97 cultures across the world so no matter how you take. out just syria bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. count as they are. more than 100000 new cases have been reported almost every single day warnings that the world faces a 2nd wave of coronaviruses the global tally shows infections of the past 8000000. follow on down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we're protecting germany and it delinquent that doesn't make sense donald trump confirms he'll withdraw thousands of u.s. troops stationed in germany in an ongoing dispute over nato funding. the saudi led

military coalition fighting in yemen is dropped from the u.n. blacklist drawing immediate protests from human rights groups. down the road through occupied instruments held by some as a much needed bypass feared by others and another step towards an extension. welcome to the program coronavirus tally by u.s. based johns hopkins university says global infections have now passed 8000000 and the world health organization has issued new warnings about a possible 2nd wave some of beijing's neighborhoods are now back in lockdown after 100 infections were concerned the chinese capital had gone 50 days without any reported cases in india 50000000 people will be locked down again in the southern city of chennai from friday due to a surge in infections there iran 2 was considering tough new measures after

announcing more than a 100 deaths for a 2nd straight day infection numbers this month average highs not seen since late march during the initial outbreak. 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 of the same cases come from 10 countries mostly in the americas and selves asia countries must stay arlott to the possibility of resurgence well one of china's top disease experts says the next 3 days will be crucial in predicting the impact of a new coronavirus resurgence in the capital. ever since new cases suddenly emerged in beijing we have tried to figure out the reasons for the outbreak since

there were no covert $900.00 cases found of the past 2 months we came up with several possibilities and the most likely one is that the carrier of the novel coronavirus comes from outside china or other parts of china and brought it here katrina who has more now from beijing. for a long time for the since the beginning of this pandemic beijing was considered one of the safest places in china compared to the rest of the country case the numbers have remained lower since the beginning of the year so. we've seen in recent weeks a lot of establishment opening back up a lot of restrictions that we saw in terms of checks and temperatures and security checks have been relaxed people are going back to restaurants that many into the entertainment venues have been opening back up and also it's the someone else or many people were going back out and enjoying the weather now because of this just in the last few days we're on the other side of the city compared to where this relative to where this outbreak is taking place but even here in downtown beijing the streets are north assembly quieter many people have been encouraged to work

from home even behind me you can see the traffic if it's not as busy as it might have been last week and many establishment are closed again we had some crucial economic dosser from may come in yesterday on monday and it seems that output is bouncing back but retail sales are still quite low and it's 3 percent down from this time last year and domestic consumption is a major driver of the chinese economy so it seems that this new album is really going to deal quite a severe blow to consumer confidence here in china well let's talk to don well she's now minister at the economist intelligence units access china service and she joins us live now from beijing so what sort of impact will this new lockdown have on people living in the capital in terms of work in terms of shopping and when it's affect people travelling in than out of the capital. this is a big blow especially for people who already made travel plans for the coming weeks

because we know it's going to be china's dragon boat festival and that's a 3 day holiday national holiday starting from june 25th you see massive constellation of train tickets air tickets already and on top of that there are more restaurants shutting down now because unfortunately this time on the virus originated from a scene party that is one of the largest the farmer's market in more than china it doesn't just supply beijing it also supply who'll be intending so as soon as this market is closed many of those restaurants are short of supply and residents will soon see a spike in food inflation i don't think we will be running out of trash by stables or fresh seafood but there is a higher risk that things work out there are very expensive in beijing than we know that beijing's but on the very strict lockdown and security measures over the last few months but cities like shanghai for instance a less strict so how difficult is it for authorities to assess where the weak links

are across the country. that's exactly where the risk is you don't know where the weak link is and for a change since i've been here from the beginning of this pandemic i have seen that beijing is probably under one of the straits strictest quarantine measures among all major cities in china but even so you cannot forbid it on the migrants migrant workers a lot of them work in those places like farmer's market wholesale market you can't forbid them from coming up because in the recent political meeting the 2 sessions the political leaders were talking about income support and job creations are the most important thing now for china so policies are relaxed and we can see that as soon as the policies are x. it's only 2 weeks since they announced their latest the policy and there is this resurgence of the virus i guess it is hard a reality for people to live by. dunham in beijing where you are had gone 50 days

