rhona virus locked down iran people in power on al jazeera. play an important role protecting it with. ringback the rebels in yemen announce they've launched their largest military operation across the border the saudi coalition say they've intercepted just one ballistic missile. hello i'm sam is a band this is our just here a live from doha also coming up leaders of the arab league discuss the ongoing conflict in libya with more pressure building for a political solution to end the fighting. leaflets battling it out against

loudspeakers propaganda war amid rising tensions on the korean peninsula. easing lockdowns once again new plans from britain's prime minister to restart the economy during a coronavirus pandemic. starts with the yemen now where who 3 rebels say they've launched their biggest military operation against saudi arabia yet drones and 3 ballistic missiles have been fired towards the kingdom since monday who say they plan to launch even more for their part the saudi coalition fighting in the air and says it's intercepted a ballistic missile heading towards riyadh coalition spokesman says the attack was launched from yemen's capital sana'a towards civilian targets in the capital.

in response to the continued and just blockade and brutal aggression on the great people of yemen and our great country the yemeni armed forces launched the biggest attack on the capital of our saudi enemy. using drones and a massive number of ballistic missiles we stress once more that more fierce attacks and military operations on the enemy will be launched to the blockade is the fitted ental our freedom and independence our gained fighting's also broken out in yemen's abbey and region just hours after saudi arabia announced it had brokered a ceasefire between yemen's government and the southern separatist group the kingdom so the 2 sides agreed to start peace talks days after the sudden transitional council took full control of the island of so called for the internationally recognized government called it a coup separatists want an independent state of south yemen backed by the united arab emirates let's bring in mohammed joins us now live from yemen's capital son

are so the who things are saying there's more to come is this the beginning of a wider missile campaign against riyadh. yes as you measure that the this kind of build up of collation for by both sides has started with the latest oppression the hope is described as the 4th deterrence operation that was launched monday night on saudi arabia the hope is claimed that they have launched 3 ballistic styles saudi arabia claimed that it has intercepted one of these 3 missiles so far also they have launched the 3 drums for asians on different military positions and jayson and those around they hold these claims and they believe that they have targeted the saudi defense ministry the intelligence and also the king's air base so far this kind of escalation as you mentioned

the. already with the fall down of the by the claim that they have now the 4th gate towards merab which is the last resort for the internationally recognized the government. of the kind of of this of skill ation that the saudi arabia and the whole fees especially with the. coming closer to us as i mentioned that it's the last result and the last quarter for the internationally recognized government after they have been moved out from aden and now the the current escalation and tension and beyond despite of a saudi arabia has called on both sides. to restrain a lawsuit to stop such kind of escalation so far the livy hold these according to the tweet that has been circulated by the whole head of the diplomatic political

negotiating team he said that the whole but he hopes that the saudi arabia would react positively to their masses even though this is haven't had their targets. well i'm one of the it's about fair play will be holding a virtual emergency meeting on libya's calls grow for a political solution to the crisis russia's foreign minister just called for an immediate ceasefire to be implemented on all sides egypt called for the meeting but libya's internationally recognized government refused to take part it says egypt's threat of military intervention in libya is unacceptable and the french president is accusing turkey of playing a dangerous game in libya that can no longer be tolerated the arab league is holding a virtual emergency meeting on libya as those calls grove it's trying to find a way out of the crisis the french president very critical as i said of the turkish

role in libya. more details now with laura bowden manly the discovery of more bodies in southern tripoli the military says the bodies belong to people kidnapped by forces of warlord holly for have to her 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 time 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 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 demanding 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 fires as. they discussed efforts to stabilize the country but also how egypt has weighed in on the conflict egypt's president of the fatah sisi has 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 mccollum who want to get takis intervention in the conflict he did say to his own did you kick him out 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 tuckey has intervened in recent months providing support to government forces france has been accused of supporting have to a political something it continues to deny my call 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 with these divisions lead to more scenes of destruction in a country torn apart by years of war lure bad money al jazeera

syria's foreign minister is also weighed in saying his country supports a cease fire and also backs the forces loyal to warlord clearly for half. libya leone the today libya is a victim of foreign interference the foremost of which is the turkish aggression that aspires to control its wealth in principle we support the ceasefire and we call for the resumption of the 5 plus 5 talks at the same time we support the libyan national army led by khalifa haftar and we support all institutions in eastern libya we are keen on the unity and sovereignty of libyan territories also we stand side by side with our brothers in the arab republic of egypt to defend their national security and to the arab national security theo pure as accusing hackers based in egypt of attempting cyber attacks on its government and private science if you security agency claims the move was aimed at putting pressure on the

