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a libyan city that was the stronghold of warlord khalifa haftar. and playing in perfect harmony isolated musicians around the world come together for the performance of a lifetime. the welcome to the program coronaviruses racing through the african continent infections have doubled to 200000 in less than 3 weeks and the outbreak is now spreading from urban centers into the hinterlands with medical services already stretched the world health organization is warning that cases will continue to rise until a vaccine is found. dead risk reports. it took 90 days for africa to reach 100000 corona virus infections and only 19 to pass the 200000

mark the world health organization says infections in africa and i was spreading fast from urban to rural communities those areas don't have adequate access to health care or awareness of preventive measures one of the biggest challenges we face in the response continues to be there of supplies but equally test kids and this is due to the disruptions in the global supply chain. the un as a supply chain task force and other mechanisms i am pleased to address these shortages including work done by the african union and mullen 8000000 diagnostic supplies and 200000000 my terms of protective equipment in the pipeline to be shifts a program countries south africa algeria and kenya and all the continent supports the global health body ones countries must last on implementing strong measures and in forcing social distancing but already many nations in africa are really opening

the economies with more than half the population having to go out every day to feed their families locking down entire towns and cities is proving costly experts say african-american for less than 3 percent of the global infractions for now but that could change of countries are able to control the spread the outlook for now is warning for governments with nigeria's president warning that the violence in west africa in particular hasn't reached its peak 10 of africa's 54 nations account for 75 percent of 206000 infections a quarter i and south africa are low. but the continent is like him behind in testing and early management of cases health experts say the earliest mission that the virus could kill up to 3000000 africans could still be avoided this is. particularly been on there was having a sustained community transmission without any appropriate measure but so i think

since the beginning. they want to think don't think that we're not this in their african countries is that they move towards us stronger measures that's of course our feds also community is that it's now triggering. is but in india in general we cannot just out of what we are observing is really that's what was predicting based on the worst case scenario the world have organization however says there is no indication that severe cases and deaths being missed as the virus caused significant infections in refugee camps across the continent how many trees. u.s. markets have plummeted as investors react to renewed fears of a pandemic resurgence and unpleasant economic forecasts from the federal reserve also the major u.s. stock index in the seas were down about 5 percent posting their worst they sense

with march that's when markets were sent into freefall by the abrupt economic lockdowns put into place to contain the coronavirus. donald trump is ramping up pressure to stop an investigation into allegations of american war crimes in afghanistan the us president has also rice sanctions against any international criminal court officials involved in the case i.c.c. prosecutor fatou bensouda is investigating possible crimes by the taliban afghan also or his u.s. forces and the cia but secretary of state mike pompei o says washington will not be threatened by the court for a time it looked like the i.c. might do the right thing and kill the investigation but last spring the prieto you natalie rejected the prosecutor's request to open the investigation but unfortunately then in the spring in march the appeals shipper 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 kangaroo court and indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world your people could be next. staying in the states america's top general says it was wrong for him to join president ran for a photo opportunity outside a church after the area was cleared of anti-racism protesters chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley says he regrets accompanying trump because it created the perception of military involvement in domestic politics really was with trump as he walked through lafayette square after police used pepper spray and stun grenades to disperse protesters the president then posed with a bible outside the church as many of you saw the result of the photograph of mia

lafayette square last week that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society i should not have been there my presence in that moment in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics as a commissioned uniformed officer it was a mistake but i have learned from and i sincerely hope we all can learn from it meanwhile trump has called for stronger police forces in the u.s. despite weeks of protests across the country following the killing of george floyd . we're going to stronger police forces because that's what you need in minneapolis they went through 3 nights of hell. and then i was insistent on having the national guard go in and do their work it was like a miracle it's just everything and i'll never forget the scene it's not supposed to be a beautiful scene but to me it was if you watch policeman running out of a police precinct it wasn't their fault they wanted to do what they had to do but

they were allowed to do anything it wasn't really there for but they were running down the street they weren't allowed to do what they're trained to. us tech giant amazon says it's temporarily suspending police from being able to use its controversial facial recognition technology the company has been criticized for supporting anti racism protesters while promoting a tool that can lead to racial profiling saddle height it reports. businesses are being called out campaign isn't protesters on naming and shaming them supporting the black law is matts amazement 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 central racial bias and surveillance technology forcing amazon's puts a temporary one year ban on u.s.

