20 years of me starts with drugs and land 2 story on how to 0. a spike in u.s. coronavirus cases and states that these restrictions but that's not stopping new york city from reopening to business. but i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up on calls lead us as a controversial new security in all the safeguards human rights despite weeks of protests against the. french president a monument cross lands turkey's role in the may be and conflict us calls growing for a political solution to the crisis and we look at the key contenders as malawi goes

back to the polls for a rerun of the presidential front. the rate of covered 9000 infections in the u.s. as soon as across southern and southwestern states new cases of the virus spiked web restaurants and other businesses reopened there are questions about whether restrictions have been lifted too soon rob reynolds reports in los angeles. 29 u.s. states and territories are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases several including arizona california oklahoma and texas reported record high single day infections governor rhonda scientist says worrying numbers of new cases involve young people who were previously thought to be at lesser risk huge huge numbers of people particularly in that 20 to 30 cohort

who are testing but then testing positive 62 percent of all new cases in florida for the week of june 7th are. or the age of 45 dissenters says some younger people have let down their guard i think that we've started to see you know some erosion in the social distancing from probably some of the younger population many bars in tampa have shut down after staff tested positive in texas governor greg abbott displayed a graph showing a sharp spike in hospitalizations $3200.00 per day to state the obvious coben $1000.00 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in texas and it must be corralled in arizona people stood in lines several kilometers long to get tested the state recorded more than 3000 new cases over the weekend bringing arizona's total confirmed cases to more than $50000.00 president donald trump reportedly was

furious when his oklahoma rally on saturday flopped with a much smaller crowd than anticipated trump plans another campaign event in phoenix arizona on tuesday at his tulsa rally trump said he told officials to slow down testing because the numbers looked bad the white house spokesperson claimed trump was just making a joke and cast blame on the media it was a comment that he made and yes it's common that he made and passing for specifically with regard to the media coverage and pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledges that we have more cases because when you test more people you find more cases trump appeared serious not joking when he made the comment if it really was a joke many observers found it odd that the president would find humor in a pandemic that has killed 120000 people in the united states robert oulds

al jazeera. for new york city was once considered the epicenter of the u.s. outbreak now it's cautiously reopening and the virus seems to be under control that restaurants bars on the hassle of welcomed the 1st customers since they've since march mid march christensen to me. 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 exist 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 table space 6 feet apart these are restrictions that are difficult for many establishment to adhere to nevertheless the mayor 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. donald trump is threatening protesters who are attempting to topple a statue of former u.s. president to the white house with 10 years in jail demonstrators tied ropes around the statue as they tried to bring it down around the. jackson has been targeted

recently for his legacy of. courting slavery and forcing native americans off their land from percent he considers the former president a hero sees similarities between himself and jackson. says he delayed imposing sanctions on chinese officials over the massed attention of muslim leaders to protect the trade deal with china in an interview with a news website the us president admitted he did not want to upset negotiations with beijing china has rounded up around a 1000000 illegals and other ethnic groups communist party officials have rejected accusations of abuse saying the prison camps are necessary for national security. now china says the risk that it will end up in a military conflict with the united states is growing that's one of the findings of a new report released on tuesday china's national institute for south china sea studies says the increased u.s. naval presence in the pacific could break peace in the region the report says washington and beijing have been locked in

a power struggle similar to the cold war since trump took office in 2017 let's get more on this now from katrina you who joins us live from beijing katrina so this is a paper by a chinese think tank so what more do we know about the reports. that's right downs i've got the report here in my hand it's called the u.s. military presence in asia pacific report 2020 it's about 100 pages long and really what it does is it looks at the u.s. military presence visa view china and helps to inform the chinese military about its future strategic direction now it's quite a hefty report but the main line is saying that since trump took office in 2017 there's been an increased risk of conflict and confrontation and it says that the reason for this is because the trump since trump came to power there's been a distinct shift it says in the u.s. military a defense strategy instead of focusing on countering global terrorism it's now focusing on maintaining u.s.

