'd this is al jazeera. everyone santamaria this is the news hour from al-jazeera yemen's hooty rebels so they've launched their biggest operation against saudi arabia the saudi coalition says it's been deceptive one ballistic missile also in the news arab league leaders discuss the worsening conflict in libya egypt threatens military intervention.

national hibernation is beginning to come to an end or johnson eases lockdown restrictions further cinemas and restaurants in england will open next month. voting for a president in malawi have to judge is an old the result of last year's disputed election the reruns underway. and sport men's tennis world number one novak djokovic tests positive for corona virus comes as serbian faces mounting criticism for organizing a series of tournaments in the balkans. hello everyone was starting in yemen this hour whether the rebels say they have launched their biggest military operation yet against saudi arabia h. drones and 3 ballistic missiles have been fired towards the kingdom since monday and the who say they plan to launch even more for its part the saudi coalition fighting in yemen says it's intercepted

a ballistic missile that was headed towards riyadh the spokesman claimed they attacked the defense ministry and a military base in the cap. 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 to the blockade is lifted and till our freedom and independence are gained mohammad in son are with more on this one mohammed what more have you managed to confirm either way because that's a lot of claims from both sides at the moment. yes what we can confirm that the as long as the both sides that the whole of these claim that they have had their target which are the defense ministry and also the intelligence center

along with the. air base along with other military positions and jayson. while the huh saudi arabia has claimed also that if you have an intercepted the missiles. but there are also the the the the eyewitnesses that have described the said that they have heard powerful explosions in the sky and also and the ground some of these. but we couldn't and ben then fully can. confirm such reports or from from social media but so far. these want to send the masses to the saudi arabia that. they want to. live to the blockades and the war and also in earlier stages the whole it is official has called for 4 or 4 he expressed his readiness to travel to

saudi arabia to sign an agreement with saudi arabia and that in case a saudi arabia accepts their own peace initiative which we described as a comprehensive peace deal that could join of the political factions to forming a unity government but so far what is happening in on the ground that the whole of these with the fall down of the ghanian will be bar they have come closer to the 2 province which is the last stronghold for the international the united nations backed governments. now and now our 4th from the from this side of the hold these are also they have their own fight with the southern transitional council forces from the other side in abyan. thank you for that update mohammed a lot in sanaa yemen now but i shall know a consultant to the yemeni embassy in london but i you have heard mama talking

about some of the big picture long term goals of peace deals and unity government i mean arguably we are as far away from that as ever. i mean as the u.n. envoy. station with the with. the fact that a lot of. ready ready ready these 9 and the escalation they have been doing on either. side of the u.n. envoy is a kind of a ready roadblock. is that it's not clear to the audience how. long it. has been. happening in mt it is very worrying nevertheless. that. on

t 'd. v that is of course going to complicate the. talking about this being the biggest attack yet on saudi arabia we won't know that until later but if nothing else it shows the strength that they have to launch these attacks one of our earlier guests today called them an insurgent group i'd say they're probably well beyond that now. well i mean whether they are honest i mean they do or i find a. story the. the the issue for me 1st of all is. that. the the same that they deem that. office and or on the society doesn't look like they need the political 'd will to resist or should they feel that if they. are smarter than both

of them again. 3 the others from the council of the transitional council is backed by the u.s. but also doesn't enjoy also that much. because of because of many many many reasons but with the on the human rights violations there on 'd the front the the the international community may say that they want a international. but they lack the means to act i mean it was important. for the fusees their strategy has been just wait the latest conflict as much as possible and eventually the question what we. should always good to talk to you thank you for joining us today. moving on in the arab league is holding a virtual emergency meeting on libya have calls growing to find

