it'd be fun to. say to young people that are called keep it up because if that everybody wants al-jazeera selects. 0. hello there i'm a saucy a 10 and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes new york city reopens restaurants and offices but coronavirus spikes elsewhere pushed daily infections in the u.s. to levels bossie nearly 2 months ago. saudi arabia announces a cease fire with southern separatists in the province of. president donald trump backtracks after signaling openness to meeting venezuela's nicolas maduro there and

prosecutors in russia seek a 6 year sentence for a high profile film director on the bezel new charges as the borders say the case is listed as a base in school sternness world number one of a joke which is facing criticism through players involved in events these organized in the balkans have now tested positive for corona virus. but we begin this hour in the united states where the death toll from the corona virus has now reached 120008 new infections are soaring in several states which have reopened their economies now the daily number of cases is at its highest level in almost 2 months a dozen states including arizona florida and texas all experienced record increases in new cases in the last week but it is a different picture in new york city once the epicenter of the outbreak after 3

months of lockdown offices restaurants and hair salons are reopening in america's biggest city but across the wilds there were $183000.00 new infections reported on sunday that's the west day yet as the total nears 9000000 while in brazil the number of deaths there past 50000 and indian authorities reported the highest daily jump in new infections this. 15000 now despite the rising cases restrictions that continue to be relaxed and we've got 3 reporters standing by to isabeau 1 isn't argentina's capital christensen amy will have all the latest from new york shortly but 1st we go to los angeles and rob reynolds rob we've been seeing wreck or being broken in california what's driving them well here in los angeles county. the total number of new coronavirus cases recorded over the last 24 hours is 1784 with 11 people having died from

code 19 all together in this area this metropolitan area of 10000000 people there are 80000. positive cases confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic with $3120.00 deaths this comes as los angeles like many other parts of california are in various phases of reopening businesses factories public places bars restaurants nail salons gyms and the like but what people here in this county are saying is that much of the increase is due to ramped up testing of testing it's very widely available in los angeles county there are drive up centers all over the cities it's quite a vailable to people in all areas and so many many people are getting tested and these tests are available to people who are not showing symptoms as well so

officials say that there are other key data points including hospitalizations and the total number of deaths which indicate that the situation is not quite as dire as the naked numbers show in fact barbara for rare who is the l.a. county director of health says that the most important data continue to point to the fact that the area remains fairly stable in terms of community spread and that in fact efforts underway continue to slow the spread of covert 19 not the case in some other parts of the country however i want to ask you exactly about that rob we've been seeing these spikes across the south of the country how is that being addressed. well it's it's comes again in the midst of this gradual reopening in some cases states like arizona there wasn't much closure or to begin with but we're so we're seeing daily new infection counts

in the united states on some days last week exceeding $30000.00 nationwide there are at least 8 states including florida arizona texas utah south carolina that reported single day new highs in infections and several of those states were the ones that started to open up earliest the states are seeing increased positivity in testing and in many cases increased hospitalization and it's interesting that this upsurge has actually led some business owners to voluntarily shut down again at least we know of at least a dozen restaurants and other businesses in texas for example that have closed their doors because they feel their patrons or their staff of. acquired the virus and tested positive but as far as the revamp any new

nationwide effort or national strategy emanating from the white house from the president there is none again states are as they have been since the beginning of the pandemic essentially on their own to craft the route strategies as to how to try to suppress the disease robins that speaking to us from los angeles thank you very much trouble that's now cross to christensen amy she's joining me live from new york city as it reopens kristen are people getting out and about i see people walking around behind you a little bit more traffic now later on in the morning people must feel like this is a bit of a reprieve after so many months of lockdown. definitely a lot more traffic but i have. in the last few hours it's early afternoon here in new york we've been able to walk around midtown midtown manhattan a bit i have to say i've seen half as many stores or just as many stores that are

