gang violence the youth 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 rincon this is europe on al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes the new cluster of cases in beijing and plans for a fresh lockdown in india trigger warnings of a possible 2nd wave of covert 19 but it's

a different picture in europe for border controls are being eased and cafes and restaurants have fully reopened then friends. family here the family of very short brooks the latest black man killed by police in the u.s. call for justice and. the russian court sentences a former american marine to 16 years for spying after a trial the u.s. has branded a mockery of justice. in sport cancer officially opens its 3rd stadium for the 2022 world cup coronavirus a prerecorded ceremony rather than a long football match kicks off the education city that. the world health organization has delivered fresh warnings about a post. 2nd wave of the corona virus with 100000 new infections now being reported

almost every day the w.h.o. said the outbreak in beijing is a concern more than 100 infections have been confirmed in the city after 50 days without a new case and in india around $15000000.00 people will be locked down again in the city of shanghai from friday after a surge of infections there it took more than 2 months for the 1st 100000 cases to be reported for the past 2 weeks more than 100000 new cases have been reported almost every single day almost 75 person or recent cases come from 10 countries mostly in the americas and sos asia countries must stay arlott to the possibility of a resurgence well that warning from w.h.o. comes as countries across europe are reopen their land the borders bars and

restaurants of also fully opened in france and non-essential shops in the u.k. we're going to have more on that in just a moment 1st though elizabeth 4 on them in new delhi has more of the new measures being imposed in india to try to contain the virus. tamil nadu 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 used for essential or imagine c. services elsewhere in the country in delhi the chief minister has said that they

are not going to reimpose a lockdown even though delhi along with tamil nadu in 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 into nearly $5000.00 isolation beds of the 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. the authorities in china's capital meanwhile have fired officials on lockdown at least 20 districts

because of the new covert 19 outbreak there after nearly 2 months with no new infections beijing is reported more than $100.00 new cases over the past 4 days all linked to a sprawling food market global stocks fell on monday after fears it would hamper china's economic recovery katrina you reports from beijing. i'm going to go get last week nelson kwan his wife abby spent time at the local cafe in beijing played golf and was planning a trip to beaches in southern china on monday they were asked to take corvette 19 tests along with everyone living in their residential compound so i just finished having my throat. the discovery of a new outbreak in nearby from ty district sparked a lockdown of around 20 neighborhoods on sunday and. maybe. i mean it's like. the

new cluster reportedly originating in should be the biggest wholesale food market in beijing is threatening china's economic recovery industrial output is bouncing back in may it rose by 4.4 percent compared to this time last year but retail sales fell by almost 3 percent and fears of a 2nd wave of infections could keep consumers cautious shows that there are some more problems of food supply and also the government's ability to contain this virus so i think people be very cautious in their spending more than 80000 people have been tested since friday dozens are confirmed to have covered 19 on the other side of beijing it's business as usual but temperature and security checks have intensified schools due to reopen this week remain closed some travel restrictions breed reduced china's government has sacked officials in charge of

beijing's tight district and are trying to reassure everyone that the situation is under control but after almost 2 months of no local infection residents are afraid that hard won gains of containing the outbreak have been lost that sense of. you know i mean anybody enjoyed. it has tasted the sense of being able to go back to a sense of normalcy. to see it go backwards anybody who. knows him quite will be watching numbers closely hoping his family and neighbors remain. free katrina you al-jazeera beijing. well after 3 months of closed borders many european countries are welcoming back their neighbors germany has opened its borders to almost all e.u. members dominic cain is on the country's border with denmark or traffic is once again on the roads. for much of the past few months it's been almost impossible for

most people to cross here in a region where cross border links are historically strong but now some restrictions have been relaxed and germans living in the border region can cross into denmark as well as some tourists planning a long stay if you are not a german citizen for the whole thing you have to have a purpose for going into denmark it could be you have occasion 6 nights stay in denmark that will be the purpose entering the market while the danish police have loosened the restrictions on people coming across the border into denmark on the other side of german colleagues have abandoned them which is exactly what many people in that part of germany have been hoping for for months. people like down to christians who manages a number of shops just down the road from the border before corona came almost all of the customers here were scandinavian then suddenly almost all could no longer

