i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world on a cover or a poll for the national you are this is a political encounter here's the cult like are we telling a good story. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feels that you were there. the coronavirus surge worrying india it now has more than half a 1000000 infections and the capital is expecting hundreds of thousands more in the coming weeks. you watching al jazeera live from doha with me for you back to people also ahead facebook announces warning stands for some content as more big companies all their advertising over hate speech concerns causing its brand to fail

a mega dam on the nile ethiopia is now hoping for a deal with egypt tens of don within weeks and tenacious reopening its borders hoping to attract tourists back when there is concern about how to take me they'll return. to a surgeon coronavirus cases is triggering fears about the ability to treat patients in some parts of the world and as reversal of reopening efforts in august indiana now has more than 500000 infections driven by an increase in its biggest cities that's led to worries about a shortage of medical equipment and a scramble to bail temporary facilities on friday the u.s. reported its highest increase in cases since a pandemic began florida and texas are among states not pausing efforts to reopen an increasing restrictions europe meanwhile is ford. headwear the reopening but is

struggling to reach a consensus on how to deal its leaders have yet to agree on which countries will be allowed quarantine free access from one state how did seeing bodies adopt a white one called the 1000 cases and that the president of the progressive medical sense scientists for many india he says the easing of restorations needs to be managed more carefully i personally as a physician i don't see any achievement but a lot of them has because of our absurd horder to anything be the have rules and there. are a number of cases where the best and the as it was one of the largest and students cannot be there there was expecting for the moment there who are students they isolated more bishops all their betrayed the chain of transmission but doing their bit of. your 1st meeting to brief the din of transmission and all of that for their way just by walking in are not going to be already very sure of the latest but it

doesn't happen there and that is also exposed the great the situation of india lake. lake we have seen the vagrants graces many of the needs of migrants what are all those who also see the poor who were not able to get their behavior of the view just because of it is the market will suit themselves so there is that they are best because of their awful and because they are stupid or don't bother management not management of bishops v.m.c. that sort of other the only disease is the ministers there so their bishops thoughtful. in other world news facebook says it will goal posts from politicians that break its rules including those from president donald trump in a reversal of its practices facebook also says it will ban ads that scapegoat minorities or promote hate speech but the stop paid for profit campaign argues it's not doing enough for the 90 companies have joined

a boycott of the platform coca-cola and unilever are the latest big companies to join the nearly $100.00 brands pulling their digital advertising from facebook we're going to start labeling content. that we find newsworthy that might otherwise fire our c s there's no news worthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses food even if a politician or government official says it if we determine the content maybe we need to violence or deprive people of their right to vote we're going to take the content out no matter who says it and i speak to david vaile about this is a cyber law expert at the university of new south wales his eyes from sydney thank you so much for being with us david so what do you make of this decision by facebook to add labels will these new changes address the issues that they face or is it too little too late. look i think it's the latter i think it's too little too

late in a sense by labeling it what they're trying to do is to make it everybody else's problem facebook's basic model is to intensively survive everyone and all of the content and really scan that so that they can maximize ad revenue anything else is irrelevant and so here for a long time not been wanting to accept responsibility for any of the harms that gets caught on the platform whether it's individuals being sort of harassed or whether it's you know elections being spoiled and by just saying we're going to label this it really won't make much difference there's also a really big problem in their pretense or they climb that they're not really a news outlet they're not really a publisher that don't really have editorial they've clearly got to this but the place now where it's impossible for them to go on climbing that but they don't know at what stage they start to actually become responsible for choosing stories and

you know most journalists i think would draw the line at some of the content that we were worried about here so essentially did they just do this because they were losing sponsors or you know is it a case of you know wanting to do the right thing. i think that probably tell you the letter that they want to do the right thing but the evidence is pretty clear they didn't do anything about this despite the mounting pressure over the last weeks and months of the global process of rice's racism and hate speech and brutality against various ethnic groups what's actually trigger them what's pushed them at the edge to do something the big minimum the tiniest smallest step they can possibly make is that last possibly 7 percent of the market value of the many of the several of the companies in the last 24 hours once the big commercial advertisers start to respond to that popular pressure so i think it's really the

least i think they can get away with to take the pressure off at the moment so they've lost the last advertisers what about the users how much trust are they still having face. well look at that's that's very very mixed picture there's a lot of the young people have been. leaving it for ages. one of the things i do know though is how to keep people hoped you know the stock of graphic profiling is about a sort of an addictive experience and even though a lot of people are you know a bit suspicious so i think well maybe there's not not that great the entire focus of the official intelligence and big data likes is to try and work out what will keep you coming back you know in the next 5 minutes and just scrolling through and you know in that they're very effective in a sense they're reaching past your conscious mind and your common sense and maybe your political responsibility right into that little brain that just wants to click on whatever it is that i know that you really want to click on and so you've got

