1st. we can continue to keep. up with me but. if you can freeze to free. range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of journalists on. the in. the. anger in brazil as the coronavirus death toll passes 50000 on the world's worst day yet for new infections. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back he will also coming up a pairing a message for south korea the north us plan to flow millions of leaflets across the

border in the biggest ever propaganda campaign a japanese council tries to claim control over a chain of islands that china and taiwan both say belong to them and how to cope with $1000.00 outbreak has accelerated greece's plans to offer tourists a ground war one step at a time. thank you for joining as the world has recorded its worst day yet for new cases of the coronavirus more than 183000 infections were reported on sunday and brazil's death toll past 50000 health workers were among crowds who protested in the capital brasilia angry at the government's response the number of infections in brazil is now over a 1000000 the present day about an hour has compared the virus to a little flu that in brazil's biggest city sao paolo demonstrators rallied to

demand an end to restrict sions a president called measures like social distancing a job killer more dangerous than the virus itself. now more than 2 thirds of the new deaths worldwide are in the americas where hospitals us want and the spread of the virus is accelerating reports. as dawn broke over the bolivian capital of indigenous worshippers welcome the i modern new year and i asked the song that the intent to destroy the covert 19 virus. and it was just the thing with the ceremony to us and god with the rising of the rays of the sun we've destroyed the coronavirus at the same time we've asked for help for all of the people of the past and for the whole world bolivia has reported more than 23000 infections and 740 deaths itself for the corruption scandal in the health ministry or the health system is a breaking point some patients dying in the street because hospitals are full the

part of. my father died last tuesday at dawn in my house we kept the body inside the house for 2 days and now my sister has the same symptoms. the government in bolivia one of the poorest countries in the region says it's doing all it can it's a message repeated across the continent. but for these indigenous people from colombia's embury community it's not enough and at the moment. until now we've persisted during the pandemic no one from the colombian government has provided anything to us even after the last 6 protests there's no guarantee for us people here aren't going back we're not moving from here. they're camping in the capital after being evicted from their land locked down restrictions mean they've nowhere to sell their wares the surviving on handouts reflection of the debate raging across the region or the number of deaths and of those infected by the

covered 1000 virus continue to rise. al-jazeera. the u.s. has also seen an increase in infections the number of daily cases is now at its highest level in almost 2 months florida arizona and south carolina are among the states affected some businesses in florida reconsidering their decision to reopen infections have fallen in the northeast and midwest in other world news south korea has urged north korea to abandon plans to send untie south korean leaflets across the border the peak comes as the north threaten to start to start a distributed propaganda campaign following a week of increased tensions between the 2 countries last week pyongyang blew up on into korean lives on building after north korean defectors in the south sent their own propaganda leaflets over the border. jungle known. the south korean government has already announced its stance regarding the leaflet campaign the government is

blocking efforts dissent and to do with korea leaflets and commodities we urge north korea to stop their plan to distribute the south korea propaganda leaflets that will only worsen into korean relations. mcbride has more from seoul. north korea seemingly determined to carry through on its threat it says it is now prepared 12000000 leaflets that it says expressed the wrath and hatred of the north korean people for the government of south korea it has 3000 balloons it says ready to take them drifting across the border south the peninsular is no stranger to these kinds of leafleting propaganda campaigns but it has been a few years since north korea indulged in something like this you have to go back to the previous administration it was a very much a conservative government had a far more antagonistic relationship with north korea to find the last time that they conducted an operation like this the current administration of course of moon

j.n. is far more liberal it's been pursuing this approach of reconciliation and dialogue but we have seen it unravel quite dramatically culminating of course in the explosion complete destruction of this liaison office nearly a week ago now that was set up by this agreement that was reached in 2018 now seen as the high point in into korean diplomacy of recent times which also try to prevent this sort of provocative type of propaganda releasing of leaflets and it has brought from the unification ministries the government department here in south korea that deals with into korean affairs this a pill to try to dial down the tensions. a japanese local authority has approved a bill changing the status of a disputed on in chain that's also claimed by china and taiwan the bill asserts japan's claim over the islands which is administered since 1972 ahead of the vote