come here. because it was a huge issue because the shutdown happened on march 13th and then mark announced no entry or exit and shortly afterwards generally followed suit we've had 3 months of total loss and that's 3 months of total loss where you can't reduce your ongoing costs that's extreme. sentiments like that are shared across europe where many countries hope reopening borders will help restart their school economy as here between france and italy and in the french capital the florida keys are now allowing bars and restaurants to reopen fully including eating inside from monday at the new level officials are coordinating the programs to provide citizens with up to date information about border reopening and other travel issues during the pandemic the open e.u. offers practical information provided by each member state and the same on travel restrictions health and safety measures such as physical distancing wearing

a full. asks as well if other useful information on you and national reason attributive. during the course of the coronavirus closures germany turned back almost 200000 people who try to cross its front is with other european countries now it believes the time is right to reopen those portals dominic al-jazeera on the german danish border. greece is open for business that's the government's message is international flights to athens resume from a select group of countries tourism makes up a big chunk of the greek economy employing around 700000 people so the country is keen to restart it but safety is a big concern reports from the island of santorini. long time visitors to greece were among the 1st to arrive in athens as international flights resume from $29.00 countries after 3 months of covert $1000.00 lockdowns johana and bottle of

mayo plan to spend the next 4 months on their boat sailing around the greek islands as they've done for the past 14 years in holland we all admired the weight like your your country is dealing with the whole problem you know you were fast in greece and somewhere with big discipline we we looked shame to the vision thing from the from from your country and look people are very disciplined more disciplined i think the knowledge of greece has 11000000 people and the government has reported $183.00 virus related deaths a much better track record than most of europe the greeks are banking on their reputation for safety to entice tourists to return but greeks are also worried about the health risk especially after july 1st when visitors will be able to fly directly to the islands without landing in athens where they have to be tested islands such as send to renia ready for that calculated risk this island normally generates almost 10 percent of greece's tourism revenue this is one of the most

famous sunsets in the world tourists normally throng this side of the island to catch the view about 3000000 people visited santa rini last year leaving behind more than 3000000000 dollars this year the island's merchants hope to salvage up to a quarter of that revenue. prime minister has me to thank yous has approved a 27000000000 dollars spending package aimed at keeping businesses open and workers employed he says as long as they manage to stay in business proper management of the pandemic will bring the entire economy dividends as people understand that this is a country that is actually well run with a well functioning public health system they will be more encouraged not just to come to grief for holidays but also to come to work from greece or spend more time and live in greece and buy property in greece greece suffered an 8 year recession after the global financial crisis in 2008 and austerity measures following an

international bailout the economy was just beginning to recover when coronavirus hit tourism is key to that recovery as greece depends on visitors for 20 percent of its g.d.p. jumpstart hopeless al-jazeera sent a rainy not essential shops have been allowed to reopen in england for the 1st time in nearly 12 weeks. again hunters queued for hours to be the 1st into stores on london's oxford street not all shops open but those that they'd encourage the social distancing and alfred hand sanitizers shop owners in wales and scotland are waiting to hear from their governments when they can reopen the number of british shoppers fell by 81 percent last month because of the lockdowns. u.s. president donald trump has this missed the recent uptick in corona virus cases around america blaming it soley on the increase in testing trumps pushing for state

governors to reopen the economy despite several reporting record numbers of people needing hospital treatment the u.s. is by far the hardest hit country with more than 116000 recorded deaths speaking in the last hour trump continued to tout hydroxy chloral quinn as a possible treatment even though the food and drug administration has just revoked its emergency use well joining me now is then is national p.d. meola just with over 20 years experience he's also executive director of the city university of new york institute for implementation science in population health mr nash thank you so much for joining us here all al-jazeera so do you agree with president trump when he says that the uptick in coronavirus cases in america is mainly due to the increase in testing basically increased monitoring of the disease . well i do agree that testing has been increasing but i think you know we should

really be keeping our eyes on the metrics that are most important here which is what's going on with transmission of coronavirus in communities and there's lots of evidence to suggest that it's going up in many places in places like new york city and connecticut or the northeast part of the us and the south that have been hard hit and have been busy trying to you know drive down community transmission we've seen some successes but if you look at many other places it does appear that there are new infections that are on the rise and deaths continue to occur and increase in many areas so i think this is a concerning trend and what we're seeing is that this is not something that's just going to go away during the summer months someplace clarified for us is it places like new york say here are the places that you mention have been hard hit that are seeing a slight decrease because they've effectively had to take that the z. seriously and other places that perhaps didn't lock down didn't pose facemasks on a strike that social distancing that are seeing the increase is there that