a political solution to that crisis the french president says turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya that can no longer be tolerated more from laura but many discovery of more bodies in southern tripoli the military says the bodies belong to people kidnapped by forces of warlords highly sought after. 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 his forces. after a 14 month military campaign to take control of the capital after failed the internationally recognized government recently recaptured term along with all the 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 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 seems to have threatened military intervention if jan a forces opponents to it so that. his government calls a threat a declaration of war and 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 tuckey has intervened in recent months providing support to government forces france has been accused of supporting have to. 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 need to more scenes of destruction in

a country torn apart by years of war lure bad money and is the. stuff put out here syria's foreign minister is weighed in as well saying his country supports a ceasefire and also backs the forces loyal to war 24 hafter you know on the high 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 came 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 more with mahmud out though i had now in the libyan capital tripoli it would same optimistic mahmoud to think

that the arab league in its virtual emergency summit today could come up with even a pathway forward. i don't think so. obviously the government is not only denouncing the what it calls the double is thailand a policy by the arab league dealing with the libyan crisis but also it has just decided to downsize its diplomatic representation in the arab league on our account of what it calls the double standard policy by the arab league concerning the libyan crisis and also as it says there. the that egypt the egyptian regime that has called for that summit has been also derailing the ceasefire calls in the past in fact has been encouraging the warlord

honey for have to to walk forward in his military campaign in western libya now the. foreign ministry denouncing the calls by egypt rejected the could the calls by egypt for that arab summit and also it says that it's a violation of the internal panel of the arab league because it has not consulted the tripoli based government which is recognized by the international community and also a violation of the united nations security council resolutions and the regard to the it could nation of the. government of national accord the libya's of representative of the league. just stated that egypt has been. accused of. facilitating the

transfer of medicine rhes to the world including the russian mercenaries and generally speaking that ship. based government is not expecting any solution out of this summit in fact it says that it is not considering any outcomes of that summit given the fact that it has rejected and take him part in it or carry the one who is in tripoli thank you for that it's we've also got manic trainer who's reporting for us from the coastal city of misrata east of the capital. the g. and a with turkish support has been able to take control or take back western libya other now position to the west of sirte and what we're seeing is a lot of you know political maneuvering by various countries but what's important to note is that these forces that are in the west of sirte are primarily from the city of misrata and they know the area very well they know the territory the ins

and outs of sirte they they went into certain 2011 and captured and killed more mortgage duffy and in 2016 when i still took control of these are the same forces that went into sirte and liberated it from isis of course they did that with american support u.s. africa command carried out airstrikes at the time and we thought we saw u.s. delegation coming into libya yesterday meeting with the d.n.a. janay leadership so you know forces here on the ground say they will not negotiate with after they say that they will they will enter syria based janay and turkey are saying that they call for a cease fire but they insist that forces retreat from central libya but the specifically in sirte and from. the whole situation in libya has changed drastically in just the past 6 months if you go back to january turkey rapidly passed a law which allowed it to deploy troops to libya for

a year pretty soon turkish troops landed in the capital to support the government of national accord despite protests from greece france and egypt the following month the united nations tried to broker a cease fire no success there the g.n.a.t. then pulled out of further negotiations after the killing of civilians by half to shelling of the capital but in march the u.n. special envoy to libya quit his job over health concerns where journey further complicated the peace efforts the g. and a then began making advances reclaiming control of land from the khalifa haftar and in may. be u.n. diplomats confirmed the presence of russian mercenaries from the valley. in a group the same month the g n a claimed control over a key airbase by the tunisian border dozens of towns and supply routes soon after a number of flights carrying russian mercenaries were spotted leaving the battlefront around tripoli but as the g.n.a.t. continued advancing east egypt's president announced he would intervene militarily in support of after should he see it necessary there are so many players involved