china had warned against any changes to the status quo the uninhabited islands are known as the sun cuckoo in japan and in china both say their kings date back hundreds of years graeme long webb is a research fellow at the institute for defense center teach exciting technological university in singapore he says this is a worrying development. it's a critical new on the part of the japanese are but a disturbing one because what we did enjoy over the last few years is a stalemate of sorts or chosen war side it's about the contest or who wins these are our elements but things are coming over here for 2 reasons our number one i think what has driven the japanese government to the table o.b.o. to make a decision to move out of this theory is because china's. all the chairs are getting more shop are simply because china is behaving in the in the perception of the

japanese government more immobile it causes more certain phenomena and receiving signals about not just in the east china sea but also informed by recent developments in the south china sea and what's also come to here is the ongoing dispute between india and china given a lot of conservative japanese government that the chinese are going for a rather big article push there are no tangible arguments to be. the better you will these are i mean we know that there are significant oil and gas deposits of fishing stocks and this is not some particular affected by the presence of chinese of fishing vessels and japanese ones out there fishing in these areas and also our chinese already. over the median line that separates japanese of territory and china $38.00 children have drowned in a river in southwestern china it happened in the city of chunking chinese state

media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river and others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school students were recovered on monday morning. serbia's president alexander has declared what his describes as an historic victory for his party in the country's parliamentary election but a number of opposition parties boycott of the poll saying it wouldn't be free or fair because of his control over the media lower bad money reports. and celebrations but no surprise with a clear majority of the parliamentary election at. 13 president alexander says it's an historic victory for his ruling process. we want the greatest confidence from the people tonight the biggest ever in serbia in times when a few believe we can do it this is also a warning from our voters to be even more responsible and much more diligent and to

get the best results for our people. although president isn't up for election he's the leader of the center right serbian progressive party that's been in power since 2012 he's also be the helm for its election campaign as people 38 in belgrade many say the president brewed a wave of popularity for his handling of the pandemic a strict lockdown with ease in early may the country has suffered only 260 deaths so far in a country of 7000000. he spent much of the law making t.v. appearances although ted couldn't move before you know the old teacher i expect mr future as the leader of the largest political party to begin a process to shift power from the hands of individuals to the institutions of the system so simple that those but i expect everything to be transparent and fair to

be regular. never. been happy the leading opposition party aligned society have pointless and who will be playing to lack of fed voting conditions. today serbia unequivocally said no to the regime of alexander virtue which tried normalities and madness which we have been exposed to in our previous years the boycott fulfilled its meaning its completely exposed the regime and today everyone can see what serbia looks like. who teaches held many positions of power for ministry of information twice prime minister and then 2017 present. which many took to the streets in the days of protest against the strictly accusing him of having no store tarion power and the media. and all to his party's latest victory we have some challenging weeks ahead one is to solve a territorial dispute with kosovo and we had to to the been frozen for more than

a year so be as long standing dispute with kosovo is considered to be standing in the way of belgrade ambition to join the e.u. nor about money al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera united in the face of oppression demonstrators in lebanon say their freedom of speech is under threat and we go into the heart of one of mexico's last for me rain forest i made the battle to save it from deforestation. central and eastern areas of europe particular in the last year as flash is indicating some pretty strong thunderstorms so it now is a southern poland as you can see here this particular river has burst its banks the

rain has been torrential and as you can see here this particular road is just being washed away by the force of the water but as i say out across the southwest of europe it is actually fine enjoy some nice sunshine people out in the body are expendable sunshine had to your ways to go through monday the rain begins pushing in the north and west of the u.k. but this is where we've got this ridge of high pressure so it is stopping these systems from making any further headway across the west meanwhile still more heavy rain across areas of poland across and ukraine belarus and stretching right the way down into the balkans it does begin to break apart a little bit as we head into cheese there but still some very very heavy downpours you can see here so again we could see a similar flooding me. in the western areas it is fine and dry and how much is continuing to rise so we're looking certainly to have a mini heat wave for london over the next few days the average is $21.00 but through wednesday and thursday sunny skies a high temperature of 30 degrees celsius and even warmer in paris sunday by thursday a high of 33 against an average of 22. and