correlation or not really. i think there are some places that may be opened up prematurely opened up side prematurely before they could get to a place where it was safe to do so and i think that there are some concerning trends there and then there are other places that maybe were not so hard hit before and therefore are not as prepared as they might need to be before deciding to open up and when the virus gets introduced in these communities it poses a severe risk to societies that are and communities are not prepared to deal with it and we've also obviously seen a lot of demonstrations across the united states over the killing of george floyd what impact if any could that have or is the fact that most of the most freshens are outside perhaps helping trying to prevent the spread of the disease. well i think any mass gathering can increase the risk of covert transmission i mean that's always been an important component of our endemic control strategy but i agree

given that the protests are happening at least there have been outdoors a lot of mess where you have which is a much bigger than rats so i think if the protests are going to happen outdoors with masks it's the best condition than a stash if you just joining us from new york sir thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you. coming up on this news hour from london lifeline letters how health workers and mexico are helping coronavirus patients by reading messages from their loved ones a landmark moment as the u.s. supreme court rules that workers cannot be fired for being gay or transgender and in sports we'll hear from the premier league footballer demanding u.k. politicians do more to prevent child hunger.

but 1st the police shooting of a black man in the u.s. city of atlanta has been declared a homicide by the county coroner brooks was killed by police at a drive through restaurant on friday night after resisting arrest for failing a sobriety test an autopsy showed that he was shot twice in the back and died from blood loss and organ injuries his death has reignited protests in atlanta over racism and police brutality large crowds have marched to the state's capital building demanding criminal justice reforms meanwhile the family of fresh start brooks have spoken of their loss and called for justice as well as calm. i can never get married when they have never given beds for him and he'll never tell my daughter oh he's going to take you. to him and listen so.

this is going to be a low before i hear you committed to have put in the family meal. and it's like i say and i'm just thankful for everything that. everyone is out there doing imagine if you could just keep it as a peaceful protest that would that would be wonderful because we want to keep his name padded. let's go live now to the gallagher who joins us from miami and they were just saying they're the emotional press conference from the family a little earlier what further response has there be both to what happened and that press conference well i mean clearly that was a very emotional press conference and the family i think acted with a great deal of dignity the thanking their supporters calling for calm as these protests continue meanwhile spots and the mayor of atlanta and incidentally also someone else on the short list as potentially being joe biden's vice presidential nomination is talking about as many other cities are police reform she's now

talking about the deescalation of tactics forming citizen boards that can examine police problems and really this is going on across the country but let's say waukesha months what i'm sad to say about atlanta specifically. we understand in atlanta and across the nation that this is the beginning. of a great deal of work that lies ahead of us to make sure that we're doing all that we can do to protect our communities and to pollo the principles that were set poor. by the obama by an administration and 21st century policing it's very clear that our police officers are to be guardian and not warriors within our communities so i and they we heard there the atlanta mayor calling for police reform and it's

been 3 weeks now since george floyd was killed when we've heard those continued calls for change of police reform other signs across the country that anything is actually changing. for. the for instance a. major police they're getting with it that way even talking about. that unique thing leads to get interesting the 1st thing from these 2 to sign an executive order thank you thing we know that it's the security of the police forces . if you think it's going to stall the reforms it's about procedures and also accountability that is the main criticism the protests think they want to see at least a little thing rather than simply carrying the city. and the governor with the latest there from a very stormy miami and which is interfering with the signal briefly as the saying you. are. the u.s.

supreme court has the client to hear 8 cases involving the legal defense qualified immunity which protects government officials from lawsuits 7 of the cases involved police accused of excessive force or misconduct but the court did hand down a landmark ruling that bt workers cannot be fired or face other discrimination at work because of their sexual orientation or gender identity the decision expands civil rights protections for millions of gay and transgender workers many of whom live in states that provide no such protections. been a long time coming and if you were really sure the supreme court would go that way i'm so happy that they did are excited to hear about that definitely specially could 15 pride month such tremendous news for you here i think today is an important reminder that justice will always prevail but also that we have to continue to fight for it and that during this pride month that is the black plague

matters movement continues we just must not make the assumption that our grace will be freely given to us i know a person that was actually fired for being gay so this is amazing that 20 some years later this is happening. say in the u.s. the president has confirmed that he plans to cut the number of american troops stationed in germany by more than half i'm from says the military presence is costing the u.s. too much money and has blamed berlin for failing to keep up with nato payments germany as you know is a very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent of the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than the so they're delinquent of billions of dollars and this is 3 years delinquent so we're removing . a number down to we're putting the number down 225000 soldiers we'll see what happens meanwhile the u.s.