still closed as opened so we're entering phase 2 here in new york that means that retail outlets can reopen for in-store shopping but many of them i'm seeing are still closed restaurants as well there are allowed to reopen for outdoor dining there are some 27000 restaurants in new york city but many of them are very small and tight and the requirements for them to open include be not only being outside but having tables 6 feet apart it's very difficult. requirements that have to be met by the restaurants here so many of them still are not open we've seen anecdotally just here in midtown manhattan. the mayor when he announced in entering this phase said that he thought reopening even in this limited capacity for restaurants would allow some 5000 of 27000 restaurants could possibly prevent

them from closing permanently it might save some 45000 jobs that's why they chose to move forward in this way the hope today or the expectation was that anywhere from 150000 people 230-0000 people would be getting back to work here in manhattan so it'll be interesting when we get more solid numbers to see if it lives up to that expectation one thing we did hear last week leading into this was that restaurant owners and retail outlets but restaurant owners in particular were frustrated at the lack of clarity it was kind of a last minute announcement about reopening this week so it may be that they just haven't had the chance yet to get their staff back to get stocked up and so forth because. as i said the traffic has picked up substantially and i'm seeing delivery trucks up and down some of the streets that we were driving around so it may just be a more gradual reopening here and certainly people are hoping that things will continue

to move in a positive direction in terms of business because the unemployment rate here is now at 18 percent but of course concerns about the corona virus are also on everyone's mind and vigilance is being warned even though here in new york the new infections the new hospitalizations the fatality rate all continued to creep downward and now are at the lowest rates we've seen since the 2nd week of march so now the question is can the economy * recover at the same time as our public health is recovering kristensen amy there with all the latest from new york city thank you very much kristen well as you had brazil has now recorded more than 50000 deaths from the virus the world health organization is warning of worrying increases throughout latin america well we can all speak to reason bushies and what is or isn't watching the whole region for us and to reason we've been seeing protests on the streets in brazil as well and has had quite

a bit to say what is their take on the situation. well the world health organization denounced the vet in the past 24 hours there's been a 54000 infections in brazil this brings up the figure to over 1000000 people that have coronavirus in the country over 50000 people have died some experts are saying that actually those figures are much higher because of lack of testing because of the difficulties to reach some of reserves most remote areas we know so far that at least 82 municipalities in brazil already have confirmed cases of coronavirus many of those me to see if i leave these are located for example in the amazon rain forest where indigenous communities are denouncing that the virus is spreading there and they're fearing extinction all of this is happening in the middle of a huge political crisis that's protests are happening in many of brazil's major cities many of them are asking or demanding the resignation of president. there's

also protests over force one out of supporters many of them are happening in the capital brasilia people criticizing the supreme court congress among others are saying that those institutions are not allowing president to carry out many of those reforms of the voice when i go since the very beginning has opposed lockdowns he has been seen getting some of his supporters appearing without a mask saying i'm calling coronavirus a little through saying that he's athletic and that he won't get ill so this has been the press is precedents attitude something that has forced him to clash with the supreme court with congress with at least 2 of his health ministers but also with powerful governors in brazil with the governor of the with the governor of religion aid or who from the very beginning wanted to impose lockdown in their cities to prevent the spread of coral and of virus what we're seeing right now is many of those cities in spite of the surging cases in spite of the search in deaths

they're still trying to open up the. because of the consequences that the president has repeatedly said that lock downs will have in the economy well they're starting to open up now experts are saying that this is not the time to open up that there is a surge in cases a surge in deaths and that at this point the lockdown should be in place in order to prevent further loss of life and to reza we're also seeing these surges and several other countries across the region how are they coping. well let me marry guys right now the at the center of corona virus so we're seeing a surge of cases almost everywhere but the biggest amount of those cases are happening in many of the countries that did not implement a lockdown from the very beginning in mexico for example 21000 people have died she posed a lockdown but only initially in the city of santiago where there's been a surge in cases and in fact the government was forced to adopt the figure of those