let's try to make some sense of it would be in london a titter in chief of international interest a current affairs magazine with a focus on the middle east and north africa was nice to see as i went through all of that list and also listening to mahmoud earlier it's about everyone else isn't it it's about turkey it's about egypt it's about france it's even about the united states now all about who they support and what they want. i think that's exactly right and i think it's very interesting that in your presentation in the discussion that you've had so far there's been no mention of any libyan agency i mean libyan desire any libyan push for what exactly they want instead and this is the reality of what it has been like since 2011 since the nato intervention that ousted get their free we saw france u.a.e. and there are many other different nations whether it's a techie added to it as well and this is why the current ongoing conflict the reason we don't have negotiations yet is not necessarily because the libyans are

rejecting it but because the international cowers haven't come together to agree some sort of framework within which they are going to operate in libya in other words turkey wants to know to what extent that western area will expand so that it can exact its influence egypt once since then defined to be within its sphere of influence the u.s. will doesn't want russia involved russia thinks it's the opportunity of a lifetime and is trying to establish its military bases there and france is livid that it's being sidelined out of a former colonial territory and therefore it's kicking up a fuss to make sure that nobody benefits in other words if i don't benefit nobody is allowed to benefit and i think this is just part of the quagmire that is libya so does libya itself in whatever form have a voice here i mean if you're going to have an arab league emergency summit about libya it is there any real voice coming from them or is that are they being drowned out. i think this is the reality of the matter is and as cruel as it sounds the

libyan voice is irrelevant now at the moment and i think it's because there is a precedent in libya in which if anybody wants to step which power they visit to foreign capital none of the libyan parties have actually tried together popular support for their respective sides and this is why we see so many divisions so many factions tribes switching sides every now and then because nobody has managed to get the libyan people on board and that's why everybody is relying on the foreign power with regards to the arab league the arab league is part of this growing warning that egypt is trying to give to turkey which is turkey you did say ok hats off to you you rescued the d.n.a. but let's not get cocky about it let's now sit at the table we can have that i'm bringing i get asylum as the alternative turkey come and let's sit down but the problem is turkey is scarred by its former experiences in syria whereby without the use of force turkey was not allowed or was not to listen to in the syrian affairs so turkey now is operating one of policy in which let's use as much force as

possible to get as much territory as possible until we are forced to sit at the negotiation table and this is why we see the arab league operating in this context egypt wants to say to the world that the arab league which is always a pretext for intervention in the arab world i am ready to take the steps and i will enter libya if you do not abandon sit down and come to the table and negotiate turkey until now essentially saying egypt there's nothing you can do to us we are going to take a certain job for and the u.s. is trying to balance between 2 allies egypt and turkey are strategic allies for the u.s. so he does not prefer one over the other and increasingly when you look at the statements particularly french statements you know i know many people are belittling france's involvement given it's been outmaneuvered but nobody should underestimate france's influence over nato france has liaise with the u.s. and the african has now come out with a statement which can only be interpreted as telling turkey to start reigning itself in to start adopting a more conciliatory policy and in other words tie. it is running out for jackie and i think the final proof of this is the fact that the heavyweight delegation of tech

you went to tripoli to speed up the process of military bases in other words there is this a window now in which everybody is trying to scramble to assess their forces until negotiations come about when they will come out that's unclear that's until these hours come up with a framework but the direct answer to your question is this the libyans are now irrelevant they will follow the orders to stumble or moscow or washington oh paris that's the reality of the situation so far and that's why it is such a tragedy because it's my son we have a great to talk to and get your thoughts thank you for joining us on the news hour there is plenty more ahead to this hour they were turning to lockdown in parts of germany how a meat processing plant is causing a new emergency also leaflets versus loudspeakers a propaganda war and rising tensions on the korean peninsula and in sport a huge show of support for the african american man scout tribe is targeted by

racists. for loosening its coronavirus restrictions and gradually reopening the economy british prime minister barak's johnson announced that most tourist and leisure attractions would be able to reopen from july the 4th the country's tunisia social distancing rules also set to be reduced to one meter which would allow most of the hospitality sector to reopen as well more on this one with lawrence lee in london lawrence take us through the well the details on the timeline here. yes there were there were cries of hallelujah kemal in the in the parliaments when boris johnson out of this cursed to me to rule is gone so be reduced to one meets

