played an important role. another sign of india's struggle to cope with the corona virus infections are now at half a 1000000 and growing at an alarming rate. and they say they're imprisoned at sea we look at the difficulties facing workers left stranded for months because of the pandemic. hello again i'm the star of the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up russia denies claims that it spies offered bounties to taliban linked fighters in afghanistan to kill u.s. coalition forces and voices to match the faces why 2 top u.s. t.v.

shows will stop using white actors with the characters of color. 2 of the world's most populous nations are reporting a wave of new coronavirus cases despite spending weeks in lockdown to try to contain the spread india now has more than a huff a 1000000 infections driven by yet another record daily increase in the capital region of delhi alone expects 500000 cases by the end of next month and that's led to worries about a shortage of medical equipment and a scramble to build temporary facilities for the number of people who've died in the united states from corona virus has now surpassed 125000 and on friday it reported its highest increase in cases since the pandemic began florida and 10. s.

are among the states now delaying efforts to reopen an increasing restrictions all this as europe is forging ahead with reopening but is struggling to reach a consensus on just how to do it even leaders have not yet agreed on which countries will be allowed quarantine free access from wednesday. begins our coverage with the situation in india. if there was any doubt that india is struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic this footage from the state of andhra pradesh seems to confirm it adiga carries away the body of a man who tested positive for 19 is the latest shocking image from a country where the infection rate is surging and the authorities are unprepared in india's crowded capital more than 40000 people have tested positive in the last 2 weeks new delhi's hospitals only have capacity for around 13001000 patients. needed he expected an increase in cases but it's been higher than we initially

thought in the 1st week of june there was a shortage of beds in hospitals some people didn't get a bed in as a result the death rate also increased. india is number 4 on the list of countries worst affected by the corona virus with more than half a 1000000 cases and more than 15000 deaths and the number of infections is expected to rise in the coming weeks the authorities are working to transform hotels wedding halls and spiritual centers like this one indicated 19 care centers experts are advising the federal government to prioritize reducing deaths over containing the spread of the virus may be. right. but you never know. what is. but doctors say expanding services is not enough india's public health system has

faced years of cutbacks the impact of caveat 19 is exposing its inadequacies. health care system. because we don't. want to listen to be the leading. cause literally we. will be like this because we don't want not to be the only who can. new delhi is not alone in experiencing a surge of covert 19 infections other big cities across india are also suffering and several states have extended the lockdown some experts predict nearly half a 1000000 more indians could get infected in the next 2 and a half weeks the turia gaita be al-jazeera. while the u.k. is said to cancel the 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries that it considers to be low risk for private 19 it will divide nations into green and red

categories and those from the 1st 2 groups will no longer have to go into a summation the rule changes are due to be announced next week the u.k. is also expected to establish so-called air bridges with france italy spain germany and greece and that would mean quarantine free holidays for travelers to and from those countries but the u.s. portugal and south america are expected to be among those in the red the u.k. itself isolation policy came into effect on june 8th and has been criticized by airlines airports and the hospitality sector our correspondent paul brennan has more. i have to say the people that we've spoken to here in kingston in south west london are rather of the opinion that it's a bit too late for this year now the fear of infection ongoing infection the news that we've heard from america for example. just the hassle that there has been in the uncertainty about trying to book a holiday until now has left many people writing off this summer looking ahead more

to next year for their summer holidays rather than try and chances are that said with the knowledge that the announcement from the government that on wednesday they'll be a bill for the relaxation of the current 14 day quarantine system has been welcomed by the association of british travel agents they said it's encouraging they certainly hope that more people will try and book some kind of a last minute deal and there's evidence that although most of the travel agents offices here there's a couple of them just around the corner that all remaining closed the online booking systems have seen a big surge in in bookings today so there is evidence that there will be some people prepared to make that last minute dash particularly because the travel agents are offering some pretty hefty discounts in order to try to entice people back onto planes but like i say the the the straw poll the people we spoke to here found that the expectation of having to wear masks on planes of all the other

