save humanity i really really not getting anywhere. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes after months of lockdown parts of europe slowly begin to reopen their borders and economies as they try to avoid a 2nd wave of coronavirus but really imposing restrictions in india a massive spike in cases forced the shutdown in the state of chennai. it's being

called a mockery of justice the u.s. ambassador denounces russia's harsh sentencing of a former u.s. marine on charges of espionage. also on the program a blow to press freedom in the philippines 2 journalists are convicted of libel after linking a business to criminal activity and in sports it's 3 down 5 to go for cats are as they get ready to officially open their 3rd stadium for the 2022 world cup. after 3 months of lockdowns several european countries are finally reopening their land borders that's after a steady decline in the number of corona virus cases and deaths from cope with 19 the french president emmanuel macro has claimed a 1st victory with a drop in infection rates france's schengen borders have reopened and restaurants and cafes are allowed to operate at full capacity in paris non-essential stores in

england are back in business and many outdoor attractions are open to visitors and in greece greece is 2 main airports well they've resumed operations given the country's all important tour of. an industry a boost in asia thailand has ended its 2 month long nationwide curfew however china illustrates the ever present danger of a 2nd wave several districts remain under lockdown and schools are closed in the capital beijing after dozens of new cases were detected there here's dominic kane from the german danish border where traffic is once again on the move. the border here is open but controls are still being performed by danish officials who are checking to see the categories of people trying to gain access into the country we now know that they are allowing people in who are residents and citizens of because that's the state i'm standing in right now bordering their country they're also

allowing in danes of course returning to denmark from germany and tourists who can prove that they have a booking to stay in denmark for 6 nights or more but they are able to turn around to force back people who don't fall into that category contrast that with the german side of the border where there are no officials and because it's an inside the schengen sign people can come and go as they please that is good news for the communities on both sides of this border particularly the german side which depend very much on cross border trade for their prosperity certainly a local businessman told me he'd lost 85 percent of his trade during the border closures of the last 3 months that is a sentiment that's taking place right around europe certainly other countries reopening their borders and hoping that trade will pick up that's certainly the case in paris in france with other french cities too where bars and restaurants are reopening with social distancing in place to allow for the economy to try to come

back certainly from the european perspective there is the will amongst the e.u. institutions to try to see freedom of movement returns wherever possible but here at least from the german side it's there the danish side well they believe that checks should still be taking place as is happening here at the front crossing where i'm speaking ok let's take a live update on what's going on in england right now al-jazeera jonah hall is live for us all standing on an island i see journey you must be don't get knocked down in the next 2 minutes is it chockablock is it bumper to bumper there. i mean it's pretty busy it's early busier than i've seen it in the last 3 months peter but you know the busiest shopping street in britain one of the busiest in the world it's not the thronging mass of people one is accustomed to see to seeing we've seen large queues outside some of the biggest stores prime marks sports direct nike town at the apple store you'll get your temperature checked as you walk

in and be handed a free march those queues though are largely a product of the social distancing rules which mean that limited numbers of people are allowed into the stores at any one time and indeed other rules me that this is far from the normal shopping experience you can't pick anything up and look at it and feel it before you buy it you can't try anything on and the other big innovation of the day is that if you want to come shopping here or anywhere else by public transport you have from today to wear a mask now compulsory on public transport has travellers and commuters commuter numbers take up with the lifting locked down and it all sort of begins to beg the question just how many people are going to want an ongoing bases now take up the opportunity to come shopping in person particularly with the coronavirus pandemic still very much a reality when they could just stay at home and carry on shopping online as they have in the last 3 months and the answer seems to be well perhaps just enough to service the business needs of the large stores but not enough for some of the smaller ones many of whom have not opened and may well not open for some time to

come as they continue to feel the economic pain of this lockdown that perhaps long after it's over is what we're seeing where you are right now jonah being reflected across the entire u.k. or is this just england specific at the moment. at the moment this is just england specific the other parts of the u.k. are still waiting to find out quite what the devolved government's attitude is to the opening of stores for the moment this is just england specific and in other parts of england and it don't leaven suggests that perhaps up to 60 percent of businesses will try to open their doors from this monday on which to the said not all will do so we're not clear what will happen in the rest of the country but this is just you know the next step in what has been a gradual but frankly getting swifter and swifter lifting of the lockdown in this country sometimes in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary because of the enormous pain and impact that has been wrought on the economy and the pressure has