supremacy and containing china and it says it's in in doing this it's been very f'ing up both the quality and the quantity of its military forces it says since 2017 there's been a 17 percent in u.s. military joint exercises many of those taking place in the asia pacific and it also says that every year since 2017 there's been an increasing number of foreign ups or freedom of navigation exercises in the south china sea and it says and i quote that this deterioration is likely to false to further conflict and competition now converse lee it says that china does not see the u.s. as a rival and china does not want war and the neighbors in the south china sea area do not want war zone because they don't want to have to choose between either side and it also says that flies will have to manage any skirmishes or conflicts in this area in order to prevent any regional conflict now it is true that in the past week the u.s. sent 3 aircraft carriers near to india the senior near taiwan and this was seen as

provocative and aggressive by china no reason was given by the u.s. military but many analysts believe it's because the u.s. is increasingly disturbed by some words china has been making in the south china sea. despite what this report says china has been quite active in the south china sea recently for example in may and in april chinese coast guard ship rand into animal a malaysian drill ship near borneo there's also been many chinese ships warming a theater which is an island claimed by the philippines and just recently as well over the past few months china recently named to a new administration of districts in both the paracel and the spratly islands which is over all part of the south china sea disputed territory as well so according to the us china itself is not innocent at all it's it says it's been using actually the core of a 19 pandemic as a cover up or some sort of international distraction in order ringback to increase

its or in hostile or aggressive activity in the asian pacific or to continue their invasion lifeforce katrina thank you hong kong's truth executive has sought to reassure the public about the national security law that mainland china is preparing for the territory kerry lamb admitted she hadn't seen full details of the nor but said judicial independence freedom of the press and the right to protest will continue to be protected legal. in the content published so far it's stated clearly that the law must respect and protect human rights and for human rights and freedoms to be protected the law is in line with the international covenant on civil and political rights and the international covenant on economic social and cultural rights it's also stated clearly that these rights include press freedom and freedom of assembly well emily now is from hong kong's democratic party she says caroline can't guarantee that the law protects human rights. and no one in

hong kong including carrie lamb has seen that the bill it's kept secret and what they are saying is that the law may be passed in the next few days maybe on sunday all following monday and then it will be revealed i mean have you heard of anything more ridiculous if you're going to pass a law on hong kong i think common decency would mean that the hong kong people should be consulted and be allowed to express their views but they say the draft law is as secret so nobody can see it so without seeing it how can carry lamb come out and fool everybody by saying oh don't worry a human rights will be protected independence of the judiciary will be intact i think that's nonsense the former chief justice of the quarter final appeal mr andrew levy has made in those statements it's published in today's and chinese

newspapers and he has and fact he made some comments last month but now he is expressing concern because there is a suggestion that kerry lamb would be allowed to pick the judges to try these national security cases which of course is unheard of in our judicial system and there's also suggestion and very very worrying suggestion that in certain cases the communist party set very small number of people who are charged with offenses could be sent to mainland china for it so they would not get protection of the hong kong legal system. still to come here not just here including venezuela's battle to unlock billions of dollars of gold reserves moves to britain's high court plus. i'm scott heiler in bangkok thailand while the people here are intensely proud of their

unique culture there is growing concern of the erosion of the city's heritage and the culprit is urbanization. but. however i see precious little cloud in the sky this as you see here but not really enough to build any significant share has been the case in oman of the last few days so i think we'll probably call it dry an increasing likelihood of the cloud sitting over salada i'm not sure how it is quite in yet but he's trying to establish itself and i will see the wind is still blowing down from iraq south with the law as strong as it was but certainly dusty full of dust from dancers saudi keeping the temperatures in the forty's maybe not the high forty's but the forty's or the siren baghdad's above 46 the cool air stream still keeping you

rather more present at under 30 degrees running sas if you follow the line of the monsoon winds you pick up clouds here coming off the coast of tanzania and kenya before they turn off and take the monsoon of course into india but you get a pulse of write every now and again in his the latest one really it is on the coast of tanzania not so much inland in somalia other mogadishu market share too and there are bigger showers but when the ethiopian hardens where you might expect to be and in south sudan jeepers forecast for the next 3 days is sunder storms again with fairly light winds obviously not much rain falls in south sudan so this is probably welcome. but. it's saudi arabia publicly championing women's rights so david is committed to empowering it's empowering women while privately punishing those who step out of line they've been aided. from day when if there was taking to the security gate

pointed out is there a world examine feel ledge detention and torture of saudis women activists the only charges against relate to their talking to foreign organizations like human rights watch and amnesty international saudi women reform or repression on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour in the u.s. the number of deaths from corona virus has passed 120000 new cases of spiked over the weekend in several states across america south and southwest. hong kong's chief executive has sought to reassure the public about the national security and all that china is drafting for the territory carried out by admitted she hadn't seen

