new york continues to emerge from its coronavirus lock down but in some us states infections are accelerating. a moratorium says al jazeera live from london also coming up brazil's coronavirus crisis shows no signs of slowing as hospitals are overwhelmed protesters battle over who to blame. the 1st migrant rescue ship allowed to dock in italy since the pandemic began why aid groups are concerned many more will follow. the name change that stoked tensions between china and japan in that dispute over uninhabited islands in the east china sea.

under the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating across america south and southwest a dozen states reported record increases in new infections over the weekend as well as rises in the number of people in hospital at the u.s. now accounts for 20 percent of new global cases all restrictions have been further reduced in new york states like florida and arizona a seeing infections rise brazil's outbreak also continues to worsen and india has reported another daily record of new cases with more than $15000.00 confirmed on monday on sunday the w.h.o. warned that the party's size ation of the crisis is just as dangerous as the virus itself rob reynolds reports from the situation in the us. there are 29 u.s. states and territories that are experiencing spiking numbers of positive corona

virus cases the situation here where i am in los angeles county is definitely one of the hot spots now the governor of california gavin newsom held a briefing a short while ago he had some pretty. sobering statistics saying that over the past 14 days california recorded 35 percent of all the coronavirus cases that it has recorded since the beginning of the pandemic several months ago that number is over 46000 on saturday alone there were 54515 new cases recorded that is a single day record and coronavirus hospitalizations in the state of california have increased by 16 percent over that 14 day period but it's not just california

in texas for example the governor there greg abbott displayed a very alarming graph during his press conference today showing sharp increase in hospitalizations he says to state the obvious coronavirus transmission is out of is unacceptable at unacceptable levels governor abbott said new york was once considered the epicenter of a break but it's cautiously reopening with opic seemingly under control restaurants boss and hassles have welcome but their 1st customer has since made much christianson to me is that. some of the most important and visible sectors of the new york economy are now able to reopen for business the mayor of the city predicts anywhere from 150-002-3000 extension 00 workers will be back on the job this week right now i'm on 5th avenue in midtown manhattan where some of the most iconic high

end shopping centers exists and what we're seeing is a bit of a mixed bag we've got open stores clothing stores here there's one open followed by another that's open followed up by a boarded up shop and in fact the rest of the block is still closed for business with some stores only doing curbside pick up. as for the city's $27000.00 restaurants they are allowed to have outdoor dining with tables spaced 6 feet apart these are restrictions that are difficult for many establishment to adhere to nevertheless the mare is hopeful that this will prevent some 5000 restaurants from permanently shutting their doors and 45000 people from losing their jobs office workers also allowed to go back on the job today but at 5050 percent capacity in their office buildings all of this with strict social distancing measures still in place anywhere inside or outside where you can't be more than 6 feet away from

people masks are still required a cautious approach moving forward for the city of new york. the world health organization says have been worrying increases of a virus across latin america and cruising a spike in cases in brazil countries just 48 more than 600 for the deaths after crossing 50000 fatalities on sunday there are now more than a 1000000 infections divisions a deepening over president handling of the crisis he has repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus calling it a little flu and hospitals are struggling to cope with a number of patients. muscles prost move we're close to chaos if we don't practice social isolation. we have patients waiting for spaces in the i.c.u. we didn't want to reach this point but we have from here things are going to gets a point where we won't be able to control them anymore so people have to cooperate with us going after terrorism who's in buenos aires tourism figures show brazil had

more than 54000 infections in one day as they begin to get a response from the president. well the president this past few months since the amount of coronaviruses in brazil started to increase have been very vocal expressing himself against lockdown calling it a little flu among other things we haven't heard much from him in this past few days especially since brazil reached a milestone of confirming 54000 infections just in one day increasing the amount of people infected in the country to over 1000000 we're just hearing now that around 51000 people have died because of covert 19 we've been seeing in this just this past few minutes presidentially it was when i started tweeting talking about what the federal government had done to those in need in brazil he says that at this point brazil cannot stop and what important about this is the president will soon i was physician since the very beginning says this pandemic started to spread in