secretary of state says he's outraged by a prison term handed down to a former marine in russia paul we'll it has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after being found guilty of spying for the u.s. the 50 year old says he was set up and he's called on president trying to intervene now the reports. now they are going to go away he's just been sentenced by a moscow court to 16 years in jail but paul wieland has rejected the sentence as politically motivated the former marine who's 50 deny spying for the u.s. in russia on monday he held up a sign denouncing the trial which began in march as a sham and calling on president trump to intervene just hours after the verdict u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of put out a statement the united states is outraged by the decision of a russian court today to convict u.s. citizen paul whelan after a secret trial with secret evidence and with after appropriate allowances for defense witnesses back in december 28 russian state security offices burst into

whelan's room at a moscow hotel they seized him as well as a u.s.b. computer flash drive allegedly containing classified information. whelan's lawyer says his client was given the device by an acquaintance while in russia for a wedding wheelin maintains he thought the device contained holiday photos and says he's been framed i've been following paul's face closely since i arrived here isn't that serious in jail where. i describe these proceedings as a mockery of justice and today just confirmed. an american citizen has been sentenced to the term of 60 years for a while for which we have not seen evidence of a deal on you know that a medical condition and for heaven's sake there's been speculation about a possible prisoner swap ever since whelan's arrest according to his legal team moscow wanted to do

a deal with washington involving arms dealer viktor bout and another russian jailed for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine it is likely that the popular story well and in effect in the us in a similar way to. other stories with people accused of espionage or other illegal activity whether it's russian citizens in the united states or other american whelan will serve his sentence in a maximum security prison but his lawyer says he plans to appeal against the verdict nadine barber al jazeera. there's also more still to come in this hour including press freedom on the stret a prominent filipino journalist found guilty of cyber libel says her case is a cautionary tale a new electoral council starts work in venezuela dominated by government loyalists and the now says falls by an angry opposition plus in sports the sound of silence

is called clowns missed the chance to witness this titled the fining moment. howlers a summer thunderstorms that emanate from this circulation here is still moving slowly through east and well more central europe that progress has been slow to me than any one place you've got funding from hungary was the largest recipient but anywhere really from germany across to rumania and this little hump here could see big thunderstorms the next 2 days there are further west where the rain is going through its return and exam is looking fairly wet and it could put a front but the concentrations are already just going behind 0 except the border between france and germany strasburg's in that area so chances are it's going to be miserable probably fairly wet for the next 3 days but still it's eastern europe

it's warmest including scandinavia colors represent that where there's much cloud it's much cooler it stopped cold but it's much cooler but if you pick up there once going to be doing this for 3 days that the temperatures are approaching for not getting to the record but they're well above the average which is 20 during june so that's europe. now in africa along the north coast is still breezy in the breeze tends to regulate temperatures so bengazi has come down to $27.00 with that on shore breeze but there's no clad there are no showers even in america. for. sure true names at home. and inspiration. personal stories of people who live keeping the spirit of freedom alliance. by courageously defending now rights to be heard.

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a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization is again warning of the threat of a 2nd wave of the corona virus more than 100 people have been infected in a new outbreak in beijing while the indian city of chennai world we're trying to lock down on finding the w.h.o. warnings congress countries across europe relax their restrictions further several e.u. countries every opened land borders while some restaurants are fully open again in france and in non-essential shops have opened in the u.k. . the police shooting of a black man in the u.s. city of atlanta has been declared a homicide by the county coroner brooks was killed on friday night after resisting arrest for failing a surprise test. brazil has recorded another 627 deaths in the last 24 hours and more than 20000 new coronavirus cases

