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haftar. and the u.s. steps up its campaign against the international criminal court investigation of war crimes in afghanistan who cannot and will not stand by as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court. and an industry that severely stalled or fear that manufacturing is on the brink of collapse in the united kingdom as thousands more jobs are lost and he just came out of all your support nascar bans the confederate flag from all its events following the protest of the death of george floyd. welcome to the news hour a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa is worrying the world health organization now it says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took 98 days to reach 100000 cases past 200000 in just 18 days now the reason for this is an upsurge in community

transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa now the worst affected country is south africa where there have been more than $55000.00 cases and as infection spread beyond big cities into rural areas there are fears the health systems are just not equipped to handle a crisis. emmet interest is live for us in the nigerian capital abuja 1st let's cross over to nicolas sarkozy in dakar in senegal and nicholas really the picture there is critical and serious in a country that's really concerned about whether not only has the infrastructure but whether it can actually cope with the numbers that they expect. that's right i mean right now with the doctors that we've spoken to say that there's done enough beds in intensive care units there are they're running out of hydrochloric queen that they've been using to treat patients and there's no longer there's not enough ventilators to treat the serious cases now although the numbers

of deaths are low compared to the numbers that you're hearing in other continents i mean in senegal is just 55 deaths there's real concern that the worst is yet to come because the government has decided to restrict sions allowing people to mingle with one another and so there is fear that they could be more and more cases ahead know some scientists say that senegal is quick to testing people who have the virus but there's not enough test being done for people who have had the virus and so there is a fear of a silent transmission among the community community and the difficulty with the health services to try to trace patients that are infected of course there's a very young population here in senegal so many people may have the virus but they don't have the symptoms still they continue to to infect other people unknowingly so that's the situation here in senegal but it's very much the case in other countries in the region in cameroon we're seeing really an uptick of the number of

cases there there's not as much testing happening especially in the country that's dealing with insurgency in the north in the english speaking region in this a hell region as well there is an uptick in cases so really health authorities are fearing that not just here in senegal but throughout the region will be more cases in the weeks to come. thanks very much. in the region in the west of the continent i'm joined now by i would address in nigeria's capital abuja. the most populous country in africa must also have the same major concerns. absolutely so what we've seen. a steady rise in cases infections in across nigeria 2 days ago now you recorded its highest number of infections with over 600 cases now taking the total to more than about 14000 cases infection cases

right now but then the problem is it's difficult to know exactly how many people carry the virus in this country because the testing capacity of many hospitals or health clinics and other health institutions across the country is still very law only a few weeks ago the nigerian government started relaxing the restrictions placed to top the spread of the pandemic across the country and there is fear and we've already seen how this cases have increased and that is fia expressed by medical doctors that nigeria's opening up too soon so for a country of 200000000 this is very dangerous according to scientists and a lot of people think that with the problem of social distancing still being experienced this virus will spread faster than before at some point the head of the nigerian covered $900.00 company team or the presidential task force which

secretary to the government of the federation warned that if nigerians don't add to social distancing they may see these restrictions being put back in place but already states 36 states in the country most of them have started opening up on that and have started relaxing there. could restrictions in their states respective states so that is the fear that things may get out of there and looking at the health infrastructure is not very very well prepared for covered 19 initially it was even a struggle to deal with cases of malaria and then you have issues of. root insurgency in the north of the country you have millions of people displaced by fighting either book or arm or ethnic fighting or communal fighting between. clashes between farmers and cattle herders in the rest of the country so it's a big problem here militarists in the nigerian capital thank you but ultimately it is the emergency operations manager for the world health organization africa that

he says early estimates of up to 3300000 deaths and 17 can still be avoided. this is an image someone. particularly been on all day was having to sustain community transmission we vote in the appropriate measure but i think since the beginning. they want to think would think that we're not dissing their african countries is that they move towards a stronger measure those thoughts of cause and effect also communities that is now triggering. is but in india in general we can not just doubt what we are observing is real oh well that's what was predicting based on the worst case scenario but we should not be complacent this situation was to really deteriorate we'd of. had facilities being totally overwhelmed so we may not

