on al-jazeera. holding the phone to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al-jazeera. security officials in iraq carry out overnight raids in baghdad targeting in a rainy and backed group of fighters. i'm sam he said and this is al jazeera live from coming up southeast asian leaders meet online for this year's a.z. and summit and call for a unified response to the global pandemic. with half a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases india prepares a giant care facility to help tackle the surgeon infections. and burundi bids

farewell to its late leader state funeral is held for president yan of currencies and. iraqi security forces have raided a base belonging to an iran backed militia group 10 rockets were seized and at least 13 members of hezbollah were detained including commanders members of the group are demanding their release some of the fault in joins us now live from baghdad tamara understand authorities have been talking about last night's events one of the been saying. well we now finally have an official statement from the iraqi government specifically to draw into operation command which essentially confirms what our sources have been telling us over the past few hours the statement confirms that there was intelligence that was received on a potential attack being carried out last night on the green zone and that raid

carried out by the iraqi counterterrorism services aimed to preempt the drapes so the authorities seized 14 individuals as well as 10 rockets and those individuals are currently under investigation now the statement does tread quite carefully it doesn't name of the group that these individuals belong to but our sources have told us that all of these 14 members are in fact members of the. hezbollah which is part of the popular mobilization forces and that it was actually their base that was raided now the other interesting thing that is in this statement it does confirm that these individuals were arrested after obtaining an arrest warrant from the iraqi judicial a disk was not initially cleared i was definitely an order from the prime minister to carry out this raid but then subsequently we saw dozens of armed fighters arrive in the 45 green zone and protest against the attention of those individuals

claiming that it was unlawful that there were no arrest warrants and that in fact that iraq account to secure counterterrorism forces had illegally raided a base that belongs to iraqi security forces so this statement does confirm that there was an arrest warrant and it confirms that those individuals are still in the tension which is contradictory to some other statements that we have received over the past few hours especially from armed groups as well as political parties that are close to they have claimed that those people who were arrested have actually been released so. that was apparently some kind of effort to try to save face or preserve their dignity because the hezbollah members who were said to be present in the green zone have they have now withdrawn they're no longer there so they say that the reason why they withdrew from the green zone was because their colleagues had been released but now the official position from the government is that the 14

detainees are still in the hands of the authorities taurus amount of holding thanks so much. the iraqi government has been promising to crack down on the valar nor the militias since july last year we share our group was formed before the invasion of iraq on anti western and pro iranian ideals during the war became known for deadly attacks against american and coalition forces the group has longstanding ties with iran and is often considered to be an extension of the iranian revolutionary guard former leader this was assassinated in the same drone strike which killed a very in general hossam solo money last year the government offered an ultimatum integrate with the armed forces or the spans they refuse to integrate this they've continued to carry out attacks on coalition forces in the been blamed for a siege on camp taji in march which killed one british and 2 american soldiers.

a researcher at the university of exeter strategy and security institute he says the prime minister doesn't have the political support needed to drive out the militia groups. i think the key thing to understand here is that prime minister must for company and despite his best efforts and whatever his best intentions may be. does not have a popular mandate so if we examine how we came to power in the 1st instance it was by the agreement of both the united states and iran and this was pushed through parliament by blocs but have loyalties to both sides so if we look at the majority of the iraqi parliament today and the most powerful coalitions they tend to be pro uranian groups so he's there for the moxy of groups that have very close ties to the popular mobilisation forces and the probably on shia militias within them. if he had a popular mandate for example to run for election with his own political party is own political manifesto and he won it would be

a different matter because he would be able to have m.p.'s on his side or help in legislate to curb their powers and have their influence unfortunately as it stands and since 20162017 when laws were passed that incorporated the popular mobilization of forces into the iraqi armed forces. we now have a situation whereby members of one branch of the armed forces are now arresting members of another branch of the armed forces so you can see how what's formed here is a kind of in effect a deep state so you have various factions within the iraqi state as situations who are loyal to one side or another or even loyal only to themselves and they snipe at each other for want of a better word 5 civilians have been killed in an attack in central yemen that's according to her with the media coalition. several airstrikes targeting their calls transporting gasoline just north of and by the governor it at least 5 other people were injured in the raids. rand's ministry of defense says the gas storage tank has

