the in the air . the fears of a resurgent sponsor of beijing back under lockdown as new local cases of corn a virus on reports it. the air this is al jazeera live from doha for the back to boil brazil's coronavirus death toll surges to become the 2nd highest in the world the un's health agency wants the country's hospitals are under huge strain plus a video emerges of a canadian indigenous chief being assaulted by police prime minister trudeau calls for an investigation and a 2nd night of protests in lebanon over the government's handling of a deepening economic likes. to

air we begin in beijing where a district in the chinese capital is on high alert after dozens of people there tested positive for corona virus the 1st after 2 months of no infections in the city a house sale market and 11 neighborhoods in its vicinity of been placed under lockdown after testing 45 people at the market were positive focal did 19 officials in that beijing district say they are in a war footing to contain the virus the chinese capital is also delaying the reopening of some schools as a result katrina you has more from beijing. so what we know is that this new cluster of cases centers around a wholesale market in beijing called the market now this is the biggest wholesale market in the city it's located in the southwest of the city in a district called fun time which is about an hour's drive from downtown beijing now we know about $4000.00 workers work at this market in 1st came to the attention of

the authorities when on friday yesterday 2 men had symptoms but of the cord virus and tested positive for it one of these men had nerve trouble history and the 2nd had recently returned from spending a week in the east of china now after these 2 men were tested positive authorities proceeded to test those linked to these men about 2000 people have been tested so far and from that round of testing 7 people have been confirmed to have the court a virus and have symptoms and $45.00 so far have tested positive without any symptoms so they're asymptomatic cases another interesting thing about this cluster is that the authorities are saying that a sample of the corona virus was actually found on a table in the market of a stall or in a selling seafood and apparently this stall on a specialized in selling imported salmon and so that's also created a little bit of panic around the city regarding the sale of seafood around around the capital in all the world health organization says the americas are getting hit

the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic the region currently has 4 of the 10 worst hit countries in the world covered 19 is highly active especially in central and south america or brazil's president jalal sinatra once described corona virus as a little flu and it's now become a health crisis voice country brazil has the 2nd highest number of deaths from gold in 19 in the world and it's on the n.p.t. reports. workers at the largest cemetery in seoul paulo or exhuming more than double the amount of bodies they usually do to make room for fresh. as the number of 1000 deaths in the country overwhelms capacity but even if the country is now the world's 2nd highest death toll after the u.s. people are returning to the streets in mass the world health organization is again sounding the alarm although says so far the national health system is holding up to the pressure over all the health system is still coping in brazil though having

said that with the sustained number of severe cases. it is that remains to be seen and clearly the whole system in brazil across the country we have significant support in order to sustain its efforts in this regard president jackie had both so narrow west threaten to leave the w.h.o. all together is this missing concerns about a lack of beds calling on his followers to go into hospitals to demonstrate that this is just a political ploy against them. is there a field hospital near you or a public hospital find a way to get in and film it a lot of people are already doing this more people have to do it to show if the beds are occupied or not. and that also narrows dismissive response to depend there mick has further entrenched and already deeply divided country with weekly protests in favor and against the president which at times up turned violent. adding to the

turmoil both are not only sons are under investigation for corruption your position is calling for the presidency impeachment while its allies or saying a military intervention is necessary to keep him in power. with the current of virus pandemic he had in fact an increase in political instability and a political crisis meaning more conflict between the powers the executive branch the supreme court the national. congress. as the number of coronavirus cases rise the political divisions are widening testing the health and the stability of latin america's largest democracy i listen to them pity and. in other news canada's prime minister says police video of the violent arrest of a prominent indigenous chief is shocking and raises questions about the use of force the dash cam footage shows federal officers tackling chief on an atom to the ground and punching him in the face the incident in march began over an expired

license made a video is being used in a legal challenge of criminal charges filed against adam a police known as the r.c.m.p. say they use reasonable force after he resisted arrests. i think everyone who's seen this video has serious questions about what exactly happened about how it happened this way and about that use of force that we saw that's why we're calling for an independent transparent investigation that will get the answers to so many question that people are asking right now is the events that have been brought to light over the past days highlight that without question there is systemic discrimination within our institutions including within the r.c.m.p. in the united states new york has become the latest state to introduce reforms so its police departments following the death of george floyd in police custody the governor of new york describes the new law as as the most aggressive in the nation