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back our top stories on al-jazeera the world has recorded its highest number of new coronavirus infections more than 183000 where recorded on sunday in brazil is one of the hardest hit countries the death toll there has now passed 50000 so has urged north korea to abandon plans to send on thai south korean effects across a border every comes a day after the north threatened to retaliate inside a propaganda campaign following a week of interface tensions between the 2 countries and a japanese local authority has approved a bill changing the status of a disputed island chain that's also claimed by china and taiwan belisarius japan's claim over the uninhabited islands china has warned against any changes to the status quo. now yemen's u.a.e. backed southern separatists have seize full control of the island of so-called trial the southern transitional council says it also has deposed the governor of

the island yemen saudi backed government is calling it a cool it's a latest move from the separatist group which wants to see a sovereign state in southern yemen. reports. celebrating their you military. forces loyal to the. transitional council to see took full control of. the archipelago is located if you're a b. and c. overlooking vital oil and gas shipping routes through the gulf of aden and the red sea. this is a major victory for the u.a.e. backed separatists who took over the city of aden 2 years ago and further expander that influence by announcing sell through in the south in april. by seizing the s.t.c. moves closer to words achieving their goal breaking away from the north and

reinstating the republic of south yemen that existed until 1990 which was united with the north the internationally recognized government of president of double month so handy condemned the action by the s.t.c. as a coup based in saudi arabia had he and his our allies feel betrayed by their hosts in riyadh what. will be what happened in sokoto is an occupation by the saudis and the immoralities i call on the government to resign and seek another honest partner. 5 years ago saudi arabia and the u.a.e. launched a major military campaign in yemen their stated goal was to defeat the who theories . that seize the capital sanaa into $1014.00. the saudis and the emirates accuse iran of using the who these to destabilize the region of a campaign soon turned into

a humanitarian disaster. thousands of civilians were killed millions face shortages the u.n. considers yemen the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. for the separatists have. they are likely to turn their attention to the provinces of how troubled and. the last areas in the south until the control of these loyalists . the latest developments are likely to undermine the un's to the war in yemen and start political talks between warring factions. the country is more divided than raising fears of all these people over prolonged conflict book casualties and more suffering us about 0. police in canada have warned an exxon saudi dissident that his life may be in danger the guardian newspaper reports that

omar abdel aziz was told his a potential target of the saudi government he was warned to take precautions was a close associate of saudi journalist who was killed by saudi operatives in turkey in 2018. all the un special rubber tourne extrajudicial killings agnes column are says that the report isn't surprising she said on twitter that if there aren't any consequences for saudi arabia the kingdom will continue to threaten and silence dissent dissidents she also questioned why sounds arabia is being allowed to host an upcoming g. 20 summit. is director of the middle east studies at the university of denver he says these incidents will continue as long as it doesn't face consequences from the international community. it's clear that the saudi crown prince has learned nothing from the murder innocent summation of jamal which oji and he's once again on the prowl and this i think unless he's stopped it sends

a message to all of thora terry regimes around the world that they can also imprison they can also intimidate and go after dissidents wherever they may be living the saudi crown prince is acting like a schoolyard bully who will continue to act aggressively until there are consequences to his behavior and if you look back over the last roughly 2 years since the murder of jamal there have been really no serious consequences for the saudi crown prince he continues to. intimidate dissidents he continues to have very close relations not just with the trumpet ministration but with many other western liberal democracies that claim to uphold human rights none of them have taken a serious position they continue to sell arms to saudi arabia they continue to have work very warm relations and this november most of those leaders of western liberal democracies that claim to uphold international law and human rights will be traveling to riyadh for the g 20 summit so i think this is part of the problem. and there are concerns that freedom of expression is under threat in lebannon human