tensions surrounding the grand ethiopian renaissance dam authorities say 13 government and 4 private sites were targeted in the extensive attacks of the weekend tensions have been growing between ethiopia and its neighbors over plans to divert some of the nile for the dam project. a 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 drummers 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 for the north korean military is reportedly reinstalled loudspeakers along the border now the south is warning not to undermine efforts to keep peace on the peninsula we will continue to have

a 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 be thought to effort to improve relations and maintain peace in the korean peninsula from a bride 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 near the d.m.z. he said there is a rise in tension and of course it's not helped by this evolution 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 a should any of these leaflets and other propaganda material end up in north korean

territory. still ahead on al jazeera germany's steps up its long down rules after a spying can coronavirus cases tell you exactly where disturbing new report says police brutality has been on the rise in the u.s. even after the deaths of 2 more of me. and other friends or sell across will sign shalon eastern areas of china said want to shout as well across much of japan but the bulk of the rain has been staying at towards the east you can see here though. in the evening hours in fact there are a few will showers on the way now wednesday is not too bad we could just see a straight shot across into tokyo maybe down across into a socket it really is going to be the korean peninsula this is where we see the next batch of really very heavy rain it's all tied to the my you by your front

trailing back into the central and eastern as a china it actually peps up a little bit on thursday so that's where we'll see some of the heavy rain but clearing away all the time away from the korean peninsula it want to showers across disobeyed it does also begin to push into those western areas of honshu so the rain arriving late day into friday me want across into india bangladesh we see unusual good rains coming from the southwest monsoon things a little bit dry there across the edition west bengal down the eastern side of india but the rains old the while making more impact across into magic pradesh pushing across into just on and also towards the north i want to shine and thunderstorms likely into new delhi the rain fairly heavy as well across the west but even here on thursday it eases off a little bit becoming heavier later today slightly down into carola and again more showers and thunderstorms further to the north. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships

when mess was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world college chinese are not that stupid things 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 part one on a jersey you know. the end. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now with the rebels in yemen announce they've launched their largest military operation across

the border targeting the defense ministry and a military base in riyadh saudi coalition's say they've intercepted just one ballistic missile arab leaders are meeting to try and find a diplomatic solution for the libyan conflict as egypt threatens military intervention tensions are escalating between regional backers turkey and france who support opposing sides. south korea has condemned the launch of propaganda material into the north group made up of mainly defectors managed to evade police and fly balloons carrying leaflets and money over the border. now a new report out of the united states is painting a picture of widespread police abuse in the days following the death of unarmed black man george floyd amnesty international focused on the violent scene and demonstrations after floyd's death it says police reform is urgently needed. has the latest. some of the videos highlighted are now familiar chaos outside of

the white house protesters cleared to make way for a presidential photo of police in minneapolis patrolling the neighborhood and firing projectiles of people sitting on their own front porches. but as protests spread across the country many of the videos highlighted by amnesty international didn't go viral in indianapolis a woman in a wheelchair and small children tear gassed by police while praying. little rock arkansas protestors kneeling and then this way does she do it. in california protesters lane on the ground and hundreds. triac all across the country members of the media deliberately attacked. it goes on and on and it happened all over the country according to amnesty international over 11 days in 40 states and the district of columbia they say these are $125.00 examples of their 5

police abuse or overall takeaway is that it's not a few bad apples and it's not a few bad departments and it's not a big city problem or it's not an east coast west coast problem it's that we found these incidents everywhere out of your reached out to several police organizations for comment but didn't get a response but the police do have strong defenders in the us it's a tinderbox and people including police officers can on occasion older react i don't think is any question about that but you know most of the incidents that i have heard about. you know are are cheer gas or flash bang units or. pepper spray used to disperse crowds and it's very difficult to tell from some of these videos about what is going on with those crowds of those crowds throwing projectiles needs to be attacking them amnesty international hopes this site and