restrictions they're going to are going to be in place for that for the for the foreseeable future simply not enough to persuade them that now is the right time to be booking those last minute foreign trips while peru has known to nationwide vaccination program to ward off a surgeon preventable diseases as a deals with the current virus pandemic hundreds have been curing in the capital lima to be immunized against measles and other illnesses month of lockdown there have prevented many children and elderly people from getting routine vaccinations. well the pandemic has also been making it difficult for crews on merchant ships to return home some have now been at sea for more than 6 months and at the same time crew hoping to resume work have been struggling to get on to their ships johnson reports from the greek port of pier a us. merchant seaman your hasn't worked in 7 months coke at 19 has prevented his ship from sailing he still has

a mortgage to pay and $3.00 daughters to support and the latest blow he says comes on top of years of austerity following the 2008 global financial crisis i think when i 1st chose the salon if things were good we had a family we had dreams in the past 11 is a seventies afforded by more than a hot texaco not other seafarers are having the opposite problem they're only able to get home after many months at sea because of travel restrictions due to coated 19 speedily not a vocalist has been on a very large crude carrier for 7 months he spoke to us by satellite phone from the philippines. the fatigue is psychological we tell it even 6 months is a long time and we haven't stepped on a shelf a 7 months we haven't seen a single new person it's a kind of imprisonment about 400000 merchant seamen i thought to be stranded at home or at sea due to coronavirus related travel restrictions and that could eventually have an impact on global trade 80 percent of which is carried by ship

the supply of goods across the world is what keeps factories working shop shelves stocked and even fuel pumps full shipowner. says where as things are slowly starting to loosen up it's still difficult and expensive to rotate crews out of port where there was a device that they have started to allow crew rotation we inquired as to how this can be done and the list of requirements was such that it made it impossible so the vessel had to be there 2 days before the cars had to go on board and the job and cost cuts had to be done the vessel had to wait and then the cash would come back and the crew would go would get off and the true would be quarantined then the group that would come in would be part of the man the vessel that the wait for that would it was quite easy and it goes on and on fatigue and poor mental health a dangerous at sea. they create conditions in which accidents can happen and lives are lost the crews stranded around the world of finding it difficult to understand why they're considered potential sources of infection they spend weeks between

ports and they're among the most isolated people in the world jumpstart openness al-jazeera paris. well don't forget in part 2 of our series on people stranded by the pandemic will be meeting migrants who are stuck in kenya they are among tens of thousands of people in limbo across the continent that's from 10 g.m.t. on sunday here on al-jazeera. now the world health organization says in a bowl outbreak in eastern democratic republic of congo is no longer an international public health emergency more than 2200 people have died there since it was detected 2 years ago the focus now shifts to another outbreak in the northwest region as well as containing the spread of the can coronavirus now russia and the taliban have denied claims that moscow is spies of a bounties to afghan fighters to target u.s. coalition troops the russian embassy in washington d.c.

dismissed the reports as dangerous and baseless the taliban also rejected the allegations saying it's not indebted to any foreign country u.s. media say the trumpet ministration received the intelligence assessment back in march but as yet to respond well our patty culhane is just outside washington d.c. and she explains what those media reports are based on. 1st reported by the new york times with since then it has been very verified by other major newspapers and again it says that a secret russian intelligence unit offered a bounty to taliban fighters if they killed americans they said that the bounty was in fact paid out they didn't say how much we do know that 20 u.s. troops died in afghanistan in 2019 and the new york times indicated that some of those deaths could be connected but didn't specify exactly which ones now it's important to point out that they don't have any name sources on this and they haven't provided the actual intelligence only to say that some of it came from

interviews with captured afghan fighters so basically this is the story says that the administration was told about this including the president in march many many months ago and that they debated several responses including a diplomatic complaint up to sanctions but so far have not acted now critics are pointing out that the president did do one thing he invited lattimer putin to the. summit and that's created its own kind of controversy today. now political parties in ireland have formed an unprecedented coalition government and in months of deadlock michel martin is the new prime minister and for the found this time. will be partners in government with rivals in a gale along with the green posse. means that outgoing prime minister will return to that role hough way through the coalition's 5 year term. well still ahead for you on al-jazeera causing its plan to fail a mega dam on the nile more on the hope that ethiopia can strike