without any reported cases let me ask you to put on your economy hat for a minute i mean how worried are officials about the broader economic impact of a 2nd away with a country just opening up. i think for as soon as the officials found this worse they are adopting just one approach it's more targeted so beijing is not in full lock down and we haven't seen any major policy announcement saying that the authorities have intention to do so so we don't think that the economic impact for the nation would be out nearly as significant as what happened in the 1st quarter but that being sad for beijing we are very likely to see a slower economic growth because of this since activities were likely to slow again and also inflation will go a lot sooner as. more markets will be open will be closed so it's not

a very optimistic picture but nationwide we don't think this is a major impact yet don one great to get your thoughts of the program thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you the major airlines in the u.s. are promising to strictly enforce coronavirus safety measures including banning people who don't wear mosques 7 of the top american carriers say they'll enforce the wearing of mosques by passengers and stuff as a way of reducing the risk of further infections that's on top of increased sanitation temperature checks on the installation of ethyl to us. the u.s. president says he will sign an executive order on police reforms on tuesday it donald trump says his order will ensure reforms are fair and just unsafe it follows protests over the deaths of 2 african-american men in police custody gallica reports. as protests continue to gather pace across the nation the family of racial brooks gave the 1st emotional press conference the 27 year old father of 3 died on

friday after he was shot twice in the back by a police officer his death has been ruled a homicide the officer who killed him has been fired and he's grieving family wants justice because tomorrow we go have to deal with the. we go head to beer and we go i think we miss you in acquitted so you would look good enough we got this ballot that is the of the not going to go there were never there but racial brooks was killed 3 weeks after george floyd died in minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes now police forces across the us a promising major reforms to procedures community policing in their relationship with african-americans in new york the city's anti crimes unit comprising of around $600.00 police officers will be reassigned the unit was involved in the death of eric garner in 2014 and was responsible for a disproportionate number of shootings and complaints make no mistake this is

a seismic shift in the culture of how the n.y.p.d. polices this great city it will be felt and mediately throughout the 5 district attorney's offices it will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect despite his insistence that lauren order must be enforced president trump says the death of racial brooks is concerning that it was a terrible situation. that it closely i'm going to get some report started today in very strong reports and will have a little more to say about it tomorrow but certainly it was very to me it was very disturbing on tuesday it's expected president trump will sign an executive order aiming to improve police training weeding out bad offices and improving dealing with mental health issues it's not expected his order will address systemic racism even as place reform appears to be sweeping the nation those calling for change say it's not enough most of the changes involve procedures and not police accountability many want to see officers who carry out unjustified killings face

justice something that all too often doesn't happen to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. for john malkovich from the institute for constitutional government he says that order many improve ways for the police to bettering gauge communities i have heard that the executive order is going to include credentialing of police departments so that they have best practices on things like deescalation techniques and use of force standards and community engagement practices there's going to be a lot more information sharing about officers who engage in violation of excessive force policies and police department will be able to access that information so that a bad police officer doesn't move from one department to another they're also going to be i believe. training a stablished for police officers to deal with people who are homeless or or

addicted to substances or suffering from mental disorders and they're going to be working with social workers and psychologists in a co responder program and then there's also going to be a lot more grant money to assist with things like recruiting and retaining you know high performing officers access to mental health programs for officers and other programs to support a more robust and productive community ajman time for a short break here and i was here when we come back a russian court sentences a former american marine to 16 years for spying for the u.s. calls it a mockery of justice plus what we all have more of the way we've learned to your your country your stealing will probably go to a foreign student greece or somewhere with a big discipline greece banks on its safety track record to entice tourists to return in the states.

hello it remains unsurprisingly hot throughout levant the arabian peninsula the cloud along the coast from oman back towards yemen somalia is just trying to get into the hobby for that 3 months of on shore breeze and as it was not quite got there temperature wise elsewhere there really is quite high hovering around the 50 mark in parts of western iran in kuwait 47 dohan that's despite a fairly strong breeze but that breeze is coming out of iraq and iraq is hot itself and stop in particular just yet but i think it will turn into a dusty breeze so hot dusty and windy for some would be the story and that's not exactly and usual the emanation of this monsoon weather was down here so the clouds gone north into the indian ocean what's left just every day again brushes the coast of somalia or kenya there's not much there at the moment and then further west into