meanwhile hospitals in the bolivian city of santa cruz are near collapse after being overwhelmed by the pandemic of the stressing video has emerged of a man lying on the pavement suspected of suffering covert 19 and medical staff refusing to help and there's also been a shortage of protective equipment for hospital staff or than half of all believe use cases of the virus have been reported in santa cruz. outside hospitals in mexico city the families of coronavirus patients wait anxiously for news of their loved ones they rely on the kindness of nurses to keep in touch with their relatives in intensive care and one hospital that's taken the form of sending in letters which are read out to the sick home that has this report. if this bit of paper means the world christian. it's freeze that crystal photo was picked up to a ventilator fighting cohabit in mexico city's general hospital there's 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 her medical people this is. where thank. goodness this is her number here pretty much the same 1st goodness there it's you know. the from here. it's the sort of. discovery most difficult and. the memories think it's going with it. chris so for those heavily sedated the christian and the nurses still think this helps we if we miss began saying this began to be taken with respect indigenous

bang it's. got be about aid us i mean the. focus is on what i keep going on i must say let me tell me your single is the most. the plans called on now there's a whole group of families on the seas doing the same probably on a case for thomas is when i don't want to think i'm not going to come up it will be a mentor for them a few of them are standing up but yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah and there's a good a few games you know just you. know those well though both told us that the patients vital signs jump when the left is a red. to days for thomas his dad is from guadalupe his 11 year old sister she's staying with her own while thomas and his mom come to the hospital every day or like almost us it's better. what i'm going to get you to extend your eternal eagerness yet not others. but if you're not you know

a bit defeated here are the ones who are mine. was my. own will. that was. how was it been for you to be sending these letters to connecticut on which i mean by full of moment one. moment those. one or. both are not going to put us you. don't know so see. this will turn of. those shifts and turn today's been a good one he tells us on the way home a patient's well enough to be taken off the ventilator because a lot of people don't make you know if they suck. so i think or they're safe i'll call the. cook and let that set up as

a likable person and those miss. you so much this winter but it was going. to last but then there's no one that's a success i wouldn't say i'm not lucky that way it's a burden he's dealing with alone his girlfriend the laundry is 3 months pregnant and has gone to the parents to avoid any possible infections. they talk every night she knows all about the letters they. will. get me. but it was only this is been their only contact for 2 months now. yet.

it's 11 pm when he gets off the call but he's got work ahead of him disinfecting his uniform for the next day. then they'll be moved families waiting outside the hospital with new letters thomas 18 years old is in content to just write he wants to leave this message for the future said give me your best every day or he was that if only for a couple to give us i leave that. but there are more till you destroy your spirit not you think you know what you ought to look forward to going to say you haven't put off going up about the boy this week of the film in this piece we found out that thomas' dad tomasky in sr had died john homan now does it make screw city the u.s. has accused venezuela of illegally installing a new national electoral council in order to break this year's parliamentary elections the 5 person council is dominated by government loyalists the opposition

has refused to recognize it a latin america editor of the c n n when reports. venezuela has a new electoral council but not precisely the run that mainstream opposition leaders had been demanding 3 years 5 new members of the body that should oversee fair and transparent elections have taken their seats after having been selected on friday by the pro-government supreme court rather than the legislative branch the accelerated process which did not allow anyone to publicly submit their candidacy is immediately dismissed as a fraud by opposition leader one by law. we do not recognize any false electoral council named by our judicial arm of the dictatorship that has no responsibility for these matters only the national assembly has a nominee committee can present the names and receive the nominated record 3 of the 5 new council members are clear government allies and the remaining 2 who claim to

be either neutral or government opponents are seen as trojan horses by the mainstream opposition. one of them is a reptile see monkey menace he told al jazeera that he hopes the law was viewed as venezuela's interim president by more than 50 countries will change his mind it will get him what would a responsible opposition leadership do it would wait and see what happens not count the chickens before they hatch because what is at stake here is the destiny of venezuela which we have the right to build if not elections then what alternative do they propose that. the opposition and much of the international community have been insisting on a neutral body that would guarantee that all political parties and candidates take part in internationally supervised elections later this year. it's viewed as the best way out of the israelis deep political and social crisis instead

a council viewed as overwhelmingly favorable to the government and picked without consensus is seen as a mechanism to perpetuate president nicole last. lose grip on power that's at the moment that you council is here to give new dynamism organize the election of a new national assembly it must be elected this year no matter what. the u.s. state department calls this quote the latest step to rig the next venezuelan election this comes just days after alexander was arrested by interpol in cape verdi on a refueling stop while flying from caracas to tehran. he has long been wanted by the u.s. justice department for money laundering accused of being a front man for president nicolas maduro allegedly in a scheme that siphoned off millions of dollars from a food box program the maduro government is demanding sabs release calling it an illegal act of u.s. aggression. as for where venezuela's political confrontation will go from here is