have all faced some tough in numbers but we have quite a good proxy that is also showing you what is the situation and how the situation is evolving and i think based on that the process probably think is to continue having strong public health measures include early detection and management of cases what we are strongly advise the countries that we need to put in place measures that can help us to my knowledge of it as well as dealing with. health conditions we cannot afford to stop savitz is like a vaccination treatment of malaria tb and this is so obvious trash their resources but a country is to try to see how they can while scaling up or restaurants to cause the . continuities of of our services that are critical for africa but certainly

african continent for the top story lots that multiple must. graves have been discovered in the libyan city of kut huna and other areas recently retaken from forces loyal to the walled khalifa haftar libya's government of national accord says they contain the remains of government soldiers who'd been taken prisoner. was half his last remaining stronghold in the west of the country last week the jna captured the city when it training and he's in misrata with more on the discovery of those mass graves now d.n.a. forces are saying that they've been able to recover hundreds or or over 100 bodies in these mass graves these mass graves are yet another indication of the brutality of the libyan conflict and the on the on the residents in the area now in march the u.n. support mission in libya released a statement saying they received reports of hundreds of and forthwith appearances

killings and the displacement of entire families in the city of to whom why the kenyatta again the knife brigade that's the militia that was under heavy fire have in control of the city of through no u.n. support mission also added that they verified numerous summary executions at the to whom the prison on september 13th so now the d.n.a. the health officials have told us that they are finding out that civilians are among the dead in these mass graves were also understanding that the d.n.a. ministry of justice have appointed a committee to identify and investigate but that's the circumstances of the death and the minister of interior but he bashar has said they will pursue the perpetrators of these crimes. because as an international human rights lawyer based in london he says the evidence from the mass graves points to war crimes. i think

the reports that are coming out now are sharing that there are also some military because. it has been executed hands tied behind their backs and no reports coming out of civilians now of course still no need to be investigation to identify the cause of death but it certainly looks in the face that these are executions and thereby construed a war crime the fact that they've been buried in a mental mass grave would indicate that these are not individuals who died in the course of both of warfare. if they are military personnel there at the geneva conventions are very clear the steps that have to be taken when military personnel are what's called order come out they become prisoners of war and the geneva conventions apply but the fact that these individuals have been found and in some circumstances hands tied behind the acts demonstrates something far more sinister

it's not the 1st time of her to have situations such as this from from her sources who are carrying out attacks like this it's likely to need to go back to the i.c.c. to invest. now the united nations says both sides are fully engaged in the latest round of ceasefire talks the u.n. support mission in libya says separate virtual meetings have been held with have to as representatives and the internationally recognized government turkey says the u.s. needs to play a more active role in those talks that says the u.s. secretary of state might pompei a cold developments positive. one sort. is a professor of political science at the university of texas at san antonio and joins me from there via skype good to have you with us on the program again sir it does seem that the power politics is in play and that the g.n.a.s. in 5th the gay you might say to clear libya of l.m.a.

have to forces and their allies can they do it is it feasible. no there's no fusible it's not going to happen you know. i'll tell you what i mean i sound like a broken record but the truth. is in little illegitimate government. doesn't have the support of all newbie. don't believe in the d.n.a. and more and more and more and more important they don't have the forces to do that with their hope so if you want to live 10000 dollars and muscle reason and your flight. it's your job is one of everything right now it isn't what is happening right now in libya is that there have been a realization that the most important body in the government in the country which is the parliament has been marginalized and by and by marginalizing allowing the

alternative which is after we did that which nobody likes and now we have to wait and it's getting back to the point where it goes after so professor the big problem so professor we have a problem here where both the jna and the l.a. according to you are not liked by the public in general so that we have the international side step where we have russia and turkey and all the other interested stakeholders at play and at the moment it seems to be the conversation that russia and turkey are having about how to control libya among wonders that they have managed to find a sort of uncomfortable relationship when it comes to dealing with syria could they transfer that across to the way they feel about libya and find another you might say position that they can both appreciate and work together to help libya. you know you're very smart i mean this is logic are good and yes you are what you say what you said is very reasonable but that's not the case in libya because

libya's bloody typical city of mosul. may be a major issue here is the key and and russia a modular play as they intruded on the end of it being case but the rate lately but is that there is no interest in what is it the business interest in libya is in have either side of this that maybe it's not a systemic level conflict is that subsystem of it deals much more within active within libya itself or not we can i do deal with it on that level all we want to have what we have is a monitor that you know i mean that no government militias control together then and then you have the europeans screaming oh we have africans coming in through all those who from what i have written never spoke out on that so it is the big problem the bigger problem that has to be the next community must be in ball seriously the sick and didn't know this better thing is as modern by having both roger and tookie