police from using its controversial facial recognition software called recognition in a statement it says its decision might give congress enough time to put some place appropriate rules to be 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 up in invasive surveillance and then all over policing of already vulnerable communities. the decision is a huge turn thomason last year defended its product against accusations that its algorithm are inaccurate rates of facial identification to doctors skin and female faces the system i was using it worked well on my lighter skin friend space but when it came to my face. so while until i put on a white skin i cut the facial recognition products business technology can use all

to fission 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 also official intelligence researches from tech giants in a number of top universities have written an open letter saying absence software had 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 are a number of cities that have already large cities that are already done for bans including several just 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

a vault it said were massive violence and racial profiling concerns that same day house democrats introduced a police reform bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement use of real time facial recognition so to hide it. multiple mass graves have been discovered in the libyan city of tarun and other areas recently very taken from forces loyal to the warlord telly for half that libya's government of national accord says they contained of remains of soldiers who had been taken prisoner that when it was have to his last stronghold in the west and was recaptured by the g.n.a.t. last week miley kind now has more now from misrata 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 pull 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 the huna by the kenyatta gave the knife the gate that's the militia that was under the belief i have in control of the city of through no u.n. support mission also added that they verified numerous summary executions at the tour huna prison on september 13th so now the d.n.a. health officials have told us that they are finding out that civilians are among the dead in these mass graves we're 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 of the has said they will pursue the perpetrators of these crimes. syrian president bashar al assad has sacked his prime minister just a month before elections and while the country grapples with an economic crisis public anger is now spilling out onto the streets let's give you an idea of just how bad serious finances are well at the start of the 9 year civil war one u.s. dollar traded at $47.00 syrian pounds but earlier this week the currency collapsed to a record low of $3000.00 to the dollar prices of basic goods have skyrocketed in a country where more than 80 percent of the population live below the poverty line already the crisis has led to rare protests in the acid controlled the southern sway the province demonstrators have chanted anti-government slogans authorities have blamed the wave of new u.s.

sanctions which take effect later this month. still to come in this half hour thailand's disappearing activists pressure grows on the government to find. and desperate job living in limbo filipinos stranded by their government's coronavirus restrictions. but. how i will say something of a subtle change in the weather across australia as we go through the next couple days things starting a little more mobile you see how the cloud is rolling from west to east these areas of high pressure the keeping it's a cool sunny and settled light winds they're going to get shoved out of the way because we have another system which is rolling in across southern parts of doubly way that will fade across the great australian bite and that will roll into south

australia through the nullable as we go on through friday the southeast is generally confide in try 15 celsius in melbourne and 19 in the sydney as we go on saturday that western weather does make good progress across south australia adelaide seeing the rain western parts of it toria turning unsettled port fairy will see some heavy rain southeast it generates robert you push up into new south wales eastern parts of queensland could see some lively showers chances some welcome to northern parts of the north island of new zealand but so welcome will be the heavy rain which is continue for central parts of china snatching a little further north which as we go on through the next couple of days it will roll across the sea in sioux south korea. was there for a time into japan is to gradually clear through the turning west by saturday.

because many countries around the world rely on mica to make their product. schoolboy but who pays the price for making the b.c. business she responded when i went east investigates. on al-jazeera. play an important role in protecting him and i. don't touch face. the and the the one. at the back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in africa the number of infections

as doubled to 200000 in less than 3 weeks and the u.n. says a shortage of testing kits remains a major problem president trump has also rise sanctions against international criminal court officials investigating u.s. misconduct in afghanistan and america's top general says it was wrong to join president trump for a photo opportunity outside the church after the area was cleared of anti racism protesters mark milley says he regrets creating the perception of military involvement in domestic politics. another tie anti-government activists has disappeared in cambodia it's the latest in a string of missing dissidents in southeast asia and a scot hides the reports now from bangkok pressure from supporters and family members as part of the government to look into what's happening. by.

taking a need for the missing dissidents of thailand this vigil in bangkok was held just hours after reports of another reported abduction of a critic of thailand's government dissident watch i learned so tell us stocks it human rights group said he was snatched by gunmen near his home in the cambodian capital phnom penh last week in broad daylight he fled thailand just after the coup in 2014 facing charges for social media post satirized the government over there may be responding. i don't know if the government is hiding anything from me but i really wish that the disappearance of my brother will be the last time that someone goes missing. but he thailand's parliamentary human rights committee is pushing for legislation to prevent disappearances and abductions of dissidents. those who disappear are normal people people who are opposed to government people who can gather support has open attention to the issue after initially denying even hearing about the abduction the government here has now said that they'll start looking into the case but prime minister progenitor says that he has not even heard of one

child liam or why he would flee thailand for cambodia since the military coup 6 years ago 9 tied dissidents exile in cambodia laos and vietnam have gone missing or were killed 2 were found in the mekong river their stomachs full of concrete $1000.00 of them seem to be dead and not a week came up this trend that going to seek refuge in a neighboring country doesn't guarantee that they will be safe they will be spared from the. repression. last year kanya son went missing in vietnam he was charged with article 112 a wide sweeping law against the faming the royal family she says police made her put portraits of the monarchy on the wall her advice to the other families how. don't have negative thoughts keep looking keep up the hope and keep fighting even though you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. as the number of missing

