a stabbing incident in the scottish city of glasgow is not being treated as terrorism the suspect who was shot by police has died. of a very unfit again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up mexico city's chief of police been injured in an assassination attempt he's blamed a drug cartel for the attack. the white house coronavirus task force gives its 1st briefing in 2 months as the corona virus infection rate hits record highs. and with

half a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases india prepares a giant care facility to help tackle the surge and infectious. police of the scottish city of glasgow say that a stabbing incident is not being treated as terrorism the attack reportedly happened in the stairwell of a hotel 6 people are in hospital including a police officer the suspect died after being shot by police and authorities say they're not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident scotland's 1st minister nicholas studds and spoke of a short time ago. i want to express my thanks to the police for appears to me to be the very calm and professional we responded to this incident and undoubtedly ensured that a very very serious incident didn't become much worse than a thought should 1st and foremost be with the 6 individuals who are in hospital and

our thoughts and our gratitude should be with our police officers particularly the police officer who sustained injuries trying to keep the rest of the public safe and let's focus on thinking of them. long term lawrence what more do we know about what happened. well the main developments as you said 1st of all that the police are saying that they're not treating it as a terrorism incident which to be entirely blunt about it means that they're saying it wasn't carried out by muslims now clearly that's one thing which has been seen as a source of relief by authority figures you'd have to assume that if it turned out to be a racist attack by a white person on asylum seekers in this hotel where they were staying based on their ethnicity many people clearly would regard that frankly as an act of terrorism as well and so you have to assume the police are judging everything by

the same yardstick and that it wasn't an attack based on people's ethnicity and so that basically tends towards who toward winding the thing down as a as a major incident the other thing that's been interesting in the last 5 or 10 minutes is the police and scotlands have issued a series of tweets and one of them. gives the ages of all the people who are in hospital that a 42 year old police officer who is critically ill in hospital as he touched it or try to tackle the suspects he's very ill but as well as that 5 other men who were who were all in hospital as well 3 of them very young age 1718 and 20 and the other 238 and 53 years old but the interesting thing about that is because it explicitly says they're all in hospital it seems to suggest that the earlier rumors that 3 people had been killed in the attack were all wrong and that the that there are 5

people suffered forgive me 6 people together in hospital obviously being treated by by doctors for their for their stab wounds now so all in all it's looking a bit less of a major incident than we thought it might be a few hours ago and the location of the attack what we know about that. it was a hotel which is a hotel in central plaza go which had been used and was being used to house asylum seekers from the middle east quite controversial actually because they'd be moved out of hostel so far as when the standards and some of the conditions that they have the asylum seekers have been living in not just in glasgow but other part of the country have been described by rights groups as completely inadequate for their needs there the other interesting thing about as a suggested in this in a little while ago was that the hotel had become a source of some controversy because when it became clear that asylum seekers were staying in the hotel there had been far right wing demonstrations outside it's and

so that led to the possibility that one living investigation for the police would be that it was a racist attack against asylum seekers but we don't know obviously if that's if that's true or not but if it is a set if the police all ruling out terrorism is a motivation then you have to think that perhaps that isn't the case anymore or lawrence many thanks indeed i was there as lawrence lee reporting there live from london mexico city's chief of police has been injured in an assassination attempt in the capital. in fact happened in an upscale neighborhood in the city's west a police chief since tweeted that accused members of a drug cartel of being behind the attack at least 12 people have been arrested al-jazeera spawn well appollo reports now from mexico city. approximately 6 38 am local time there was a coordinated attack against mexico city's public security secretary to get see how

the food is essentially the police chief for the mexican capital now i want to make one thing clear here intact actually took place in downtown mexico city less than a block away from al-jazeera is mexico city bureau so it was it was practically right out right outside that in itself is big news this is not the sort of thing that residents of mexico city are used to seeing there are pockets of instability in different parts of the country where different organized groups and cartels operate and controlled territory but it's simply not the sort of thing that we're used to seeing take place here in mexico city this a curious secretary was traveling in armored vehicle in in a sport utility vehicle when a group of heavily armed men opened fire from another vehicle police say that the attackers were using high caliber weapons 50 caliber rifles as well as grenades so again this is an audacious attack that people here are simply not used to seeing several casualties have been reported we do not yet have