a real tension there i think increasingly. public interest groups individual communities people that have been victimized politicians companies are starting to doubt about this but they still you know they're incredible power that they have of knowing basically what everybody wants to click on so that's where we are at the moment these labels these you label as will also apply to to politicians mogs like america previously refused to flog us resin downtimes policy that claimed that voting by mail in ballots would lead to increase for us to freshen voter fraud to father and facebook we know paid an important role in the 26000 election you know with misinformation where russian bots on its platform spreading misinformation do you think it will have the same impact be an issue again this time around in the 2020 lection in the u.s. . well look it's hard to tell you know history never repeats itself exactly in the same way but on the other hand we know that the trump campaign is putting

a lot of star by what they call a desktop the. system that they have for trying to use online tools to to push them over the line and one of the real problems is that it's not just hate speech it's conspiracy theories and basically falsities law is. that the problem is that this apparently it's in with some of the information warfare tactics of trying to get people to just bite the hands i don't know i can't tell what's true anymore and not type too much notice and the facebook by not actually recognizing that you know conspiracy theories and you know false claims about everything from some sort of vaccines to who knows what. undermine people's willingness to look for evidence and to demand for things to make sense and for politicians to speak the truth but they're not focusing on the importance of truth and evidence and verifiability this sort of contributing to

a whole lot of these sorts of very handed and very dangerous information campaigns thank you so much david thanks for talking to us about this thank you feign sites my pleasure. he feels he is water minister says an agreement over its mega dam project should be finalized in 2 to 3 weeks its grand renaissance thomas' been the source of an increasingly bitter dispute with egypt tends to don talks have stalled over the speed at which he feels be a should fill the reservoir so don in egypt have both raise the issue recently at the un security council if you opiah built the grand renaissance dam on the blue nile which is a source of most of the nihilists waters egypt and sudan downstream depend heavily on aids and fear their water supplies could be put at risk if you o.p.'s says the hydro power the dam will produce is essential for economic growth so i'm on bondo is a senior adviser at the century which is an international investigative and policy team he says most of the issues have been resolved but how fast to fail the

reservoir remains a major sticking point. this is a significant happening and i believe that it's a display of the be fair the policy of the international community to leave to leave in organizations the leader on of resolving the. problems and in the case of africa this is that african union this is a meeting that was committed by the president of the african union. i'm a florida and attended by the 3 countries prime minister 100 assyrian prime the solution president as well as other members of the commission warned in the division of the commission and therefore is sure that africa's ruling to dig this road or of resolving problems in trying to deal with other militants moment because of the same time this was a really you know increasing tensions in the region it seemed to be suggesting that it could result to any solution since the it was in these other

a matter of life or death for the people and the country and their forests are down and what are those intervening to to raise a clique on this which is a little bit down and find workable solution if europea is under a lot of pressure to really of all unilateral solutions they are in agreement that 95 percent of your calls from the set of the problems are sorted out in abuja negotiations and therefore it's all in the issue of filling up the dam over the length of time that it is needed so that the floor for there is government is for egypt and during that period. still ahead on al-jazeera mexico city's police chief survives an assassination attempt will tell you who suspected of the attack. no taxation without representation and why america's capital wants to become the nation's 51 state.

hello there very unsettled picture throughout much of your vocals a heavy rain set across areas to the east meanwhile out across the west are all the sharipov little so i wanted to thought this was the picture into the south of england this was at show friday it would be over the next couple of days but meanwhile across the depôt in the southeast many many scenes like this of course acres of land under water and you can see over see the damage that has been done certainly once the floodwaters have cleared it is going to be a big process to a lot of the damage don for sure there is more rain into poland again through south a particularly 3 well northern eastern sections but again across the southeast widespread showers and thunderstorms across germany down to all southerners a france and again this area of low pressure bringing some or all the heavy rain

and again the threat of thunderstorms into northern sections of the u.k. the winds are fairly brisk as well senator story on sunday that low just pushes further up towards scotland so takes most of the rain with it but again heavy spells at times not seep out across much of france the low countries germany fairly crowded picture but there will be some sunshine but the heavy rain is further to the south along the line of the als but the mediterranean is fine and clear and that means northern africa is also fine and clear a warm few days ahead this time which is increasing certainly to aaa a high of 40 celsius on sunday. i don't think in isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise you've been looking at another side of this story not from our information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact it's reality we have to reach along exposing the optics triathlon if the rhetoric and shit but