aimed at ending police brutality against african-americans there is no quick fix to this there is no wealth up here gas. change the uniforms that's not with this is about my friends and it would be a mistake if we went down that path this systemic reform a police departments. this is sitting down and taking a look at exactly what they do and have been doing and looking at it through a new lens of reform and reinvention because this has been 4050 years in the making. and police in seattle have been ordered to temporarily stop using tear gas and pepper spray to break up peaceful protests a 2 week court order comes as ronnie's against police brutality continue in the city demonstrators have also taken over a 6 block area of the city declaring at a police free zone president trump has threatened to send in the military to push

the protesters out and the wake of nationwide protests in the u.s. many districts are under pressure to remove police from schools school boards in minneapolis portland denver and oakland are just a few that have decided to end or phase out their contracts with police departments while reynolds has this report. fueled by protests against systemic racism and policing the executive board of the los angeles teachers' union has called for cutting the public school police force. in many us cities police officers are permanently stationed in schools to provide security a trend that accelerated after deadly school shootings like the one at columbine high school 21 years ago. but now activists want to divert school police funding to hire counsellors librarians and mental health workers to support students only not while is

a co-founder of the black lies matter movement and the mother of 3 children in l.a. schools there is an embedded racism that says that white children are children who should be nurtured and black children are children who should be surveilled traumatize our children. are there with guns in their repressive force if there's anywhere police don't belong it's our schools that brants t. ok levin is the mother of a 1st grader and a university professor specializing in policing what the research does show. is that having police in schools funnels students particularly students of color black and brown students into the prison system. here in los angeles the school police officers make hundreds of arrests each year issue hundreds of citations each year disproportionately to black students and we know that that has

devastating effects not just on the students but on their families and in their communities others including many classroom teachers say it would be a mistake to remove police from school campuses and the fun seka has taught l.a. high school students with special needs for 6 years i've worked with the district long enough to know that there have been times on several campuses l.a. u.s.d. where there have been i was present on campus where there have been guns present on campus where there have been people who have come on to campus trying to threat threaten our students this is a place to look good after so many incidents of actual deadly violence at schools the los angeles school police association says pulling cops off campus would make students and teachers less safe it also cites specialized training for its officers on a yearly basis we recover somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 shotguns rifles and

other weapons that are firearms on school campuses. a nationwide movement driving change in policing from the street to the schoolyard rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. climbdown u.s. president donald trump is rescheduling a rally that was due to be held on a day that commemorates the end of slavery it follows a growing up quiet from black leaders for days defended his decision to hold his 1st rally in 2 months on june the 19th also known as juneteenth. daily tour than scheduled in tulsa oklahoma that's a sign of one of the bloodiest massacres of black americans in u.s. history says he's making the change out of respect. now to lebanon where protestors have rallied for a 2nd night in beirut over the government's handling of a deepening economic crisis hundreds voiced anger at the spiralling cost of living

despite a government promise to bolster the local currency the target to be reporters were there was protesters have no confidence the lebanese government can stop the worsening economic crisis that anger and frustration is feeling violent protests as people lose hope. and they reach demonstrators through fireworks and rocks at riot police. they were met with a volley of tear gas. shops in the capital were attacked. and in the northern city of tripoli protesters holed petrol bombs at soldiers. they should all resign so we can live and so those young unemployed men can live instead of becoming robbers and thieves. since october the local currency has lost 70 percent of its value but the banks are still maintaining the official price paid

at $1500.00 lire to the dollar black market prices have surged inflation is soaring there are shortages of food and fuel and unemployment has spiked to 35 percent after an emergency cabinet meeting on friday the government promised to stabilize the current say by injecting more dollars into the market but feel. the value of the dollar against the lebanese currency will be reduced as of today but in reality it will not appear before monday $1.00 will equal less than $4000.00 lebanese lira and it will go down to 3000 or 3200. but for these protesters this crisis is not a and they want those empowered to. hold responsible the years of mismanagement and corruption victoria gazin be i'll just say we're. still ahead on al jazeera disruptions on the line calls for zoom to clarify its relationship with china after