from the comfort because this is they do want to be in fact in the quiet ok well the use of my daughter if i can just get by can know why that involve the u.s. into this conversation when they themselves. in time had to absolve themselves from and he sort of in a proactive involvement in trying to find a solution to the libya problem. ok let me just you see the issue the u.s. has not been involved and the u.s. has been back there was was there. but the u.s. will they would like they don't know it is that it's not. going to give you want it you wanted security council and these players will have to play a role would i like it or not and the u.s. and the and the u.s. even though it doesn't like being involved it has to be there because russia is there and that is the reason why is that the europeans can deal with the greeks and the french and the data because you would do it but to russia it leaves that actor with the strength of the united states to deal with what we just see certainly how

this pans out certainly in the coming days obviously a very. stern and a moving story as we statements are joining us from san antonio let's not be on the program or people have. now the bodies of $22.00 west african migrants including 2 babies have been recovered after the boat they were sank off the coast of tunisia many of the victims' bodies were found washed up on a beach they were taken to hospital in the tunas in city of facts authorities say most of the people were from the ivory coast it's thought as many as 53 migrants were on the boat when it capsized last week 45 and i confirmed that. he was present all trump is imposing sanctions against the international criminal court officials investigating whether american troops committed war crimes if ghana stand secretary of state might pompei or says washington won't allow americans to

be threatened by the court for a time it looked like the icy might do the right thing and kill the investigation but last spring the pretrial chamber unanimously rejected the prosecutor's request to open the investigation. but unfortunately then in the spring in march the appeals chamber overturned that sound judgment and gave a green light to the current investigation effectively eliminating constraints on the prosecutor's office ability to launch new investigations of americans in the future we cannot we will not stand by as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court and indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world your people could be next a white house correspondent complete health and standing by me listening in to all that's been happening there in washington in this last hour or so so it seems that no one in trumps in a circle mincing their words can believe on the basically verge of anger so what do the sanctions really mean in reality. oh

well reality those that are involved with this prosecution by the international criminal court or at least the investigation will have a much harder time trying to get into the united states this executive order put forward by the u.s. president expands visa restrictions it also will put in place economic sanctions so this will walk and the u.s. assets in the united states think the tone and tenor of this press conference that involves the less than 4 top administration officials underscores just how strong the u.s. sees this issue given the fact that there have used phrases like a report to describe the i.c.c. also calling this investigation a mockery of justice it underscores that the u.s. president is taking this very seriously and also warning u.s. allies including israel that this in their view is a mockery of justice it puts israel in the crosshairs and they also believe that

this is something that is inconsistent with international law they say the united states says that this is a threat to its sovereignty it's never accepted the juristic jurisdiction of the i.c.c. and also says that it has a proven record when it comes to prosecuting those who that may have committed war crimes referencing back to the allegations in the prosecution of u.s. soldiers when they abuse detainees so this is something that the united states is taking seriously in fact so seriously that we heard from the defense secretary mark esper that no u.s. soldier will ever in his words appear before the i.c.c. because of pressure from outside groups can be held in a white house correspondent thank you. well saying in the u.s. one of the former minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of george floyd has been released on bail thomas lane had been held on a $750000.00 bail he's facing charges of aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder

floyd set off widespread protests for police reform and racial justice and the top u.s. military officer says it was wrong for him to join donald trump in a walk for a photo opportunity outside a church army general mark milley says that he regrets accompanying trumper saying it created the perception of military involvement in domestic politics really accompanied the walk through lafayette square after police used pepper spray and flash bangs to clear the area of anti racism protesters trump then posed with a bible at a church nearby for sort of the u.k. now where the home secretary has criticized violent protesters saying they've undermined the country's anti racism movement and that's after a video emerged of a police officer being attacked while trying to make an arrest in east london he was surrounded by people who are struggling with a man suspected of assault 2 people have been arrested in the u.k.