just been so great on the government to start letting the economy the wheels of the economy flow again and this is just the latest iteration of that ok journal many things. well coronavirus not done so being reimposed $15000000.00 people in chennai and several neighboring districts in india restrictions in the eastern region will be enforced as of friday until the end of the month because of a big surge in new infections the government has reported 332000 cases with more than 9 and a half 1000 deaths and the situation in the capital new delhi is getting worse as india correspondent elizabeth purana now explains tonight is chief minister has announced a complete lockdown for chennai and 3 neighboring districts after meeting with health experts about the rising number of cases chennai and these districts are going to go back into the type of lockdown that we saw in late march when only

essential services were allowed so essential shops will be allowed to open from 6 o'clock in the morning till 2 in the afternoon officers are only allowed to have one 3rd of their staff present and while trains and flights will continue all other vehicles will only be allowed to be you. for essential or a merge and see services elsewhere in the country in delhi the chief minister has said that they are not going to reimpose along even though delhi along with tamil nadu and maharashtra are the worst hit states delis leaders held 2 days of meetings with the country's interior minister about the situation in the capital they have decided to expand testing to anyone who wants to be tested at 1st they had decided to double testing over the next few days and triple after that and then really open it up to everyone they are also going to convert $500.00 railway carriages and to nearly $5000.00 isolation beds and they're looking at using sports stadiums and

hotels to use treatment facilities that's after the supreme court called the situation and where there were a lack of beds and some of the other worst hit cities deplorable lose purana reporting joining us live is david alexander he's in florence and italy david alexander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction university college london mr alexander welcome to the news what's your reading of the timing of opening the borders is it too early too late or just about right. that is difficult to say one of the problems here is that the decision to pierce are made a number of cases more on the basis of political prejudice than scientific fact 2 things to bury money there are 4 countries play there appears to be a 2nd one and eve if we look at iran the 2nd wave appears to be larger than the 1st wave other countries are still heading towards the peak of the 1st wave and that's

important to bear in mind although the majority of countries seem to be in a phase that at the moment tentative decline of the disease whether or not they will lead to lead to the 2nd the other fact to bear in mind about this is that very often the infection rate is some of highly variable on a regional basis and you can see this in the u.k. for example we are in front of us in the final of western sheffield in the northeast and parts of the southwest 100 or rather actually parts of south wales having very high infection rates and therefore many respects blanket measures countrywide measures unless a country is very small we don't really have a great deal of significance but what we can also say is that. with bilateral relationships if the infection rate is low in the departure country than it is in

the arrival country then it makes little sense to exclude people ok we had an update report from the german danish border people in face masks not so many we had a live update from the epicenter of the shopping experience in london oxford circus people in face masks not so many people or in gloves not so many how risky is that not for those people per se but for the the presidents and the prime ministers around europe who may have to deal with the potential or the prospect of being told look we've got a 2nd wave you've got to reclaim those borders. well true the exceptions are not really clear in sweden you need exceptions countries are to be more disciplined. in truth. and therefore wearing gloves wearing face masks observing distancing as much as possible really easy does make a difference the face mask we know does not stop you from getting the disease but it does so different transmitting if you are

a carrier or if you have it it is therefore there is mounting evidence that it's there for a useful tool and it does help to reduce the rate of infection and that is of course exactly what we need to test for ok we have to leave it there david alexander great to talk to you thanks for coming on. lots more still to come for you here in the news including after years on the run a sudanese militia leader accused of war crimes in darfor appears before the international criminal court. also ahead words of hope letters from family members and friends are becoming a lifeline for coronavirus patients in mexico. and in support we'll hear from the premier league footballer demanding u.k. politicians to do more to prevent child honda. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of says the u.s.

is quote outraged by the sentencing of a former marine to 16 years in prison by court in russia paul whelan has been convicted of spying and his trial was conducted behind closed doors the u.s. says no evidence was provided and it's called for his release mr whelan says he's innocent and that he was set up he says the russian police planted a flash drive containing classified information whilst he was at a friend's wedding 2 years ago. i've described these proceedings as a mockery of justice and today just confirmed. an american citizen has been sentenced to a term of 16 years. for running for which we have not seen evidence he's not seen he was denied the opportunity to present witnesses in his defense he was denied the opportunity to work cooperatively with his defense counsel which in his defense counsel appointed for him not defense counsel he said. so