rights groups say defamation laws are increasingly being used to silence critics they say at least $100.00 activists have been detained since protests began in october against the country's economic crisis and then a harder report from be able. it was a symbolic protest against laws that make it illegal to criticize politicians dozens gathered outside the justice palace in lebanon's capital after a wave of arrests that began with the birth of a movement against the establishment since october at least 100 activists have been detained what happened since the 70 that we're told was a very big oppression campaign. designed to suppress freedom of expression not in on this country has escalated recently they have been gathering outside police stations whenever an activist or protesters held at times they violently clash with security forces and more often than not it's their campaign that secures

a release among them michelle who was taken in for posting a video online criticizing president bashar al and leadership. people are committing suicide dying from hunger and deprived from their money in banks instead of searching for those who talk bad about you ask why they are doing. lebanese law criminalizes different nation against public officials with scepticism up to 2 years for insulting the presidency but rights groups say these laws are big used by the powerful against their critics their rate at which. increased by more than 300 percent as the government as allegations of corruption began to surface and to come more prominence and public discourse you know start to use wanted to crack down on the. protests against the political class accused of driving lebanon. contrary to the ground recently turned into riots authorities are

promising a tougher response when it comes to vandalism and planned to take what they call preemptive operations to prevent further violence this is raising concern among those demanding accountability and a change of leadership this is part of. the police day they are trying to implement even the prime minister said this is not a good option. which is by legal terms to be suppressed by army forces those in power are being accused of creating an atmosphere of fear while they may have intimidated some of their opponents others think they refuse to be saddam's 700 people. at present donald trump says he would consider meeting venezuela's nicolas maduro despite his administration's campaign to oust madura from leadership says he's having 2nd thoughts about his decision to recognize opposition leader as venezuela's legitimate president and he had knowledge that

he's turned down previous opportunities to meet maduro but wouldn't rule it out in the future. gongs pro-democracy labor unions have failed to get enough support to strike against china's proposed national security legislation the referendum needed 60000 votes in support of strike action but just under 9000 people participated it's seen as a blow to the city's anti-government protest movement which lost momentum because of a ban on public gatherings over coronavirus. now in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic the great city of athens is keeping social distancing in mind as it looks so open for the summer tourist season officials have decided to turn over a portion of the street to pedestrians and cyclists johnson explains why. every night city workers squeezing traffic into fewer lanes here on policies to me you one of the things broadest central ave's crews are reclaiming huf the street surface and giving it to pedestrians and cyclists many are already moving in greece

is trying to lure back tourists and that means more people on the streets of its capital to avoid congestion the city has designed a pedestrian grand tour on reclaimed road surface linking all the city's monuments the idea is to help pedestrians maintain the proper distancing required to avoid infecting each other with covert 19 the city says a lockdown caused by the pandemic was another reason to act now. chris will be thinking. the pandemic acted as a catalyst for the pilot phase we're freeing up space in the city center that means 7 kilometers of walkways and 3 kilometers of basco lanes this has an effect on traffic which has this time to test those of it the idea of a pedestrian ground linking all of the city's ancient monuments was floated ahead of the 2004 athens olympics resulting in this pedestrianisation at the foot of the

acropolis but the tour was never finished the city says covert 19 now makes its completion necessary many here have welcome to the change in the spends up to 14 hours a day selling newspapers in the city center i'm just going to get done by going to my myself about the me when i go home at night and take a shower so much to comes off me says that i've been working on a construction site it's because of all the car exhausts and my nerves are so frayed from the street noise and i want total quiet. there's only one downside while this project will cost $30.00 to $60000000.00 much greater costs will ensue city officials think with fewer cars on the street public transport ridership will rise by nearly a 3rd athens will need about a 1000 new buses to restore its fleet to full strength after years of austerity following the global financial crisis of 2008 but