africa you get these daily big show is now the sun's about as funnels is going to go to take in the rain is funnels is going to go showers for when the ethiopian highlands and they go back through sudan science sudan the central african republic this is the went time of year and for juba though it's not raining every day it's in the forecast for wednesday and again for friday. join our global community they call the crisis is just slapped is the phrase that blessing upon my thing upon my human can be called global health keeping you up to date is why so for situation where we have a human rights prices that persist beyond the health crisis answering your questions is a dialogue just nothing we are now approaching across route this is an opportunity that we must not miss the stream on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera the global number of recorded corona virus infections as past 8000000 w.h.o. is issuing new warnings of a 2nd way with clusters in beijing and 15000000 people going back into lockdown in india. iran is also considering tough new measures off announcing more than $100.00 deaths for a 2nd straight day infection numbers this month average highs not seen since late march. and u.s. president donald trump says he will sign an executive order on police reforms on tuesday from sensible i'm sure police reform is done fairly justly and safe.

a president trump has confirmed he's ordering a significant reduction to the number of u.s. troops based in germany he says the total will come down to around $25000.00 the u.s. currently has about $34.00 and a half 1000 stationed frump accuses his nato ally of being delinquent paying for its own defense and that its contributions to nato as budget. germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent and the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than that so the delinquent of billions of dollars and this is 2 years delinquent so we're removing . a number down to what put in the number down to 25000 soldiers will see what happens when moxie mccall ski's a nonresident fellow at the atlantic council he says trump is incorrect to keep

suggesting that germany i was the u.s. money for nato this comes directly after reportedly chancellor merkel among others were resistant to coming to the united states for a g. 7 summit i think the president was very angry with the chancellor personally over that and of course comes over frustration that the president has had of germany's inability to meet the 2 percent defense press role that all allies committed to in the will summit several years ago so i would not say germany is delinquent they don't owe the united states money they don't own nato money they're paying their nato do but from the president's perception is that because germany is unable to meet the 2 percent threshold even though it has been rising in its commitment that you has the ability which he does to punish germany higher than the u.s. forces but again those forces 'd are not there to protect your money those forces are there to protect all the you know. countries as well as to protect u.s. interests and frankly it's being done you know laterally and it's

a gift to president putin which again i think reinforces 'd why this president has such a strange relationship with russia and he's now essentially given russia a gift by remove the u.s. forces without getting anything in return. they are secretary of state says he's outraged by the prison term handed down to a former marine in russia has been sentenced to 16 years after being found guilty of spying the 50 year old says he was set up letting barber reports. now that 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 was 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 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 without 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 draw an imaginary 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 he says he's been framed i've been following paul's face closely since i arrived here isn't that serious in january. i've described these proceedings is a mockery of justice and today just confirmed. an american citizen has been sentenced to the term of 16 years. for life for which we have not seen evidence of a deal on you know that a medical condition or for heaven's sake there's been speculation about

a possible prisoner swap ever since we and the rest according to his legal team 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 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 women will serve his sentence in a maximum security prison but his lawyer says he plans to appeal against the verdict nadine barber al jazeera the used top diplomat has proposed joint talks with the u.s. against what he calls an increasingly assertive china that's a barrell held a 2 hour video conference with u.s. secretary of state mike on peo he says while they don't agree on everything the e.u. and the u.s. should work to defend common interests when dealing with beijing. i should just

that suggested about the possibility of continuing gauging or not bilateral dialogue focusing on china and the challenges that get more assertive factor today of china is putting on the on the world stage the u.s. is accused venezuela of trying to rig parliamentary elections later this year the new national electoral council is dominated by loyalists to president nicolas maduro and venezuela's opposition is refusing to recognize it is a latin america editor of the sea and human. venezuela has a new electoral council but not precisely the run that mainstream opposition leaders had been demanding for 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 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 i think one of them is a reptile see monkey menace he told al-jazeera that he hopes the quiet of all who is viewed as venezuela's interim president by more than 50 countries will change his mind he will get here 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 they could say. was the opposition and much of the international community have been insisting on a neutral body that will 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 pete without consensus is seen as a mechanism to perpetuate president nicolas maduro those grip on power at the moment it is that you council is here to give new dynamism and 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 alec sab 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 us aggression out as for where venezuela's political confrontation will go from here is impossible to guess you see in human al-jazeera. the saudi led military coalition fight against yemen has been removed from the united nations blacklist it was added several years ago because of the number of children being killed in its campaign in support of yemen's government against who think rebels the removal has been condemned by rights groups a senior who thier threshold says the decision was followed by a saudi attack in northwest yemen leaving at least 4 children dead diplomatic