a plus as he put it and crucially it's not going to be legislated any more it's going to be on the level of guidance so he's making it about public common sense but for weeks now people have been sensible and you've got to try to ease this restriction because on in a service based economy like like england's bars and restaurants in particular simply have not been able to function with to meet as they can only just about make a living at one meets a but it's crucially important and so he says that bars and restaurants and museums and art galleries and cinemas will start to be able to reopen from a week on saturday really it's it is a very good piece of news and for all the criticism that the government's had in this country about his mishandling of things over the last few months the very high death toll particularly in england it was an opportunity for boris johnson to try to sound a bit more from france to get back on the front foot. today we can say

that our long national hibernation is beginning to come to an end and life is returning to our street and to our shops the bus is starting to come back and the new book cautious optimism is palpable the pains to say that the virus hasn't gone away and therefore a local flare ups the sort of things we've seen in beijing and in germany then they'll have to local lockdowns but do think there are tentative signs that things might be getting a bit better potentially a bit more into the long term if you cast your mind back to when it was at its worst in england they built a hospital in london with a 1000 beds they never even got use of a single bed presumably that capacity is going to still be there in the autumn there are more palliative measures coming on stream even without a vaccine yet which will defend the lives of the most vulnerable and so

there are i think reasons potentially intensively to think that all the concerns are so many people have that the damage to the economy is effect is eventually going to be much worse even than the damage from the virus that even even england in the u.k. might be the possession of better position in the autumn in the winter if there was a proper 2nd wave then to defend itself a bit more successfully without damaging the economy too badly there and slowly in london if you so news from africa ethiopia is accusing hackers based in egypt of attempting cyber attacks on government and private websites ethiopian security agency says the attacks were aimed at pressuring the government over the opening of the largest hydroelectric dam on the river nile ethiopia plans to start filling the reservoir next month but egypt and sudan both reduced supplies of course at bam. but is a malawi choosing their next president it's a rerun of last year's election which was an old by the constitutional court

because of ballot rigging president paid them break or tried to stop the rerun but the supreme court turned down his appeal now church members and non-government organizations are volunteering as election observers to try to ensure fairness this time around which. following this one from harare for what more do you hear from from malawi and particularly on that issue of things being free and fair this time . well in the big cities along. the lines were long and a lot of people turned out to vote in the rural areas and smaller towns some polling stations open late but eventually things got started there was an incident a minor incident an isolated incident in the central part of the country people waiting in line to vote that they saw a suspicious looking group of young men in line just opposition stronghold some of the people in the line thought these guys were at to give it to suspiciously they

went up to them in manhandled them the police had to intervene and dragged those group of men into a police station but that was about it generally the whole feeling we're hearing from people is that it's been relatively quiet relatively peaceful and people have been voting not because the crowd of virus endemic international observers can't come to malawi to observe these elections that's what the church has been involved in the church is widely respected in malawi they are trusted and people hope the church officials will be neutral another concern is that a lot of people waiting in line are not wearing masks are not exercising social distancing in fact we only thing a few polling agents wearing masks and gloves in those lines the president when he voted he was not wearing a mask and this is a country where relatively they've been criticized for doing that campaign period for not adhering to so he distancing away much in the campaign period and it's a country that has registered nearly $1000.00 cases of corn a virus since the pandemic started a few months ago. with the latest on the election rerun and.