brazil has been against him poems posting lockdowns he's been calling it a little flu saying that it has been greatly exaggerated among other things there's been a political crisis in this fast 2 months in brazil with the president clashing with the supreme courts with political opponents but also with former allies the governor of pollo governor over real those who wanted to impose lockdowns in their city but have to fight with the president in order to be able to do it the president has said that he's against a lockdown because of the impact that a lockdown would have on brazilian economy in this days we have seen that important cities in brazil have started to ease restrictions some shops have started to open up shopping centers among other things but doctors in the country are saying that this is a huge mistake that the amount of cases in brazil continues to increase that people will continue to die and that the only way to prevent it the right now is to impose

a look down something that the president has made against from the very beginning to preserve a thank you very much indeed. well the head of the world health organization is warning world leaders against politicizing the pandemic saying it's undermining efforts to combat the coronavirus 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 more who is in desperate need of national unity and global solidarity the politicize asian of the pond the mic has exacerbated it ultimately the point mimic shown that we are humanity one humanity. none of us are safe until all of wise are safe india has reported another daily record of new

coronavirus cases with more than $15000.00 confirmed on monday that brings the total to nearly 430000 india the world's 4th worst affected country 14000 people have died of it health experts fear hospitals won't be able to cope or foreign embassies are warned their citizens to leave the country due to a lack of hospital beds at the spot the rapid rise in infections a minister narendra modi relaxed most restrictions weeks ago to try to revive the economy. if is the corona virus outbreak could spin out of control in south sudan it has recorded almost 2000 confirmed infections but the true number could be much higher you noted nations as cases a spreading rapidly threaten to overwhelm the health system battered by years of conflict country of 12000000 people has only one permanent infectious diseases unit

with just 100 beds more than 50 health workers have contracted the virus. britain's 1st local lockdown could be imposed in wales after an outbreak among workers at a chicken processing plant $175.00 cases have been confirmed at the factory on the island of agassi welsh 1st minister mark drake for it says he cannot rule out reimposing strict measures in the local area more cases are expected at the plant as hundreds of staff attested outbreaks in albatross have been attributed to an increase spread in a string of countries including germany the u.s. and brazil. a long running territorial dispute over a group of islands has been reignited by a japanese local council the chain known as in japan and down to you in china lies just northeast of taiwan in the east china sea but china and japan along with

taiwan claim ownership now local fergie has voted to change the name of the administrative division covering the islands emphasising the japanese name and drawing criticism from china. the islands are remote and uninhabited but they've been argued over for hundreds of years japan 1st claimed sovereignty in the late 19th century after serving them for a decade well recently japan has administered them since 972 when they were returned by the us which had trusteeship following the 2nd world war the issue of all in gas rights means the dispute has festered since then needing to a flashpoint in 2012 when japan bought some of them from a private owner as agent brown reports the move except to deepen tensions. 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 dar use 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 so empty that a japanese type possibility in the name it's illegal and invalid it cannot stand the fact that though you island blog china be formally a boss that 11 more made it happen inside china asked large. for diplomatic status and a 3rd of the right to for their 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 it was also where is the ongoing as india and china will serve. that the chinese are a bit of article this dispute has often stirred nationalist sentiment 2012 saw violent anti japanese protests in many chinese cities after japan's 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 adrian brown al jazeera hong kong.

north korea is being urged to call off plans to launch thousands of balloons into the south in the biggest ever propaganda campaign against its neighbor it follows a week of rapidly deteriorating relations between the 2 states i'm so bright has the 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 boehner and. the south korean government has already announced it starts 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 defected 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 so still to come on al-jazeera more countries are dragged into talks ever libya as hopes persist for ceasefire could be agreed. and why venezuela's fight for power has made a turnaround in courtroom. tons of gold. hello early which is showing itself now in australia this slow moving revolving storm looks good but if you're underneath it maybe doesn't feel so good wet and particularly windy in tasmania less of both in victoria and new south wales will be