the video conferencing company is accused of borrowing to pressure from beijing and pakistan tries to dig itself out of a financial hole as it tackles its 1st recession in almost 17 years. hello the flood risk continues in central southern france from this resulting storm which although is drifting north just has this hanging front on it so to produce some flooding in the may well do some more keeping temperatures in this part of europe much of the west here all the low side below average whereas the central eastern and even scandinavia those new if you like is far warmer than you might expect a forecast specifically for alls like take ship to 30 degrees on monday the records about 34 but the average is only 20 so we are well above all that you do go back in

there on tuesday as rain arrives in fact is a bit of a breeze coming into some parts of eastern europe so vilnius warsaw a cooling down a little bit but as a mass of warms and moisture to produce some big thunderstorms so if it's not the right in france then these biggest storms in northern italy and in the alps and dotted around germany through hungary down towards rumania back in spain and portugal things are slowly will be up but only slowly so a process will take at least the weekend in the start of the following week whereas elsewhere the shows just spread it does keep most of the action away from north africa that are still clouds showers potentially in morocco and redact hangs on to 23. isolating times listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another

side of this story not from our information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact it's really have a long exposing deal. when it really is the rhetoric and claims but they cannot manipulate the fires listening post your it's like going to the media circus iraq. in the in the the world. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera this hour lockdown has been re-impose in parts of china's capital after 45 people at a wholesale market tested positive for the coronavirus what's being called a wartime emergency in beijing has for school so delayed reopening following 2

months of knowing faction brazil has overtaken britain to have the world's 2nd number 2nd highest number of covered 900 deaths more than 900 feet tallit is where reported on friday raising the total to nearly $42000.00 brazil is now 2nd to the united states with the largest number of covered $1000.00 infections and police in on have crashed with demonstrators in beirut during a 2nd night of protests over the deepening economic crisis the government's handling of high unemployment and the spiraling costs of living. bruni's constitutional court has ruled that the president elect must be sworn in as soon as possible following the sudden death of his predecessor of a snake should be a was due to take over president. malcolm webb reports. a minute of silence in the room these constitutional court for the late president

and currencies or. government announced his death on tuesday that left the question of who takes over. the constitution says the speaker of the national assembly should then become an interim leader. of course there is no need for an interim president as the newly elected president can start his term a day after being sworn in according to article one of the constitution for this reason the court has decided that it is right for a president elect. to take the oath as soon as possible. every student was announced the winner of elections held last month which were marred by reports of violence in irregularities he was due to take over from currencies are in august when currencies a good group are ready for 15 years his rule started peacefully but ended with widespread reports of political killings and torture. 5

years ago there were weeks of protests when he announced his decision to run for a 3rd term. political opposition said it was against the constitution many of them along with activists and journalists since fled into exile. now nobody openly criticizes the government on the street level but is it because of the president has worked hard and now we've got his replacement every year we trust to work with brilliance and brody. become and said in currencies a died of a heart attack many suspect he died of covert 19 he had no policies to slow the spread of the virus. he told burundians that god would protect them from it thousands gathered it election rallies last month after recent death ministers met on thursday to discuss what happens next they said it was the constitutional court

to decide. and it's the same court that 5 years ago was forced by own currencies are to rule that he could run for the 3rd term according to one of its judges let into exile. rights groups say none of these institutions function independently after 15 years of an currencies as rule he may be gone bring the future is still fragile malcolm webb al-jazeera the un refugee agency is appealing for 180 $6000000.00 to help deal with the crisis in the region of africa more than $2000000.00 people are fleeing fighting there with another $5000000.00 in urgent need of aid groups have bases in mali but fighting has spilled over into the share and work enough fossil. libya's national oil company says fighting since january has cost more than $5000000000.00 in lost revenue and on go force