a number of how many people died during this attack but we can confirm that at least 2 police officers that were accompanying the security secretary were killed during the attack as well as one bystander the police chief recently tweeted that he's placing the blame on the got to. move it and that they are highly skilled move ahead of us here and at least those new generation cartel that in itself is also big news of mexico city authorities have long held that the police has not been operating in mexico city though the cartel did post a you tube video in february claiming that they were operating here in mexico city the attack that took place earlier today appears to be evidence of that. israel's alternate prime minister benny gantz has outlined a proposal with regards to israel's controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank in a facebook post on friday afternoon he suggested the palestinians in future an experience be granted equal rights it comes as israel looks rolled out its plan

starting on july 1st let's speak now to al-jazeera sorry forces live for us in west jerusalem harry what is mr ganns mean by equal rights. well that is something that hasn't been defined in this pretty terse statement as you say it comes on his facebook page is something he does every week before the jewish sabbath setting out a few comments on his week and what he intends to do going forward this time though of course next week could be a very momentous one with the july the 1st date which is the earliest possible date under the deal between him and netanyahu the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for this coalition government that's the 1st date under which the movement towards annexation can be advanced and he sets out what could be read as something of a toughened tone and against netanyahu in terms of saying that that he would be willing to speak to the palestinians at any time even tomorrow if they wanted to

seriously that there would be no an exception in a palestinian area or least an area with a large palestinian population or where their movement would be severely curtailed if there were palestinians inside such an area as you say they would be granted equal rights but there would be security and diplomatic groundwork that went in place ahead of any annexation to preempt any petition potential security problems and also said that he would advance moves towards bilateral negotiations with the palestinians as part of this as well and all of this he says is part of the american peace plan the trump plan but really when you look at it it doesn't really reject anything that looks within the bounds of what might well happen in any case the indications that we've been getting from benjamin netanyahu and his officials are that he wants 1st to declare israeli sovereignty as they put it on

major israeli illegal settlements close to the green line close to here just south of jerusalem and that they would be the 1st phase so these are things which would not be in any way in. penge drawn by what benny gantz has said in this statement perhaps more importantly is what's happening on the american front the american ambassador to israel david friedman is now back here along with the point man berkovitz on the israeli palestinian issue and this comes after a few days of talks in washington where we're told by u.s. officials that no decision had been reached on exactly what the u.s. was prepared to greenlight and they say that talks will continue through the beginning of next week. harry forces reporting live there from wester a slim area many thanks. iraqi security forces a brigida base belonging to iran backed militia group at least 14 members.

were detained including commanders 10 rockets rule so seized members of the group of them are doing release sort of full team has the latest from baghdad. well we have now a statement an official statement from the government specifically from the iraqi joint operations command summarizing what happened last night when iraqi security forces raided a base belonging to the type has bought out a statement confirms that 14 individuals where arrested during the raid and several rockets were seized in an effort to preempt an impending attack on the fortified green zone where u.s. forces as well as other diplomatic missions are based now and we have seen several such drop the rocket attacks take place throughout the month and this raid appears to have been an attempt to try to clamp down on the groups responsible now the statement did also mention that there was an arrest warrant that was issued against

those 14 individuals and that is particularly important because in the wake of that raid we saw dozens of armed men presumably belonging to a type as it entered the green zone in leith each to a building that belongs to the counterterrorism forces demanding the release of the detainees claiming that the arrest was lawful now there is also a lot of confusion about who exactly holds those 14 detainees the popular mobilization forces which include. that they were released several other sources close to qatar possible have also confirmed that they were lit released however in this plan that we received from the government it confirms that those individuals are still in the custody of the of florida's and that an investigation is ongoing the statement is however a very a vague. in 2 aspects it does not say it does not name the group that these 14 individuals belong to and it also does not name the security institution the iraqi

