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in the country's history. and from facebook to the simpsons the young going black lives matter protests are having an impact on the world. but the sports news is munches tonight should reach the semifinals of the f.a. cup they were pushed all the way for knowledge. with 3 minutes left in extra time on the same story. welcome to the news hour 2 and a half 1000000 infections more than 125000 deaths and record rises reported every day the u.s. is grappling with the world's worst corona virus outbreak and it shows no signs of abating 5 states have now reported record spikes and daily cases with florida are the worst hit with more than 9 and

a half 1000 new infections on the other side of the country and it has doubled its previous high several states are now scrambling to roll back their reopening plans but that's threatening the nation's economic recovery the outbreak also appears to be entering a dangerous new phase with the virus spreading from american cities to rural heartlands in the south and west. let's get an update from gabriel is on the he's joining us from new york so how worrying is all of those gabriel. quite frankly it's very worrying because we are seeing uncontrolled spread of coronavirus now in several different states just as you mentioned and what's particularly troubling about it is you're seeing it in states in the south and southwest but you're seeing it in big population centers but also in more rural areas as well all of these states that are seeing the spike in crime fires have one thing in common

all of them reopened their economy over a month ago and so that is what is particularly troubling there a lot of statistics out there but one that i want to point out is what's called the positivity rate that's the rate of the amount of people that are tested that are coming back positive i just want to run down a couple of these because of give you an idea here anything above 10 percent is considered critical anything 5 percent or below is considered in the range of where it's coming down and right now in florida it's up to 15 percent near miami it was over 20 percent positivity rate in texas it's about 15 percent and in arizona as well it's over 15 percent so you're seeing in these 3 states that are being particularly hit very hard the number of the the percentage of people testing positive is very high troubling in many regards right so these are the facts on the ground gabriel but the the message coming from the white house still seems to be

that things are going well how how do those 2 things square together. most americans based on polls that have been taken recently are not satisfied with the drop that the white house is doing the approval rating for president donald trump on his handling of the krona virus pandemic is only 37 percent 37 percent of americans think he's doing a satisfactory job over 50 percent think that he is doing not a good job at all. listen he's been quite frankly off balance in his response to this for many many months now and it's a crisis that is growing worse for the right white house not better we're already seeing that vice president mike pence was planning to do a bus tour in the state of florida for the reelection campaign the election is in november and he's called that off that is now canceled also the republican national

convention as we know was supposed to be held in north carolina it had been moved from north carolina because of krona virus concerns and it was recently moved to jacksonville florida just within the last couple weeks it's going to be at the end of august now we're seeing a huge spike in florida now as well so you're seeing that how this is wherever the present president is trying to take this and his re-election campaign he's being blocked by coronavirus and you're just seeing that the polls are showing that most americans are not satisfied with the job that he is doing all right it's a combating over 1000 things very much gabriel the zonda reporting for us from new york let's talk about the spread of coronavirus in the u.s. with the she's a professor of epidemiology and medicine over at columbia university that's also in new york thanks very much for your time and for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour i mean how would you describe what the u.s. is experiencing right now with the coronavirus. i would describe it i think stream

we are i mean i think the the data from the past week or so demonstrate that in many of the states in this country every time the increase of the numbers of cases is extremely rapidly rising and in addition are so another area of concern is there a good proportion of the people who are affected who are testing positive tend to be younger people and that's of great concern because young people tend to have my other disease and can unknowingly transmitted infection to others in the community and what we're seeing now is some states like florida and arizona are rolling back their reopening plans is that in effect of strategy to contain the virus of this point i think that was the mistake that was made in several areas is that there was some equating of opening up the economy with letting go of all the public health measures that we know work so opening the economy and enabling people to go

to work or to open restaurants or other areas of or other businesses does not mean that we should stop wearing masks and we should start distancing and i think that's the big mistake is that there were a misunderstanding misperception there doing one meant to let go of the other and i think that's the reason why you seen the surge in the numbers of cases so i'm 40 now you have to many of these states have to backpedal out and try to put in place again more severe restrictions so that we can actually bring this surge under control what sort of restrictions are you talking about here what are the steps that need to be taken right now to bring those numbers down. well one very important is to try as much as possible to control the congregation of people together and these larger congregations of individuals coming together whether it be at beaches or and bars. is

a recipe for failure this is how transmission happens and particularly when the people who are coming together are not wearing she's covering or not wearing masks that is the big stick and therefore you have to shut down these businesses until you can bring back their numbers of cases down again and hopefully people will then appreciate why it is so important to adhere to the public health for messages that we know work meaning are wearing a mask all the time whenever you're unable to physically distance from somebody and to do all the other public are for prevention measures that people are aware of how much worse do you think it's going to go up. i think it's going to get worse before it gets better because now we're seen as sure to numbers of cases this is going to mean a fire going to be in evidently followed by increasing numbers of hospitalizations and unfortunately potentially increase in numbers of this which means overwhelming

the whole system and then of course the tragedy of losing people to this to this epidemic so it will get worse before it gets better but a lot depends on how seriously the populations in these states take the guidance that's coming down now and the guidance is we have to back it on we have to reverse some of the easing that we've put in place we have to go back one or 2 steps until we're able to bring down the numbers of cases again right off outsider we thank you very much for speaking to us from new york in cuba. the president of honduras says the open a can his country is growing more complicated the hernandez is currently receiving treatment after he contract at the corona virus last week he was taking part in a video conference from his hospital beds is going to suggest the situation is obviously getting more complicated every day it is more saturated important resources are needed in units he lost strength this is

