like i'm not says my next on the sands who's truth is it any way out is there are. be the hero the world needs. washing. spreading all 2000 coronavirus cases across africa double in a matter of weeks prompting a warning from the world health organization. is there a live wire headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the u.s. steps up its campaign against the international criminal court's investigation of war crimes in afghanistan we cannot we will not stand by as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court mass graves are uncovered in

a libyan city reclaimed by government troops from fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. and a fear that manufacturing is on the brink of collapse in the u.k. as thousands more jobs a lost. book into the program a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa is worrying the world health organization it says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took $98.00 days to reach 100000 cases it's not surpassed 200000 in just 18 days the reason for this is not surging community transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa the worst affected country is south africa where there have been more than 58000 cases doesn't factions spread beyond big cities and into rural areas there are fears that health systems are not

equipped to handle a crisis well i mean address says health systems across the continent will struggle to cope with severe outbreaks. report. how. particularly being. the cases we're going to see in these days. and to such a time when you. yes a species is there for you right now africa has around $200000.00 cases and 9075 percent of these cases reside in at least 10 countries on the continent but what is clear is that even people covered 9000 the whole systems in africa not prepared for a pandemic like this in addition to that the reason why we may probably see the rising number of coping 1000 cases in the coming weeks and months is because of the weak health system in africa and poverty levels we're talking about

a continent where some of the poorest in the world live and you have in probably a 5 to 6 people living in one small room in africa here social distances would be the situation just as it would be a very very difficult thing you're talking about a country a continent while hundreds of millions suffered such as those which have to go out every day to look for money in order to put food on the table so it's difficult to switch and just as in such a situation it only takes $1.00 single index case in a rural community and within a matter of days you have a spread. that will affect almost everybody in that community right now the largest concentration of infections in the city is the capital and regional cities in africa. is the emergency operations manager for the world health organization in africa he says. up to 3300090 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 measures that's of course affects also communities that is now triggering. there 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 dove. head facilities being totally overwhelmed so we may not have all that and tried to sound 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 a strong public health measures include early detection and management of cases what we are strongly advise ing country is 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. u.s. president told trump is imposing sanctions against the international criminal court

officials investigating whether american troops committed war crimes in afghanistan secretary of state might pull pay 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. last spring the preacher chambered 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 wasn't jordan has more from washington d.c. . forcing your troubled ministration officials stood before reporters at the state department on thursday and accuse the international criminal court of being corrupt

and unduly influenced by countries such as russia this is why these officials say the u.s. will not stand for any investigation of alleged war crimes in afghanistan allegedly committed by u.s. troops or by cia operatives however the 4 administration officials the secretary of state that fence secretary the national security adviser and the attorney general did not take reporters' questions so it's really unclear whether the officials allegations are actually substantiated and it's also not clear exactly who is going to be targeted by these sanctions beyond the notation by the president that these officials are senior i.c.c. officials and their relatives it's worth remembering. who is the senior prosecutor for the i.c.c. is already facing a travel ban and other restrictions on her availability to come to the united

states the state department had to agree that she does have the right to travel to new york in order to carry out official business at the united nations complex but beyond that we don't know who else is being targeted by this new order by the u.s. administration. multiple musgrave's have been discovered in the libyan city of the who and other areas recently retaken from forces loyal to the wall old. libya's government of national a cold says they contain the remains of government soldiers who've been taken prisoner huda was the last remaining stronghold in the west of the country last week the g.n.a.t. recaptured the city but try to is in misrata with more on the discovery of those mass graves. now today 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 enforced disappearances killings and the displacement of entire families in the city of to whom by the kenyatta again the knife brigade that's the militia that was under the leaf 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 the bush has said they will pursue the

perpetrators of these crimes. catman is 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 at nab. that there are some military because to it of being executed with hands tied behind their backs and that reports coming out of civilians napco still the meat they investigation to identify the cause of death it separately looks in the face that these executions and thereby construed in a war crime the fact that they've been buried in a myth mass graves would indicate that these are not individuals who died in course of welfare. if they are military personnel that the geneva conventions are very clear that he steps that have to be taken when a military person who was quoted ought to come out they become prisoners of war and

the geneva conventions apply and the fact that these individuals have not been found and in some circumstances hands tied behind the acts demonstrates something formal sinister it's not that the 1st time in situations such as this. from from have forces carrying out attacks like this it's likely to need to get back to the i.c.c. to investigate. the united nations says both sides are fully engaged in the latest round of ceasefire talks in libya the u.n. support mission in libya says separate virtual meetings have been held with have to as representatives of 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 or call developments positive. while staying on the continent the bodies of $22.00 west african migrants including 2 babies have been recovered after the boat that they were traveling in sank off the coast of tunisia

many of the victims' bodies were washed up on the beach they were taken to a hospital in the tunisian city of sacks of already 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 confirmed. syrian president bashar assad has fired his prime minister in i miss just a month before elections but water resources minister hussein will take over until the parliamentary vote in july but the president's decision comes during a deepening economic crisis which has seen the country's currency plunge. cattles special envoy for afghanistan says the president assured garney is preparing to hold talks with the taliban in doha the negotiations known as in traffic and talks are supposed to continue on march the 10th but they've been held up by disagreements over february's presidential election and the size of each delegation as well as coronavirus well in february the u.s. and the taliban signed an agreement aimed at ending america's longest war. still