now in our last news our journey was telling us about the was the dust in south america but it had come from it it comes from north and north africa yes so i thought let's start with a view there because as you say it's coming off a long way so this is obviously africa to the north the sahara stretches right the way across here and also you know that is one big desert a look at this this is taken a few days ago by no and obviously what. you've got is the fun but you can see that massive gray sort of sunday colored area that is the dust being blown off that west coast of africa so let's now head all the way around tools north america and the caribbean and you can really see how far is come so this is the latest imagery coming out of nowhere and again you can see all this dust it's very high up of course in the atmosphere the happy mornings in place particular all across into barbados because you can see here what this dust has done the sun is up there

somewhere but there's just this massive layer just off in the sky now the winds of course have been moving all this dust all this sound all this way and it will continue to do the same there's no real rain in the 4 khans either across the caribbean and eventually in the next few days it is expected this dust all this a hollow plume will actually push into areas of the united states now that will also mix in with some rain some thunderstorms already we've had some very heavy amounts of rain up into lower maryland in fact there are flash flood warnings in place and that's exactly what happened and as we go through tuesday very heavy rain working its way again across much of the east and then by wednesday is the south because these more severe thunderstorms keera picture in the east but generally quite an unsettled pattern of course you get that rain come all mixed in with the dust storm to say it could be found very unpleasant dark i thank you for that jenny great stuff jenny harrison with the world weather. in the news ahead how the death of george floyd black lives matter protests hasn't stopped reports of widespread

police brutality in the u.s. . all of grief and online memorial for some of the 51000 brazilians who died of coronavirus and sport an english premier league match gets an unwanted fly pass to tell you about this before a little later. all dizzy right explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how valuable. he's influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the mouth of nonviolent resistance it was over the vailable to oppress people who have a look at me and continue to keep the negroes to be defense that what you mean by thought about malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face on 00. examining the impact of today's headlines i need to go to work because i need to make money

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a list some arab leaders are meeting to try to find a diplomatic solution to the libyan conflict and egypt now threatens military intervention tensions are escalating between regional back in turkey and france who support opposing sides and voters in malawi are choosing their next president a rerun of last year's election which was annoyed by the constitutional court to the ballot rigging it comes amid worries the corona virus could spread to accuse at the polling stations. to the u.s. now in a room new report which is painting a picture of widespread police abuse in the days following the death of a black man george floyd a mistake the national focused on the violence seen in the demonstrations after floyd's death and says police reform is needed as more details. 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 protesters healing and then this week that's you know. in california protesters lain on the ground and hundreds react 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 verified 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 else in your reached out to several police organizations for comment but didn't get a response but the police do have strong defenders in the u.s. 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 in 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 patty cocaine al jazeera. donald trump says protesters who were attempting to bring down a statue of former u.s. president andrew jackson near the white house could face 10 years in jail demonstrators tied ropes around the statue as they tried to bring it down for a run an hour jackson has been targeted recently for his legacy of supporting slavery and forcing native americans off their land says he considers the former president a hero and sees similarities between himself and jackson lockdown restrictions are being reimposed in northern germany where 1500 workers connected to a meat processing plant tested positive restaurants the entertainment venues in north rhine-westphalia being shut people can only meet outside in pairs it is the 1st german states to restore emergency measures since they began easing in april

dominic kane with more from berlin. the reimposition of lockdown in the area of greatest low in the state of north rhine-westphalia is a blow for that state and its prime minister arm and russia to keep conservative allies of angular merkel the hope amongst the all foresty is that they will be able to keep this as an isolated outbreak it's worth bearing in mind that this particular this meat processing firm tourney is more than $1500.00 workers they have tested positive for the virus plus some of their family members and 2 dozen other people who are not connected with the plant as i say the hope is to be able to treat it as an isolated outbreak the interesting thing here is that the people who collect the figures of new infections and the rates of infections across this country have been looking into what it is about the meat processing industry that has seen several different outbreaks in this country over the course of the past

few months during this pandemic this is what they had to say skeptical there are indications that 2 aspects could play a large role in spreading the virus in avatar was one is the temperature the air is cooled to keep the meat cool and this could play a role another factor that is not insignificant is that aerosols can be formed because the air is damp the important thing to stress here is that ministers have always said they are led by the science by the numbers during this pandemic the mantra had always been for ministers but once the rate of infections of new of new infections and the reproduction rate of the virus got above one well that was a dangerous sign for the country and the point right now is the robert cock institute says that the stable measurement of the virus is considerably above one which leaves the question for ministers at a federal level what do they do next do they treat this is just isolated outbreaks or might they at some point need to introduce more lock down measures the question