security institution that is holding them so it is possible according to some analysts that these 14 people were in fact transferred to the security forces of the popular mobilization forces which include the type has. a weather update next year as a 0 then safe an hour to 0 meets a group of regular refugees sheltering it into the weeks of. curing for cash and love of the struggling economy dollars are only available to a select few. i know this. just as well through some policy of the middle east the winds being particularly strong of late they generally the skies clear no rain of coals very nice sunset hair in a queue a city to much as they have a night out is not really getting any lower than the made by day one of the warmest

faces 48 the expected high on saturday the winds again pretty strong coming through the interior so they're hot and dry you can see the size of the arrows that there will be pretty strong winds and of course working the way for the south was that as we go through saturday the time it is beginning to rise through the eastern end of the med the winds not quite as strong coming off the cooler waters but he celsius in a jerusalem those winds again strong elsewhere and funneling right there down across into cats also breezy conditions on sunday with a high of $38.00 degrees celsius now down into southern africa the rains of course of a particularly heavy through the central areas that the taken early into western africa as well so more scenes coming out of liberia this is monrovia of the streets of course under water but even worse further to the west ivory coast some really heavy downpours of lest a lot of damage the rains will continue to go through saturday particularly around the gulf of guinea the front also sliding by saturday into south africa to work its way eastward and they take in the showers to port elizabeth and of course keeping the time which is a little bit. frank

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hello again this is al-jazeera the structure of the main news this hour police in glasgow say that a stabbing attack in the city center is not being treated as terrorism 6 people were injured police shot the suspect and he has died of his injuries. mexico city's chief of police has been injured in an assassination attempt in the capital in a tweet he accused members of a drug cartel being behind the attack at least 12 people have been arrested and israel's alternate prime minister benny gantz as outlined his position on israel's plan to an expanse of the occupied west bank he suggested the palestinians in future an experience be granted equal rights as israeli citizens the u.s. vice president has spoken at the 1st public briefing of the white house coronavirus task force in nearly 2 months mike pence says that while the overall infection rate is declining 16 states have seen spikes recently he also called on people to follow

health recommendations like wearing a mosque and following social distancing the u.s. reported 40000 new infections on thursday the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began. as the president made clear we we want to open our economy up and we want to move america forward even while we take in continue to take the steps necessary to protect lives and the health of the american people. 5000 the white house in washington and 2 zeros island for show what else have we learned from this briefing so far. well a large part of it was simply mike pence going over what the administration had done in the airlie days of. the coronavirus break saying that undoubtedly saved lives he said we have made remarkable progress he said that all 50 states were opening up will come back to that in a 2nd saying that jobs were being created and sales where roaring but then he

acknowledged that there was a problem and 16 states do have rising infection rates and also a rise in the number of cases 50 states are opening up we've just heard in the last hour that in texas they have decided to stop bars opening they are increasing the restrictions on restaurants they're also making sure that public gatherings will be limited as well so one of the states that was slaughter a lot dome was one of the farce to open is no ruling back in the easing of the restrictions there because of what has happened and mike pence and deborah burke sues the coronavirus coordinator plan to visit the states where we're seeing real spikes they're talking about going to arizona and also going to texas mike pence on his own well also to florida we're just waiting for the questions what will be interesting to ask is that why the trump campaign earlier this week had

a gathering in a church hall with many young people the exact same people that the administration is saying are most at risk because of the coronavirus and had them in this hall with norm asks them why they went ahead with that in arizona which is a state which is seeing a spike but just the fact that they're having this briefing is a sign that there is deep concern in the administration because of this fight along the southern. states another indication that there is concern is that donald trump has canceled his planned trip to his bed minster estate in new jersey this weekend that's where he normally goes to play golf clearly there is a concern that it would not look good for the president to be doing that when we're talking about the perhaps the real chance of an increased death toll in the 16 southern states. playing golf amid the pandemic is not something the seems to have trouble the president before but it looks as if the crisis is beginning to take