full details of an orbit said it will protect human rights. china says the risks that it would end up in a military conflict with the u.s. is growing the report by china's national institute for south china sea study says the increased u.s. naval presence in the pacific could break the peace in the region. now an activist group made up mainly of north korean defectors have managed to evade south korean police on fly propaganda balloons carrying leaflets and money into the north the government in seoul had tried to stop them to prevent relations with the north from getting worse young young has announced it as millions of propaganda leaflets some thousands of balloons ready to fly across the border the 2 sides have agreed to stop provocations like these during a successful summit in 2018 rob ryan has more now from salt. the defected group involved is claiming this as a success it says that this launch took place during the hours of darkness monday through into tuesday from the city of paid you which adjoins the demilitarized zone

separating the 2 koreas they say that on board these balloons that flew off northwards were around 500000 leaflets also hundreds of booklets and s.d. cards all different different ways of carrying propaganda they hoped to be scattered across the countryside of north korea from the ordinary north koreans to get hold of these things and for them to be able to get their message across as you might expect it's pretty inflammatory stuff these leaflets attack in by name kim il sung he is the founding father of north korea a very revered figure but these leaflets talk about him being the slaughter of the nation this is pretty low read stuff it comes at a very sensitive time this week as the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war so the group obviously wants to get its message across it says it had favorable winds and that these balloons work carried to north having said that the yonhap

news agency here in south korea was reporting that a number of these leaflets have been found in the south so it remains to be seen just how far and wide these propaganda messages have spread the french president says turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya that can no longer be tolerated one your macro sense and cause actions are not schooled to securing a ceasefire nor birdman as more the discovery of move in southern tripoli the military says the bodies belong to people kidnapped by forces of warlords the have to. and it's not the 1st the un's top rights body ordered a fact finding mission after the discovery of mass graves in dar huna previously a stronghold of have to and its forces. after a 14 month military campaign to take control of the capital after failed the internationally recognized government recently recaptured term along with other towns in western libya and on monday the chief international criminal court

prosecutor said in the statement she would not hesitate to expand investigations and potential prosecutions to cover any new instances of crimes. but there is a possibility of more violence to come libya's government forces in opposition to the west of so that the demand to have to retreat from the strategic city. on monday the u.s. ambassador to tripoli and the head of africa command met with libya's prime minister fayyad as. they discussed efforts to stabilize the country but also how egypt has weighed in on the conflict egypt's president of the fatah seems to have threatened military intervention if jan a forces opponents to it so that. his government calls a threat a declaration of war on the u.n. spokesman gave this warning. the last thing that libya needs right now is

more fighting more. more military mobilization more transfer of weapons more presence of either foreign fighters or mercenaries and that's been more than the pointing in the fischel meeting with president keiser eat french president a man you want to get takis intervention in the conflict did you took his own did you take him up but you don't and again 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 tucky has intervened in recent months providing support to government forces france has been accused of supporting have to. be something it continues to deny called has also spoken to us present all trumped by phone the leaders agreed on a need for ceasefire and libya and the resumption of negotiations. parts with clear

divisions between international figures weighing in on the conflict there remains the question with these divisions lead to more scenes of destruction in a country torn apart by years of war. on the al-jazeera. now polls are open in malawi for a rerun of last year's disputed presidential election the vote was an old by the constitutional court because of widespread irregularities are much hassle reports for. malawi's main opposition leader less was 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 with a constitutional court ruled was marred by whites played by judges or did a rerun you know a lot of young people and that the majority of malawians do not have better jobs

and we are telling them that will work create jobs will have been destroyed. have a national youth service that every young person involved in something that will build this country prison with erica try to stop the rerun but the supreme court 10 down 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 2nd ability is crucial constitutional framework is there an independent judiciary is there i mean we hear the whistle going and going and tradition of putting 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 too a number of significant gaps but i think it's going to say they 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. problem and resolved about the battle for nations unity. and trying to fend off through. the woods which meant that we had less than 2 weeks not appropriate for me as i'm sure . the coronavirus pandemic has just had to travel internationally election observers organize a trying to keep poll to safe by encouraging social distancing mosque lyric and had washing all of which hasn't been widely seen campaigning. palestinian protesters are condemning israeli plans to a mix parts of the occupied west bank the un's middle east envoy was among several diplomats of the mass rally in jericho israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to begin the annexation on july 1st.

