look we learned from the u.s.c. events that they do need this testing procedure one of the fighters on the u.f.c. events and his team tested positive the coronavirus she say 12 blocks as there are only 10 now remember because mckayla may are the only female. champion on the

cards tested positive on saturday when she arrived so that's been scratched. they have learnt they look like that you need to be very careful about the testing procedure the protocols need to be followed properly that's why they're calling it's boxing in the bubble as blair and that's one promotes or probably the most famous promoter in the world remember he promoted muhammad ali manny pacquiao oscar de la hoya floyd mayweather in the past so he's a huge figure in the boxing world and if things go wrong with this and in the senate vents leading up to july the 16th you know ease represents in boxing at the moment but i think they've done things right they're doing it very carefully and it goes ahead in the early hours of law here tomorrow with 10 boxes 5 fights on the card in the bottle if you like gareth could you have a say for example fury versus while the 3 taking place behind closed doors does that make any sort of financial sense no not really i mean i think. that's why

we're seeing with the events behind closed doors. over the next 7 weeks there's no real major stars on them because they don't know yet that testing the waters as to see whether these can work as pay per view events because the big stars the big money of course comes from site fees and pay per view but if this lockdown continues or we lock down again and it goes on for months and months and months and over a year then we may see that but i don't think momentarily all fiscally it really works andy. do you think promoters more than ever will be looking to fight to take 5 states in new countries a new location is where there is there is money and perhaps lockdown has eased a bit yeah definitely that's that is really this is phase one right now with the sport coming back overnights so used to is seeing whether they can come back in small a readers perhaps or just maybe september towards the end of the year coming back

in big arenas now if that isn't possible there are you looking at spirit wilder 3 potentially bob arum has mentioned this potentially in macau china or in australia . obviously in the middle east as well because there are huge sites these available for these places where they would love to have some of the biggest fights in the world and fury and while they are the 3rd fight the trilogy fight is a most amongst the most the biggest potential fights that we can have but i think they will look at those places it's not possible if there's still a spike in the u.k. or america or all us bogus locks down again we don't know at the moment that's the that the really big question about the sport i mean in fact all sports so it's everything's a work in progress at the moment so many unknowns thank you so much share joining

us from london. well several monarchs the players from the national hockey league are leading a new push to tackle the league's issues with diversity former player came alue and san jose sharks forward of on the cain will have the hockey diversity alliance more the 90 percent of n.h.l. players are whites the group that operates independently from the league says it will i'm so many game more accessible and educate the hockey community about racism within the sports. now one of the world's best women's football was fears her sport is being left behind in the aftermath of the coronavirus lockdown the 1st ever winner of the women's ballon d'or is worried the women's game is losing momentum right now is a heck of a strike a getting back to full fitness after a serious knee injury with the exception of germany every major women's league in europe has been cancelled so is the weakest link it's going to suffer the most. in this subject i think we are. so. not losing that position the positive

trend. since a while ago. maintain the how. important decisions are made for brazil of withdrawn its a host the 2023 women's world cup the country's football confederation saying the government could no longer offer the record financial backing to 2 coronavirus 3 bids still on the table though a joint software from australia and new zealand of japan and colombia are also in the running for a 1st let's make a final decision on that on june the 25th and major league baseball has come up with a new plan to get the season under way it involves a $76.00 game regular season and expand the playoffs to include 16 teams games penciled in to start in july the big problem though the deal would see the players taking a sizable pay cut and so far they union looks unlikely to accept that deal ok more from me throughout the day but i start looking for now. everybody thinks do

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