this is a mockery of justice at least by american standards ok let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly held good life for us in washington kimberly what else can the u.s. do about this. well certainly the u.s. president could try to leverage his relationship with president putin if he wanted to try and get this individual released the says so far something that has not occurred in fact we haven't heard from the u.s. president on this so far we have heard from his secretary of state as you point out saying he's outraged by the decision they called this a secret trial with secret evidence and in violation of international human rights law the concern being that in detention he was not treated very well according to the secretary of state that the russian authorities ignored longstanding medical conditions that mr wayland had now his family also concerned about this also releasing their own statement saying that they believe well that he has their

brother david whalen saying paul whalen has been convicted and now sentenced to 16 years of hard labor but really of the families do it is the russian legal system that has been found guilty of injustice they say that their family member paul was essentially lured by entrapment and they also say that the russian judges are political not legal so they have little hope that this appeal 2 that they expect to mount in the coming weeks that this will be successful in any way that's why the family is looking now at u.s. government officials and again to president trump saying that he alone can act to bring paul home we hope he will do so swiftly and there is precedent on the part of the family in terms of pinning their hopes on the actions of president trump we know that he has been able to secure the release of americans that were held in prison to in north korea also in turkey and just more of than 10 days ago in fact also in iran so the family holding out a lot of hope but so far the u.s.

president has said nothing about this case you can really like a little bit of an old one in us much as you know you've already touched on this relations between mr trump mr puts in a good there's no obvious. negative backstory between washington and russia at the moment yes both countries are actors in certain conflicts in the middle east but as a quid pro quo a payback this would be a less than obvious way to do it if there's some perceived slight in the kremlin on the part of the united states. well there are a few actions the united states has done that perhaps mr putin doesn't like particularly when it comes to some of the treaties and pushing for some security treaties to be renegotiated saying that russia has not been abiding by them bad is one of the recent actions that has taken place we do know though though in the last

10 days or so maybe a little bit longer the u.s. president had a conversation with vladimir putin and we know from the readout it was amicable for the most part they discussed. covidien how to treat that as well but this is the 2 nations have a long history of going back and forth in terms of trying to kind of leverage one another i mean it would be safe to assume that what's going on here and this is a standard playbook you kind of hand out a gift to an american there's someone there to photograph it and boom suddenly they're they're accused of spying this has gone on back and forth for some time for decades between these 2 countries and one would expect that this will be used as leverage by the russians to try and secure the release of russian individuals that are currently detained in the united states so there seems to be much bigger things that play here between the 2 governments in order to try and achieve their ends states and caught in the middle is an american that says he was there to attend

a wedding kimberly thanks very much. at least 40000000 soldiers have been killed and dozens are missing after an ambush by an armed group there the attack happened in the village of goma kuta close to the border with mauritania on sunday the united nations earlier said gunman killed 2 of its peacekeepers in the north western region nicholas arc is following developments for us out of senegal's capital dhaka nic welcome back to the news just take us through what we think happened here. well fishley defense forces haven't given actual account of what happened but already we're seeing on social media media video of what appears to be the attack be circulated in mali so 12 pickups heavily armed soldiers in it were attacked around 5200 on sunday afternoon in the middle of the desert were ambushed by armed men and we know that some of the pickup so the in forces have sent out. an airplane to try to

find some of these soldiers many of them are missing no one has claimed responsibility for this attack but there has been other attacks in that place peter claimed by. the mean and the al qaeda affiliates led by a funny cleric anwar dooku father who is waging a war against the bosnian state and the presence of french and international forces that are in the country and as you mentioned to you and peacekeepers died over the weekend we saw at tax also in the mali burkina faso border earlier on friday and clearly the violence is escalating in that area and it comes at a time as the u.n. security council is set to review the mandate of the un peacekeeping force which is the most expensive u.n. mission ever $1000000000.00 a year and also the deadliest the french war chairing the u.n. security council and the united states are in disagreement with the future of the

mission the u.s. want to see a much more robust miss mission one that has a stronger mandate and are saying that the current mission is failing to bring the peace it's supposed to give the french on the other hand want more involvement of western forces on friday it in the coalition of the help where canada saudi arabia the u.a.e. are are funding some of the armies in the region. the armies of sweden elite forces in the czech republic are also said to come and join the already french presence on the ground to try to stem out the violence but this is coming at a time where we're seeing unprecedented protests on the streets of micro with people calling for him. to resign so he's under immense pressure to try to bring out peace that he had promised when he was elected he said that in announcement made on sunday on national television he said that he would create