who died initially it was around $3500.00 while that figure has gone up to almost $7000.00 because many of those who died had not been steps tested so they had to readjust we're also seeing a surge in cases in countries like you why paraguayan argentina the situation has been completely different argentina was one of the 1st countries to impose a lot down one of the strictest lockdowns in the world with security forces on the ground which require permits to leave people's house with the president asking people to stay in their homes this has had an enormous impact on argentina's economy because at this point negotiating and trying to prevent the fall that has inflation recession among many other things but at this point the president is considering extending that's quarantine at least in greater one off site is home to around 14000000 people so there's lots of questioning about what's going to happen in latin america once this is so over what the world bank is saying there's going to be a contraction of the economy of around 6 percent so most of the governments in the

region with a lockdown or without it are fearing what's coming next and for many is a raise a rise in inequality poverty and hunger tourism are there watching the region for us from one of the areas thank you very much tourism all the head of the world health organization is warning world leaders against potential sizing the pandemic saying it's undermining efforts to combat the coronavirus he says the lack of global leadership is more alarming than the virus itself. the greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself it's the lack of global solidarity and global leadership we cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world the moral is in desperate need of national unity and global solidarity the politicize asian of the pandemic has exacerbated it ultimately the problem ik i shown that we are

humanity one humanity. none of us are. all of wise or of. all there's plenty more ahead on this news hour including why china could become an obstacle in nuclear talks between the u.s. and russia how palestinians are stepping up their fight against israel's plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank. and in sport despite being banned the confederate flag still makes an appearance at the latest nascar motor racing event in the united states. now yemen's government and a southern separatist group have agreed to discuss a possible peace deal according to saudi arabia they have agreed to a cease fire in the abyan region and also to deescalate tensions in other areas it comes after the southern transitional council took full control of the island of

the culture on saturday the internationally recognized government called it a coup the separatists want an independent station south yemen and are backed by the united arab emirates well al jazeera has covered the war in yemen extensively and he joins us now are some agonise been a hot spot for some time now talk us through the significance of this agreement well this is something which is just going to further delay any political settlement in yemen it is going to stop the clashes there have been going on particularly has become over the last few months the focal point of this power struggle between the internationally recognized government of our bubble so how do you and the us to see where are the secessionist determined to. break away from the north they want to take over b. and which is one of the most important. power bases of president how the for them to move forward towards and if they control. is the end for. for

the it's the beginning of reinstating the south and republic of yemen now the saudis have managed to convince the s.t.c. of all the moment to stop moving towards the end and stop the military operation but i don't think that this is going to make any significant impact in the coming days because the as you see backed by the united arab emirates is determined it's just a matter of time before the southern part of yemen comes under control. and we often talk about the various powers were involved in the multiple conflicts and yelling here the saudis the u.a.e. but how are the yemenis taking this i see that how does government is now saying they're losing confidence in the saudis reward is losing faith in the in the saudi led coalition in yemen for for multiple reasons 1st of all with the start of the campaign in 2015 the ultimate goal is to defeat the whole things and push them back

from the areas to control in 2014 including the capital sanaa and that they will try to ensure there is a power sharing agreement with all the parties the who these the session is over solve the international government come together and negotiate a transition to democracy what is happening is totally the opposite of the hope these are seeing drop the further expanding taken over province the s.t.c. is just a matter of time before the reinstate the republic of 1990 in the solve the part of yemen and the one who's doing grown the one who's been here of the one who's been completely abandoned by his own people is a problem and so hard because he thought of the saudis with their own regional weight they will be able to navigate through the complex political landscape in yemen and solve its political did this is not happening this explains why a minister yesterday resigned and this explains why many people are saying that if we stay with the saudis yemen is definitely going to be divided in the coming weeks or months. covers the war for yemen the war in yemen for us very closely thank you

very much as. now hundreds of migrants rescued from smugglers boats in the mediterranean sea have arrived safely in sicily and the 1st time a rescue ship has been allowed to dock in italy since the ports were closed in april because of the crying a virus and attic. reports. it's the 1st time these migrants have slept in days they survived the journey across the mediterranean from libya to europe but only just they were saved by a rescue ship run by the german aid organization sea watch as the migrants were brought ashore in sicily their dream of a better life is by no means guaranteed 1st the big transfer to a quarantine center where they'll spend the next 2 weeks. the 211 people on board the german ship were rescued from 3 separate boats last week. 70 people mostly africans were crammed into this boat reported to be in distress last wednesday being made. the following night another rescue operation was underway that on