a 2 month lockdown during the pandemic has reminded people here that the quality of life that comes with having more pedestrian lanes can make up for financial loss jumps are open al-jazeera athens. and the last pocket of tropical rain forests in north america is in danger of becoming a thing of the past 90 percent in a rain forest is believed to have been already lost to deforestation that's why biologists and indigenous leaders in mexico are battling to save it. into the heart of the jungle in southern mexico. good luck and the rain forest in southern mexico it's the region's last great tropical jungle. flying above the forest canopy reveals the scale of this wild expanse dotted by lakes waterfalls and agent ruins. al-jazeera followed a team of scientists with the nonprofit group now to make it counted. for the past

40 years conservationists here have been engaged in a dedicated effort to save what remains of the rain forest that. we work on monitoring projects to increase our watch over the forests where we are now is on disability from truck cameras we watch the different mammals in the area that serve as indicators of the health of this ecosystem the luck of the is home to hundreds of rare species many of them critically endangered like the jaguars. these scarlet macaws are part of the last wild population of this species in mexico. in the absence of conservationists these vibrantly colored parents would likely disappear from the region altogether the lek and the rain forest accounts for less than a quarter of one percent of mexico's landmass yet is home to more than 25 percent of all the country's animal species. said young man as he needs most for generations the luck and on my own have maintained a philosophy of living in harmony with the forest even. today they are part of

conservation efforts led by scientists and are calling on the mexican government to do more to stop the forestation up ok look good enough for the federal government fall from scaling back the extent of cattle ranching continues to promote and does one of the main cause of deforestation. livestock farming in agriculture remains the most significant threat to the rainforest it's estimated that all but 10 percent of the luck and has been lost. the local communities have begun developing new ways of making a living this butterfly form for instance breeds a number of rare species and the sale of souvenirs keeps business afloat. the growth of adventure tourism in the region has also created jobs and helped generate important environmental awareness among members of the community and they were meant. in the past people who didn't have a form of income to sustain themselves many people like myself would immigrate to the united states but now thanks to this project we could no longer have that need

. at the current pace of deforestation one percent of the likened to the jungle is destroyed every year but those who are fighting to preserve what's left insists it's not too late to reverse course and reclaim this important ecosystem. biosphere reserve. now siberia is known for its harsh when days but one town is setting records with high temperatures and very recorded 38 degrees celsius on saturday as vegas high was 37.2 degrees the town in the republic has the most extreme temperature range in the wild weather no of minus 68 degrees. you know again back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera corona virus infections have been surging across latin america with more than 2000000 cases now

being recorded across the region half of those are in brazil the highest number of daily cases worldwide was also reported on sunday saw has urged north korea to abandon plans to send anti south korean leader fests across a shared border that peak comes a day after the north threatened to retaliate and start a propaganda campaign following a week of increased tensions between the 2 countries john linnell and you'll be the south korean government has already announced its stance regarding the leaflet campaign the government is blocking efforts dissent and to do with korea leaflets and commodities we urge north korea to stop their plan to distribute the south korea propaganda leaflets that will only worsen into korean relations. china has condemned a decision in japan to change the status of a disputed island chain that's also claimed by china and taiwan the bail approved by local authority asserts japan's plane over the uninhabited islands. 8 children

have drowned in a river in southwestern china it happened in the city of chongqing chinese state media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river and others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school students were recovered on monday morning. police in canada have warned an exiled saudi dissidents that his life may be in danger the guardian newspaper reports that omar abdel aziz was told his a potential target of the saudi government he was warned to take precautions of disease was a close associate of saudi journalist who was killed by saudi operatives in istanbul turkey in 2018 and u.s. president donald trump says he would consider meeting venezuela's nicolas maduro despite his administration's campaign to oust madura from leadership says he is having 2nd thoughts about his decision to recognize opposition leader one wydow as the legitimate president of venezuela. with headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more news for you right after a.j.c.

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