a toll on his reelection chances with a slew of new polls showing him way behind joe biden right now. to be fair he did hit the course for a very long time and waited to virginia started to your point before he went back to the course but that's been a very small window yeah if you're in the trump camp in the pores that have come out over the last 2448 hours did not make very encouraging reading donald trump is behind in most of all the key pauls what is also interesting is well he's losing in key states not just swing states like wisconsin like michigan like virginia but also in states which in the past would have been considered solidly republican such as georgia and texas texas is incredibly interesting because of donald trump is losing in texas that means his campaign will have to spend time money and effort in that state just to secure the base to make sure that he can try and win reelection if the election were held today the polls all see that donald trump would lose and

lose in a landslide if you're a donald trump supporter and you're looking for some comfort in those polls the one comfort you'll get is that the election isn't being held today on serious alan fischer reporting live from the white house out of many thanks indeed. india's government has opened what it says will be the world's largest temporary coronavirus treatment center in new delhi as the nation recorded yet another biggest single day rise with more than 17000 new cases making it the 4th worst hit country in the world india correspondent elizabeth purana reports. the chefs at this restaurant in the indian capital used to cook for up to 1200 people a day that was before the lockdown began in march but despite restaurants being allowed to open for the past 2 weeks it's among the 80 percent of which have chosen to keep their doors closed to only do deliveries. that we don't see people.

so. industry experts say 30 percent of all restaurants and hotels could shut down permanently because of a lack of customers as the number of coronavirus cases brides. as restaurants keep their doors closed banquet halls hotels and train carriages are being converted to treatment centers. dunnies government has opened what it says will be the world's largest temporary health facility which will have $10000.00 beds by the end of next week. it medically. we remain able.

in a proper manner. but health officials warn that expanding facilities is not everybody keeps talking about the health care facility as being equivalent to the number of beds it is actually the facility of the level of care which is available which is more appropriate than collecting a whole lot of beds so we need doctors we need we need we need all monitoring and. we need better medical staff. some regions are building more facilities to deal with the rising cases others the shutting down the northeastern states has decided to go back under a full lockdown from sunday for 2 weeks that means only essential services will be allowed that follows the state of the same thing last week and market. and decided to shut down making the decision the central government as it tries to keep the economy open elizabeth. new. government is grounding all

262 pilots who reportedly cheated to get their licenses and inquiry found that they got other people to set their exams for the many have been grounded on the fraud came to light during an investigation into a plane crash that killed 97 people in. a community it in today's ia is being praised after rescuing a group of rangar refugees who've been stranded at sea the only $100.00 people are on board the vessel almost a 3rd of them children out there in the province of akshay where they've been given shelter jessica washington reports from jakarta. tired and confused but finally safe after weeks possibly months at sea this group of rohingya refugees is finally on land after disembarking in the region province of. the now this saying in an empty government building where officials are checking the health and identity. this man told al jazeera why he made the dangerous journey. though.

they were slaughtering us we had to beg for our lives to be allowed to reach the shore of another country your heart he says his brother was murdered in myanmar and he's traumatized like everyone around him hundreds of thousands of largely muslim have been escaping from myanmar since the military's crackdown began in 2017 it's still not clear how long these refugees were seen indonesian fishermen rescued them and brought them closer to shore before local authorities decided whether to allow them to disembark the community rallied together carrying the refugees from their vessel and on to land. were felt sorry for most of the children and babies on the boat we didn't have the heart to see that so we decided to bring them to shore the difficult journey all the more dangerous touring the pandemic they were tested for covert 19 after disembarking here but with how long they'd be here we don't know

who coordinate with the central government and immigration the most important thing now is the taste this particular rapid test can be unreliable but so far all the results have returned negative human rights groups have praised the fisherman for rescuing the rohingya refugees from the sea and also the local community for welcoming them with open arms but they say it's now time for the indonesian government to address how they will fulfill the basic needs of these refugees and work with other countries in the region to stop people from taking these perilous journey the local people are working very hard to collect funds to collect you know all the basic services or all the really to get people but i think it's it's it should be it should be supported by the governed. gave. them said. that the government is willing to provide them with you know shelter the