a holton exports are on the largest oil fields this week maybe a so-called oil crescent disco so the latest between the u.n. backs government and fighters loyal to warlords have to earn money train every force. in a major setback for warlord khalifa haftar forces loyal to the internationally recognized government in tripoli are now advantage into the city of sirte on libya's central coast after a string of victories in the west. syria is located near libya's most important asset its oil producing region in the east which is under hussars control libya which has africa's richest proven crude reserves and relies on oil exports for nearly all its state revenue plunged into violence with the toppling and killing of longtime leader while mortgage death the in 2011. the country's oil fields pipelines and terminals have frequently been damaged in fighting and putting libya

on the path to economic government preserving libyan oil facilities and strong access to the national oil corporation have to or is backed by the u.a.e. egypt and russia among others more than a year after he launched his unsuccessful campaign to take control of tripoli from the internationally recognized government his backers are now seeking to keep after involved through diplomacy but now embolden with turkish support and gaining territory rapidly government forces and officials say they will not negotiate with have to nor accept the ceasefire. we will enter a shot this isn't the battle for cities like shit. it is a fight for libya for freedom and democracy we will continue east until we liberate all of libya from the war criminal. european leaders have called for a cease fire with the german ambassador visiting have to in eastern libya on wednesday and then tripoli the day after tomorrow leave before. unfortunately the

international community stood by while have to resort to tripoli and kill civilians the feeling among libyans is they no longer trust the international community countries who recognize the g.n.a.t. but support have to like egypt can't be trusted. the u.n. support mission in libya has said that the g. and a and half there is military delegations are now fully engaged in the 3rd round of talks with both sides very strict conditions it is unlikely we will see a ceasefire in libya any time soon now traina. misrata brazil's state owned oil firm petrol boss has announced it will stop hiring tankers that have entered venezuelan ports in the past year is signals that brazil will a dear to us sanctions on venezuela the u.s. has blacklisted shipping companies that deal with venezuela it's an attempt to cut oil revenues to the government of president nicolas maduro of venezuela's opposition has criticised the appointment of

a team that will oversee forthcoming parliamentary elections the supreme court names new leaders for the national electoral council a body that critics have repeatedly accused of favoring the ruling socialist party opponents boycotted a vote in 2018 on the grounds that it was rigged nicolas maduro went on to be reelected the parliamentary election date still hasn't been set. now several members of the u.s. congress have asked video conferencing firm zoom to clarify its relationship with china as well as its data collection practices after the company admitted suspending the accounts of rights activists the requests of the chinese government zome initially said it was following local laws when it disrupted their meetings on the 31st anniversary of the tenon men square massacre the firm says it will no longer allow requests from beijing that affects users outside of mainland china. who one is china researcher at human rights watch she says the chinese government censorship of sensitive content online will only get worse i think you know what

have impacted because you know we're literally banned chinese people from joy international meetings you know the chinese government doesn't approval but to you know i think the situation is going to become worse in a worse so i mean eventually you know the population they really wanted to jump over of the great fire war and to know the you know stings a sense interventions come in the can do but i think the majority of people i think you know they are. it's not something that is there any concern that very much and the situation is getting worse and worse and probably it's getting harder for them to jump over the wall companies like apple i mean the error their reputation is tarnished because they have removed hundreds of b.p. and. when china requested and they have removed it and other things to the chase coming requested and but i think seeing is that just a profit to huge and they just want to make the money even you know they're being

chastised for. kowtowing to chinese government. police in hong kong have arrested at least $43.00 people as hundreds of anti-government demonstrators gathered across the city they defied a ban on public gatherings to mark the one year anniversary of a major rally that kicked off months of protests demonstrators accuse the police of using excessive force when they tried to block a vote on the non withdrawn extradition law they're now withdrawn expedition i should say they're also angry over a new law that criminalizes mockery of china's national anthem. and pakistan's government has announced its next by jet as it travels with me he cannot make prospects and the fallout from coronavirus the country's facing its 1st recession in 68 years and while the government says its budget is people friendly many are struggling with spiraling inflation and unemployment osama bin jahvid reports. as politicians in pakistan met to discuss