exploded on the outskirts of town here on this video was shared on social media people spoke of hearing a massive explosion officials say crews quickly put out the fire there were no casualties india has reportedly has reported nearly 500000 coronavirus cases the country's largest care facilities being readied in south delhi to tackle the surge in infections is the size of 15 football fields and can accommodate more than 10000 patients at a time but analysts warn it's not enough to tackle the pandemic elizabeth problem as the new delhi the government has just confirmed that the facility facility is now ready to start taking patients it was a spiritual center that used to host sermons for up to 300000 people that's been converted into a treatment facility and that by the end of next week it will have 10000 beds they

say that it's going to have $400.00 doctors oxygen facilities its own testing labs ambulances and paramedics but those who need critical care those needing ventilators will be referred to nearby hospitals now as well as this facility the delhi government has also been conversing hotels banquet halls train carriages into treatment centers as the number of cases in delhi continue to rise they are going by nearly 4000 just in the capital alone and delhi did start they doubled in fact the number of tests that they conducted this week and they are expecting more than half a 1000000 cases by the end of next month and so that's why they are expanding health care facilities they're expanding testing all of this is welcome but the fact is that while they are expanding facilities they don't have enough health care workers to man them. the body of burundi's former president. has just arrived at the location for his funeral in the camp to go he died earlier this

month while still in office catherine sawyer is following developments from nairobi . all the former president parent prisons and has just arrived at this stadium in detail go where thousands of people have been waiting since all you morning dressed in black and white we also have several dignitaries from different countries as the prime minister of tanzania and the former president hierarchy question as well but these are very difficult times because of the fire on the virus and this is a debate that has been going on in burundi and the death of the former president itself has been very controversial the government has said that he died of a cardiac arrest but somebody rudy and medical workers would be talking to see he could have died of coronavirus so this is something that is ongoing debate that is ongoing in the government solve has faced a lot of criticism about how it has handled this pandemic and the measures it has

put in place to help stop the spread of this disease we have not been seeing any you know social distancing or people wearing masks and this we also witnessed in the reason to conclude that election during campaigns during the voting itself we did not see any measures in place and even now at the stadium we're not seeing much in terms of measure preventative measures in place yes there is some hand washing points at the entrances of the stadium and a few people are wearing masks but there's no social distancing atoll so a lot of blue indians we've talked to saying that they're hoping that perhaps the new president of various national media is going to make some changes is going to be different but so far we haven't seen any change in policy. still ahead on al-jazeera or tell you why activism allow we are closely monitoring vote counting after the presidential election rerun. how the crown a virus outbreak is affecting a community of voters in iraq's historic marshes.

and more of that very heavy rain across central and southern areas of china of course this is the my you buy you from the seasonal rains and also see this this way the cloud here which is continuing to the showers across into japan but really gives you a province in the southwest has been particularly badly affected now across much of southern china as many as 11000000 people have been impacted by these flooding rains you can see here but also mudslides as well now there is more rain in the forecast on saturday notes as heavy across the southwest but to the north of there through central areas again some very heavy downpours they will continue towards shanghai as well and those showers and heaviest spells of rain beginning to push into western areas of japan that rain becoming heaviest on there but really most of

it saying well to the east but it could be a very wet day in tokyo with a high of 27 and still that rain across more eastern areas showers further to the north 3 beijing and also across into hobby and with a touch of the of just 26 degrees a monsoon rains a very wide spread throughout much of india can see plenty of cloud and thunderstorms through saturday is going to the northeast across into areas of bangladesh as well we see some these heavier downpours very widespread across much of the western is a similar story on sunday but dried to the north 38 in new delhi. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships one mess was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world for the 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 2 on a jersey you know. you're watching out 0 time to recap our headlines this hour security forces in iraq have raided a base belonging to an iran backed militia group south of baghdad 10 rockets were seized and at least 13 members of that type as well law were detained clothing it's commanders' india has opened the country's largest care facility in south delhi to tackle the surgeon corona virus infections the size of 15 football fields and can