will be answered when the numbers come through. the world health organization says the number of coronavirus infections in brazil could be much higher than has been reported the w.h.o. says the lack of testing means many cases are likely going undetected that america's largest country is the world's 2nd worst affected 51000 people dead and more than a 1000000 fractions more from priyanka gupta. cynthia digit value is mourning her father's death from a distance like so many families around the world the coronavirus pandemic has taken away the traditions of burial i'm doing with men from this family in rio de janiero. he's one of more than 51000 percent millions died after contracting the virus. actually the disease causes in a moment when we were completely unprepared and brazil is still unprepared to deal with a pandemic with a disease like this one and people are joking they're not respecting it but as you

can see it's a fact it's true my father died from us after a month of lockdown brazil is reopening its economy. sunbathers aroud shoppers are flocking to markets. demonstrations for and against brazil suppressed enjoyable tomorrow have been continuing every week. social distancing it's difficult to enforce on the number of cases have sold even in small towns we did you order started something interior of the state of south palos a part of the capital sao paolo city in the number of new cases right now there are 600 minutes of parities in the state of south paolo with confirmed cases of corona virus and regions according to say their worst fears are coming true we have patients waiting for spaces in the i.c.u. we didn't want to reach this point but we have reached this point from here on out things are going to get to a point where we won't be able to control them anymore so people have to cooperate

. even with more than a 1000000 inspections the world health organization says brazil is not testing enough and the number of cases it's likely to be much higher brazil is still without a permanent health minister since one was fired and another resigned in the past 2 months preston jabal tomorrow has reportedly paid down the track of the virus probably had a little flu. this long seemingly endless list are victims of the virus being remembered in an online memorial the message at the end of this collective one of create 2 simple lines in portuguese nobody likes to be a number who deserve to exist and progress. on to 01 among so many other things coronaviruses been highlighting social inequalities as well as the digital divide in so many countries homeschooling during the pandemic means students need a computer and

a good connection to the internet many in south america for example don't have either a latin america editor lucien human reports from chile on how students are coping with schools and universities a shot. this student has a decent computer a quiet place to study and of course high speed internet there indispensable especially now that schools and universities in chile have been closed for months and classes as well as assignments are all online which is what the 47 percent of chile is these are luxuries well beyond their reach on the eve of a total lockdown in chile's capital we followed my little andersonville in to an internet cafe that been their salvation and here they look up information for dylan's home. and print out the assignments they'll need to later email to the teacher. that at home they just plain that even that will now be impossible because the internet cafe can't open under lockdown so there's

a local i only have one mobile phone with a very limited internet plan and it's not good enough to watch classes on line the connection always fails. to share the same phone. who has 2 other small children was attending one night to finish her studies but with no money for internet or a computer what was difficult before is now hopeless she says as to get the wake of people i told my teacher that i'd better leave my space to someone else who has the means to keep up with the curriculum and exams online. julie has 1st world digital technology but only if you can afford it 90 percent of the students at this university rely on government loans or scholarships and now they risk losing them if they cannot keep up with their courses online law student. explains why even though her campuses closed students have decided to go on strike if you move the

theory we wanted to make the digital divide visible we're asking that the state guarantee a constitutional right which is education and today education is impossible without access to internet. congress has in fact just passed a bill that would oblige internet companies to provide free service to all students who receive government help which are the majority while the pandemic lasts but of a lot of through no fault of their own simply because they're poor and this unveils the reality of the crisis we're living through that has a strong social impact. it's a social thought line that with the pandemic is highlighting growing demands for digital rights to be considered a human right you see in human al-jazeera sent the adul. doctors are warning of rising coronavirus infections in southeast australia the state of victoria tightened restrictions a 17 new cases were reported one of them to work after being diagnosed others