a national unity government after so many came out to protest and yet the influential cleric mahmoud decode with the high road these protests he wants to see the end of foreign troops or the presence of foreign troops in mali and they want to see the resignation. has said that there will be more protests to come on the streets about marco this week peter nicholas thank you very much he's senior sudanese militia leader facing more than 50 charges including war crimes relating to the conflict in darfur has appeared before the international criminal court the 1st time kushayb has called the allegations against him untrue he'd surrendered last week more than 13 years after an international arrest warrant was issued for him it's alleged he was leading foundations of jonjo weed fighters and was involved in murder and the rape of civilians he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if he's convicted. one of the philippines most prominent journalist and her colleagues have been found guilty of libel maria ressa

denies the charges over an article on a news website rappler linking a businessman to criminal activity human rights activists in the conviction is a devastating blow to press freedom in the philippines from manila his job. it is seen as a major setback for press freedom in the philippines mariette as one of the most prominent filipino journalists and one of her colleagues found guilty of cyber libel. that's after an article was published on her website a rappler linking a businessman to criminal activity. she's expected to appeal against the decision many say the charges are part of a crackdown against the press by president of the good the church is government i appeal to you the journalists in this room the filipinos who are listening don't be afraid because if you don't use your right. you will lose that freedom of the

press is the foundation of every single right you have as a filipino citizen. co-founded a rappler that's reported on corruption and the government's so-called war on drugs that's left thousands of filipinos dead since 2016 president the territory has banned rappler staff from covering official events activists of described. as another existential moment in a country long considered one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists grappler isn't the only news network facing opposition. a.b.s.e b.n. is the country's biggest t.v. network but it was forced to shut down after it was unable to get its franchise renewed by congress the businessman who sued ressa has reportedly been a close ally of the president reza says what's happened to rappler is

a cautionary tale for the philippine press but the government's rejected that saying it back the rights of radio journalist alexander at was who was jailed for libel in 2007 and took his case to the united nations. and he's barking up the wrong 3. of their own 3 press that support that aleksandra noise when he went to the un human rights committee there's number stronger expression of support for press freedom and that once the president sue anyone. but the rights groups say rezzes conviction sense a chilling message to local journalists reporting on corruption in abuses committed by those in power and many filipino journalists say libel laws are being weaponized against critics of the administration jim duggan on just here in manila. turkey is downplaying the delays in talks with russia on libya the turkish foreign minister met a couple. so the hold up had nothing to do with any disagreement smith's cover so

who made the comments during a meeting with his iranian counterpart jobs in ankara turkey is meeting with russia was expected to focus on libya and syria where the 2 countries support opposing sides in longstanding conflicts simcoe sort of is in istanbul she says whilst libya was the main talking point between turkey and the rug the meeting also focused on resuming business and trade toys and as of august 1 flights will begin and will resume but of course to leaders stress that they both discussed regional issues including levy a year man afghanistan and the israeli of occupation plan in the west bank and turkey sides rest of his standing with iran and turkey is against any kind of you know lay troll thank iran and iranian side in iran tense says on the same page with turkey in libya and the shared the same perspective on the

other side yesterday there was a russian delegation headed by russian foreign minister loughborough and defense minister. they were supposed to come to istanbul and talk with their counterparts discuss the details about a political solution a permanent cease fire in the area foreign minister chose or was asked about why the meeting was cancelled postponed at the very last minute he said that there were some technical details in principle basic principles russia and for a key have all the commons with regard to syria but they need to discuss more technical details as also they have to make sure that the political players in libya mainly the g m a's on the same page with the plan that will be proposed by russia and turkey. turkish warplanes have bomb several areas in northern iraq

targeting kurdish separatist fighters is part of a new operation against the kurdistan workers' party or p k k turkey's defense ministry says it's in response to an increase in attacks on its army bases the p k k is designated as a terrorist group by turkey the united states and the european union from baghdad here's simona fulton with the reactions out of iraq. well we've now heard a condemnation from the iraqi government calling for air strikes on iraqi soil as a provocative behavior that are not in line with international conventions interestingly the same statement also mentioned that iraq would cooperate with turkey on any security matters around the border and we also understand that the ministry of interior and defense sent a delegation north to furder look into the situation now it's not a new unusual as in a mentioned earlier that turkey targets pick a position inside iraq but this was by far the most the largest attack we have seen

over the past years and it has particularly drawn a lot of criticism within iraq because one of the areas that was targeted was syndrome which is home today you see the community and let's remember that this community has been through a lot over the recent years since 2014 when i still 1st swept through the area carrying out a genocide against the as it is and of course pick a case of philly it at that time it's local affiliate in the center played a huge role in opening a humanitarian corridor to allow you to escape but what remains to be seen is how the government of prime minister mr fogg calamy will react because one of the key areas he has emphasized during his short tenure is iraq's sovereignty has reiterated many times that he will not accept iraq being used to settle any kind of regional scoresby it between the united states and iran but also other regional nations so it remains to be see one of there will be further follow up actions taken in the coming days and how the government will respond still to come here on