he's head of the current virus track and trace system says most people are complying with the program under the system patients who test positive are asked who they've had a physical contact with in recent days and that person is then advised to self isolate for 14 days roy chalons is with us now from westminster in london so what do the figures mean sort of in the bigger picture of what's happening in the u k. think what they show is that this system that was promised by boris johnson to be world beating doesn't appear to be quite that level yet harding who's the head of the program says that it's not gold standard but that it is functioning since. the beginning of the month late may 25000 people have been working to track the contacts of those who have been testing positive with corona virus in england

the other nations of the u.k. have their own systems and we have the initial data for how england has performed so far. about 8000 people tested positive and in that time and all of those 2 were able to either be reached or be reached in hand their contacts to the contact traces that means a 3rd of those people didn't do that so clearly there is room for improvements this says system which is complicated of course and complicated systems on veils by governments do you often get off to slightly rocky starts it shows that in the big numbers 31000 contacts were identified by the system and about 27000 of those that's 85 percent were able to be contacted and told to

stay indoors now this system is being seen as key to unlocking the ukase lockdown at a time when there is real growing concern about the state of the economy in the last couple of days the e.c. d. has said that the u.k. economy. the worst hit of all develops world economies by coronavirus and we're getting increasing pressure being put on the government by its own backbenchers to do things like shrink the to meet a social distancing rule so that more businesses can open before the latest thanks in london while staying in the country union leaders in the u.k. are told al-jazeera that manufacturing is on the brink of its biggest collapse in generations of just mentioned because of government inaction every week thousands of jobs are being lost in sectors like areas face and car manufacturing as lawrence

lee reports it might be james bond's car of choice but the pandemic is proving to strong aston martin the luxury carmaker announcing nearly a quarter of its highly skilled workforce is to go it's a sign of the times where can they go if they lose their jobs at the moment while at the moment there is nowhere to go nobody's recreating in the car industry across the west midlands nobody is recruiting in the car industry across the u.k. we've seen your announcements from bentley have a 1000 workers been made you don't know we've seen the previous owner from that side is where they are losing a very large number of their existing employees so the reason nowhere for them to go every job in a car factory generates 10 in the supply chain just up the road this company which makes parts for nisanit and jackie were landrover just announced over $400.00 job cuts to jackie were landrover has only just gone back to work with very limited capacity because of social distancing it announces its annual results next week and

it will not be pretty. in april of this year the u.k. produced fewer than $200.00 new cars and registered just over $4000.00 that's the lowest level since $946000000.00 which are completely unsustainable the government's focus then and now remains on reducing infection rates on what to do about the flood crisis in british manufacturing there's almost total blanket silence nearby is commentry the u.k.'s home of the motor car it went through a collapse in commie king when margaret thatcher was prime minister in the 1980 s. and it has taken nearly 2 generations for the city to get over it but it now has a plan for how to avoid it all happening again and he wants the government to hear it's the figures i'm seeing taking an employment levels to a place that we haven't seen not just my generation the generation before that maybe the 1920s what we need the government to do is as well as thurlow in people

and spending billions of pounds on actually keeping people off work and each we invest in new technology called trees the location for the u.k. interest lies ations center we need to be the place where the new batch of the future the built union leaders nationally are having similar conversations even suggesting a new made in britain strategy could tie in with brics states but they say they aren't getting very far reopening the economy will make the difference between a very deep and damaging recession and a depression and if we move into a longstanding depression that has consequences not just on jobs and i'm talking millions of jobs. but on people's health it recessions kill people. the view across the industry is that it's like watching the tidal wave coming and not getting off the beach companies are making hard choices the effects on people will be every bit as bad as the virus lawrence lee al jazeera in the west midlands . full still ahead here on al-jazeera burundi is expected to swear in

a new leader speculation surrounds the sudden death of the president sees a. man as mexico's coronavirus doctor told his 15000 we visit an i.c.u. but doctors are working hard to save lives the u.s. soccer scraps about all kneeling a protest piece on how those details are in school so do stay with us here on the news hour. it is hamas and it is draw of course much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula to the north the county can see that has been bringing and will continue to bring want to do shows across areas a turkey but no such luck further to the south instead the winds have been strong look at this massive a dust storm very intense here the storm the winds very strong coming down from the north side that is why that was generated out of course as in northern sections of

amman cloudy skies to go through friday and again the winds a fairly strong but across iraq we will see very strong winds down across into kuwait 10 inches there in the high forty's celsius but a little bit lower as we head into saturday 42 in baghdad and you see widespread areas of rain and clouds across much of turkey but elsewhere it remains hot and dry then down into southern africa the one thing here is the time which is in fact that is no particular but all across areas tools the south you've had a front just sliding by areas of south africa still just clinging to the east coast as we go through friday because the temperatures 10 in johannesburg and in fact that cold air across much of those fauna and also to maybe a touch is generally about 8 degrees below the average for this time of year and we'll see want to developing sunday by southward into most central and southern areas of mozambique and then the usual showers and thunderstorms through central regions and it'll be heavier around the gulf of guinea for the start of the weekend .