they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight going to the media on al-jazeera. welcome back every cap of our top stories on al-jazeera akaroa virus infections have surged in india's biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals are under pressure and some cities like new delhi s. promising to build temporary facilities facebook has announced that it will fly vocals that break its rules including those from politicians like us present. the move comes after more than 90 companies boycott it facebook ethiopia's water

minister says an agreement with sudan in egypt over its mega dam project should be finalizing $2.00 to $3.00 weeks talks had stalled over the speed at which ethiopia should fill the ground renaissance dams reservoir. or thirty's in mexico city say they've arrested 12 suspects after mess asa nation attempt against a police chief gunman believed to be connected to a drug cartel sawn down upscale neighborhood and opened fire with sniper rifles and grenades the police chief survived but 2 of his bodyguards and a woman driving by were killed and the assassination attempt in the wealthy neighborhood has shocked many in a country already plagued by violence money or up the reports mexico city. the. the sound of gunfire and explosions rocked the mexican capital in the early hours of friday morning when gunmen wielding high caliber weapons attacked mexico city's police chief to stop the head of public security in mexico city was wounded and there are other deaths in this attack all of this has to do without

a doubt with the work being carried out to go into peace and security. authorities have confirmed that at least 2 police officers were killed in the shootout as well as one bystander a fan as much again for the manner mexico city's justice department has confirmed 24 wrists i feel confident the investigation will yield results to fire. those responsible for ordering this act of aggression because. at least 6 criminal groups are known to operate within mexico city and its week following the attack the city's police chief placed the blame on the new generation cartel the hollies going new generation cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in the region it was only recently identified as having a presence within the limits of mexico city. the shootout in the mexican capital is only the latest incident of mass violence in the country. on wednesday 16 people were killed in a gunfight between rival drug gangs in the mexican state of sinaloa on monday 15

were killed following an attack on an indigenous village in the state of la haka. despite the ongoing corona virus outbreak battles over control of drug territory have not lessened and. mexico city israel's alternate prime minister benny gantz has weighed in on a controversial plan to the occupied west bank in a facebook post on friday he suggested that any palestinians in future onix areas may be granted equal rights israel is set to start rolling out its plans on july 1st so. 100 ring of refugees awaiting to hear where they'll go next after being rescued off the coast of indonesia members of a local fishing community in the province of being praised for helping to bring them ashore 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 nation 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. and reckoning state that was slaughtering us we had to beg for a life to be allowed to reach the shore of another country your heart he says his brother was murdered in manama 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 boats we didn't have the heart to see that so we decided to bring them to shore a difficult journey all the more dangerous during 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 that 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 good people but i think it's it's it

should be it should be supported by the governed. giving been planted to giving them certainty that their government is willing to provide them with it you know shelter the indonesian government says it's working with 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 the u.s. house of representatives has approved a bill to make the capital washington d.c. the nation's 51st state if it passes in the republican controlled senate more than 700000 people in the districts will finally have the representation other states take for granted but as mike hanna reports the bill faces stiff opposition. the last votes on statehood were more than 6 decades ago when alaska and hawaii became the 49 and 50th states friday's historic decision was taken on party lines

there being 232 votes in the affirmative $180.00 votes in the negative the district of columbia statehood bill h r $51.00 is plastic without objection motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. so it's a founding of the nation's capital over 2 centuries ago it has been a district and not part of a state it has no governor no senator and it's aleck to representative has no boat in the house we stand out as the only democracy which to the highest democracy to the residents of its own capital leadership own capital city in a city where nearly half of the population is african american statehood is a civil rights issue in all some 700000 residents who pay federal taxes but are effectively disenfranchised eleanor holmes norton has represented d.c.

for nearly 3 decades he's the great granddaughter of a slave who found freedom in the district but not representation i feel in the past as the member who represents my city. and of course i feel in my own lineage as a 3rd generation washingtonian his family has never experienced all of it within their own country so for me this is crazy and again it's for some president trump has made clear his fear that the district would vote democrats into the house and senate and opposes statehood as do the majority of his fellow republicans like the representative for alabama which is 2 senators and 7 members in the house i will never vote to give washington d.c. separate statehood status washington d.c. is a city not a state its population is roughly one 7th that of alabama but those advocating statehood are taking a long term view pointing to polls indicated

a new occupant in the white house after a number of them the election and a strong likelihood that my party the democratic party in the united states will take control of the senate as my party the democrats hand taking control of the house. the district mayor celebrates a historic moment but it will take major democratic wins in the election before her dream up a few one stars on the u.s. flag becomes a reality mike hanna al-jazeera washington. and president trump has signed an executive order to protect u.s. monuments sat softer protesters in recent weeks tongass touches of confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery during the civil war many have been removed in recent weeks by protests or city and state officials they order a call so anyone who vandalizes or destroy such is all monuments to be prosecuted.

