this is the traits i'm fighting every night to meet with global news makers and tweet about the stories the back to 0. am. and. the anger in brazil as the coronavirus death toll process 50000 don the world's worst day yet for new infections. i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up a japanese council tries to claim control of a chain of islands that china and taiwan both say belong to them. dozens of migrants rescued from the mediterranean in italy says they're part of an upsurge in

numbers trying to make their way to europe and how the covert 1000 outbreak has accelerated greece's problems to offer tourists and one tore one step at a time. thank you very much for joining us the world's recorded its worst day yet for new cases of the coronavirus more than 183000 infections were reported on sunday taking the toll close to 9000000 and is spreading at an alarming rate in the country where the president dismissed siona says a little flu deaths in brazil now exceed $50000.00 alexy o'brien has more. brazil's deep divisions playing out on the streets of its major cities with some marching in support of president. and opponents to. tell him and he should step down. here we are here in

defense of democracy and asking for sonora to leave this president who asserts the people's power and is committing atrocities does not deserve to govern our country the. protesters are angry at both in hours response to the pandemic he's openly disagreed with advice from his own health ministry calling covered in this who flew saying measures such as social distancing jobs and a more dangerous than the virus itself. those feelings echoed at rallies in brazil's commercial capital sao paolo we saw more mosques showing the president who is often saying without one. but if they are here in support of our president. we want to go back to work we want support for shopkeepers support entrepreneurs these people here in sao paulo today are in support of brazil. but brazil is struggling to beat the virus with some doctors warning that hospitals

a swamped with more than a 1000000 confirmed and fictions. 2 health ministers both doctors have resigned as the number of brazilians dying or falling l. increased what critics say is the president's chaotic response has seen local authorities step in to take their own measures but judging by the crowds at protests and the shops there's not much social distancing being done many say what rules there are and not being enforced. on rio de janeiro's famous copacabana beach also in our supporters stood with brazilian flags staked into the sand where just weeks ago they were crosses laid and protest against the 10s of thousands of deaths . the mortality rate among brazil's indigenous people is twice as high as other brazilians the military's been sandton to help communities with tasting but some in the amazon region say it's too late and accuse the president of abandoning them. as

a. weakness sometimes i can feel it i feel weak as the virus continues its relentless spread so too does anger about where the president is to blame elixir brian al jazeera. in other world news a japanese local authority has approved a measure of changing the status of a disputed island chain that's also claimed by china and taiwan it a serious japan's came over the islands which tokyo's administered since 1902 as adrian brown reports the move looks set to deepen tensions with china. at the southern tip of the japanese archipelago a cluster of uninhabited islands now on the frontline of what may be a new flashpoint they lie close to significant oil and gas deposits strategic shipping routes and lucrative fishing grounds to japan they are the cuckoo islands china calls them the tao used but for 50 years they've been administered and

controlled by tokyo taiwan also claims ownership china's government had warned japan against changing the status of the islands and is now reportedly deployed coast guard vessels to the area as it has done many times before. it's a serious purgation against china's territorial sovereignty at a japanese site possibility in the name it's illegal and invalid it cannot change the fact that though you islands belong china we formally oppose that 11 more made with japanese side china has a large number of. diplomatic channels and a 3rd of the right to further react. the rising tensions in the east china sea come as china's military continues to assert its maritime claims in the nearby south china sea and while its soldiers are involved in another sovereignty dispute with india and what's also come up with here is they are all going to india and china

will serve the japanese that the chinese are all a lot of bits of article this dispute has often stirred nationalist sentiment 2012 saw violent and he japanese protests in many chinese cities after japan. the government brought 3 of the islands from their private owners and although monday's renaming decision was taken by a municipal council it could still inflame passions once more what makes the waters of the east china sea so potentially turbulent is the high profile of another military this warship evidence of a 60 year old treaty which obligates the united states to defend japan if it's attacked it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested. and at her and joins us now live from hong kong so we heard the reaction from beijing there and what happens next. well china has said it's going to be sending coast guard vessels into those waters

around those disputed islands japan says well no change there because that's what china has been doing for the past couple of months and that is perhaps why this municipal council has taken the decision that it has i think that as long as you know both sides send their coast guard vessels into the area then i think you know this will not turn into a conflict but if both sides to send to send decide to send warships into these troubled waters and of course it could be a very different outcome i think to look at the wider picture we have to understand that for china right now nothing matters more than sovereignty whether it's bits of india that china says belongs to it whether it's china's increasing assertive claims over sovereignty over taiwan and the way that it's in forcing its will on an almost daily basis here in hong kong to appreciate what china is doing you have to look i think at history and china's claims go back a very long way now analysts say you know we're not going to see conflicts in the