apparently socialized with family and friends despite being told to self isolate a few cases of being detected elsewhere in australia and lock downs are the. target sounds former president has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for corruption. was found guilty of ordering a convicted criminal to be released from prison he denied the allegations and supporters say the case is just politically motivated he was an ally of the current president of the pair fell out shortly after the 2017 election. former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court on several charges of corruption his case has been adjourned until september 8th when a trial date is expected to be set zuma is charged with fraud record tearing and money laundering related relation to a deal to buy european military equipment for south africa's armed forces back in the 1990 s. though he denies any wrongdoing. a group made up of many north korean defectors has managed to invade south korean pervaiz fly propaganda balloons into the north these

balloons carry leaflets and money and memory cards which usually contain south korean dramas and music send them over the border the government in seoul had tried to stop them and has condemned the move activism like this one cause of the recent tensions between north and south korea through the north korean military is reportedly reinstalled loudspeakers along its border the south is warning it not to undermine efforts to keep peace on the peninsula. or 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 their relations and maintain peace in the korean peninsula more from our correspondent rob mcbride insult. 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 to they're going to resume military exercises near the d.m.z. so there is a rising tension and of course it's not helped by this of 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. some of its leaflets has been discovered in south korea and in fact to the southeast from where it was

laurent so it's not clear how many balloons have made it the whole intention of it though is to spread leaflets is said to be around $500000.00 leaflets were sent up with these balloons also booklets and really with very incendiary propaganda attacking personally kim il sung he is the founder of north korea and a revered figure so it will certainly enraged the north koreans should any of these leaflets and other propaganda material end up in north korean territory. more news from asia now a chinese institute says there is an increasing risk of military conflict with the united states because of tensions in the south china sea a national institute for south china sea studies says the increased u.s. naval presence in the pacific could threaten peace in the region it also says washington and beijing have been locked in a power struggle ever since donald trump became president 3 years ago. hong kong's chief executive trying to reassure people about the national security

law that's been approved by legislators in beijing many in the territory fear the legislation will only erode its autonomy and freedoms while carrie lamb is admitted she hasn't seen full details of the law she says 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. china has launched the final satellite in its navigation system designed to rival networks such as g.p.s. state television showed the launch live from the mountains of southwestern china the network is being seen as a major step in china's rise in the space sic to dominated by the american global

positioning system g.p.s. and the european union's galileo. and climate scientists are worried about record breaking high temperatures in the russian region of siberia last winter was siberia's hottest since records began a 130 years ago the average temperature about 6 degrees celsius higher than normal it also recorded its woman may on record with surface temperatures in some areas up to 10 degrees above average. sport still to come on this news hour as you vent has resumed their league title defense and i do it in impressive fashion italian football coming up with foreign and. business leaders is both to buy no brass paul.

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parts here with you sport now know that joke which was already in trouble over these tennis tournaments and now the news gets worse for it yeah it's it's pretty bad for him pretty bad news tennis world number one novak djokovic has tested positive for corona virus it follows a controversial series of tournaments a serbian organized in the balkans which is the 4th player who competed in the age or a tour events to test positive the tournaments took place in serbia and croatia croatia had eased lockdown measure and before the most recent events meaning players still have to observe social distancing rules the main men's and women's tour is have been suspended since march well joining us now from new york is sports illustrated's jon wertheim john tell us is everything that went on around that tournaments damaging to jock of it's his reputation. oh i think absolutely