the value of lebanon's currency the mirror has hit new knolls countries in the grip of an economic crisis that's left nearly half its population in poverty then a heart of reports from beirut. licensed exchange shops are only selling dollars to a selected few among them or 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 them. at a 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 lira 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. follow to use it to be $750.00 an hour with was less than $200.00 lebannon needs fresh dollars but money from abroad has stopped flowing in. many war in the exchange rate instability will continue without foreign assistance a return of confidence in the economy and as long as those who contribution to lebanon's 2 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 when. people are selling the gold to pay hospital fees tuition fees and loans on their homes. all the while the state's foreign currency reserves are being depleted we've better stop printing lebanese found their way to stop doing that is to do economic reforms because why are we printing lebanese pounds 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. after more than 3 months of restrictions to israel and its borders it wants to revive its struggling tourism industry which had been hit by even before the pandemic but as mohammed reports it's likely to be

a long road to recovery. in the historic heart of tunisia's capital coppersmith mohammed show she is putting his skills to work hammering away at plates he plans to sell hoping the worst of the pandemic is over. corona virus outbreak was a very very tough period even after we reopened it still being very difficult when authors online activities because we're working for tourists who still can't come here from a shop is in the old medina of tunis a unesco world heritage site to treats visitors to a rich sampling of local crafts and cuisine an area that's usually overflowing with people for tunisia's economy tourism is crucial. 5 years ago gunman killed 38 european tourists during an attack at a beach resort near the city of seuss' which significantly affected the tourism sector now as the number of confirmed coated 1000 cases declines government

officials have said june 27th as the date for reopening their air land and sea borders. travel agency owner of the humvee is happy with the decision but says tunisia will face a harder time recovering from covert 19 than it did from the aftermath of violence . terrorism had almost everywhere in the world and we survived we knew how to overcome it but for corona virus that is affecting the whole world and so far we don't know yet how to deal with it i think with some of our tunisia's hospitality sector is trying its best at this restaurant in tunis that means new hygiene and social distancing measures like the hand sanitizer being offered at the entrance and the masks that are mandatory for staff in the town of seedy was harried about 20 kilometers away from tunis tells like the villa blue have been preparing for

a while now we've built with the professional cleaners to clean all the furniture all the curtains all over the bed inks all of the flooring so everything has been. professionally done and. and we abide by the rules that were set by by the government with the rooms ready all that's left now is for the guests to arrive mama june. well again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera corona virus infections have say in india's biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals are under pressure and some cities like new delhi as scrambling to bail temporary facilities facebook has announced that it will fly goal posts that break its rules including those from politicians like us present donald trump

the move comes after more than 90 companies boycott of the platform. we're going to a store liebling content. that we find newsworthy that might otherwise fire all of c s there's no news really exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses food even if a politician or government official says it if we determine the content maybe we need it to violence or deprive people of their right to vote we're going to take the content down no matter who says he feels his water minister says an agreement with sudan egypt over its mega dam project should be finalized in $2.00 to $3.00 weeks tom said sold over the speed at which ethiopia should fail the grand renaissance dam reservoir authorities in mexico's capital have arrested 12 suspects after an assassination attempt on the city's police chief gunmen believed to be connected to

a drug cartel stormed an upscale neighborhood and opened fire the police chief survived but 2 of his bodyguards and a woman who was driving by were killed israel's prime minister benny gantz has weighed in on a controversial plan to an expanse of the occupied west bank in a facebook post on friday suggested that any palestinians in future onix areas may be granted equal rights israel is set to start rolling out its plans on july 1st and the u.s. house of representatives has opposed a bill to make the capital washington d.c. the nation's 51st state if it passes in the republican controlled senate more than 700000 people in the district would finally have the representation of the states take for granted the white house says it opposes statehood and the bill is expected to face stiff opposition in the senate those are the headlines on i'll just have more news for you right after the listening posts i hope he does say with a sense watching. tool to 0 to 0. let me

ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop old military action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting over why did we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the 000. indian prime minister narendra modi says his country's that great i got a say i what i think that is that i try not to. thank you guys i got out of hospital kashmir breach of trust that the clash this whole issue to. stop 25. hello i'm richard burton you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories we're covering this week china india and the border dispute the turned to deadly what is actually happening on the line of actual control advertisers pull the plug on facebook.