friday of the 67 migrants mainly from africa and bangladesh was saved about 70 kilometers off the coast of lampedusa they've been without water for 2 days this is happening because of the war on the conflict ongoing in libya which pushes a lot of people moving moving on an old necessarily staying in libya to earn. earn a salary. for years italy was the main route into europe for migrants and refugees but a crackdown on people smugglers in libya lead to fewer mediterranean crossings. this year there's been an increase with nearly 6000 people danding in italy so far that's almost double the number in the same period last year. this is the 1st time italy's allowed a rescue ship to dock since the government closed ports in april because of the

coronavirus pandemic. this summer the expectation is they'll be many more boats that will need rescuing full of people risking their lives in the hope of finding work in europe during a gate to be al jazeera. now the white house says u.s. president donald trump continues to recognize one as the leader of venezuela that's after trying to hold a news website on sunday that he wouldn't rule out meeting nicolas maduro despise a u.s. campaign to oust him he also suggested he is having 2nd thoughts about recognizing as venezuela's legitimate president but on his sense tweeted saying he would only need to do or if he agreed to step down peacefully alan fischer joins me now from washington d.c. alan we've seen seemingly a number of changes of heart from the president and his administration just even in the last few hours talk us through what's precipitating all this. clean up an oil foreigners all 'd of the presidents who are in making the position of the u.s. administration was pretty clear why and why door has been recognized as the president

of venezuela the opposition has been supported by the president by the vice president by secretary of state might prompt you'll remember that a few months ago the department of justice decided to charge nicolas maduro with narco terrorism in the indictment they describe him as the former president of venezuela john bolton who was the national security advisor then writes a book is due to be published on tuesday in the book he says that donald trump thought it would be and i quote cool to invade venezuela expressed his concern about supporting why do because he appeared to be weak there is an interview over the weekend what donald trump is a specifically about these suggestions from from john bolton donald trump then says in the interview well he would be opening to me but do it's a lie he said before what wrong with meeting someone and express concern about how why do or how to capitalize on the support of the united states and many other nations clearly this is

a big political. for donald trump particularly in south florida where there are many venezuelan experts we're talking about somewhere in the region of 100000 there people would obviously been calling the white house saying look this is bad news politically for you you could lose a lot of support florida could be a key state in the event of a close presidential election a few 1000 votes here or there could actually twist the state so therefore donald trump comes out with a statement on monday on twitter and says he only supports talking to do if it's to discuss his departure from venezuela and he stands by what and why do you kill a mechanic. as usual briefing on monday she is asked by that and again reiterate the position of the trumpet militarisation which is they stand by one why do they recognize him as the president of venezuela so for all that all the time why we're back where we started the trumpet ministration recognizes one word or they don't

want to speak to me unless it's he's about to depart and there is no sign that nicolas maduro is about to do that alan fischer across all of those developments for us in washington d.c. thank you very much alan well staying with venezuela high court judges in the u.k. are here in the madeira government's bid to force the bank of england to release almost $2000000000.00 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 now president nicolas maduro says it's needed to buy health care equipment medicine and food during the coronavirus pandemic so nega has been following the court proceedings for us in months. you've had the opening statements from the legal representative of my daughter's board serving the central bank of venezuela now what he put out in his opening arguments to the court was that the u.k. on equivocally recognizes venezuela's government that's his argument and that of

course comes all the way back you have tom hackett from back when the 28th elections took place and the british reaction to that as well as that of the other 50 or so countries who recognized why they all as the constitutional interim leader of venezuela but in court today the legal representative of my daughter's board of the b.c.b. said that even though there had been this proclamation had been made by the u.k. government the u.k. still continued to deal with venezuela it continued to have what it said full normal reciprocal diplomatic relations with that in mind as well they're also allegations that even though there are there was a statement that was made where it recognized white though it did not recognize.