the news for you the. pro-democracy activists in hong kong are facing up to 5 years in jail. also drive in movie theaters in the u.s. or keeping the experience of cinema very much alive. in the store than do the race for champions league places in germany with stories about 50. in minutes. and there it is just one word to describe conditions across the middle east and the last of course is hold it is typical for this time of year but tell much as i continue to rise now to the north across turkey we have got that a bit of class this could give one or 2 showers fady like those who go through choose it maybe a stray shower crawls into angra with a very pleasant high temperature of 28 degrees and feeling pretty good today on the

eastern end of the madras than beirut temperatures in the mid to high twenty's but away from there it is hot 48 in baghdad the same across into kuwait and these winds are strong coming from the north and blowing across his halt in an area right there down across into cats all the u.e.a. so again how much is in the mid forty's but it's also a very hot across areas of terror and in fact the whole weather we're all the way from the caucasus mountains right the way down towards the south a wednesday some a cloud popping up into western saudi could bring an afternoon shot but really nothing more than that so much as however into southern africa have been on the low side we've got a few more showers working their way up eastern areas of south africa some showers further into the interior as well so just celsius the high in johannesburg and is it going to choose those rain showers still very much in the picture but some really heavy rain pushing into southern mozambique and really spreading northwards throughout the day.

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he watching al-jazeera live from doha in pisa dobby let's just get you right up to speed with your top stories several e.u. countries are today finally reopening their land borders after 3 months of lockdown there has been a decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus nations are trying to get their economies moving once again. the u.s. is demanding the immediate release of a man called paul whalen a former marine sentenced to russia and russia to 16 years for spying the secretary of state mike pompei it says the u.s. is outraged at the verdict and has demanded his release. maria ressa one of the

philippines most prominent journalists been found guilty of libel she denies the charges has been seen as a major blow to press freedom activists accuse the president robbery go to turkey of using the law to silence his critics. or staying with that story earlier we spoke to maria ressa she says she is determined to challenge the verdict. we've crossed another boundary you know that in 2016 the government attacks on social media said that they would try to turn the journalist label to criminal it took 4 years and here we are i've now been convicted but of course we will fight this in court we did one of the 1st stories around the world to look at how facebook algorithms impact democracy for the series that we called the propaganda war i was attacked and that kind of weaponization the narratives that were there where i became a criminal already back then translated into the law a year later the same attacks came out of president detectives mouth and then now

it took you know 4 years but now the court has joined in this insidious attack on press freedom and they attempt to stifle the rights that are in the constitution. the number of attacks of cases that have been filed in 20 team 11 cases against us and then in 2019 multiple arrests and detention. and now 7 other criminal cases you know so i guess i know what is coming it's it's like looking at a train wreck happening in slow motion but we're still standing we're going to fight back and while there's of the mirror of rule of law we're going to make sure that every signature every day judge one test us court today made a decision that well that is now in written down in stone that's a new point again bisa tax had been going on for a while but just in 2023 big things happen very militaristic.

pandemic lockdown the 2nd is just about a month ago on may 5th president to tear down the administration essentially shut down a.b.s.e beyond the largest broadcaster the largest newsgroup in this country and then just lastly. the house of representatives passed an anti terror bill that is essentially going to codify institutionalize a lot of these these abuses of power and once the president turns this into law. you can be arrested without a warrant if you are a government if you're questioning the government you could be named a terrorist you could be held in prison for 24 days without a warrant these are new things and i think that's that's why i feel like we were crossing another milestone with this decision because it is codifying into law 2 major. processes you know in order the legal acrobatics that happened to get this

case to court is incredible the 1st one is that they actually had to change the statute of limitations for libel from one year to 12 years and then they introduce a novel concept of republication continuous publication because the law that we supposedly violated didn't exist when we published the story when we corrected a typographical error 2 years later that is the basis of bringing this case to court so we want to home the government account of these. maria ressa talking to us earlier 15 pro-democracy activists in hong kong appeared in court today charged with organizing and taking part in antigovernment protests last year some of facing the most serious allegations of incitement and a potential prison sentence of 5 years difficult was at that hearing. on a day when pro-democracy activists and political figures are in court for taking part in a mass anti-government rally last year new details have emerged about the looming