ahead here on al-jazeera tech john thomas also spends use of its facial recognition technology to police after the killing of george gloried. domestic workers abandoned and left homeless as lebanon's worst ever economic crisis deepens those stories after the break. 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 ringing and will continue to ring want to do shows across areas of turkey but no such luck further to the south instead the winds have been strong look at this massive a dust storm very intense dust here the storm the winds very strong coming down from the north so that is why that was generated that of course is in northern

sections of amman cloudy skies as it goes through friday and again the winds a fairly strong but across iraq with 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 dry and then down into southern africa the one thing here is the time which is in fact that is not particular to 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 a and also namibia's how much 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.

national borders the debate on migration is polarized to include too strident positions heartless and headless how do you define an indigenous brits who do they benefit isn't this more about living with difference and you and visas and who do they contain people don't have the right to live anywhere in the world without the right to leave their country maybe his son goes head to head with a cold coming on al-jazeera. oh. you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories the world health organization says the curve of 19

pandemic is accelerating across africa south africa accounts for a quarter of the continent's 200000 factions the w.h.o. is calling for more testing kits multiple mass graves have been discovered in libya in areas recently retaken from forces loyal to the ward cleaver after they are recognized government says the graves contain the remains of its soldiers and president donald trump has authorized sanctions against international criminal court officials investigating u.s. conduct in afghanistan secretary of state might pompei or says they won't allow threats from what he called a kangaroo court. a top u.s. military officer has apologized for taking part in president donald trump's photo opportunity outside a church in washington d.c. army general mark milley accompanied walk through lafayette square peaceful and he racism protests were forcibly removed from the area when he says his presence created the perception of military involvement in domestic politics well our white

house correspondent joins me now from washington d.c. it's a stark admission kimberly by general milley about trump's photo opportunity do you think he's going to get some blowback from it. well it's possible that he's angered the commander in chief who of course oversees the armed forces but you have to remember that he's not the 1st one to do it we've also seen a very stark admission by the defense secretary mark asked for a saying that the president's push to use the insurrection act in other words to deploy the military to quell and rast something that he said repeatedly he's willing to do is not something that the defense secretary supports so this is sort of the latest in a string of admissions by members of the military essentially breaking rank with the commander in chief a why the chair of the joint chiefs of staff feels that this was not appropriate for him to do was because what it essentially did he believes by him appearing in

lafayette square after those protesters were cleared with rubber bullets and tear gas is that it sort of set the message that the military was rubber stamping the use of its forces on people civilians essentially and this is something that violates u.s. law because the posse comitatus act is something that very clearly states that the military can only be used in a supporting role but the chair of the joint chiefs general milley saying that by him appearing there essentially he seemed to contradict that so this is certainly a stark admission whether there will be fall out as unclear but again it's not the 1st time it's happened but no doubt this is anger the u.s. president for the update thanks very much i can believe that a white house correspondent in washington d.c. one of the full minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of george floyd has been released on bail thomas lane had been held on

a $750000.00 bond he says in charges of aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder for its death set off widespread protests for police reform and racial justice. yes tech giant amazon says it's temporarily suspending u.s. police from being able to use its controversial station recognition technology for a year the company has been criticized for supporting the georgia floyd protesters while promoting a tool that can lead to racial profiling of black americans so highroad has more. businesses are being called out campaign isn't protestors on naming and shaming them supporting the black lies matta movement that's making real changes to their policies and the tech industry has been no exception with mass protests across the united states against racial discrimination and police brutality civil rights advocates have renewed their warning with sensual racial bias and surveillance technology forcing amazon and temporary one year ban on u.s.

police from using its controversial facial recognition software recognition in a statement it says its decision might give congress enough time to put in place appropriate rules for the ethical regulation in the use of how the technology is used any type of reform congress could pass in one year is not going to change the fact that this technology in the hands of a criminal justice system that is very flawed is still going to end in invasive surveillance and in all over policing of already vulnerable communities. the decision is a u. turn to amazon last year defended its product against accusations that its algorithm are inaccurate rates of facial identification for darker skinned and female faces the system i was using worked well on my lighter skin friend space but when it came to my face. so until i put on a white skin my color facial recognition products amazon's technology can use

artificial intelligence to quickly compare a picture from for example an officer's phone camera and try to match it with mug shots held on police databases. artificial intelligence research is from tech giants a number of top universities have written an open letter saying absence software has the potential of racial discrimination mistaken identity and intrusive surveillance of marginalized groups but some isn't the time ignored calls to stop allowing nor enforcement from using its technology. amazon cannot simply escape responsibility while its stance has changed now campaign is according for a full ban on facial recognition already across the united states there have been a number of cities that have already large cities that are already done for bans including separate this go for bans of government use of face recognition and it doesn't seem to be hurting policing in any way on monday i.b.m. announced it will stop offering its facial recognition products over what it said