june 9 16076 days that redrew the map of the middle east this would make record a victory of the israeli army and it war war the greatest country in the history of islam 50 years later al-jazeera expose the events leading to the war and its consequences which are still felt today we tried everything went to the united nations and tried to make a show contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was true of the rule in june. the latest news as it breaks the only warning on evacuation same traffic ventured many deaths and now people face the struggle to rebuild their lives with details coverage on kong finds it so cold in the middle of a deepening cold pool between china and the united states from around the world by the government close to bankruptcy many say such initiatives will not be enough to deal with what prime minister has found yet warns could be

a major food crisis. what about watching al-jazeera news hour with me cell raman a reminder of our top stories the world health organization says the covert $900.00 pandemic is accelerating across africa south africa accounts for a quarter of the continent's 200000 infections the w.h.r. is calling for more testing. multiple mass graves have been discovered in libya in areas retaken from the forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar he would recognize government says the graves contain the remains of its soldiers. president donald trump as authorized sanctions against international criminal court officials investigating u.s.

conduct in afghanistan secretary of state might compare says they won't allow threats of what he called a kangaroo court. now the leader of burundi's parliament expected to be sworn in as caretaker president after the sudden death of caesar his cause of death was described as a heart attack in a government statement but many suspect it may be linked to cope with 19 welcome where possible from nairobi. diplomats and officials come to sign a book of condolences he state house in the rooney's capital budget. the late president pierre and guernseys led the rindy into a period of peace following a civil war but then back into political turmoil on tuesday the government said he died of a heart attack his predecessor called for calm we asked for everybody took it quite took a pin please. to listen for the message is given by the government the

government on their own currencies or became known for political killings and torture critics were silenced or fled abroad. he had no policies to slow the spread of the coronavirus he said god would protect the indians and many people suspect the virus was the cause of his death few dared to openly criticize the official line we spoke to an exiled activist in belgium here did we look to the government because the order. night and. night some autistic. and. thousands gathered for campaign rallies and head of an election last month and no

social distancing measures. the ruling party's candidate was this man ever reste in . opposition complained of vote rigging and was announced the winner he was due to take over from currencies over in august but analysts say the might be trouble ahead the constitution says if the president dies it's the speaker of the national assembly who takes over he's called pascal nia bender. boys nick green jesus preferred candidate allegedly and where is it that east the chosen the president elect was supported by other generals within the c.n.d. d.f.t. d.d. ruling party so this could indicate that there might be see indeed the f.t. deal in fighting in the coming weeks with different generals backing different candidates. who currencies a left the room deal with the spreading pandemic and a political crisis that's far from over malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya.

syrian president bashar assad has fired his prime minister. just a month before elections now the water resources minister hussein will take over until the parliamentary vote in july the president's decision comes during a deepening economic crisis which has seen the country's currency plunge. nearly a 1000 people in the paul protein bar protesting against their government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic there was traitors in the capital katmandu gathered on the road leading up to the prime minister's office police fired water cannon the warned people that they were violating lockdown measures by coming out in large groups reported so far reported more than 4300 cases and at least 15 deaths. and the number of confirmed virus infections in the u.s. has now passed 2000000 but all 50 states have ease restrictions and are in the process of reopening and president all trump has declared he may resume his

political rallies as early as next week well 1000 new cases are still being confirmed every day a new hot spots continue to emerge across the country nearly 113000 people have died after contract to the virus well markets in the u.s. have fallen sharply over fears of a 2nd wave of corona virus infections let's get the very latest from gabriel is on do in new york what seems to have happened. yeah the markets are reacting very negatively on this day the markets open about down 800 points the dow it's now down more than a 1000 points that's a little under 4 percent about 3.7 percent that's a very very sharp one morning drop and it doesn't appear to be gaining back any of the losses. some of the major industries that are taking the biggest hit the airlines down about 10 percent cruise lines down about as much as 14 percent retail