east china sea anytime soon but we're not going to see peace either you know when we have maritime disputes in this part of the world we always think about the south china sea dispute but there has been another long simmering dispute going on and that's the east china sea thank you for that adrian brown live for us there in hong kong. so has urged north korea to abandon plans to send untie a south korean across their shared border if follows a week of worsening relations after a propaganda campaign by a group of north korean defectors is rob mcbride reports themselves. north korea says it has 12000000 propaganda leaflets printed and 3000 balloons ready to carry them south across the border depicting south korean president moon j.n. pyongyang says they represent the wrath and anger of the north korean people up

we do not have any intention to reconsider or change our plan at a time when north south relations have already broken down. last week north korea demolished a joint liaison office on its side of the demilitarized zone in the surest sign yet of relations unraveling. the office was opened after a successful summit in 2018 which also agreed to stop provocative propaganda moves by either side. north korea has accused the south of breaking that agreement by allowing defectors who make calls human scum to float propaganda balloons into north korean territory despite having freedom of speech guaranteed in the south the government here has try to curtail these provocative acts one defective group that had threatened to float bottles filled with rice and propaganda messages into north korean waters has been prevented from doing so with this appeal from the south john

going on. the south korean government has already announced its stance regarding the leaflet campaign the government is blocking efforts to send anti north korea leaflets and commodities we urge north korea to stop their plan to distribute and the south korea propaganda leaflets that will only worsen into korean relations. but another defector group says it will launch a batch of propaganda balloons to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war later this week threatening to increase tensions even further robert pride al-jazeera seoul. dozens of migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea after their boat was reported to be in distress the italian charity mediterranea saving saving humans says 67 people were taken to put in sicily then transferred to a quarantine center also the migrants were men from africa and bangladesh now for

years italy was the main route into europe for migrants and refugees but a crackdown on smugglers in libya led to a fall in mediterranean crossings this year there's been an uptick with nearly 6000 people landing in italy so far that's almost double the number in the same period last year 6 boats with more than 100 migrants arrived on the island of lampedusa in the last few days laurence hart is the director of the coordination office for the mediterranean at the international organisation for migration he explains what's behind the increase in arrivals. we should say that this is happening because of the war and the conflict ongoing in libya which pushes a lot of people moving moving on and not necessarily staying in libya to earn. earn a salary. so the situation is one that is in the increase as you have highlighted but still remains relatively low compared to previous years

what is interesting is that in these months there has been relatively little activity from n.g.o.s the ships in the in the on the sea in the mid central mediterranean however the numbers have increased so this is just to say that sometimes people say that boats and geos do constitute a pull factor but in reality what we see is not the case and let's also not forget that this is the high season high season meaning that that weather conditions in the mediterranean are more conducive for a new departures from libya and arrivals in the northern shore of mediterranean so we are likely to see an increase which is already happening. of course we have also hope that this sign of generosity from the italian government will continue

a lot will also depend on the a number of arrivals and the solutions which are found beyond the 1st disembarkation operation which means integration or relocation into 3rd countries. still ahead on al-jazeera united in the face of oppression demonstrators in lebanon say their freedom of speech is under threat and a vanishing wilderness we look at the debate around farming development presses destruction of mexico's swindling rain forest. and other more heavy rain across all central and eastern areas of china is that time of year the seasonal rains of course very much in the forecast they will be as well for the next few weeks but some very heavy downpours working the way off the

east coast that does mean a wet day in shanghai but you can see as we go through tuesday this rain beginning to work its way into the yellow sea it'll make more headway on wednesday and really will cover much of the korean peninsula some heavy downpours at times 25 is the high in seoul with some very heavy amounts of rain but it's a slightly dried day throughout much of japan want to scattered showers 30 is the high in tokyo but that rain will trail right the way back into those eastern areas and the monsoon rains in india still obviously very prevalent making good headway this year but as you can see most of the activity will central and eastern areas some dark storm clouds very much the order of the day certainly into west bengal and plenty of heavy rain as we go through choose a bit by cheese day we'll see some particularly heavy downpours into monza pradesh but also pushing up towards each of the desh kenton you on into wednesday and also up into rajastan that is we're going to see the heaviest of the rain to the north of there we could just see wanted to scottish thunderstorms not too hot to need with a high of 34 celsius meanwhile the rains of course continuing across the west all

boy down into carola. frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water what's been the result missing perching go up quite significantly and in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera.

welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera the world has recorded its highest number of new coronavirus infections more than one 183000 were reported on sunday personal is one of the hardest hit countries the death toll there has now passed 50000. china has condemned a decision in japan to change the status of a disputed island chain that's also claimed by big jean and taiwan the belisarius over the uninhabited islands and dozens of migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea by an italian rescue ship after their boat was reported to be in distress most of the migrants were men from africa and bangladesh. now there are concerns that freedom of expression is under threat in lebanon 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 then harder reports from beirut. 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 were killed were it was a very big aggression. designed to suppress freedom of expression. has a school aged 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. ounds 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 become more prominent and public discourse we have started to use wanted to crack down on the. protests against the political class accused of driving lebanon's economy to the ground recently turned into riots authorities are promising a tougher response when it comes to vandalism and plan to take what they called preemptive operations to prevent further violence this is raising concern among

those demanding accountability and the change of leadership this is part of. the police state they are trying to implement even the prime minister said this is not a good option. which is by the good terms it can be. suppressed by army force 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 side 700. u.s. president donald trump says he's not ruling out meeting venezuela's leader nicolas maduro despite the u.s. campaign to oust him the us president also told a us news website that he's having 2nd thoughts about recognizing opposition leader one by joe as venezuela's legitimate president meanwhile high court judges in the u.k. are hearing venezuela's bet to force the bank of england 'd to release almost 2. in dollars of its gold the bank has held on to $31.00 tons of venezuelan bullion for

the past 2 years because of british and u.s. sanctions prison nicolas maduro says the gold is needed to buy health care quick meant medicine and food during the coronavirus pandemic britain like many other countries supports opposition leader one why do the his way use some of its other gold reserves last month to pay for $45000000.00 worth of iranian petrol despite u.s. sanctions on both countries are more your compass is a financial analyst he explains why releasing the gold could be risky for the bank of england. the main problem is that the bank the bank of england klang east the beignets well and central bank and there's a question in all works which is the illegitimate board of the uk the u.k. again like the us and most e.u. loving americans want to do not recognise my guru as the prescient they recognise one way though the head of venezuela's parliament the national assembly as the interim constitution oppress him and why because the national family that is what

its parliament is the only legitimately elected body in bennett's went so both ways though and the durham they both have appointed at the friend a board for venezuela's central bank now the u.k. already recognizes dural authority only recognizes way we'll ask illegitimate interim constitution president over in israel and the main problem basically when he comes to request easy he said ministration house is being willing to wait funding of terrorist groups for example which basically operate in the soudan believers state is a tiny ball in eagle gold mining we did all are in sort of minutes well and c.v.t. and meat are your officers and also all members or most of nice racial have been think we drug trafficking so. sort of electrons very dug old models i mean straight from even the link would drop off again we terrorism funding could pose

a reputational risk to the bank of england. but it's not looking good for the last remaining tropical rain forest in southern mexico more than 90 percent of the lock and on jungle has been cut down to make way for farming as money or up a lorry for some chop a state more forest is being lost every year despite conservation efforts. this is the moment is a soulis jungle reserve 3312 square kilometers of unspoiled tropical rainforest forth because the money is more the result this ecosystem is very bio dad goes it's home to nearly whole field both species in mexico and one 3rd of all mammals and butterflies stews but the loss has been immense more than 90 percent of the ecosystem we had has been lost. we don't ask for a better sense of how much of the forest has been destroyed we plotted a flight path to survey the jungle near mexico's border with guatemala. here human

development has moved right to the edge of the forest and in many cases settlements are clearly visible far beyond the limits of the reserve evidence of the illegal exploitation of natural resources is also clear as day settlements like these are referred to as invasions by the indigenous like and whose presence here dates back hundreds of years and look at it in the park there and they're trying to steal the land on people do not agree with the normalization of this invasion the government should intervene and relocate them. the moment this will is reserved is the heart of the luck and don't rain forest the largest in north america it represents the most important regulator of the climate in this region of the world we're travelling along the loch and doing remember one of the most important waterways in this part of mexico scientists refer to this entire region as one big water factory 30 percent of all surface fresh water found in mexico is produced by the like and going to rain forest. the like and don't hold any measurable wealth of natural