thousands of palestinians and tens of foreign diplomats have gathered here in jericho to prove that they expect that the israeli move by next thing part of new york wide west 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 that and this did not happen yet but palestinians hope that by doing gatherings like these they will crusher the international community of course gatherings have been banned because of the recent 3rd round of out of the palestinian official said that because this issue is

a very important one gathering like these will continue in the next few days and weeks to try and pressure israel and to really tell the world what is going to happen when it comes to the israeli plan. now high court judges in the u.k. are hearing the maturer government's plea 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 1000000000 for the past 2 years because of british and u.s. sanctions president maduro says it's needed to buy health care equipment medicine and food during the pandemic so i go has more on that story. 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 nicholas mother would all opposition leader why the whole 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 daughter 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 recognised that government is an effective government. i mean this is not going to be c.v. central right well i'll resist them up yes. yes and i. hope well i don't know of this 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. and transparency we. need and i think that's also one of the main problems. but also being. transferred. to other. sanctions and mismanagement have crippled venezuela's economy 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. decades of economic growth and investment have transformed bangkok but the time

capital has lost some of its unique features as a result of its rapid growth and modernization conservationists are now mobilizing to prevent further damage to the city's heritage ascott holiday reports. worshippers and conservation is gathered for what was thought to be last prayers at the historic chalmette dubbed him shrine on the day the temples demolition was set to begin one of the largest landowners in bangkok to a long corn university's property management office was to start the relocation of the shrine to make way for a new condominium building but the developers did not show and those in prayer were left in peace to activists the planned removal of the temple is an example of a much larger problem. this is happening everywhere a handful of people own the majority of the land in this country that no checks and balances if he she was not to do anything about this it will get worse no rot saw john was raised near the temple she says her family home was demolished to make way

for new development they are going to want it doesn't matter if you want to build buildings on this land but can't you just leave the shrine alone don't you want or even care to preserve this piece of history that's been here for over 100 years historic areas are increasingly being raised to make room for developments losing traditional structures and their locally owned businesses here in bangkok's chinatown the rich cultural heritage is steadily being eroded by urbanization while all the new buildings sit side by side one historian believes that part of the problem is rooted in the differences between the older and younger generations the same boat if you have the space chinatown historian some child one ton punit has lived in the historic district for more than 50 years he shows us so hang tight a 200 year old traditional chinese family compound it's been in the same family for 8 generations and they're committed to preserving. this is

a crisis we will see more cases of old buildings and old shrines get into malise we can't wait for the government we have to try our best to preserve history and pass on knowledge to new generations i hope that the younger generations can delay that deterioration process. there are pockets of careful renovations being carried out but restoring buildings using traditional materials and labor is time consuming and expensive for developers there is often little financial incentive in preserving the city's past university officials say they will carefully preserve the child made him shrine when they move it to a new home but the action of a few local worshipers and activists has meant that for a short time at least the temple was left untouched it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the rate of covert 9000 infections

in the u.s. has surged across southern southwestern states new cases of the virus spiked where bars restaurants and other businesses reopened early there are questions whether restrictions have been lifted too soon. donald trump is threatening protesters who are attempting to topple a statue of former u.s. president andrew jackson near the white house with 10 years in jail jackson has been tired of the recently for his legacy of supporting slavery and forcing native americans off their land from percent he considers the former president a hero and sees similarities between himself and jackson china says the risk that it will end up in a military conflict with the united states is growing a report by china's national institute for south china sea studies says the increased u.s. naval presence in the pacific could break the peace in the region katrina you has more from the chinese capital. conversely it says that china does not see the u.s.

as a rival and china does not want war and the neighbors in the south china sea area do not want war as well because they don't want to have to choose between either side and it also says that. will have to manage any skirmishes or conflicts in this area in order to prevent any regional conflict now it is true that in the past week the u.s. sent 3 aircraft carriers near the india the senior near taiwan and this was seen as provocative and aggressive by china and the french president has accused turkey of playing a dangerous game by providing military support to libya's internationally recognized government emanuel macross says turkey is an obstacle to securing a ceasefire calls are growing for a political solution to the crisis but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the counting the cost states have done so much in buffalo . a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and

geo political 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. hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week economies opening up this by the pandemic as that head towards world war 2 levels could be seal staring at the all stimulus and when is the right time to pay down debt as economies tank and job losses increase the nast that hits a record high.