taking a big hit as well almost double digit digit losses and hotels as well 5 to 10 percent drop in the dow now why is this why is this happening it's really because of coronavirus fears what's been going on is this basically is in the last month or so the markets have been gaining a back a lot of what they lost in march and april and and there was some euphoria if you will on the markets as as states started to reopen in the u.s. as the numbers dropped dramatically here in new york new york city just starting phase one of reopening and the markets were reacting to that positively however now there is growing concern of this 2nd wave of coronavirus in the u.s. and now i think you're seeing the markets basically saying whoa this is not over yet in states such as texas florida and arizona we've seen sharp drum jumps in coronavirus cases in texas there are 3 straight days of record breaking numbers of

covert hospitalizations arizona as well seeing huge jumps in corona virus positives there as well add this up you also have the university of washington coming out with a new study that saying as many as that 2nd wave might not even hit until september we're still in of course june here and then another study from harvard saying that the death rate in the u.s. could get up 220-0000 it's about 115000 right now add all this up combined with the fact of no vaccine on the horizon until at the earliest late this year early next year and you see the markets basically reacting very negatively on these chroma virus worries. gabriel thank you gabriel is under there in new york. mexico has reported a record daily rise of more than 4800 cases doctors nurses on the front lines have been protesting over the lack of training and protective equipment for more on this let's cross over to john holdren of course latin and central america

a real hot spot an ongoing concern for the global community when it comes to how they're coping with covert 19. yeah that's completely correct the world health organization has signaled the latin america is a all the hot spot of the moment for the virus and i think one of the worries is that the region is opening up and it might not even have reached the peak of the sleeve the center of this throughout really has been brazil the latin america's largest economy in largest country and it now has the 2nd largest number of coronavirus buyers cases in the world but this week in its 2 major cities so paolo real big janeiro shopping centers are going to begin opening up obviously in that country there's a fight going on between the president john abell so not oh and many of the states over that how to handle this he's basically saying well we're all going to die one day let's just get on with life unless you're old and sick and some of the state governors are saying well we do need to put in some measures here because our voice

we're going to have an even bigger health crisis on our hands in that country but it is beginning to reopen and that's a worry the same here actually in mexico this country began to reopen up very very gradually just essential businesses from the start of june but it does mean more people on the street and as you mentioned it's just had its biggest daily number of cases we spoke to the country's coronavirus saw this week and he basically we basically put that to him that the country seems on a knife edge at the moment he said yes we'll have to see how we go and if necessary we'll start shutting down parts of the country now the hospital system here in mexico at the moment isn't overwhelmed it is coping but a lot of people that are going into intensive care units as elsewhere are coming back out again we actually went into one of those intensive care units in a hospital in mexico city to see how they getting on have a look. new patient comes into this

intensive care unit what his hospital city. in this old war hospital from the 19th century the stuff heading into a new battle. the enemy this time around the few survivors once patients are unable to breathe for themselves. i am an exhausted nurse julio cesa 32 has struggled to come to terms with. what will this be. the toughest thing is your mental state because you put in all of your effort but the patients still don't survive in my shifts i've seen very few of them get better. oh great stuff here have been going nonstop since the start of the pandemic and although the country's health system is cope so far the capital's hospitals have approached max capacity even as mexico starts to go back to work are you worried about the reopening of the country and what that might bring might get broken bones

it's you know i'm not but again i'm more disappointed than worried because they say there's less patience and the curve is flattening out but we don't know that we could not have even reached the peak because for us there's been no decrease in the number of patients they don't please nobody yet and. the number of infected and the dead nationwide has and in mexico a worrying pattern is also emerging just had a quick check around this intensive care unit one thing that really strikes you is that everyone is under the age of 60 here and that's a real change in the trend from europe for example but it seems like the most elderly with the most average. there's a reason 70 percent of mexican i don't for obese due to a junk food have a matched in the rest of latin america and one in 7 have diabetes it makes me lady is vulnerable. and even in this hospital one of the best equipped starflight the

basic medicines treat them as make i'm not going to one of them and a new zealand if they don't there's still some antibiotics that we need and that we don't have. so we have to talk to the family members to buy them and it means a delay but we don't have another option to get out if they're nothing he said but if you fight them but i think. many of the myths can hospitals are in a worse state with stuff across the country protesting about a lack of gear and training. perhaps because of that doctors and nurses are getting infected one of the highest rates in the world. with that grim panorama every success story is celebrated. an hour elio a gas salesman is one of the he was being discharged on the day of a visit well though still fairly sick. nothing was going to stop him getting out how you feeling now you're about to leave which i feel really excited that's why i'm coughing. blood he enjoys his freedom once more