a deal with egypt and sudan. and facebook announces warning tags for some content has more big companies pull advertising to hate speech concerns. hello there remains wholesome and dry throughout much of the middle east some dusty conditions as well the winds have been fairly strong of the last few days still some strong winds in the 4 calls to go through sunday time which is in the mid to high forty's 46 in baghdad 48. on the say these winds a strong kicking up the sand on the well we have got some cooler air in place across these areas of yemen on a mom we've got some on shore flow there some breezes coming in from the gulf of aden and also if you're a b. and c. but as we go through monday the thames has similar sorts of levels 40 celsius in doha but a hot day in riyadh with

a high there over 45 then down into southern africa things that we call it particularly into south africa see this cloud coming by that that will bring a few shots but of course particularly through west africa the rains have been very heavy undies and off to days of heavy rains ivory coast this is what some areas of the city left with all the debris of course that has been accumulated as those floodwaters rush down the streets more heavy rain around the gulf of guinea again across these western areas particularly coastal areas and it's going to be coastal areas of south africa sunday on monday where we see this shows the winds a fairly brisk as well and on monday the temperatures well in the high teens celsius the cape town and also port is that that you can see here the showers back in the forecast on to say running along the coast towards forces. the legislature to find a group of young men wrap things up there. when an elite white fraternity build

a house next door community spirit is tested to its limits. we were exactly welcomed with open arms into the neighborhood it's hard to just bury the history of hate old south a witness documentary on al-jazeera. that's remind you of our top stories this hour corona virus infections in india's biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than hoffa 1000000 hospital is under pressure and some cities like new delhi are scrambling to build

a temporary facility. this is the u.k. is set to waive its 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries that it considers to be low risk for that road a virus it's expected to establish so-called bridges with countries such as fronts including spain and greece. and russia and the taliban have denied claims that moscow is spies offered bounties to afghan fighters to target u.s. coalition troops the russian embassy in washington d.c. dismissed the media reports as baseless while the taliban says it's not indebted to offerings from any country. now some of the world's largest cosmetics companies have been subjected to criticism for promoting negative connotations of daca skin in the wake of the black lives national movement as a result from space cosmetics brand l'oreal has now decided to remove words promoting white a skin from its products that includes the words fair and light unilever decided to

rename its fair and lovely line earlier this week it's dropping the word fair and on thursday u.s. cosmetics giant johnson and johnson said it discontinued 2 lines of products with the words fairness on its labels it's also planning to stop selling its skin whitening creams and asia and the middle east. well we're joined now by nina davuluri who is the 1st indian american to be crowned miss america and 2014 she also created a petition this month calling on the major players in the industry to stop making skin whitening products and she joins us now via skype from new york nina thank you for being with us today i know you've been campaigning on this issue for years so let me start by asking you for your reaction to what we're saying now yeah absolutely thank you so much for having me and this is an issue that i have been really advocating for 60 years now since the time that i won this america i remember the morning after i won and woke up to a headline in an indian newspaper that said it's miss america too dark to be miss

india and that was the moment that everything had changed for me you know i grew up hearing comments like don't go out in the sun you're going to get too dark for oh you'd be so much more beautiful if you were a few sheets lighter and since that time i've actually been producing a documentary starting 2 years ago called complection that really into untacked this idea of colorism not only us that exists in south asia but many countries around the world and so to hear this news it's really the 1st step in moving forward to dismantle these are your sins of colorism globally or this particular set of reactions has clearly been in response to the black lives mass and ribbon and public sentiment around that that many of these products especially the unregulated ones can be incredibly toxic so does it frustrate you that when ousting a p.r. response here on a political issue rather than one that's really driven by health and safety. you

know it is it is a response at the very least it started the conversation and it's opened the conversation to i think it's the end of it absolutely not and i think you're also right there are a lot of toxic chemicals that are in these ingredients but just eliminating the products doesn't solve the issue or changing the name doesn't solve the actual bigger issue that we're talking about here and that is this ideology that fair skin is considered elite that fair skin is considered the ideal is better than darker skin complection and that in itself is racism so unless these companies can and not only companies that of course the entertainment industries need niches really dismantle these ideology that they themselves have built that they are skin and it is the only type of were the skin and then we truly can't break the cycle of colors and as you say this is such a broad issue not just about production marketing of these products but really about these conceptions of beauty i do want to ask you