national security law due to be imposed on kong an official from the liaison office a body that's meant to monitor events in hong kong and report back to beijing has confirmed that beijing will retain jurisdiction on serious violations of the law he also confirmed that a name on security office will supervise the in-force mint of the law last month china's parliament passed a draft resolution to tailor make a security law for hong kong that would outlaw secession subversion terrorism and foreign interference but many here are concerned it will compromise the city's freedoms and rule of law this political also determine. if a pope destruction of homes won't rule of law and order came to iraq rule by fear but of course the worst of. the worst national security all coming home 7. some of the defendants came out of court chanting pro democracy

slogans among them martin lead the man known here as the father of democracy and media tycoon jimmy lie along with the president and former legislative councillors the day session centered around the prosecution requesting for the case to be moved to a higher court so they could impose more severe punishment but the defendant's lawyers said such a move was unprecedented in a case like this. now the death of a black man at the hands of the police in the u.s. city of atlanta is being treated as a homicide an autopsy has revealed racial brooks died from 2 gunshot wounds in his back after a struggle with officers on friday the killing has sparked more protests over police brutality is anika after a weekend of protests following the death of rae short brooks the restaurant where he died is now a symbol of this nation's racial tensions it's being cleaned up now but the anger here hasn't subsided the 27 year old father of 3 was shot and killed by police on

friday following a struggle with 2 officers. as he fled mr brooks was shot and later died on saturday night the restaurant was set ablaze and city leaders condemned the police's use of deadly force his children will continue to grow up for the rest of their life without a father now we can't we can't magically make ryszard brooks reappear this building we can build this building this wendy's back up we can fall in insurance claim to ensure that this building is built back up i don't condone this but i understand it and i'm hurting just like everybody else is despite the resignation of atlanta's chief of police and the firing of the officer who killed ray sean brooks calls for police reform and accountability a growing we're going to make sure that if you shoot somebody in our state you're going to be prosecuted if you're long before someone. if you change someone down for an hour and either crime you're going to be prosecuted as law enforcement. our

government is going to can't ask people here all right across the u.s. on to races protests continue to grow in los angeles the gay pride parade took to the streets in support of black lives matter in south carolina a 1000000 man march was held as protesters marched on the statehouse the 2 lawmakers to address police brutality racism and economic disparities with a shocking plan probably i feel here. if there was every bit of the system that we have plus the fact. that he was home. with you know it's been 3 weeks since george floyd died in police custody now another african-american man's name has been added to a long list of victims of police violence police forces across the u.s.

are now banning practices like cho cole's others a promising more transparency as momentum. change continues many say that's simply not enough to tackle systemic racism inequality and police brutality calls for real pleas for former now growing here and across the world and they gallacher al-jazeera miami florida ok let's stay with us stories are next few minutes we're going to take you to a live news conference where a short books family are holding a press conference in the wake of his death cases simulator a shot. how many more protests will it take. to ensure that the next of victim isn't your cousin your brother your uncle your nephew your friend or your companion so that we can finally end the suffering of police excessive force we

are tired we got tired and we are frustrated. most importantly we're heartbroken so we need justice for a shot briggs. this is. mr brooks his cousin his name is mr asked to try to make this brief and clear 1st and foremost we want to say i. want to show our appreciation and thanks to everybody it's been i have supported us and have been of . and we encourage you to continue to do so and. i see you go by the name of the k. to read a lot of people know me as a lot of celebrities i see that been trying to reach out and try to find a family we are the family i am the family and if you try to help you know reach

out to me i would try to make sure that my cousin and his wife and his kids are taken care of if you can't help financially then try to just keep help with which a voice if they would protest but again i want to just tell you that we appreciate all the help with forces around the nation we thank you. the cousin of ration books they're basically saying that he is the contact person if you will for anyone who wants to help the family given that they are probably in need of some financing over the coming weeks and months those events taking place on friday in to the small hours of saturday in atlanta georgia. the global pandemic has forced the closure of cinemas well why do many drive in venues have stayed open for movie goes in search of the big screen experience of course a safe distance from all those reports now from the u.s. state of virginia. in the middle of the covert 19

pandemic americans are tired of being cooped up inside watching movies on their big screen t.v.'s not surprisingly those living close to a drive in movie theater are seizing the moment sonny berry says the drive in was a joy of his childhood in the 1960 s. here they have a playground so we just played the game on the playground and do all that great in a team here running around and pass out and in the a 2nd movie was full of the older people you know so they watch the older films it is all pleasure to welcome you to skyline in the 1950 s. and 1960 s. some 4000 drive in theaters opened their gates to americans every weekend they're ready for. food socializing and the latest entertainment all on order but as land values soared in the 1970 s. and 1980 s.

