understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the pond can be taking we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i've. a propaganda war as tensions rise north korean defectors in the south launched leaflets as reports say pyongyang is bringing back loudspeakers a border. i'm sam is a dan this is out to syria live from doha also coming up hong kong's leader tries to downplay concerns over the controversial new security law which many fear will erode the city's autonomy. arab league leaders prepared to discuss the worsening

conflict in libya as egypt threatens military intervention. people in malawi voting in a rerun of last year's disputed presidential election was set aside by the judiciary . group made up mainly of north korean defectors has managed to evade south korean police and fly propaganda balloons into the north the balloons carry leaflets money and memory cards which usually contain south korean dramas and music over the border the government in solid tried to stop them and has condemned the move activism like this has been one cause of recent tensions between the neighbors and the north korean military is reportedly reinstalled loudspeakers at the border now the south is war. and not to undermine efforts to keep peace on the peninsula we

were going to do no use our military is monitoring the north koreans around the clock and maintaining military readiness please understand that we cannot tell you in detail about the situation but i have already said north korea will pay if it commits any acts that can thort the effort to improve the relations and maintain peace on the korean peninsula. brive has more from seoul. as far as we can tell the d.m.z. itself remains quiet but i think it is true to say that given the recent very fast unraveling of relations across that border there has been an uptick in tensions we have the north apart from apparently reinstalling these loud speakers presumably once more to start blaring propaganda out across the barbed wire the north has said that it is going to reestablish guard posts just inside the d.m.z. which had been taken away as

a way of deescalating tensions there have also announced that they're going to start they're going to resume military exercises and they are the d.m.z. so there is a rise in tension and of course it's not helped by this balloon launches like this one the defectors themselves will claim this as a major success but it remains unclear just how many of these balloons have actually made it across the d.m.z. into north korea it is not a very exact science and in fact at least one of the balloons and some of its leaflets has been discovered in south korea and in fact to the southeast from where it was launched so it's not clear how many balloons have made it the whole intention of it though is to spread leaflets said to be around $500000.00 leaflets were sent up with these balloons also booklets and really with very incendiary propaganda attacking the person the kim il sung he is the founder of north korea and a revered figure so it will certainly enrage the north koreans or should any of these

leaflets and other propaganda material end up in north korean territory hong kong's chief executive has sought to reassure the public about a controversial national security law from beijing many fear the legislation will erode the territories autonomy carry lamb admitted she hasn't seen full details of the law but said rights will be protected. 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. emily lau is from hong kong's democratic party she says kerry can't guarantee 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 not the whole call legal system. sorry coalition fighting in yemen says it has intercepted a ballistic missile headed towards riyadh a coalition spokesman says the attack was launched from the yemeni capital sana'a

toward civilian targets in the kingdom drones and 3 ballistic missiles have been intercepted in saudi air space since monday fighting has resumed in the abyan region of yemen hours after saudi arabia announced it had brokered a cease fire between government forces in southern separatists the deal followed the southern transitional council taking control of the island of. yemen's internationally recognized government denounced the seizure as a coup the separatists backed by the united arab emirates are fighting to form an independent state of south yemen the arab league is due to hold a virtual emergency meeting on libya's calls grow for a political solution to the crisis the french president says turkey is playing what he calls a dangerous game in libya that can no longer be tolerated norberg manoli has more the discovery of move these in southern tripoli the military says the bodies belong

to people kidnapped by forces of war literally for have to and it's not the 1st the un's top rights body or did a fact finding mission after the discovery of mass graves into who no previous 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. along with other towns in western libya. and on monday the chief international criminal court prosecutor said in a statement she would not hesitate to expand investigations and potential prosecutions to cover any 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 both 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 chi seat 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 that turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya and is in breach of all the commitments it made at the berlin conference tuckey 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. but with clear divisions between international figures weighing in on the conflict there remains the question who these divisions lead to more scenes of destruction in a country torn apart by years of war durables money al-jazeera all of her life i have been trying to take control of the capital for more than a year now but his attempts have been repelled the un recognized government based

in tripoli led by prime minister faces russia's push them back signs the un his administration has diplomatic support from italy and other western nations and as we have been saying turkey has recently got involved in the conflict afters power bases the parliament in top broke in eastern libya has supported by saudi arabia the u.a.e. russia and egypt france denies providing military backing more than the one who joins us now from the libyan capital tripoli so mahmoud how is the situation in south being impacted now by all of this arab diplomacy that's going on. well we can call it a stalemate on both levels sami on the political and the military level on the ground as you know that the foreign ministry in tripoli that is under the.