a little more about your personal experience here because like you as a woman of color we've both been told where to dock how do we change that conversation. yeah i think it absolutely ringback this is the 1st time we're actually seeing change in that conversation and like i said this is a 1st step but you know just in filming a documentary i realized through the simple conversation that this is so deeply embedded this core believe lighter skin is the ideal is so deeply embedded in our culture in trickles down to socioeconomic class careers jobs education in our edge and so this is just one piece of a much larger conversation and puzzle i think bollywood has an incredible amount of responsibility to acknowledge that it also perpetuated the stereotype and it is an incredibly influential community that has really stood silent and that has been deafening i want to ask because i see here that even though it's changing its

marketing is isn't necessarily halting production of their products so how do you shift an industry that's estimated now to be valued around 20 $4000000000.00 in the next decade how do you do that you yeah i think that you know levers roll out of their rebranding strategy and you know what type of people they are losing in their new campaigns they said they are going to use inclusive skin tones and in reflection of their new campaign i think it will be incredibly telling of what their true intention is behind making this announcement is actually 2 wards creating an actual change towards breaking the cycle carson or is it simply just like you said earlier in response to everything that's happening in the world right now rather than the true intention behind it so i think the world is watching i think it will be very telling and i think they're going to be held accountable nina davuluri their miss america 2014 and also someone who's been campaigning very

actively on this issue thank you for joining us out of there any. thanks for having me. well the black line is about the movement is now also influence in the entertainment world following those weeks of global protests creators of the cartoon show the simpsons say they now will not use white actors to voice characters of color anymore now that show had already faced years of criticism for its portrayal of the indian convenience store clock are proof why back to hank azaria stepped down from that role this year there hasn't outlined any specific changes for other characters there and changes also coming on another major american cartoon family guy actor mike henry said he will not voice the character of cleveland brown anymore saying persons of color should play characters of color he's also voiced in the teen or made character well earlier i spoke to kevin powell he's a human rights activist and also wrote the book when we free the world he says they need to be more changes like this across the entertainment industry. i think that

you know what we're looking at is the fact that hollywood is recognizing that people color but wolf we left out of the participation of these these these care these these these roles whether their voice overs for an evasion or real roles and not just about black people but also asian people let their people native american people middle eastern people the people of color theory and so there's a record a happening because of george floyd being killed on videotape in minnesota minnesota a few weeks back and it's the necessary conversation let's employ people of color in these spaces that they've never been employed in or not on a regular basis the dip your real issue for us in america right now is power sharing and being a part of the decision making process and oftentimes people of color are not even at the table as the decisions are being made that could be races or islamophobia core sexism or any of those things that are actually in the hurting people all over the world not just in america's image is put out there we know that in t.v.

does is not enough depictions of people of color and again we're not just talking of lack of people were saying that t.v. film animation all of it should look like the world in the world is not just white this isn't but it's not just white people it's everyone and that should be depicted and their cultures should be valued as they're being depicted not stereotypes that are hurtful to people well now facebook says it will stop flagging up more posts that break its rules ahead of the u.s. election and i found that critics have accused that of failing to act on hate speech prompting a boycott by some of the wild biggest advertising of alexia brian. when the us president suggested protesters against racism and police brutality without and said that when the losing stops the shooting starts to as a put a warning on it saying it glorifies violence facebook did nothing its c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has often argued that the platform should take a hands off approach but now that's changing and it will tag posts that break its

rules if we determine the content maybe we need to violence or deprive people of their right to vote to take their content out no matter who says. social media platforms have been under the spotlight as global outrage grows against racism and discrimination sparked by the police killing of george floyd and may but why they're not focusing on the importance of truth and evidence and verifiability the sort of contributing to a whole lot of these sorts of very underhanded a very dangerous information came. on friday 2 of the world's biggest advertisers coca-cola and unilever pulled their promotions from the platform. unilever's also removing content from twitter and instagram until the end of the year more than $100.00 companies have joined a campaign called stop hate for profit which accuses facebook of not doing enough to combat hate speech the campaign said in

a statement faced with this tidal wave mark zuckerberg responded today with a small number of small changes we've been down this road before they've made apologies in the past one of those apologies was in 2018 was called to testify in congress over his company's handling of use a doctor and how it was exploited to meddle in the 2016 us election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake while facebook's shares dropped 8 percent on friday analysts believe this controversy won't hurt the social media giant in the long run they are the total power in the me last year even amid criticism which is very similar to what you're seeing as. their advertising revenues last year 2101 of them are 27 percent and nearly $70000000000.00 u.s. dollars so no. use the gate. with the november presidential vote just 4 months away facebook has already taken down