to be the president of venezuela which is going to be obviously the fundamental crux of their legal argument as well. well still ahead on al-jazeera as malawi prepares for a rerun of the presidential vote we look at the leading candidates preparing a message to south korea the north's plan to fight millions of leaflets across the border and in sport into milan make an impressive return to action and is top lead and you'll be here with that story. and other remains halls and dr coles across much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula meanwhile all across areas it's true see one or 2 shows again of the last few days and they will develop as speaker through choose a 28 is a high anchor and you could have even

a thunderstorm with that 28 be fairly pretty nice in beirut we have this on shore flow so not too high different story across into iraq 45 celsius in baghdad the winds are strong and in fact they will follow way southward so also kicking up some sand and some dust of the next couple of days 47 curation on wednesday with those strong winds the winds not quite as a strong down into cattle on the high and around 40 degrees celsius meanwhile down in southern africa the usual thunderstorms 3 will central regions but also for the next couple of days the rains back in the forecast particularly to coastal areas of mozambique pushing up to the north and some very heavy downpours likely into coastal areas over towns near that rain will work its way further to the north and east as we go through wednesday that does mean more showers across into kenya and eventually pushing up into somalia as well but all the while we've got click conditions across much of a south africa temp just beginning to come back up 16 degrees in johannesburg 19 in capetown but a very warm day importer lizbeth with

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pros what about the guy that can afford it to bring you more award winning documentaries and life. well again i missed all the attainder let's remind you about top stories this hour the united states is seeing a spike in corona virus infections with the daily numbers at its highest level and almost 2 months but it is a different picture and the epicenter new york city which has eased restrictions further they're reopening offices restaurants and hassle. yemen's government and a southern separatist group have agreed to discuss a possible peace deal according to saudi arabia they've agreed to

a cease fire in the region and to deescalate tensions in other areas. the white house says donald trump continues to recognize one quote as the leader of venezuela after trump told a news website on sunday he wouldn't rule out meeting with nicolas maduro despite a u.s. campaign to oust. all nuclear talks between the united states and russia underway in austria they're discussing the future of the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the 2 countries what's called the new start expires next february several treaties between the u.s. and russia have already elapsed including one on intermediate range missiles the only one left the new strategic arms reduction treaty came into force in 2011 it limits both sides to $1550.00 deployed nuclear warheads the treaty can be extended for 5 years if both sides agree while donald trump now wants china to join any renewed agreement because it isn't bound by treaty restrictions but the chinese on

to interested despite this one of the u.s. negotiations has accused beijing of being a no show posting this picture from the meeting and yet. it sure is an empty place reserved for the chinese delegation of china's foreign ministry has responded calling it an odd scene while the chinese diplomat label that performance. i spoke to will say he's the nucleus security project lead at the civilian research and development foundation global he says the trumpet ministration may be deliberately trying to sync these talks. china in the nuclear weapons game is really small fry compared to the united states and russia the united states and russia both have about $5000.00 nuclear weapons apiece and the arsenal of china is about $300.00 so orders of magnitude smaller now the thing about new start that is very relevant in part to remember here is the new start limits each side the united states and russia to $1550.00 nuclear weapons strategic deployed nuclear weapons

and peace now china doesn't have anywhere near that many so it's kind of unclear to me what china joining you start means does that mean that the united states and russia are willing to reduce their arsenal sizes to $300.00 to reach parity with china where they're willing to allow china to go up to $1550.00 nuclear weapons something which would be incredibly expensive and take a lot of time for the chinese to do so these are answers that the top administration has failed to answer so i really don't see this being a practical measure at all moscow's approach is that they can't really do anything i don't think that i've not heard anyone from the russian side insisting that china join a lot of experts in the nuclear policy community kind of see this as almost a poison pill by the trump administration they don't want to extend the arms control treaty just because they see it as a bad treaty restricting the power of the united states to do what it's wants