all of these videos will lead to serious police reform and while that is happening in some places the federal government seems unlikely to be able to agree on how to keep these seeds from playing out again and again. patika hain how does your own. house take a closer look at that amnesty international report researchers studied nearly 500 photos and videos posted on social media all of them taken at protests held across the country in the wake of george floyd's death the report found police force violations in 40 u.s. states and not just in the big cities he said tear gas was in appropriately used in places like murfreesboro tennessee and sioux falls south dakota amnesty international acknowledges that some cities and states have rolled out reforms since the protests began but it says real and lasting reforms are needed right

across the entire country let's bring in amnesty's brian castner in buffalo new york he's the senior crisis advisor on arms and military operations good to have you with us so is it a case of there being an increase in police brutality or an increase in our visibility of it. that's an interesting question i think that actually the visibility is a huge part of this and the fact that there has not been widespread protests like this in the united states with everyone having a smartphone and quite the way they do even in the last 6 years since ferguson you know there's been such an increase in the number of phones the streaming technology the social media i think that there is just we're seeing far more than we used to and what's really shocking i think is just the volume of videos and the volume of of content that we saw coming out of these protests and how we didn't really have

to look too hard it was actually the bigger challenge was sorting through it all because there was just so much going on with pepper spray and tear gas and flash bangs and pepper balls really everywhere we looked you know from small towns to big cities like you said we saw these abuses well and yes you know research points out is not just the big city problem it's happening right across the country all the anything patterns that are emerging that you are saying. you know i think that there's 2 important ones one has to do with the use of less lethal weapons in the last say 1510 years there's been a lot of purchases of these impact grenades these like sponge rounds and marking rounds baton rounds they're sometimes called and pepper balls and just a variety of new products and you can see that when the police have these products they're very willing to use them and in fact the threshold to use them seems to be extraordinarily low and so you'll see like you you showed the example there from

huntington beach california where protesters are laying on their stomachs and then the police start shooting pepper balls at them i think there is this view that by the police that somehow this is not like a use of force that is significant or dangerous and unfortunately we've seen people's eyes shot. a really severe life changing injuries from the use of these last 23 less lethal does not mean dangerous and just the 2nd thing i would say quickly as we saw that a lot of this violence happen against peaceful protesters at curfew time and i would just stress that the imposition of a curfew is not a legitimate reason it doesn't supersede people's rights to peaceful assembly and it's not the use of force is suddenly authorized because the clock turned to 8 o'clock or whatever time the curfew was and now it's ok to be protesters with the times or shoot tear gas. thanks very much for your time brian castner.

thank you people i'm allowing voting for the next president it's a rerun of last year's election which was and now by the constitutional court due to ballot rigging incumbent president putin the 30 who tried to stop the rerun but the supreme court turned down his appeal to its members and n.g.o.s volunteered to serve as how to muntasser is covering this for us from holiday. in the big cities along. the long lines and things are going with italy in the smaller towns and in some rural areas some polling stations opened late but eventually got started again things they seem to be going. to violence here and there but nothing really significant what's interesting is that because the coronavirus endemic internationalization observant unable to come in to these elections so you have a lot of church officials who are on the ground at the polling stations and the church very respected in malawi people trust to respect the church and the hope of

church remains neutral one of concern that people have been mentioning is that at the polling stations the polling agents the polling officials all weighing mark but a lot of people in the long lines aren't practicing social distancing aren't wearing masks and. the corona virus pandemic thought if you months ago was accorded nearly 1000 cases of the virus so there's a concern that if people don't practice they blind the virus could spread. to loosen its coronavirus lockdown restrictions even further as its economy gradually reopens prime minister boris johnson will give an update on tuesday is expected to announce the reopening of cinema museums and galleries from july the 4th for countries to meet a social distancing rule is also set to be reduced to one meter it would allow the hospitality sector to reopen. measures are being reimposed in

a region of northern germany after a spike in cases linked to a meat processing plant more than $1500.00 workers connected to the meat plant in the state of north rhine-westphalia have tested positive for cove with 19 restaurants. shot people can only me in public in pairs it's the 1st region in germany to reimpose about down after restrictions began easing in april. in berlin dominic kane says reimposing lockdown restrictions has been seen as a disappointing setback what is effectively happening is that this particular hour to hour which is owned by an organization called attorney is well more than 1500 people they're testing positive for the virus but also their family members and a few dozen people not connected with the plant have tested positive clearly the hope amongst the authorities is that they are going to be able to treat this as an