indonesian government says it's working with the regional neighbors to put an end to dangerous boat journeys but he is of discussions have not been able to stop the humanitarian crisis causing people to flee in the 1st place jessica washington al jazeera jakarta at least 3 people have died in flash floods in ivory coast several homes have been flooded cars were flipped over in the city of abidjan the region has seen 3 times as much rainfall as normal in recent days lebanon central bank is launching an electronic foreign exchange trading platform in a desperate attempt to stabilize the country's exchange rates the lira has lost nearly 70 percent of its value on the black market response to serious anahata reports. licensed exchange shops are only selling dollars to a selected few among them are people who need to pay a foreign worker or buy an airline ticket it's a 1st for lebanon where the foreign currency has long been used in transactions but

the country has run out of dollars due to a deep economic crisis that has led to the collapse of the local currency attempts by the central bank to stabilize the rate including launching an electronic trading platform have so far failed they've been trying to fix the price of the. rate that is just not reflective of what demand and supply is so they've been just trying to fix it at a very low rate unfortunately unfortunately the euro has lost at least 75 percent of its value on the black market since october nearly 50 percent in the past month many are hurting in a country that is import dependent. my follow to use it to be $750.00 now it was less than $200.00. lebanon needs fresh dollars but money from abroad has stopped flowing in. many war and the exchange rate instability will continue without for a return of confidence in the economy and the. worst financial crisis are in

power. discussions with the international monetary fund on a bailout have made no progress the political elite the central bank and the banking sector are still arguing over who is responsible for bankruptcy in this state they're also failing to carry out reforms like fighting corruption a member of the negotiating team resigned in protest it is the state in all its opera that has resigned from its own responsibilities they have a responsibility to do reforms they have a responsibility to take ownership of the losses in the financial system and to ensure the stability of the financial sector it's desperate times up to 45 percent of a nation of nearly 5000000 people live below the poverty line where. people are selling the gold to pay hospital for the situation fees and loans on their homes. all the while the state's foreign currency reserves are being depleted we've better stop

printing found them the way to stop doing that is to do economy conforms because while. because we want to finance government expenditure protesters who have been demanding a new leadership for months are losing hope they held a symbolic funeral for lebanon as their country sinks deeper into crisis. beirut. it's critelli with us hello everyone for going to the headlines from al-jazeera police in glasgow say that a stabbing attack in the city center is not being treated as terrorism 6 people were injured police shot the suspect he later died of his injuries scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon says the incident could have been much worse. i want to express my thanks to the police for appears to me to be the very common traditional to this incident and undoubtedly. incident didn't become much worse than i

thought should 1st and foremost be the 6 individuals in hospital and their thoughts in our gratitude should be with our police officers particularly the police officers. trying to keep the rest of the public safe and let's focus on thinking of. mexico city's chief of police has been injured in an assassination attempt in the capital. that happened in an upscale neighborhood in the city's west the police chief since treated as accused members of a drug cartel of being behind the attack a piece 12 people have been arrested. israel's alternate prime minister benny gantz as outlined his position on the controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank in a facebook post on friday afternoon he suggested that palestinians in the future an experience be granted equal rights it comes as israel looks to roll out its plans beginning july 1st iraqi security forces upgraded

a base belonging to an iran backed militia group at least 14 members of his bala were detained including commanders the us vice president has spoken at the 1st public briefing of the white house coronavirus task force in the early 2 months mike pence says that while the overall infection rate is declining 16 states have seen spikes of late the us reported 40000 new infections on thursday the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began pakistan's government is grounding all 262 pilots are reportedly cheated to get their licenses and inquiry found that they got other people to set their exams for them many of them had already been grounded on thursday and those are the headlines back stuff it's inside story.

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