were massive valence and racial profiling concerns that same day house democrats introduced a police reform bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement use a real time facial recognition so to hire a jersey or. heard of the u.k.'s coronavirus track and trace systems as most people are complying with the program under the system patients who test positive asked who they've had physical contact with in recent days that person is that advised to self isolate for 14 days in the 1st week 2 thirds of those who tested positive provided details of their contacts and up to make contact tracing easier is expected to be rolled out nationally this month if you test positive you must work with n.h.s. test and trace to identify who you've been in close contact with and if you are asked by n.h.s. testing trace to isolate you must do so to break the chain of transmission and to stop the spread of the virus i would even go as to so far as to say that

participation and it just test and trace is your civic duty. well you leaders in the united kingdom of told al-jazeera that manufacturing is on the brink of its biggest collapse in generations because of government inaction every week thousands of jobs are being lost in sectors like aerospace and car manufacturing as lawrence 3 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 no goodies we created 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 of a 1000 workers blame i didn't know we've seen the previous scenario from the side east 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 job cuts to jackie landrover has only just come 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 $946.00 ms 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 coventry 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 but 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 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 leigh al-jazeera in the west midlands. now 3 cameroonian soldiers have been charged with murder for their alleged involvement in the killing of $23.00 people including 15 children in february the victims were attacked by an armed gang in the northwest of the country it's in the country's english speaking region where there have been regular clashes between government forces and separatists the government initially denied its troops had any role in the civilian killings but in april it admitted 3 soldiers were involved nearly a 1000 people in nepal are protesting against their government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic demonstrators in the capital katmandu gathered on the road leading up to the prime minister's office police fired water cannon and warned

people that they were violating lockdown measures by coming out in large groups the paula so far reported more than $4300.00 cases and at least 15 deaths. but thousands of migrant workers in lebanon passed drug ling to leave as their country's economic economy sorry teeters on the edge of collapse even before the financial crisis the community was vulnerable to abuse and exploitation many lebanese employers have stopped paying their living domestic stuff altogether and some workers have been abandoned outside their embassies reports. work here is now living on the street her employer dropped her outside the ethiopian consulate in beirut where dozens of other women have been sleeping for days. with these migrant workers say they are being denied their rights and they're relying on the kindness of strangers to survive. they're throwing them out as if they're garbage some of them haven't been given their salaries in years the employers are

using the dollar crisis as an excuse to get rid of them and the ethiopian embassy is absent they want to go home but they don't have the money the airport is closed due to coronavirus lockdown measures making flights expensive and limited some call these women victims of lebanon's collapsing economy human rights groups disagree they have long criticized the system under which these workers are employed comparing it to modern day slavery their employees come here for all of them on the streets but all day broad daylight it's as simple as that nobody stops you discount it is there way before everything and it's not just with a few appeals at least 250000 migrant workers are in lebanon many others are undocumented those who are still getting salaries have lost most of the value of their earnings as the local currency continues to sharply decline people sense of desperation there is growing we have tried to contact the ethiopian embassy for

comment but there has been no response these women say they are trapped between a government that's abandoned and a country that offers no protection. the international labor organization believes the lebanese government should hold employers accountable to avoid a bigger crisis it blames the sponsorship system which gives employers control over workers' lives victims of the sponsorship system have been living in a crisis mode for a very long time and today this is an opportunity to work on this mentally. because all the structural problems that we see are result of problems and that equipment process and problem in defining the employment relationship thousands are applying for repatriation at their respective embassies. with grown up virus and the dollar crisis we no longer have a jobs and can no longer survive or support our families we have to go back home.

for now they are stuck some of them without jobs others unable to ask for better pay or conditions and many without access to justice to demand their paid salaries . paid out and all of those stories on our website deserve a dot com and that's updated throughout the day. with me said paul ryan the reminder of our top stories the world health organization says the covert 19 pandemic is accelerating across africa south africa accounts for a quarter of the continent's 200000 factions the w.h.o. is calling for more testing kits president donald trump has authorized sanctions against international criminal court officials investigating u.s. conduct in afghanistan secretary of state says they won't allow threats from what he called a kangaroo court for trial but look like i see 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 of 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 multiple mass graves have been discovered in libya in areas recently retaken from forces loyal to the ward cleaver hafter the un recognize government says the graves contain the remains of its soldiers and the bodies of $22.00 west african migrants including 2 babies have been recovered after the boat that they were in sank off the coast of tunisia many of the victims' bodies were firm washed up on

a beach or thought he say most of the people were from the ivory coast. the top u.s. military officer has apologized for taking part in doll trumps photo opportunity outside the church in washington d.c. army general mark milley accompanied president trump as he walked through lafayette square after peaceful and racism protesters were forcibly removed from the area but he says his presence created the perception of military involvement in domestic politics and one of the 4 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 for its death set off widespread protests for police reform and racial justice those are the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's inside story with iran can do stay with us.

the cost of the refugees ensuring that coronavirus pandemic a groups warn of donations drawing up as wealthy nations make cutbacks so how do we ensure protection to some of the world's most vulnerable people this is its odd story. hello and welcome to the program on iran call on the coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating impact on refugees around the world preventative measures like social distancing and frequent hand washing or off.