a few showers running through here the other front the next front in the system coming through passes you can see that you just get in the top end of it the temperatures don't change much a few showers fronts are in the breeze picks up and that of course is all also his way eastwards towards maybe adelaide or sydney melbourne hobart whereas the one preceding it has now reached new zealand and that circulation is going to affect all cling we've got 3 wet days and the wind this is like he says they were that is the predominant fear i suspect. all right off of that season still right is the story been actively wet in parts of japan but it went through fairly quickly view follow this line back that is the seasonal la you buy your front it brings the welcome flooding rains through the yangtze but the moment is quite interesting slave to it a break here night is and this orange chair is on its way to the korean peninsula so if his oranges heavy rain it stretches all the way towards south korea up to

saul into north korea but of course the chinese and is also wet. from. the germany's capital there is a barber like no other sort of what it is to have them on my motto struck cross what you are. but as he said he changes he's moving with the times. and going on the road. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them. the master barber of bringing this disease on al-jazeera.

i'm on a top stories here not just there are a coronavirus pandemic is accelerating across america south and southwest a dozen states reported record increases in new infections over the weekend as well as rises in the number of people in hospital. the world health organization says they have been worrying increases of the virus across latin america brazil has just reported another $600.00 deaths take its total 251000 fatalities. china has condemned a decision by local authority in japan to change the status of a disputed island chain the measure asserts japan's claim over the uninhabited islands in the east china sea. in japan and value in china. a high level u.s. delegation has met libya's prime minister fires as. the discussion centered on a return to political negotiations as tensions grow between egypt and turkey which

back rival sides in libya's complicate 101 head has more tripoli. the meeting between u.s. officials including the commander of the u.s. africa command and the u.s. ambassador to libya with the libyan government officials including the prime minister face a raj focused on the need to return to the political dialogue and also and deescalation there. was a warning against the prolonged conflict that might excessive be the human suffering that is also a u.s. concern. of the growing presence of russian mercenaries in libya the wagner mystery's who have been fighting alongside forces loyal to the war lord plea for have to the meeting it comes as the human rights council at the united nations established

a fact finding mission to investigate their human rights violations in libya including the mass graves found in and around the city of the horn and also the killing of hundreds of civilians during their military campaign launch and white house to forces over the past year it seemed that the international criminal court has also deeply concerned about the reports of mass graves found in libya in and around the city of warner and according to the i.c.c. general prosecutor photo been so. there is a message to the perpetrators that impunity in libya is not an option anymore. the french president has launched a furious attack on turkey's conduct in libya accusing it of playing a dangerous game can no longer be tolerated. click or move with you don't.

i have already had the opportunity to make this very clear to president i now consider this turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya and is in breach of all the commitments it made at the berlin conference this is the same speech i made this up to noon during the exchange ahead with the prison drum because it is in the interest of libya of its neighbors of the whole region but also of europe the fighting has broken out in yemen's abby and region just hours after saudi arabia announced it had brokered a ceasefire between yemen's government and a southern separatist group the kingdom said the 2 sides had agreed to start peace talks days after the southern transitional council took full control of the island of sumatra internationally recognized government called it a coup the separatists want an independent state of south yemen and a backed by the united arab emirates. united nations security council has been discussing it here because controversial grander nassau stand project egypt wants it to stop ethiopia from filling the dam fearing that it threatens its water supply

for the nile talks between the 2 countries and sudan failed to produce a deal james bays has more this was right at the end of a close security council meeting that was actually on burundi and it was raised under the gender isom any other business the reason the security council is discussing the dispute is because of this lesser written by the egyptian foreign minister to the president of the security council it's also an issue that is of deep concern to the u.n. secretary general here's his spokesperson. we're obviously watching very closely the developments of the various statements coming from the different parties around the grand each european renaissance dam. from our point of view i think we urge egypt we are g.o.p. and sudan to work together to intensify efforts to peacefully resolve outstanding