editor james bays has more. it comes out every year and it's the list that no country wants to be all new un's list of the policies that are harming children in conflict zones either killing or maiming children the saudi led coalition has been on this list this year it's been taken off the list that's interesting because when you read the body of the report in the section of yemen it says that the worst offender are the who think he's the 2nd worst offender is the coalition of the 3rd worst the government of yemen and yet only the who thiis and the government of yemen are on the list the secretary general's special representative says that's because saudi has been reducing the number of children that it harms and it says that they're still going to be monitored going forward and continue united nations morning daryn engagement. will ensure it's sustained the implementation of the

program. and the very big crease in the number of. the u.n. failure of who we. were dressed in a really thin or the thing about a nation in my name you say failure surely it's a failure this year when they've killed or maimed 222 children because they still are. in a ballerina in the theater are you thinking any general meeting and i think you will and it would mean that if the president if one wishes you to land in section 5 of the ring or where anything ensure monetary make any difference it played a 20 month sure and the completion of all the mentioned in agony human rights organizations though are not happy with that response human rights watch says shame on the u.n. for removing the saudi led coalition from its list of shame. egypt says it will

last the un security council to intervene in a dispute over a controversial dam being constructed by ethiopia on the nile river negotiations between the 2 countries as well as savannah fulton after restarting last week egypt is worried that filling the grand ethiopian renaissance dam to quickly will reduce its water supply. greece is hoping to cash in on its tourism industry as it moves into a post lockdown phase tourism makes up a large part of its economy employing some 700000 people but safety is a big concern as john psaropoulos reports now from the island of santorini. longtime 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 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 $3000000.00 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 $27000000000.00 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 in live in greece and buy property in greece greece suffered a 2 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 opel last al-jazeera sent a rainy now a joint letter written by post-impressionist artists paul gauguin and then van gogh will be auctioned on tuesday in paris the red document could fetch up to $2900000.00 the letters addressed to another painter. it was written in the french idea in 1800. type a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the global number of recorded virus infections as past 8000000 the world health organization is issuing new warnings of a 2nd wave of clusters in beijing and 15000000 people going back into lockdown in india 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 $75.00 person or recent cases come from 10 countries mostly in the americas and so i was asia countries must stay allat to the possibility of a resurgence iran is also considering tough new measures after announcing more than 100 deaths for a 2nd straight day section numbers this month average high is not seen since late march joining initial outbreak. u.s. president donald trump says he will sign an executive order on police reform on tuesday trump says it will ensure changes are carried out fairly justly and safely comes as protests continue across the u.s. calling for an end to police brutality following the death of george floyd in custody more than 2 weeks ago. and the police shooting of a black man in the city of atlanta has been declared a homicide by a coroner the death of brooks on friday night we ignited protests in atlanta

president trump has confirmed he's ordering a significant reduction in the number of u.s. troops stationed in germany he says the total will come down to about $25000.00 the u.s. currently has $34.00 and a half 1000 the trump accuses nato ally of being delinquent in paying for its defense and its contributions to natives budget the u.s. secretary state says he's outraged by the prison term 100 to a former marine in russia paul whelan has been sentenced to 16 years after being found guilty of spying the 50 year old says he was set up and the saudi led military coalition fighting in yemen has been removed from a united nations blacklist it was added several years ago because of the number of children being killed and injured in this campaign the u.n. now says the coalition's made progress in reducing civilian casualties. those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station that's what i thought as protest rage over police brutality and coronavirus rips the

nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so very brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. election on a. high after me ok we'll look into the stream at a time when india is clapping that the clone a virus pandemic or solve the economic fallout from lockdowns many are wondering why only in jammu and kashmir the union territory there was a new york that is creating a lot of controversy you know is the dumbest law and we'll be talking about that today if you ask kashmiris they will have very strong opinions on this law if you are already in our chat and would love to hear from you i need to can be in this conversation in the street.