over. the team in the intensive care unit continue their struggle with the images that you're allowing us to. what do you hope. are susceptible to this i thought like and the good stuff where we want people to be aware that this is getting wars for people who see that 1000 doesn't exist to know that here on the frontlines we're seeing it for ourselves we don't eat for 8 hours we don't drink water we're giving our best but we need people to support us. this team knows that in mexico they still might be just the beginning. so you heard that plea there for one of the nurses to reverse and then we've talked to in the medical community here is really echoing that they really don't want people to go out on the streets even though the country is reopening of course for a lot of people in mexico which isn't a wealthy country there's a lot of inequality especially here that simply isn't an option for many people

they need to go out to earn enough to eat and the coronavirus saw here is being cold when we spoke to him he sort of acknowledged that and said that we can't just keep a quarantine going indefinitely here we need to make sure that people can go out and a bit of money but one of the things that he also said is that this pandemic is hitting different parts of the country at different times of the moment one of the major focuses has been in mexico city and of course mexico city has more hospitals more equipment than other areas of the country so perhaps is better place to deal with this the challenge is going to be when it hits some of the moral or and poorest states of the country with the full force of it and whether they're going to be able to stand up to this we're just hearing that down in choppers which is one of mexico's very poorest states right down in the south the hospitals have been turning away some patients and saying that they're on room for them so we're going to keep monitoring that and hoping that the health system in mexico in general

keeps being able to cope as the cases mount up here so hold him a scarcity thank you. now hundreds of venezuelans who were stuck at colombia's border because of krona virus restrictions have been allowed to return home since march tens of thousands of bay the journey back often on thought walked on restrictions meant many couldn't find enough work to buy food or even pay the rent but venezuela authorities of only been letting in around $300.00 people each day them ok i've got my mother living you know we have to abide by the law we have to follow through with the parenting that we need i want to see my mother my brother my father my girlfriend yes i'm so excited 8 days spent here under the sun rain everything and now it's time to do it again on the other side. well it's been more than 2 months since the philippine government brought in a coronavirus restrictions thousands of unemployed workers who want to return to their home provinces all their jobs overseas are stranded in the capital well

unable to earn many of them have been forced to live on the streets melinda reports now from manila. but there is some and it's family fled the war and men are we in the southern philippines 3 years ago she was hoping to return to saudi arabia for her work as a domestic helper to earn money and rebuild what lost. look at our situation this is the human i sit here sleeping here we have no money children called me and said mama are you coming home soon but i don't know when. melanie morrow home is angry she says her domestic flight took a day and the order province has been postponed 3 times and the next would be for several more weeks. they are among the hundreds of filipinos who have been living like this over the past few days under a bridge just across manila's airport refusing to leave until transport restrictions are used or until the government tells them of its plan to help them

get home some have repeatedly traveled abroad as overseas workers while others were waiting for their deployment for the 1st time when they were stranded in manila after the government imposed a lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus more than 2 months ago most of them come from impoverished communities they have spent almost all of their life savings to come to manila hoping for a chance at a better life but now they say they're actually putting all their dreams in the back burner for now all they want is to go home to be with their families again the philippine government has been facilitating the return of stranded citizens both here and deprived but its resources are buckling under the weight of the global pandemic. viable use of they need to coordinate with the social welfare department so that they are given much needed assistance like food and place to sleep they're

also bringing those who are stranded to the regular go of course for up a testing and perhaps they may be allowed to stay there for no latest government figures show the unemployment rate has jumped from 6 percent to more than 17 percent in just a matter of months since the pandemic began denny's to bust china's been stranded here in the capital for months he says he has sold this personal belongings his luggage his cellphone even his last pair of shoes some say the situation is so tragic that prayers have become their respite the pray for hope and better days ahead jim duggan manila. well still ahead in sports any black driver sense as a clear message as the sport makes a big change to its rules falling and new braces and protests that story after the prime.