government of national order has rejected twice the call from egypt to that arab league mission 6 years we go. and this spokesman of the foreign ministry of hamad we said that the foreign ministry is again. the call from egypt as you know sami to this follows the threats made by the egyptian president of the sisi to conduct a direct military intervention in libya in case the government forces proceed the city of joy for a line in the center of libya now as you know that also libya's ambassador at the u.n. also spoke against the speech by. assisi blaming egypt for supporting the warlord khalifa haftar and all saw only lying only on the tribes

in the eastern libya now as you know that egypt is not the egyptian regime there is no confidence in the egyptian regime by the government. government given the fact that it has been a major supporter of the warlords. and now with that wondering why egypt. is now calling for peace not calling for this collation after his allies in western libya have been defeated namely the military campaign led by have to his forces on tripoli and that. also. distillation on the ground is a kind of a stalemate especially allowance unit after the russian military or a fighter jets have been operative with the force of forces loyal to have to trying to prevent the government forces from proceeding near the city of cillit.

thanks for that. still ahead on al-jazeera where the restrictions lifted to soon coronavirus cases spike in southern u.s. dates and venezuela's battle twan long billions of dollars of gold reserves moves to britain's high court. and right across central and eastern areas of europe however there is a bit of an improvement as we go through the next couple of days you can also see much more in the way of clear skies so that of course is good news now temperatures have been warming up studley slightly to kevin ukraine 10 inches of rain in the mid to high twenty's as you can see is women enjoying the cool spray coming from the

park and again somebody else cooling down in seville in spain temples here a little bit higher made it to high thirty's celsius it will stay like that as we go through choose as much of the southwest through france the u.k. that i countries on through germany but still we have got this long line of very heavy rain stretching all the way from ukraine right the way down towards the balkans now as i say as we go through wednesday it does begin to break apart a little bit more becoming much lighter certainly crosshairs of the southeast but still again we have got more rain back into central and southern areas of poland where of course we have just recently had some flooding but elsewhere it is fine and dry look at those temperatures and for the next few days you can really see where the warmth is it's spreading throughout much of europe so we're looking at about 30 celsius in london for at the next few days wednesday thursday and friday against the average of 21 and a little bit warmer than last in paris maybe 33 on wednesday again he has an average of just 22.

in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children. over 20 years. insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of me starts with blood and land the story on how to 0. welcome back you're watching out to syria time to recap our headlines now south korea has condemned the launch of propaganda balloons over the border into the

north a group made up of mainly the fact is managed to evade police and launch the balloons carrying leaflets money and memory cards in yemen who 3 military spokesman says they've launched the largest military operation ever drones in 3 ballistic missiles have been fired toward saudi arabia since monday say they plan to launch more. arab leaders are due to meet to find a diplomatic solution for the libyan conflict is egypt threatens military intervention tensions are escalating between turkey and france who support opposing sides. the right of corona virus infections in the u.s. has surged across southern and southwestern states new cases of the virus spiked bars restaurants and other businesses reopened the. reports from 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 scientists 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 under the age of 45 decentest 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 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 a comment that he made in 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. trump says he delayed imposing sanctions on chinese officials over the mass detention of muslim leaders to protect the trade deal with china in an interview with the news website axios the us president admitted he didn't want to upset me yoshi ations with beijing china rounded up around many and we and other ethnic groups communist party officials have rejected accusations of abuse saying the prison camps on necessary for national security. the risk is growing china will end up in

a military conflict with the united states over tensions in the south china sea that's one of the findings of a report released on tuesday china's national institute for south china sea studies says the increased u.s. naval presence in the pacific could threaten peace in the region the report says washington and beijing have been locked in a power struggle since trump took office in 2017 al-jazeera is katrina is in beijing she says china claims it wants to avoid any major conflict. the main line in this is that since president trump took office in 2017 there's been an increased risk of conflict because according to the report the u.s. has shifted its defense and military strategy from countering global terrorism to maintaining u.s. supremacy in the pacific region as well as containing china as a rival power and it says there's evidence of this in the way the u.s.