regardless of its impacts on world security and global strategic stability so i think this is a convenient excuse and i don't think it actually means anything. well in russia prosecutors are calling for a 6 year prison sentence for a theatre and film director accused of embezzlement in a case that critics say is politically motivated carol sarah benecol of is charged with creating an organized criminal group and taking more than $1800000.00 in state funding from the theater project but critics say he's being punished for his work which lampoons the role of the church and state in russian society well we can speak to alexander of he is a member of the board with open russia and also a former assistant to russian opposition need it dmitri good cause he joins us now from moscow alexander i'm going to start by asking you what you believe is behind these charges. well hello 1st of all i'd like to say that no matter what

kind of view on the reasons of this criminal case we do have and there are a lot of views within russia all of them. agree on the fact that the case is 100 percent politically motivated some what most of the people believe that this criminal case east coast connected with hasan. with his activity within that theater because he's been the last thing in and they know very open way thing on not russian government and russian tocchet and became quite cultural and it is becoming more and more popular every day because people see all of these you ridiculous attempts of this regime to say and the people on the stand there are not so many things they can change but at least that can last that summer was say this case may be connected with the with days with curious ties within the

system so they say that he may have had some friends very powerful friends within the system and. they are rivals are using kitty you add in. the fact they are putting some pressure on crude kitty who they are using this fact in order to show that they can while they can control this powerful figure who used to be. friends i don't know if it's the truth or not but anyway if if it is that shows that. humans fate is just the dog getting cheap for russian rashid let me ask you because sarah benecol has such a celebration and direct in russia and still has plenty now if this was perfectly most of those have been said this be regarded as a warning of subs that someone so high profile with the government could then full size suddenly out of favor. well that probably couldn't be considered as

a warning and that actually a very notorious tradition of russian government when they initiate criminal case against someone very famous in some field thus they were and the rest of the society not to do this hold that way that happened in 2003 with prominent russian dissident oligarch from all i got a medical state a so bloody medical it and sent a signal to all the. businessmen in the country that he's now in charge and their business is no longer their 100 percent whatever he says they have a statement that and it happened quite a few times later on with a lot of people maybe not that famous a studio city bigger but still there are russian regime as a classical author a territory she in which is now for 20 years in power just doesn't care about their

reaction all of the. of the world community well it does but it always things that well what the community the world community what can they do and basically the world community cannot create all the time in a very in a very harsh way because there are so many. political cases and political prosecutions in russia that it basically i think they're tired so i think that yes this is being used as the wording to someone within the country that you guys should be careful. what you're talking and all that kind of south and at the same time this is the this is another attempt to see that the international community won't be able to do a thing with it alexander savia of that member of the boat i think russia thank you for joining us here on out of there. thank you. now

a syrian doctor living in germany has been arrested for alleged crimes against humanity has been identified as and is accused of torture at a prison in syria and 2011 well we can now speak to mask went out and he's an al-jazeera producer who joins us live here in doha what i believe you spent a great deal of time investigating the stop that talk us through what you found that's correct we spent more than 18 months doing this investigation we followed up on suspects of war crimes who are living in the region one of the one of these cases was the case of the. who was arrested by the german authorities this this research about alarm was conducted in the joint together with their spiegel team. so following up on these threads the most important methodology that we followed was trying to cross examine the data we have so we really used multiple levels of

verification the 1st level was gathering the data through open source intelligence the 2nd level was trying to verify the data through geolocation process job creation process is when you try to take elements in a picture try to find the exact geographical spot that corresponds to that position and then on the 3rd level we used the exclusive witness testimonies and footage of which led us to these results. when you mention the witness testimonies them torture survivors have been calling for action on these kinds of things for a long time how symbolic are today's charges were today trudges we've received a lot of messages from different victims saying that they were happy with with with the with the progress and give them

a glimmer. these are the type of messages that we have been receiving has been for a while fought in the syrian case the justice system is old was ignoring the. ignoring the victims. cases. today's today's announcement was not was giving them a glimmer of hope and that's not the case actually justice can be served the importance of the importance of the the community was that it gave those people the glimmer of hope they were looking for for us now this doctor has been charged in germany under universal jurisdiction so what's likely to happen next in this case what's the next step here while the next case of course is going to trial and then the witnesses will have to give their testimony. likely that this this process will take a long time in order for them to to reach