accommodate more than 10000 patients at a time. the body of burundi's former president karen currencies has just arrived at the location for his funeral in the capital good tega he died earlier this month while still in office. there are calls for the international criminal court to launch an investigation into potential war crimes committed by israel records free trial chambers looking at what jurisdiction it has over the occupied palestinian territory for many palestinians they say they want justice today brian spoke to a family whose son was killed by the israeli army neighbor they have. this is the house plan to live in after he got married but that plan never came to be the 23 year old was killed by an israeli soldier last year it's mother says he was helping a family after they were also shot at by israeli soldiers the attack happened close

to a military watchtower near bethlehem in the south of the occupied west bank the israeli military prosecution says it's considering legal action against the soldier says. he'll be put under house arrest i don't expect more than that they did the same in other cases i don't expect a serious sentence but i don't think we should stay silent the whole world should know that we are being oppressed. signs of distress can't be missed in this house. was trying to help this family after the father. was shot he says his car had broken down when the soldiers shot at him he was taken to hospital leaving his wife and daughters in the car i just said know how delicious it came to the car to help us restart the engine but the car didn't work so he left to check something we later found out he was shot and killed we heard shots before he entered the car

after the family thinks i might have been shot unintentionally but don't expect compensation he's had several operations and has been out of work since human rights organizations say israeli courts give an illusion of justice when the victims palestinian indictments against soldiers are hard to come across and documentation is becoming more important than ever the all health organization documents cases of what it says are extrajudicial killings it wants the international criminal court to investigate some of these cases and if it will be the israeli soldiers usually get reduced sentences this is one way of preventing the i.c.c. from taking on that case because it would be double jeopardy to the sentence is not proportional to the crime will the i.c.c. look at this case i can't answer that precisely but it should be able to. add months mother says his death has devastated the family and nothing will compensate

for the loss but the fair sentence for his killer could help at least she says she would feel like she fought for her son's right after he's gone into. the occupied west bank. france germany and italy are calling for an end to fighting in libya they want outside powers to end their involvement in the conflict to get talks back on track they've issued a joint statement saying in light of the growing risks of a deterioration in libya and regional escalation we call on all libyan parties to immediately cease fighting and suspend the ongoing military buildup throughout the country for all surging foreign actors to end all interference and fully respect the arms embargo established by the united nations security council earlier turkey said any cease fire would depend on the wall of a half those forces withdrawing from 2 key regions and their job for ankara supports the un backed government of national accord it also condemned russia for

fueling instability by supporting half the jna recently pushed back half of those forces from the capital tripoli on wednesday arab leaders called for a truce and peace talks between the warring sides but hold up the wide is in tripoli he says however hafter it's unlikely to acknowledge calls for a ceasefire. it does not seem that he will respond given the fagged out his forces helped by russian mercenaries and also by russian weapons including 14 at least fighter jets that's according to the u. s. report in the city of sirte in fact the government military sources say that the fighter jets the russian fighter jets fighting before have to have been targeting the locations west of said it several times and that's why there are movement on so it has been on the other hand the government of national called also does not seem to like any peace initiative coming from the egyptian regime this

statement by the 3 european countries that he viewed as the european reveals the european concern for 2 major issues the russian military presence in the region which is a kind of threat to europe this is the gas and oil supply lines to europe now also there is another concern for europe in the libyan crisis which is the military the turkish military existence but in all cases the fact that this statement as well coming get any peace initiative encouraging any peace initiative including the initiative submitted by the egyptian regime this also indicates that the government in tripoli is not going to welcome this statement because it does not trust any peace proposal coming from the egyptian regime. after weeks at