time sport peter thank you so much american motor sport nascar has responded to n.z. racism protests by banning the confederate flag from all of its races for many the flag is a symbol of white supremacy slavery and racism nascar says it runs contrary to its commit. meant to provide a welcoming ending to use of environment for all fans and competitors only this week in nascar's only black driver darrell wallace called for the flag to be banned on wednesday he's called a spade new paint work in tribute to the black lives matter movement. sure black

lives you matter not that we're saying no other lives matter it's we're trying to say that black last matter too if we put g.o.i.a. and i think a lot more people would understand it we want to be treated equally not judged on our skin color and the actions we. are based off of our skin color it's different so that's what we're trying to get across we want to be a part of this nation and want to come together as one you know we always say no luck all eyes will not matter it's all black or it's a significant move by nascar which has a large fan base in the southern states but reporter bob cress told us that in the long run it could end up attracting more people to the sport. that's a risk of losing at least some fans but you know quite frankly nascar's attendance has been going down the last 10 years and they know that they need to be more inclusive they need to be more diverse and they can do all the things. that they

can and have all sorts of programs to try to increase the diversity in nascar and increase the diversity of its fan base but when they came to the racetrack and saw the confederate flag i think people of all races would look at that and say well you know what what's nascar's message here and nascar's message had been that while they don't approve of it they don't want to alienate any part of their fan base and their message with this ban is that they don't care as much about anything some of their fans if they feel like this will a is the right thing to do and be it you know i certainly think that there's a belief that they will increase fans with this move u.s. soccer is another organization making changes and it's voted to repeal the rule which required all players to stand during the national anthem the policy was put in place 3 years ago after the women's captain megan rapinoe knelt in solidarity

with n.f.l. quarterback colin kaepernick u.s. soccer has apologized and has promised to do most of fights against discrimination n.f.l. team the carolina panthers have removed a statue from outside of a stadium of a former owner jerry richardson owned the team for 25 years but sold it in 2018 offer accusations he'd made a racist comment to a black team scout and had made other inappropriate comments to women the team took it down in the interest of public safety. golf world number one rory mcilroy is called for greater diversity in the sport mcelroy is among those getting ready to return to the course in texas later after 3 months out because of the coronavirus stoppage but he's also spoken about making changes following the empty racism protests in the united states tiger. doesn't look the same as me don't you know it's not a very different upbringing to the one that i have had but he was my hero growing

up and it didn't matter what color skin was you know what his beliefs were tiger was my hero a nice you know he's been a lot of kids heroes over the years that have grown up playing golf and you know we have had him you know we've been very lucky to have him in our game and you know i think. there should be more people like him and golf in germany been this legal leaders by in munich have also been getting behind the black lives matter movement they players wore t. shirt spearing the slow going to head of the german cup semifinal for their opponents on the nights i interact frankfurt's also had it on the match shoots as the match itself by and one to one thanks to goals from even better said she and robert 11 dogs skied the pole lifting his 46th goal of the season to help buy into their 6th straight win since football in germany resumed after a coronavirus related suspension by and will now be going for

a 20th german cup title as they face by leverkusen in the final on july 4th. football in spain is set to resume after a 3 month suspension because of the coronavirus on thursday severe will look to consolidate 3rd place in the league when they take on the rail bettis in a local darby they will be a minute's silence before all the matches over the next few days to honor those who have lost their lives during the pandemic more than 27000 people have died of the virus in spain. see we have a great desire to go back to playing competitive football even if under circumstances that 3 months ago were unthinkable and instead now the reality is this forces us to adapt to a different situation but we have to play this match all the same and we all know what this darby years more to mainz 'd see a lot of us study without a doubt this is a historic darby it's very unlikely that we'll have another darby and circumstances like this and let's hope that will be the case but the result of this darby will be

remembered forever because it comes after the lockdown after the pandemic without the crowd the 1st match back for the spanish league. they won't be any fans of those games in spain nor were there any fans or supporter defeated merrick team a one on wednesday a 60 minute goal from jesters corona to seal the victory but also since quarter back to the top of the bunch of its premier league after benfica drew the match. no fans in portugal but they were $15000.00 supporters at vers match in serbia is in belgrade with taking on a red star in what is known as the eternal darby serbia one of the 1st countries to allow fans to return to stadiums parties and running out winners one nil here. that's why i believe it most sports news again later on so thanks very much peter question follow stories that we're covering here on our website at al-jazeera dot com i'll be back with more news on the other side of the break but until and for me

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