a verdict which is usual in these cases therefore we will have to see how does the trial's gone from from this case forward and we'll continue watching very closely here at al-jazeera muff what they're speaking to us here and thank you for joining us thank you now palestinian protesters are condemning israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank the un's middle east envoy is among several diplomats at the mass rally in jericho it was organized by the palestinian national liberation movement which says the next 10 days is dangerous and it's crucial to continue protests despite the coronavirus threat july the 1st is when israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is about to begin that annexation abraham is in jericho and she says palestinians will continue to protest against israel's sation plans despite these coronavirus restrictions. thousands of palestinians and tens of foreign diplomats have gathered here in jericho to prove

that they expect that the israeli move by the next thing part of new york you buy it was the bank as of july 1st the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu can bring this issue to the table and palestinians are saying that they're trying to voice out their rejection they want to talk to foreign diplomats to try and talk to other countries to pressure israel not to go forward with its plans they want these countries to tell israel that they're going to impose sanctions of course this is good and this did not happen yet but palestinians are told that by doing gatherings like these they will crush or the international community of course gatherings have been banned because of the recent surge of the coronavirus of palestinian officials because this issue is a very important one gathering like these will continue in the next few days and

weeks to try and broker israel and to really tell the world what is going to happen when it comes to the israeli plan well there have also been protests in tunisia for a 2nd day now over a lot of jobs and the oil and gas industry demonstrators are calling on the government to stand 582-7000 pledge to create thousands of jobs at least 10 people were arrested unemployment in the region stands at 30 percent that's one of the highest in the country. now the greek capital is keeping social distancing in mind as it looks to open for the summer tourist season officials have decided to dedicate parts of the streets to pedestrians and cyclists roughness explains why. every night city workers squeezing traffic into fewer lanes here on by the beastly mule one of athens broadhurst central avenues 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 or these 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 bosco lanes it has an effect on traffic which as this time to test those if it is the idea of a pedestrian grand tour linking all of the cities 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 of the suspense 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 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 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

jumpstart ople us al-jazeera athens. now mulai goes to the polls on tuesday for a rerun of last year's disputed presidential election that vote was announced by the constitutional court because of widespread irregularities. reports. malawi's main opposition leader who formed an alliance with the vice president says he's going to win choose days presidential rerun he lost to president 515-9000 votes in last year's election was a constitutional court ruled by whites paid by judges or did a rerun you know. that the majority of malawians do not have better jobs and we are telling them that we're creating jobs where we'll have to. have a national service that every young person involved in something that will build

this country prison was ready to try to stop the rerun but the supreme court tent on his appeal when he then tried to force the top judge into early retirement opposition groups accused of trying to intimidate the judiciary the president denies the allegation it's only the 2nd time a presidential election result in africa has been overturned visible and the sick of it but it is crucial. from which is there an independent. is there i mean we hear it was an independent tradition putting it down in demanding that the elections must be held according to law and we have managed to get here so it's not perfect because there's to a number of significant gaps but i think it's going to say there are also logistical concerns for months opposition groups demanded the removal of the organizers of last year's disputed election the initial commission now has a new man in charge who is under pressure to make sure voting and counting of ballot papers go smoothly this time for a 1st. time we were sworn in on the man for to understand the problem and

resolved about the date of relations unit when the 3rd of june we made a decision to go through that period which meant that we had less than 2 weeks in order to prepare for me. the coronavirus pandemic i just had to travel for international election observers organize a trying to keep voters safe by encouraging social distancing mascara and had washing all of which hasn't been widely seen during campaigning. there. now north korea is being urged to call off plans to launch thousands of balloons and to the south in the biggest ever psychological campaign against its neighbor and follows a week of deteriorating relations between the 2 koreas from seoul robert bryant has a story. 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 tried 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. all still ahead here in spores a 2nd test positive for the corona virus following a controversial series of events in the balkans.