theater owners took the money and ran only $300.00 or so drive in theaters are in business today and you're going to have we decided to come on out of the family and enjoy the beautiful weather and know you can at one time like sunny berry jim cooper grew up loving the drive in and then his dream of being here all the time came true thank you i became a patron and 19 a home and i started to talk with the family of about us they'd all and i always told them if you have a one of the give up. right now and one day i got that phone call on this night coupes job is making sure the customers follow new public health rules. you know we see the pope with. every car 2 meters apart. paying for snacks with the phone app and though one can listen to the sound on the car radio the old fashioned windows speakers are covered in plastic just to be safe he can actually have even

though that they're covered up you're still going to have. sonny berry and his family saying that even with the rules the drive in is a gift on a lovely spring night we have a big family and it's hard to limit our gatherings to 10 people at a time so we figured this would be a good option we can maintain some sort of sales social distancing with the children it's always hard though. as the sun goes down moviegoer settlin and enchanting story and each other's company under the stars 2 metres apart roslyn jordan al-jazeera stephen city virginia in mexico hospitals don't have a system to update families of coronavirus patients now that leaves many people anxiously waiting outside for news of their loved ones but some have found a new way to possible messages here's john hoeven. if this bit of paper means the world to christian. it's for crystal for the who's picked up to

a ventilator fighting kogut in mexico city's general hospital is no visits no video calls allow and that's why the nurse was about to have the idea to deliver letters from relatives to patients and read them aloud it's become a lifeline to the families this is the 40th one from christian and his sister jessica puppy only a minister is this going to go you have to do the same for mary was a good person i think ok. this is. where thank. goodness this is her number here pretty much the same 1st grade in the store it's you know the most one of the for me here. it's the most. disturbing most difficult in. the memory is think this kid would be. christofer always heavily sedated for those of his vital signs still jump when he

reads the letters to him and that helps christian to. this big i'm saying this began to be taken with respect him didn't spend it. by the aid us i mean he. focused on was a key thing and i must say let me tell me your single is the most. the plans call on now there's a whole group of families on the seas doing the same. case for thomas' god when i met him today he's brought along a letter from his 11 year old sister or like oh my stars it's better yesterday but i'm going to get the star in your charlie gun that you got that others are going to knock it over to your name out. of my god this is my. family. how was it been for you to be sending these letters to your record on which i mean bottle of moment one. moment those. one or.

both when i said it but i seem pretty. i don't know so see. this girl of. these families are hoping their words will give the relatives the strength to beat this so they can to face to face again join home and. mexico city. the brazilian government's handling of the pandemic has provoked a mass march in 1 of its biggest cities a smaller counter-rally was held in the capital brasilia by supporters of the president. he continues to play down the emergency despite brazil having the world's 2nd highest number of cope with 19 deaths is to raise about. get out boys from nato chanted this people you know of any that only stand in brazil's financial capital. and even have a now was one of the thousands who felt it was necessary to be on the streets on

sunday your book your i'm here because thousands of people are dying of coronavirus and the government doesn't care about it this is a genocide the government is mocking the working class and the police are killing our families and communities black people can't live in peace in this country we are afraid to die because of our problem brazil has become the epicenter of 1000 in south america more than 40000 people have lost their lives many blame precedential handling of the crisis as he opposed imposing a logged on to preserve the economy and disregarded the virus as a little feel. he supporters have also been taking to the streets to defend the precedent but i think it's an epidemic it's clearly people but it's not that much i don't think the core of the virus by the south by itself to use that much i think the most part of people that die by it has another kind of disease but in this

hospital in sao paulo many do not agree receive ice 41 and his recover. from covert 1000 she has been in touch with her family on a video probably. been taken seriously because this is not a little some said i couldn't breathe and i know how bad it is i thought i was going to die it's awful stay home if you can and if you need to go out take all necessary precautions because it's not easy. for survivors like back in their minds who is 50 years old with 19 was a life changing experience. and i am very grateful for life my life has changed i'm grateful to god to my brother in law who saved me to my wife my sister and everyone my life started over because the doctor said i was going to die and today i'm here thank god i thank everyone here. brazil is struggling with a spread of gold with 19 and as the death toll continues to rise there's

a widespread discontent over the president's response. still to come here on al-jazeera the sports news the sound of silence is going to miss the chance to witness this tight on.