a budget in excess of $43000000000.00 for the next financial year 70 year old gorry was forced to sell mosques in islamabad the adults in the family and well she must wait for customers to be able to earn some money. and meat loaf i let out. my mother is sick my father is sick i'm a so mosques and los to take home some food in the evenings. like this on the economy was already struggling and the coronavirus pandemic added additional strain . government data indicates that a complete shutdown to stop the pandemic could see an additional loss of $18000000.00 jobs by cosign the economy is predicted to suffer negative growth for the 1st time in 68 years and the government says it understands people are suffering so no new taxes have been added to disk year's budget the budget is. meant to bring relief. to the citizens of arkansas. by the

us. of course. many. even attractive offers such as not asking investors where their money came from have not worked investment hasn't improved enough to create jobs anywhere that . your people are of a high what's a poor man's. how do you send them to school by inflation or broken or even my mobile phone is blocked a new law means now i must be to get out all these problems of the poor the rich keep getting richer. does the nokia i made $12.00 in 10 days what should i do there's an additional allocation for the health budget to fight the pen demick many people ignored the government safety advice when markets reopen after bhatia lockdowns more than one 128000 people have been infected in 2400 have died including 40 medical staff 2000 others have also contracted the virus parkinson's

doctors and paramedics have been critical of the government's response to the pandemic is a shortage of lifesaving drugs and many fear even specialist care facilities may not be able to properly treat patients hospital staff say people are panicking about the availability of oxygen tanks which are in short supply is well there's also a fuel shortage in many areas emergency workers say they do not know how to respond to the lack of fuel and oxygen cylinders yasser have done over a long distance is an issue because of the fuel shortage ambulances have to wait in line as well and we only get $3.00 to $8.00 worth of fuel we have to transport patients many of them are critical so fuel is a major issue only small oxygen tanks are available like this one which lasts only 3 hours philanthropist and charities have stepped up efforts to feed the hungry at this center in islamabad a 1000 people are fed every day. organizers say most adults in queues a daily wage workers carpenters household help and even unemployed skilled workers

. as politicians scramble to find and allocate appropriate resources to options to stem the rising number of those living in poverty remain in clear shaaban job read out as they are. now again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera down has been green posed in parts of china's capital after 45 people at a wholesale market tested positive for corona virus what's being called a war time emergency in beijing has forced course to delay reopening following 2 months of no infections it to you has more from beijing. so far what we know is that this new cluster of cases centers around a wholesale market in beijing called sinful the market now this is the biggest wholesale market in the city it's located in the southwest of the city in a district called fun time which is about an hour's drive from downtown beijing now

we know about $4000.00 workers work at this market in 1st came to the attention of the authorities when on friday yesterday chair men had symptoms but of the cord a virus and tested positive for it one of these men had no trouble history and the 2nd had recently returned from spending a week in the east of china meanwhile brazil has overtaken britain to have the well 2nd highest number of covered 19 deaths the health ministry with $48.00 more than 900 feet oddities on friday putting the total at nearly $42000.00 brazil also has the largest number of infections after the united states protesters of ronnie for a 2nd night in lebanon over the government's handling of a deepening economic crisis stemmed straight as threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas. canada's prime minister says police video of the violent arrests of a prominent indigenous chief is shocking and raises questions about the use of force the dash cam footage shows federal officers talking chief on an atom to the

ground in punching him in the face the incident in march began over an expired license plate the video is being used in a legal challenge to criminal charges filed against him. and the governor of the u.s. state of new york has signed a sweeping signing a package of sweeping police reforms into law they include a ban on chokeholds and allowing the release of officers disciplinary records the measures followed nationwide protests sponsored by the death of george floyd in minneapolis last month. those are the headlines on and as there is always more news on our web site al-jazeera dot com coming up next here is a listening post to stay with us. from tool to 0 to 0. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop all the 30 action these is the moment he goes on fighting we

meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the. 0. tech stuff costs people to cause i'm tess and. i. think that that's true the question is whether these stocks something. hello i'm richard burton you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories that we're examining this week a statue of a slave trader takes the fall in the u.k. as britain confronts its colonial legacy the racism it exported in its days of empire the long running television show cox has had its day all that unrest in the u.s. has broadcasters reconsidering what television shows are appropriate viewing the advertising model that corporations can use to convince us that they care about more than a profit.