impossible to guess you see in human al-jazeera. beatrice rango was chief of staff for former venezuelan president catulus and the rest perez she joins us live now from florida miami via skype right and thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so how do you think that the creation of this national electoral council you know the new members how do you think it changes the situation in venezuela and the balance there. thank you for having me i think. that if. anyone or her any read there for men is. the national electoral board. is no way. but. all of the cell the national assembly terror expires in december so elections need to become the 5th in millard or

for the national assembly and all of its members including goyal to maintain then they may get to miss big over. appointed work which is the same as it is isn't made but. this time pa says also why do all the members of the family would agree to it to make so big contract seems to be a spiraling into more chaos so madam because this sort of seem to be stuck in this bind what do you think the international community and by that i mean the supporters really of the various sides the 50 plus countries that support aguado and then the other ones that at some point you call us mcdougal how do you think they can affect the situation well the only way though they're gonna pick thing is this situation i think by resorting to international conventions i. love the

whole international commission on international instruments in order to guarantee their rule through all in venice but for to a long a time based on national community has kept a blind eye all like a simple various violations of venezuela international treaties international convention for example they venezuelan government supports. manages. it is broke it's their own distribution rakhal the cartel of the song which is made obey military these will have cold fronts for serious serious sanctions but not of the united states along with all the countries that defend democracy and freedom this has to happen 2nd there are

a lot the risk of why very many of that front section of that i mean come the 15th when venezuela is its own company. and they did keep it company in western europe in asia and elsewhere in the world are part of and encourage enable we're all in this it. doesn't need to be the rain in for example there are a lot of little. oh there is a lot of every then even the u.s. prosecutors but also in other countries like with all the duress over for example it columbia where you see that in the front section there is only one in the 100 from there also worth it to what it can with imports into the country so they have this situation predictive excel for too long and find. family that

timeline foot in that community to agree you seen the united nations mission it gays stress not enough organized fine against venice well it's interesting former chief of staff to former venezuelan president have a son that has paid is we're going to have to leave it there thank you. one of the philippines most prominent journalists and one of her colleagues have been found guilty of libel and the case is a major blow to press freedom maria ressa denies the charges over an article in our news website rappler linking a businessman to criminal activity i mean early reports. it is seen as a major setback for press freedom in the philippines. one of the most prominent filipina 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 would be good to tear does 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 rights you will lose them read them of the press is the foundation of every single right you have as a filipino citizen. founded to rappler that's reported on corruption and the government's so-called war and drugs that's left thousands of filipinos dead since 2016 president to tear down 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 reza has reportedly been a close ally of the president reza says what's happened to rappler is a cautionary tale for the philippine prez. 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. backing a. working of their own 3 the president support that. when he went to the un human rights committee there is no mercy stronger expression of support for press brigham and that once the president. put 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. on jazeera manila. a senior sudanese militia leader facing more than 50 charges including war crimes relating to the dar for conflict has appeared before the international criminal court for the 1st time. a book called the allegations against him untrue he surrendered last week more than 13 years after an international arrest warrant was issued against him it's alleged that he led thousands of jungle weed fighters and was involved in the murder and rape of civilians in faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted. a saudi led military coalition has been removed from the united nations black list it had been

added to the list several years ago because of the killing and injuring of children in the war in yemen u.n. secretary general antonio the tatar said the coalition would be delisted to following a sustained significant decrease in killing and maiming by airstrikes and the introduction of measures aimed at protecting children. oh diplomatic editor james bays joins me live now from the united nations and james this u.n. report on children in armed conflict there's always quite controversial and it seems that this year is no exception tell us more yet it's an annual report as you say and it has at the back of it an x. a list some call it the list of shame no country wants to be on it because it's a list of all the parties countries and groups that harm children either kill or maim children well saudi arabia is no longer almost that list that's interesting because when you look in the body of the report about yemen you find that the