dissidents continues to rise supporters say they will keep on fighting and pushing for answers it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. floods in south china have killed dozens of people and many more are missing heavy rain swept across 4 regions forcing nearly 230000 people from their homes rivers are overflowing and mudslides swept downhills rescue and relief operations are ongoing across the regions the extreme weather has caused more than half a $1000000000.00 worth of damage. it's been more than 2 months since the philippines government brought in coronavirus restrictions thousands of unemployed workers who want to return to their home provinces or their jobs overseas have been stranded in the capital unable to earn many of them have been forced to live on the streets jamila in dog and reports from manila but the same family fled the war in malawi 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 with t.v. last. look at their situation this is the human isaac we are 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 believe it to coordinate with the social welfare department so that they are given much me that assistance like food and place to sleep they're also bringing those who are stranded to the or go scores for up the 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 then east of us 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 they pray for hope and better days ahead. jim duggan al-jazeera manila. and the u.k. union leaders have 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 such as aerospace and car manufacturing lauren sleep has the story 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 job to the well at the moment there is nowhere to go no goodies recreating in the car industry across the west midlands nobody is recruiting in the car industry across the u.k. we've seen your announcement 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 of the road this company which makes parts from this and jocular landrover just announced over 400 job cuts to judge you a landrover has only just gone back to work with very limited capacity because of social distancing it's 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 commentry the u.k.'s home of the motor car it went through a collapse in calm a 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 it wants the government to hear its the figures i'm seeing take an employment levels to a place that we haven't seen not just my generation the generation before but maybe the 1920 is 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 they need to invest in new technology called trees the location for the u.k. but 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. meanwhile german airline lufthansa says 22000 full time jobs may need to be cut worldwide because of the drop in demand for

flights caused by the coronavirus outbreak that's more than twice the number of jobs that the airline previously said might need to be cut the company said it expects to have about $100.00 fewer planes in operation after the pandemic. and then to taint venues around the world that remain closed there's no indication of when they will reopen so artists are transforming the way that they connect with audiences by khanna spoke to one of the world's leading orchestra conductor as he's used this time in isolation to achieve one of his greatest artistic triumphs what was once the beating heart of new york's cultural scene is still the link incentives home to the metropolitan opera house but now stand silent is it's a dark period for the world it's a dark period and very scary for the arts and for the artists or others who were at home not being able to express and do what he can do just bring you teach the world

but it's also 'd as artists our duty to help being creative being even more creative and reinvent ourselves so that we also try to give back and give this hope to the. transforming this idea into action the conductor brought together the orchestra and sing is from around the world in an astonishing. was. what really warms my heart was to. see that all the singers from so many countries and so many continents around the world. they were all like friends throwing to bow at each other and just play this this wonderful opera game and seeing that there's only one

semele of opera greats the mets in a way i still hold all these artists but when the computers are switched off the artists return to isolation to ponder what might come next i think we have to distinguish what's happening now where still people are dying from this virus and still it's very threatening to the next stage which will be a transitional period where orchestras might not be able to do immediately i'm over 60 but maybe something's mall or opera houses of the magnitude of the met might not be able to present opera the way that this is open for there will be a light at the end of this i know and i'm convinced that eventually course great arts like this cannot be silence for. the musician alone returns to his roots the piano money and health. the performance dedicated to all

who are suffering. it was a. way for me to express what words. cannot really express and this is why we need using. express feelings that we can. walk into. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has won the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in africa infections have doubled to $200000.00 in less than 3 weeks but the u.n. says a shortage of testing kits remains a significant problem donald trump is ramping up pressure to stop an investigation into allegations of american war crimes in afghanistan the us president has also

rice sanctions against any international criminal court officials involved in the case i.c.c. prosecutor fact toobin sudan is investigating possible crimes by the taliban afghan authorities u.s. forces and the cia. america's top general says it was wrong to join president trying for a photo opportunity outside the church after police used pepper spray and stun grenades to clear the air of protesters the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley says he regrets creating the perception of military involvement in domestic politics. as many of you saw the result of the photograph of mia lafayette square last week that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society i should not have been there my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. as a commissioned uniformed officer it was

a mistake but i have learned from and i sincerely hope we all can learn from. multiple mass graves have been discovered in the libyan city of tire huna and other areas recently very taken from forces loyal to the warlord highly for half that libya's government of national accord this says they contain the remains of soldiers who had been taken prisoner who now was have 2 hours the last stronghold in the west and was recaptured by the jna last week syrian president bashar al assad has sacked his prime minister just a month before elections the president's decision comes during a deepening economic crisis and floods in south china have killed dozens of people heavy rain swept across 4 regions forcing more than 200000 people from their homes that's a one on one east behind the glitter is next. thanks for watching. the prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament back home it's

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