resources for species like the scarlet macaw survival depends on the watchful eye of conservationists. one of the biggest threats rare animals face is from the illegal wildlife trade and. in the past there was a large population of macaws extending across several mexican states but due to the destruction of the ecosystem this is now the last wild population found in the uk and in jungle. in 2018 the mexican government launched an initiative aimed at reducing before station by providing economic incentives for people who live near the edge of the jungle but for many here likely god what these are simply more money to be made raising cattle in which people have said that i should plant hardwood trees but i asked them. how long would i have to wait for the tree to see my children to school i feel more secure with more careful and if i need money tomorrow i just sell

a cow. like other threatened ecosystems in mexico and across the planet the future of this diminishing wilderness depends on the battle between the efforts of conservationists and the forces of development. when will the moment is a school is biosphere reserve. 8 children have drowned in a river in southwestern china it happened in the city of chongqing chinese say 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. the top disease experts in china is expecting a big drop in corona virus infections in the capital by the end of the week have been more than 230 cases in beijing since a new outbreak at the side of the month but just 9 were reported on monday officials have put several neighborhoods into lockdown in order tests on high risk groups such as restaurant workers and food co is. there's been a rise in the reproduction rate of corner virus in germany last week one person

infected one infected person was transmitting the virus to fewer than 2 other people while that number now is close to 3 dominic kane has more from berlin. for the past few days the reproduction rate of the corona virus the our rate has been climbing across the country in part due to localized outbreaks that have taken place in several different states notably in berlin but elsewhere too where many cases have been reported but they are localized they are confined to particular places in those areas the reason that this rising number matters is clear the government for much of the past few months has placed great reliance on the science on the numbers behind corona always stressing that the important thing was to keep the r. rate below one if possible in other words that each new infected person would infect fewer than one other person while now the rate is almost at 3 but the fact that it

is localized means that ministers have so far at least not responded with any kind of action regarding this rising number the other thing to say here of course is that otherwise apart from where these localized outbreaks have taken place there are few signs of rises of new infections and that sort of things that the overriding feeling at least in so far as the reporting of this is concerned is that so far because it's localized outbreaks this is not it's not being treated as being as worrying perhaps from an official perspective as had this happened at the start of the outbreak back in march. and that great city of athens they is keeping social distancing in mind that next open for the summer tourist season officials have decided to dedicate parts of this race so 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 half 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 but the strains 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 possible lines 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 getting it done by going to my myself above me when i go home at night and take a shower so much dark 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 months locked in the pandemic has reminded people here that the quality of life that comes with having more pedestrian lanes could make up for financial loss jump rope loss al-jazeera athens. where again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the world has recorded its highest number of new corona virus infections more than 183000 were reported on sunday brazil is the hardest hit country one of the hottest the countries the death toll there has now passed $50000.00 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 belisarius japan's came over the uninhabited islands edgin brown has more from hong kong china

has said it's going to be sending coast guard vessels into those waters around those disputed islands japan says well no change there because that's what china's been doing for the past couple of months and that is perhaps why this municipal council has taken the decision that it has i think that as long as you know both sides send their coast guard vessels into the area then i think you know this will not turn into a conflict but if both sides to send to send decide to send warships into these troubled waters and of course it could be a very different outcome. saul has a career to abandon plans to send untie south korean leaflets across a border the peak comes a day after the north threatened to retaliate in saudi propaganda campaign following a week of increased tension between the 2 countries dozens of migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea by an italian rescue ship bound for their boat was reported to be in distress also the migrants were men from africa and

bangladesh. high court judges in the u.k. are hearing venezuela's bait to force the bank of england to release almost $2000000000.00 of its gold president says it's needed to buy health care quitman medicine and food during the call of virus pandemic a top disease expert in china is expecting a big drop in govan 1000 infections in the capital by the end of the week have been more than 230 cases in beijing since a new outbreak at the start of the month just 9 very $48.00 on monday. and germany's seeing a rise in the reproduction rate of coronavirus nationwide and last week one infected person was transmitting the virus to fewer than 2 other people were not there infecting close to 3 those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com coming up next it's inside story do stay with us.

could egypt and turkey go to war in libya egypt's president threatens to send in the army its turkish back troops make more gains how does that further complicate libya's civil war this isn't a story. hello welcome to the program. the battle lines of libya's civil war are changing quickly a few weeks ago after us forces were on the outskirts of the capital tripoli they fought a 14 month battle to remove the un recognized government of national.