isolated outbreak that's certainly something the government of that particular state hopes but it is worth making the point that it's not just in that one state that there are isolated outbreaks happening here in berlin a house with many hundreds of people in it has is in quarantine there are other parts of germany too where quarantine measurement measures are in place where the hope is to try to restrict the access of those people have tested positive so that they can't get out into the wider population that matters because the our rate of reproduction rate of the corona virus right now is close to 3 it was earlier over the last few days as quick to point $88.00 it's now dropped to $2.00 now the people who compile those figures are robert cock institute well they say the stable measurement of that reproduction rate is lower but it is still higher than one and the point there is the government federally has always said that it will follow the science and the science at the moment says that every infected person is infecting

more than one other person in this country. australian authorities are warning of a spike in corona virus in the southeast of the country after 17 more cases were recorded in the state of victoria health authorities say new classes have been partly sprayed by people socialising with family and friends despite being told to self isolate in one case someone went to work after being diagnosed destructions have been tight in the state of the several days of new infections the rest of the country is continuing to ease long downs with very few cases being detected health experts in indonesia are warning efforts to contain coded 19 could lead to an increase in preventable what then surely fatal childhood diseases the pandemic is disrupting mass vaccination efforts with some programs suspended jessica washington reports from jakarta. this is what it takes to get a child safe and healthy in the indonesian region of western. as part of

a community health service known as policy under this team of medics goes door to door checking the health of local children and vaccinating them to support these but these are the sygate that you both have you know we give them vaccinations for tuberculosis polio and measles we need to boost the immune systems and keep them safe good i was worried that my child wouldn't get vaccinated i'm grateful that they came to take care of us. these medics administer more than 80 percent of all docs and nations across the country for free and while the children of this rule village were able to get their vaccinations thousands more in other provinces are missing out in west java this mother is anxiously waiting up the risk. my son is 9 months old he should have gotten his measles vaccine nation last month but he hasn't had the chance i'm afraid of taking him to the health clinic. in her

community word vised by the local government to temporarily stop working 3 months ago as part of covert 19 restrictions parents in urban areas are instead encouraged to go to health clinics some health workers say it's not that straightforward. yet i want to have my mind amaury that children will miss out on compulsory immunizations because their parents do not have the money to go to a private health clinic. more than 80 percent of inoculation programs in indonesia have been disrupted by code 19 and the government says it's trying to get them back on track the health ministry is a buys in provinces on how to resume vaccinating safely during the pandemic. or. during. international public health groups say there are safe ways to resume vaccination programs in indonesia and around the

world by making sure that medics have adequate personal protective equipment international interests in steep. i mean it would. seem to me. without these no kill ation programs the fear is that the next mass outbreak could be one of an entirely preventable disease jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just the other now who think rebels in yemen announce they've launched their largest military operation across the border targeting the defense ministry and a military base in riyadh saudi coalition's say they've intercepted just one ballistic missile that was then well 1st. in response to the continued and just

blockade and brutal aggression on the great people of yemen and our great country the yemeni armed forces launched the biggest attack on the capital of our saudi enemy riyadh using drones and a massive number of ballistic missiles we stress once more that more fierce attacks and military operations on the enemy will be launched so the blockade is the fitted and till our freedom and independence are gained arab leaders are meeting to try and find a diplomatic solution for the libyan conflict as egypt threatens military intervention tensions are escalating between regional backers turkey and france who support opposing sides south korea has condemned the launch of propaganda material into the north a group made up by me of defectors managed to evade police and fly balloons carrying leaflets and money over the border. the arab league will be holding a virtual emergency meeting on libya as calls grow for a political solution to the crisis russia's foreign minister has called for an

immediate cease fire to be implemented on all sides egypt called for the meeting but libya's internationally recognized government refused to take part it says egypt's threat of military intervention in libya is unacceptable people in malawi are voting for their next president it's a rerun of last year's election which was an hour by the constitutional court due to ballot rigging church members in n.g.o.s have volunteered as observers britain is set to loosen its credit virus lock down restrictions even further as its economy gradually reopens prime minister bars johnson will give an update on tuesday is expected to announce the opening of cinema museums in galleries from july 4th it's inside story now stay with us.

why did separatists in southern yemen seize a remote island in the arabian sea fighters but why the united arab emirates are accused of carrying out a coup on so-called truck so what makes the island so valuable to yemen or insights this is a story. hello and welcome to the program i am wrong on the latest flashpoint in yemen's 5 year civil war is a remote island in the arabian sea so culture is sometimes compared to the famous galapagos islands in the pacific.