time for sports event thank you so much based on it's 3 down. world cup organizers as they get right to officially open the 3rd stadium for the solomons in 20

twentieth's the 40000 capacity education city venue sets a high as much as up to the quarter final stage during the event itself a virtual. ceremony set to take place in a few minutes time sumo stadiums due to open in cats before the end of the year. so much tonight is striking marcus rush has written an open letter to u.k. politicians asking them to do more to prevent child hunger in the country during the coronavirus lockdown children from low income families have been given favorite shoes but that support is jus to stop during the summer break well since march the 22 year old has helped raise more than $25000000.00 for the food charity fair share you know 45 percent of people like me black people people in different ethnic minorities. you know living in poverty. you know i was i was very close to to being one of what for a 5 percent people want to help. and definitely not people want to help but they don't have the understanding on the knowledge behind. they don't know how many

people it's actually to affect in premier league games actually regime on wednesday after a 3 month suspension caused by coronavirus manchester city or by all still body action starts with aston villa's time going against sheffield united the eyes of the world to be honest you know we're looking forwards who work very hard you know . during a lot. of all the work. you know a lot down. the. non-contact trying to contact randall pleasantries get barack obama new take our withinside 78 straight german league title that same getting ready to take on the verge of bremen on cheese day when it will give them a record 30th blunders league championship final have robot leavened oskin some a smaller back for that game they missed saturday's 21 win over russia much in glad back 3 suspension. las vegas is expected to be confirmed as

a hub city for the stanley cup playoffs when the n.h.l. returns to action the league will resume with the $24.00 top ranked teams heading straight into the playoffs all remaining regular season games have been scraps the playoffs will be held in 2 cities with the locations sets be announced in the next few days we can still kentucky writes a can bulky about why less fagan is ahead of the pack i think the number one thing is just the hotel accommodations like they are there so many hotel rooms there are so many different options that they can have an in this case the n.h.l. m.g.m. is basically saying you can have an entire resort so whether that new york new york or park m.g.m. or m.g.m. grand or wherever it happens to be they're planning on shutting the resort down completely and giving it all to an n.h.l. to the n.h.l. so they can have 12 teams in one resort i think that gives them a huge leg up on any other place really in all of america or canada that they just don't have that option there's just not as many hotel rooms it's not as simple and they're not walking distance to the arena like they are here and they are still

planning on doing 12 teams from the east and 12 teams from the west into different cities there's still an issue in canada that they have a mandatory 14 day quarantine period that anybody entering the country has to go through and unless they were to waive that work get rid of that candidate wouldn't be an option something's better than nothing so yelling back on the ice getting the back on t.v. finding different streams of revenue at least there is some sort of stream of revenue where if they were to just call it quits there'd be nothing and they'd be pushing on to next season where we don't even know if there's going to be fans next season either well players describe the atmosphere is very subdued and even strange but gold has got through its north american roots and after the coronavirus looked down on you a bit ago on his 1st budget 3 months fellow american cohen missing this decisive parts in a playoff. celebrations need to because no crowns were allowed at the events in

texas my concern was that you're still going to have a bunch of people here you know no matter what we're going to have hundreds of people on site but i think everyone went through the testing everyone did what they needed to do and hopefully you know it just because we played one week doesn't mean we can go party and do everything else like we used to you know we still have to follow these guidelines ok we'll support from a 3rd of the night so but that is it for now it's and the thank you very much lots more news for you of course on the web site al jazeera dot com when we come back we'll have 30 minutes of al-jazeera world news hopefully the better the sooner the .

at night in a stalking somali patrolled streets police skinny and not. for lack of. tired of gang violence they use the maternal approach to prevent crime. but a bit by the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live there mothers of rain could be this is europe on al-jazeera international trade switch gears a food having free trade would not change your money or the japanese or chinese dogs or germany controversial immigration policies that anyone who has a well founded fear of persecution should be able to count him as the off my list or from syria he's closed the door to syrian refugees like the buffalo maybe his son goes head to head with senior trump advisor stephen moore this year the trump deficit crossed a trillion dollars to the urging everyone not to reelect

a little from well no not pass out and go on al-jazeera. revealing ecofriendly solutions to come back threats to our planet on al-jazeera. the oral. parts of europe slowly begin to reopen borders and economies as lock down restrictions lifted further. below again on peter w. watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up india reimpose is restrictions in chennai following a massive spike in coronavirus case.