well it is now time for thought thank you so much mr as it were world number one of a joke of it she's facing some criticism for a series of tennis tournaments he's been organizing in the balkans to the players involved have mounts as a positive for corona virus for the charges the latest player to confirm he's got the virus they're going to make sure has all sorts of positive solomon sort of been held in serbia and croatia another one is penciled in for both and you had to give a the next month djokovic has since been tested that results yet to be made public in a statement charge said harvey one i want to inform you all that i've tested positive

for coverage 19 i want to make sure that anyone who's been in contact with me during the last few days does get tested i'm really sorry for any harm i may have caused on feeling well and have any symptoms while al-jazeera correspondent josephs has the latest for us from the croatian capsules are crap. there are a lot of critics saying that organizers didn't do well that they organized this student like it was completely normal times like there was no threat from coronavirus it was kids they played basketball more than 5000 people went to watch the last week and the creation minister of health said today their mistakes were made but he said that there is no fear that in this part of creation will be an outbreak of coronavirus he said because the little people came to direct contact with this tennis players among these players not joke of each world's

number one he was not tested last night things other he went with the plane and his family to belgrade and he was there today this results we are still waiting creation minister of health said this is a message that this is the new normal must be taken seriously that all these kinds of whence must be organized in full cooperation with the government and with the following of all the rules he said no any you measures for now will not be implemented. there are smaller eyes in the new corona cases western balkans but the leaders of these countries are saying that these numbers are not something to especially worry about and they are not thinking about taking some new measures like lock 'd down or blocking the freedom of movement. well the f.b.i. and nascar of launched investigations after a noose was found in the same guarantee of barber was the only black driver in the

u.s. racing series the noose found on sunday before the race that was due to be held in alabama was cancelled due to poor weather nascar a pledge to do everything possible to find out who was responsible just 2 weeks ago wallace successfully campaign to get the confederate fined banned from all racing venues the move came amid global protests against the death of george floyd in police costs custody wallace wrote in his twitter page today's despicable acts of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society this will not break me i will not give in nor will i back down. well a confederate flag with the bonnet defund nascar was also the same being flown all over the talladega rice track flags being sold outside the venue in protest against the letter only sparked say the u.s. sports broadcaster michael culson he believes is at sensing some move beyond its

traditional found ice. nascar is a particularly southern centric sport soccer racing in the states has always been biggest in the states of the former confederacy and there has been appealing for many years that the confederate flag as a symbol of a rebellion or of history or whatever is out of place in general american society and i think you get a good idea of what it truly stands for by the idea that someone would leave a noose in his in his team seemed erasure on his car symbol of lynching symbol of the years of jim crow in the united states and violence toward black men you know ever since the slaves were freed in 1965 nascar attendance and t.v. viewership has been falling somewhat in the past few years and it's hard to determine whether that's a result of just lessened interest in their core area or whether it's that by

expanding into the rest of the united states and they're trying really hard to spread stock car racing into other areas of america whether that still looted the product somewhat or creates a lack of interest over all by banning the confederate flag they're saying that we're moving to a position that is acceptable through the whole united states events as can move 4 points clear of the top of its knees sarah a little lights are on that playing the lawn you're in some alone while they look good on their at sunset action have some doria say one. thanks to goals from romelu lukaku and lazzara martinez and so are there in 3rd place still 6 points behind lead as you very. they are aiming for a 9th straight italian sides. also manchester city playing burnley in the english premier league a little a strong i would have used on boats and the rest of the sport lights are. thanks so

much annie well that's it for me but lauren taylor will join you in a moment with more of the day's news from. join our global community they call the crisis is just slapped is the phrase that blessing upon my sin upon human health equals global health keeping you up to date why so for situations where we have a human rights prices that persist beyond the health crisis your questions is a dialogue or is it just nothing we are now approaching a crossroads this is an opportunity that we must miss the stream on al-jazeera.

if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss somehow time is aiming to replace america and around 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 just. on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures carriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go on this a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a. people who look down on them as

a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control. and receive messages on the scene that i was and. what i'm doing is not all that different from. others. new york continues to emerge from its coronavirus lockdown as other u.s. states see infections rise. also coming up brazil's coronavirus crisis shows no signs of slowing as hospitals are overwhelmed protesters battle over who to blame. the name change tensions between china and japan in that dispute over uninhabited islands.