a video posted by donald trump's reelection campaign and the president's lashed out at social media platforms if it's accusing them of censoring conservative views elixir brian al jazeera. satellite images have a mad suggesting an explosion near iran's capital on friday happened next to a suspected missile sites take a look one photo shows charts problems that was not seen and images of the area taken before the blast iran's defense ministry says it happened and what it calls a public area but defense analysts believe the blast went off close to an area believed to hide a network of tunnels and missile production sites the cause of the explosion remains unclear. ethiopia's prime minister says an agreement on a mega dam project should be finalized in 2 to 3 weeks the grand renee's on stem has been at the center of a dispute with egypt and sudan talks stalled over the speed at which ethiopia should fill the reservoir sudan and egypt have both raised that issue with the un

security council well ethiopia built the grand stand on the blue nile which is the source of most of the nile's waters egypt answered on downstream depend heavily on us and fear that their water supplies could be at risk ethiopia says the hydro power the dam will produce is essential for its economic growth have a morgan has more from the sudanese capital. it took a meeting between the prime ministers of sudan egypt as well as other members of the african union including the current chair of the african union south african president also to try to bring this recites together after several rounds of talks . you know what this is what the statement that was released by the prime minister of the office of the prime minister of the i'm told is that the 3 sites that they will resume talks needed on a technical level we've repeatedly heard statements from the 3 sites they bet 95 percent of the issues have been resolved and that there's only remaining 5 percent

as well as the legal aspects evacuations and rescues are under way in southern china following heavy rain and flooding there more than 40000 people have been forced out of junks the province alone since tuesday rescue is used a rope as you can see to bring 6 people to safety after they were stranded in a front of the river the heavy rain is expected to continue until tuesday. residents in the indian city of that's close to new delhi have been asked to keep their windows shut because of a swarm of desert locusts india is battling its worst infestation in decades farmers in the area are concerned about this some a crop some even pilots working from new delhi's international airport have been asked to take extra precautions now u.s. graphic design a milton glaser known for his popular i love new york logo has died at the age of

91 the logo was unveiled in 1977 as part of a very successful campaign promoting the city as a tourist destination when the city was close to bankruptcy glazer also designed an iconic image of bob dylan's silhouette with psychedelic head his family said he died after a stroke but also had renal failure. so again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines corona virus infections have surged in india's biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals under pressure and some cities such as new delhi are scrambling to build temporary facilities the u.k. is set to waive its 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries it considers to be low risk of a coronavirus it's expected to establish so-called bridges which with countries

such as france italy spain and greece well paul brennan is in london and he says the british government is still in discussions over which countries will be allowed to avoid quarantine. it's going to be kind of a ruling list of countries with individual nations added opa tension even taken away depending on where their corona virus infection rates go that said what seems to be happening at the moment is that discussions are being had with several european countries it looks like there will be notable exclusions such as the usa for example whose spike in corona virus infections on friday means that it's unlikely to be among the list of those whose travelers will not be required to quarantine once they arrive in the u.k. . russia and the taliban have both denied claims that moscow spies offered bounties to afghan fighters to target u.s. coalition troops the russian embassy in washington d.c. dismissed the media reports as baseless while the taliban says it's not indebted to

offerings from any country now some of the world's biggest cosmetics brands including l'oreal are removing words promoting white of skin from their products many of them have been subjected to criticism for promoting negative connotations of daca skin especially in the wake of the black lives nationally. and facebook says it will flag all posts that break its rules including those from politicians like us president donald trump chief executive mark zuckerberg previously said it's not up to internet platforms to police the truth but this move now comes after more than $100.00 companies boycotted the platform or those are the headlines i'll have more news for you here on out to inside story.

the u.s. imposes visa bans on chinese officials in retaliation for beijing his policies and called the un and have also called for action to defend human rights in china but will the international pressure to lead to change this is its own story. hello welcome to the program on iraq on the united states is taking its 1st steps in response to beijing's national security law the hong kong secretary of state mike pompei it is imposing visa restrictions.