parties in the conflict in yemen that harm children the phone booth is listed as number one the coalition number 2 and the yemeni government number 3 now both who these in the yemeni government are on the list saudi arabia now is no longer on the list begging the question whether that's because of political pressure from saudi arabia knows says the u.n. the special representative for children and armed conflict she says it's because the saudi led coalition has been reducing the number of children that it has been harming. continued united nations monitoring and engagement. will ensure they sustain the implementation of the program. and the crease in the number of children they fight the u.n. failure of which were dressed in a rarely stand or the same violation in my next report you say failure surely it's

a failure this year when they've killed all my 222 children because they still are. in the street are thinking every generation has made it and i think you will get it with me that if the press which is utilized in section 5 of the report where a suspension monitoring make any runs in place for 20 months to assure it and the completion of all the mentioned in a giddy well that hasn't satisfied human rights organizations human rights watch say the secretary general is adding a new level of shame to his list of shame by removing the saudi led coalition. our diplomatic editor james phase with the latest from the un james thank you

still had to end this news hour. kat's has a world cup organizers pay tribute to frontline health workers around the world and these here with that story.

and our heroes and the what the sport. thanks so much barbara all cats are has officially opened its 3rd stadium to the 2022 world cup due to coronavirus a prerecorded ceremony rather than a live football match kicks off events at the education city event.

qatar's national team playing a central role in proceedings which pay tribute to frontline health workers around the world the $40000.00 seat arena will host games up to the quarterfinals the country will use 8 stadiums in order for the tournament swizz to more jews to open up before the end of the year. in some parts of the world it is already possible to look ahead to better types in others we still have to be extremely careful stay strong and united in the meantime the new stadium in education city reminds us that football will return you know from the very beginning we said that this will be a 2 hour that will bring people together i think now more than ever this will be the tournament will be one of the 1st tournament where the world will be able to

celebrate collectively overcoming this common enemy called it a manchester united striker marcus rush that has written an open letter to the 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 food vouchers but that support is due 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 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 be in one of what 4 or 5 percent of people want to help and definitely not people want to help but they don't have the understanding of the knowledge behind. they don't know how many people it's actually to affect and when arsenal manager make a lotta tested positive for corona virus in march it prompted this is spent you

know of the premier league 3 months later and arsenal are getting ready to play manchester city on wednesday as the league restarts are said to says games without fans will be a challenge and when i was. there is not. the energy. drive yeah it really different drugs are. not. well. within sides of an 8 straight german league title the team getting ready to take on a vote of bremen on choose stay away in or give them a record 30th blunders league championship on will have 11 and some as will a back for that game they missed saturday's $21.00 win over back 3 suspension now less fagan is expected to be confirmed as a hub city for the stanley cup playoffs when the n.h.l. returns to action the legal regime with the $24.00 top ranked teams heading straight into the playoffs all remaining regular season games have been scrapped

the playoffs will be held in 2 cities with the location set to be announced in the coming days we've been talking to hockey writer ken bold here about why at last vegas is ahead of the pack. i think the number one thing is just the hotel accommodations like they are there's so many hotel rooms there are so many different options that they can have and in this case the n.h.l. m.g.m. is basically saying you can have an entire resort so whether that's 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 working rid of that candidate wouldn't be an option something's better than nothing so getting back on the ice getting that 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 or players describe the atmosphere is subdued and even strange that goes has to go through its north american roots and after the coronavirus down daniel berger winning the 1st page. 3 months fellow american colin maroko missing this decisive part in a play off celebrations a little bit new no criminals were allowed at this event in texas ok looking to get facts of opera in london. andy andy thank you very much for that and that is it for this news hour do stay with us strong going to be back in just

a few minutes with more of the day's news thanks for watching. as countries begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days there's been a stand in front of the neighborhood and many feel the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall of people come yet again the focus is on the

outfield because i can put in 1000 cases we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus fundament special coverage on al-jazeera. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china talked one on a jazzy international trade with your support of having free trade with nazi germany or the japanese or chinese nazi germany controversial immigration policies that anyone who has a well founded fear of persecution should be able to condom as a love letter from syria is closer to the syrian refugees like the buffalo maybe

her son goes head to head with syria trump advisor stephen moore this year the trump deficit across a trillion dollars due to a rule not to reelect a little from well no i'm not sure how to go on al jazeera. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. the. the. the new cluster of cases in beijing and plans for a fresh lockdown in india trigger warnings of a possible 2nd wave of covert 90 but it's a different picture in europe for border controls are being eased and cafes and restaurants have fully reopened in france. alone barbara starr you're watching out just 0 live from london also coming up. is

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