sea at least 90 running the refugees have been rescued off the coast of our chain in indonesia they're both was towed to shore by locals after authorities refused to let them land because of coronavirus fears they've been given shelter by the community and have medical checks. the leaders of south east asian countries are calling for a unified response to the coronavirus pandemic to ensure a strong economic recovery they've been meeting by video link for the latest for the latest summit hosted by vietnam just so far responded to the virus better than most countries when hey reports from bangkok. this wasn't the opening ceremony vietnam had in mind as it takes its turn to host the association of southeast asian nations summits. like many events around the world coronavirus change plans but vietnam's quick and robust response to the pandemic which is infected fewer than 400 people here meant that at least

a meeting was able to take place just with no foreign leaders we didn't cave in 1000 outbreak has had consequences in economic development and social stability for us young member states we feel the sorrow of thousands of families that have lost loved ones to the virus. and the economic situation is expected to get worse even as some international borders in the region begin to reopen the asian development banks revised outlook for this year has the combined economies of the bloc contracting by 2.7 percent on the sidelines of the summit trade ministers are continuing to negotiate the regional comprehensive economic partnership it's a 15 nation trade deal that suffered several delays and setbacks including the would draw all of india and is now expected to be finalized next year but thailand's prime minister wants it signed this year to help speed up recovery from the pandemic vietnam also wants to see concrete progress if not an agreement this

year on a code of conduct for the south china sea several southeast asian nations including vietnam have territorial disputes with china which claims almost the entire area raising tensions the united states this week positioned 3 of its aircraft carriers in the philippine sea close to disputed areas vietnam is seen as the strongest opponent in the region to beijing's assertiveness which may increase while the world in particular the united states is preoccupied with coronavirus but vietnam's position is one that has to balance with its own economic interests the high as well. trade between any member state to china we're now ranked number one hence they can separate between economic issues social cultural issues and security issues that hanoi may push hard to have the code of conduct signed this year while it's the host nation of the southeast asian bloc with terms more

favorable to its position the next summit also in vietnam which usually involves leaders all representatives from outside the region like china and the united states will take place in november when hey al jazeera bangkok the authorities in myanmar say they've destroyed nearly $840000000.00 worth of illegal narcotics a portion of the drugs were set on fire in the on ground for flames at one point got too close to a nearby observation deck in may mean marshals seized a record level of narcotics including an unprecedented amount of fentanyl the u.n. is warning southeast asia is becoming a leading source of synthetic drugs destined for other parts of the world. the reopening of an airport in paris has been disrupted by climate action protesters around 30 demonstrators from extinction rebellion made it on to the runway of paris orly airport police were called in one of the terminals was closed because of

a suspicious package orly airport has been shut down for the past 3 months due to coronavirus restrictions the u.s. house of representatives has passed a sweeping police reform bill brought by the democratic party but i just ration would reduce legal protections for officers and ban chokeholds from now be sent to the republican controlled senate where it's likely to be rejected as that debate in the house was happening president donald trump criticized democrats he said they're tougher to deal with than some foreign governments. so which is the toughest issue to deal with. china. is it possibly russia or is it maybe north korea i should know the toughest regime to deal with are the democrats in the us. the democrats in the usa are much tougher to deal with any of these people that we deal with. they're far more unreasonable and

actually they're a little crazy. university students in panama city are protesting against the government's response to the pandemic they claim workers are not being protected in government aid is not enough to help those who've lost their jobs president lauren tinoco teaser as sacked his health minister and 2 other cabinet members over corruption scandals a large swarm of locusts that originated in pair of wires making its way through argentina and stretching towards brazil brazil's agriculture ministry has declared an agricultural emergency into southern states for the past several days clouds of the insects have spread through northeast argentina devouring crops. the corona virus outbreak is affecting a community in iraq's historic marshes for years people have relied on the wetlands for herding water buffaloes but the pandemic is now threatening their livelihood

killer pozo dion reports. this family begins its routine at dawn and their buffaloes always start their day along with them and this popular marsh in southeastern iraq. the calio family's income depends on the animals they sell yogurt and buffalo milk but demand has dropped and so have prices coronavirus restrictions means fewer visitors to the area. the virus is really hurting us and our sales and milk prices almost collapsed now we call even go get high to feed the animals and i know when we are in the head we've had to start selling our animals to buy tomatoes and meat and other things. when longtime clients like citic mohamedou make the trip they buy less a combination of curfews and job losses are slowing down sales in nearby provinces and whatever isn't sold is thrown away it had even you but never not given that. we