has been beefing up its military forces in quantity and quality that since 2017 u.s. joint led military exercises for example have increased by 17 percent specifically in the asia pacific region converse lee according to the report it says that china does not see the u.s. as a rival china does not want war and all must be done to prevent any skirmishes in the south china sea from escalating into a regional war with the neighbors of these of china would be forced to choose between either side now it is true that tensions in the area have been escalating just last week the u.s. sent in 3 aircraft carriers into the region all at once which is quite rare for them to send that many ships at one time but the u.s. says that they've been just by movements in the south china sea which is disputed territory by china china's coast guards have been robbing malaysian boats have been circular securing some islands claimed by the philippines had been establishing its own administration of regions in the spratly and paracel islands which are disputed

so according to the u.s. debt concerns and their movements are warranted. people in malawi are voting for their next president is a rerun of last year's election which was set aside by the constitutional court due to ballot rigging incumbent president peter what are you trying to stop the rerun but the supreme court turned down his appeal church members and n.g.o.s have volunteered as observers. are 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 which the constitutional court ruled was marred by whites played by judges or did a really good. young people and that the majority of malawians do not have better jobs we are telling them that will work create jobs will have to. have

a national service that every young person involved in something that will build this country prison with arika tried 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 political and the 2nd ability is crucial. from work is there an independent judiciary is there i mean we hear the whistle going and going and tradition of putting down demand but elections must be held according to law and we have managed to get here so it's not perfect because as to 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 ballots pay. go smoothly this time or her 1st challenge of course was the issue of time we were sworn in on the 9th of june understand the problem and resolved about the date of relations unit 23rd of june and we made the decision to go there it which meant that we had less than 2 weeks in order to prepare for these elections in the uk the coronavirus pandemic has to travel for international election observers organized trying to keep voters safe bank urging social distancing mass clearing and had washed all of which has now been widely seen campaigning. outta there. hundreds of migrants arrived in sicily after being rescued from smugglers boats in the mediterranean sea it's the 1st time a rescue ship has been allowed to document least since ports were closed in april because the coronavirus pandemic weeks or a gate and the 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 c. 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 made. the following night another rescue operation was underway that on friday a further 67 migrants mainly from africa and bangladesh were 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 and not 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 tory gate and the al-jazeera. a legal tug of war over 31 tons of venezuelan gold stashed think beneath the bank of england is

continuing in the u.k. high court the bank has held on to the reserves due to the u.k. and u.s. sanctions and the son of god go reports the right to access one is why those riches is a dispute linked to the right to rule the country. 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 motherhood all opposition leader. 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 is the interim president not my daughter and 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 recognized that government is an effective government. for example b.c.b.s. center right well i. yes. yes. well i don't know of this. 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 at this question in all. we. need and i think that's also one of the main problems. but

also in terms of the. transferred. structure. sanctions and mismanagement have crippled venezuela is a kind of me 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. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now south korea is condemning the launch of propaganda balloons over the border into the north a group made up of mainly defectors managed to evade police and launch the balloons carrying leaflets money and memory cards the north has reportedly re installed

loudspeakers along the border to broadcast its propaganda messages back to the south we want. our military is monitoring the north koreans around the clock and maintaining military readiness please understand that we cannot tell you in detail about the situation but i have already said north korea will pay if it commits any acts that can thought the effort to improve relations and maintain peace in the korean peninsula. in yemen who 3 military spokesman says they've launched the largest military operation ever drones and 3 ballistic missiles have been fired toward saudi arabia since monday. they plan to launch more riyadh says it has followed the attempt fighting has resumed in the abbey and region of yemen hours after saudi arabia announced it had brokered a cease fire between government forces and southern separatists the deal followed the transitional council taking control of the island the so-called through yemen's

internationally recognized government denounce the seizure as a coup the separatists backed by the united arab emirates are fighting to form the independent state of south yemen arab leaders are due to meet to find a diplomatic solution for the libyan conflict as egypt threatens military intervention tensions are escalating between turkey and france who support opposing sides there's been a spike in corona virus infections across southern and southwestern parts of the united states like the questions about whether businesses were allowed to open too early the risk is growing china will end up in a military conflict with the united states over tensions in the south china sea that's one of the findings of a report released on tuesday china's national institute for china's south seas study says. it will lead to conflict with the stream now. to the oldies there are. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we

listen this is the moment to stop all the 30 action this is the moment it also trades on fighting every night we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. to have the ok and you are in the stream the journalist noir rest that executive editor of a very popular online publication of brown she has just been found guilty of cyber libel with one of her former colleagues ray santos jr not just that tell us about what is going on in the philippines today i am sure you have a point of view you may well even have questions so the way to do that is the new cheap china is there and jump into the chat and you can be part of the conversation running it's very sad to see you on your i am.