he didn't just play in this he really organized it in as you can see from that video i mean you show that video it looks like it's 2019 you see you think that can't be anything within the past 90 days with all the fans without masks and human contact there was social media of the players there topless in the clubs indoors and it really was i thought a very aggressive flouting of the kinds of protocols that were undertaken all over the world and now here we are a few days later and player after player including djokovic himself are testing positive this also comes as the u.s. open just announced it's going to try to go on as soon as possible i think regular appointed time and it was djokovic who said he thought the measures there were too strict so all in all you know you 1st and foremost wish him well as you would anyone who has tested positive but in terms of the images political capital he really has had can really use he has disgraced himself this last week and what has

been the reaction of the tennis world more specifically to that series of tournaments. and they're furious i mean this was an unsanctioned event so he was sort of free to do whatever he wished at this that that a regular a.t.p. or a major event there would have obviously been much stricter controls but this is a sport that hasn't had any action since early march players haven't been paid since early march everybody is eager to get back in to have a number one player in the world who also has this political position on the a.t.p. tour have they have him basically jeopardize the reopening this has not gone over well i had a player reach out to the yesterday you suggested there was already some talk about trying to get your commit removed from this player council but again the number one player in the world is atop the rankings but there also is some political capital to leadership that comes with that and that has really been squandered this has been a a rough few days for tennis in a rough few days for novak djokovic and how will this the solace of preparations for the resumption of the men's and women's tour it's even before the u.s.

so that. it's a great question and i had a tournament director contact me last night who said listen this was an outlier this event was irresponsible and reckless but we're going to be the exact opposite so i think what you have are tennis tournament directors saying listen this was unfortunate but we're going to do things totally differently but no again the u.s. open really had to jump through hoops to get back on the calendar to get government approval they made a lot of concessions and to have the number one player test positive because of its own doing and i think something needs to be stresses this with this was really avoidable we've got athletes in all sports testing positive but i can't think of a case like this where it was really an act of self harm so this has sent tennis back and i think tennis tournament directors that really have scrambled to try and resume their spot on the calendar even if that meant making concessions they don't have another set of challenges to work with which is a number of players who are now testing positive for coping ok john where time thank you so much for your time you can. attend pakistan cricketers including

star bowlers have tested positive for coronavirus ahead of their tour of england squad is meant to be travelling to england on sunday roxane are due to face england to in 3 tests and 3 t 20 matches starting in august. eventis have resumed their syria title defense with a when following the league's 3 month coronavirus hiatus they belong out on a night where their star player kris jenner naldo was upstaged so home alec reports . it's not often that you ventas to have to bounce back but that's exactly what they need to do as they resume this very odd title defense after losing the copper tahlia final to napoli. taking on belong your way they got an early break event earning a penalty thanks to the video assistant referee. of course it would be rinaldo to step up to take it. and he would make no mistake we're not a scoring his 22nd century our goal this season. but is if it's

a recluse by teammate paolo di. the argentinians impressive strike doubling event to sicily. in the 2nd half or nollywood trying to extravagant effort of his own but just missed out you they would go on to win it to nil though there was one blemish to the victory in injury time fullback de niro seeing red for a 2nd booking on an otherwise successful night and yet still instead of one i think the team reacted very well mentally but i also noticed the team improved to physically they were much better you they now need surgery on by 4 points so he'll malick al-jazeera there was an unwanted slide has to head of the english premier league match between manchester city and burnley a banner saying white lives matter burnley was flown over a city stadium all players are taking in the before games and have black lives matter written on their backs of their shirts burnley issued

a statement strongly condemning those responsible for the aircraft an offensive banner city went on to win the match. now there's been a huge show of support for the african-american racing driver who was the target of a racist act on sunday nascar drivers pushed the car belonging to bubba wallace to the front of the field before monday's race in alabama wallace is the only black full time driver competing in the series the f.b.i. is investigating who put a new sin wallaces team garage over the weekend just 2 weeks ago wallace successfully campaigned to get the confederate flag banned from all racing but use the move came amid global protests against the death of george floyd and police custody ok and that is all your support for now come all back to our thank you so much more sport in the next news hour which is that 1500 hours g.m.t. but we are back right after the break with another political news here on out is

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