differences i think for us it's important to underscore the importance of the 2015 declaration of principles on the dam and that declaration emphasized the cooperation based on common understanding usual benefit good faith win win aspect and the principles of international law so at this point we are we're targeting progress towards an amicable agreement in accordance with these with these principles members of the security council seem to have a similar position to that you've just heard from the un secretary at that they don't want to take sides in this dispute they want the countries concerned to sit down face to face and try and sort things out diplomatically hundreds of migrants rescued from smugness a boat in the mediterranean sea have a arrived safely in sicily is the 1st time the rescue ship has been allowed to dock in italy since ports were closed in april because of a coronavirus pandemic being

a port. 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 they're being transferred 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 moved on 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'd been without water for 2 days this is

happening because of the war and the conflict ongoing in libya which pushes a lot of people moving moving on an all 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 the turia gate and the al-jazeera. high court judges in london

a hair case over venezuela's bed to force the bank of england to release almost $31.00 tons of gold of the right to access the reserve worth around $2000000000.00 it is is a dispute intertwined with the right to rule the country cynically a report. far from venezuela lies some of its most prized riches 31 tons of the country's gold is held here in the vaults of the bank of england for safekeeping now there's a legal battle over who can access it president nicolas maduro or opposition leader why the model says he needs the 1000000000 to help fund the country's crumbling health care system during the coronavirus pandemic however attempts by venezuela's central bank to access the gold began 2 years ago just after my daughter won a contested election the bank of england never released it and then said last year

it would recognise why though as the interim president not. despite that my daughter's lawyers say that diplomatic actions since have shown britain still recognised him as venezuela's leader well you know. you have. got is an effective government. for example b.c.b.s. . president yes. yes and. no of this as you know this is very much. why those lawyers said the bullion is his to control the british government and more than 50 others around the world said they would recognize him as interim president however why those attempts to create a transitional government have been unsuccessful in this questioning. and i think that's also one of the main bridge. but also being.

transferred. the. sanctions on mismanagement have crippled venezuela as a commie and triggered a humanitarian crisis lawyers say the gold reserves amount to about 15 percent of its much needed foreign currency reserves the case is set for another 3 days and could set an important precedent in relation to other frozen venezuelan assets around the world and just who gets access to it. al-jazeera. archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the largest prist or extractor in britain a circle of 5 metre deep shafts 2 kilometers wide has been discovered just west of the world heritage site of stonehenge by analyzing discarded animal bones archaeologists say it was constructed 4 and a half 1000 years ago by nearly people to risk it in

a way in which the pits positioned suggests the early humans used accounting system to track the whole across long distances the monday can always catch up any time with our website address for that. dot com. top stories on our jazeera the corona virus pandemic is accelerating across america south and southwest a dozen states reported record increases in new infections over the weekend as well as a rise in the number of people and hospital cases spiked in states which pushed to reopen their economies and come out of lockdown those affected include florida alabama and oklahoma where the president held a campaign rally on saturday 120000 americans have not died of credit 90. new york city was once considered to the epicenter of the global outbreak but it's

now cautiously reopening with a virus seemingly under control of restaurants bars and have sounds of well their 1st customers since mid march. the world health organization says there have been worrying increases of the virus across latin america brazil has just reported another $600.00 deaths taking it past $51000.00 fatalities divisions a deepening of a presidential year boston irish handling of the crisis the head of the u.n. health body has urged leaders not politicize the pandemic. the group has throat we face now is not the virus itself it's the lack of global solidarity and global leadership we can model that's it that's fine by me why would we're the one who is in desperate 'd need you need to be. sorted out and. the politicization of the blunder make exacerbated. china has

condemned a decision by local authorities in japan to change the status of a disputed island chain the measure asserts japan's claim of the uninhabited islands in the east china sea known as sing cuckoo in japan and value in china the audience line near a strategically important shipping route and also claimed by china and taiwan north korea is being urged to call off plans to north thousands of balloons into the south in the biggest ever psychological campaign against its neighbor john yang says the balloons will carry $12000000.00 propaganda leaflets across the border which depict its anger towards the south this is top stories do stay with us the news continues after this is europe bye for now. when the news breaks children here say they're excited to be back at school but also nervous when people need to be heard while qatar certainly has one here it's the pregnancy and for important it's limitations and that's what puts the country focus on it the method al-jazeera has

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