buy milk from the buffalo breeders in the marshes but when we try to sell it nowadays no one buys it so now we're only buying a small quantity. before the outbreak 30 leaders of milk would sell for about $20.00 now they get 12 with little income many heard or seen a mother option but to sell their thoughtful lives. they have no other jobs to turn to selling animals they've raised in care for appears to be their only option despite some push back say that if my father wants to keep selling the buffaloes i'll be very sad he knows how much i love them i hope he forgets about selling them . the marshes were declared a unesco world heritage site in 2016 they were drained by saddam hussein in the 1990 s. to punish and for some travels over the years so wetlands and the community recovered but now the coronavirus poses

a different type of threat. to their yun al-jazeera. by. how is opposition candidate lazarus track where a has claimed victory in the rerun of last year's presidential election early results of put him ahead of the incumbent peter metallica votes still being counted as more. human rights activists in malawi are not shit and fighting for electoral justice as votes carty continues are to cheat a presidential run they say now is the time to be extra vigilant but what is more important is to make sure that. what has been done and all the reporting sent us is being restricted at the national doris and want. to guard that process as our. in terms of what they want and. what they voted for the activists mobilized thousands of opposition supporters

upset president peter metallica one last year's disputed election their anger led to the court's nullifying the result saying there was evidence of vote tampering allowance voted again in every. month of anti-government protest leading up to the rerun bitterly divided the country some people blame the human rights in this coalition known as h r d c for the sometimes violent demonstrations but it was obvious that something had gone wrong so out say. about one of them were changed but they should also learn a lesson was about what how they could have done things a little bit better malawi is the 2nd country in africa to have a presidential election result overturned it 1st happened in kenya 3 years ago later commission is under pressure to avoid another round of protests its official say this time though telling is being done manually to avoid allegations of tampering with computer service. this point is not spin. criminy

we want to put in place a process. not when we have pronounced the dissemination on everybody across the country confidence and 3 years is an outcome that is the reflection on the will of the waters. some analysts say malawi's relation is a test case for other nations in africa to see how allegations of voter fraud are handled and just how effective pressure groups are when it comes to keeping political elites and it is she in shock malawi civil society said state to whoever wins this election service don't treat us. out of there. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now security forces in iraq have raided a base belonging to an iran bank militia group south of baghdad 10 rockets were seized and at least 14 members of the type hezbollah were detained including its

commanders france germany and italy are all calling for an end to fighting in libya they want outside powers to end their involvement in the conflict talks back on track turkey said the ceasefire would depend on warde hollister half those forces withdrawing from 2 key regions south. our interest supports the un backed government of national accord it's also condemning russia for fueling instability by supporting hafter. iran's ministry of defense says a gas storage tank has exploded on the outskirts of ron this video was shared on social media people spoke of hearing a massive explosion officials say crews quickly put out the fire and there were no casualties. india has reported nearly half a 1000000 coronavirus cases the country's largest cas facility is being readied in

south delhi to tackle the surgeon infections it's the size of 15 football fields it can accommodate more than 10000 patients at a time unless one though it's not enough to tackle the pandemic the plight of running the refugees is due to be discussed at the asia summit which is on the way in vietnam remotely do you make this comes as nearly 100 refugees have been rescued in indonesia by fisherman people in burundi are attending a state funeral for president. he died earlier this month while still in office taking place in the capital good tega and will include military honors and religious ceremonies. we're back with more at the top of the hour now it's time for the bottom line stay with us.

hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question what would angela davis do let's get to the bottom line. my guest today is someone who is talking about fighting racism in defunding the police when it was considered way too radical she became a folk hero in the 1970 s. for standing up to the establishment in almost every way you can imagine she got fired from her teaching job at the university of california for being quote unquote too outspoken when she was one thrown in jail a movement of blacks and whites took to the street in protest until she was free musicians like the rolling stones and john lennon and yoko ono row.