a war between life and death in which we can only win if we manage to maximize the precautionary measures keeping an eye on the region as manual ruppel though his joining us from mexico city so the situation doesn't sound too good in honduras what's it like across central america. well the 100 president's characterization of the worsening crisis isn't wrong and we have been hearing from public health professionals in honduras crying out for several weeks saying that not only the hospitals oversaturated and hospitals and health professionals overwhelmed but the health system as a whole in the country is on the brink of collapse if not already reached collapse in the country as of friday the country registered a total of $15994.00 cases and $401.00 deaths this may not seem like a lot compared to the numbers that we're hearing coming out of the united states or out of brazil for it but for a country of less than 10000000 peoples this these are overwhelming numbers for the

public health system 100 was probably the most ill prepared country in the region when it comes to prepare this for for a pandemic of this scale and the large concern now is that hundreds could become the next epicenter for the pandemic in the region now converse lee you have other countries in central america like kosta rico which their health minister announced on friday a reopening of the economy to foreign tourists as of august 1st so they're launching a massive testing campaign to make sure that the country will be ready the borders remain closed there are despite being an outlier there is concern over countries like panama which is the worst affected in the region countries like nicaragua or leadership in the government there was among the last in the world to even of admit that the outbreak in the country was was a problem so maybe an outlier here but the rest of the of the region central america south america latin america as a whole continues to suffer and brazil has announced an agreement with oxford

university in astra zeneca to produce a promising coronavirus vaccine what's that about it's. brazil continues to live out the worst case scenario of the pandemic for the americas it's 2nd only in the world to the united states when it comes to infection having now surpassed 1200000 confirmed infections in the country but as you mentioned possibly some good news we heard this agreement from the from brazil's health ministry saying that there was a deal struck between oxford university and the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca to produce a vaccine that is currently a candidate that is undergoing test this vaccine brazil will pay $127000000.00 to produce approximately $30400000.00 batches of this vaccine between december of this year and january of next year the total deal is for $100000000.00 vaccines so this is certainly promising news good news given how much bad news has been coming out

of brazil over the past few months at a time that's so critical for the health crisis in this country of 210000000 people but again brazil is not the only country in the region that is struggling to mitigate contagion we can point to other countries in south america like peru and she lay and within the larger context of the pandemic latin america was the last region of the world where the that was infected by cope with 19 and largely the most ill prepared region in the world but again brazil is not alone in combating this this virus but it certainly is the worst hit country in the entire region during writes when you are apple and thank you for that update from mexico city. more than half a 1000000 infections have been recorded across india as the coronavirus continues to search for the world's 2nd most populous country more than 15000 people have died and the case count is expected to skyrocket over the next few weeks india's

crowded capital new delhi has emerged as the epicenter of the outbreak victoria gate b. has more. if there was any doubt that india is struggling to cope with a coronavirus pandemic this footage from the state of andhra pradesh seems to confirm it a day get carries away the body of a man he 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. e.d.t. we 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 beads 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 cast sentence experts are advising the federal government to prioritize reducing deaths of the containing the spread of the virus may be easier in my. country and we have you know how hard it is and what he can do more than you know then that will be a big success as far as. the doctors say expanding services is not enough india's public health system has faced years of cutbacks the impact of cave in 1000 is exposing its inadequacies 6070 percent of good stories. but i. believe hospital facilities. and the

city limits. will be like this because one of. the only 2 who could be one new delhi is not alone in experiencing a surge of $1000.00 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 victoria gate to be al-jazeera. russia's space agency has delivered medical supplies to a space launch site in kazakhstan after a spate of virus cases there authorities in the city of baikonur reintroduced lockdown restrictions on friday including a curfew at least 5 people have died after contracting the disease and around 60 patients are being treated in one of the city's medical facilities the russian space agency says the spaceport will continue operations despite the restrictions

coming up on the al jazeera news hour the summer holiday could be back on for brits who want to head abroad but only to certain countries. where the pandemics left shipping crews who want to be at home all at sea. on formula one champion lewis hamilton hits out as the sports fan at the sport's former boss bernie ecclestone over comments about racism. but 1st the german chancellor angela merkel says the pandemic is far from over as regional outbreaks give rise to fear as a 1st 2nd wave local lock downs were imposed in the west of the country last week after an outbreak linked to a meat processing plants infected more than 2000 people merkel says getting europe's economy back on track as her primary goal as germany takes over the rotating e.u. presidency next week germany has recorded nearly 195000 infections and around

9000 acts well next week the u.k. government will relax rules that forced all arriving travellers to quarantine for 2 weeks and instead britain will introduce a traffic light system with countries group based on their coronavirus infection rates it's a move which could throw a lifeline to europe's tourism industry here's paul brennan. the news of an imminent lifting of the u.k.'s blanket quarantine rules coincided with a cold gray drizzle in southwest london a good incentive perhaps to consider a foreign holiday in the sunny mediterranean since june the 8th really all arrivals into britain have had to endure a compulsory 14 day quarantine or face a penalty equivalent to $1250.00 from july 6th british tourists will have a list of countries where they can go without having to self isolate when they get back it also opens up britain to welcome foreign tourists from those listed

countries under a traffic light system only arrivals from red countries will still have to quarantine but there are signs that it's come too late to save this summer around them sample of shoppers in kingston found little appetite for last minute break yes to life for this year in our watch for next year we'll leave it this year to be a staycation we'll see how it goes but i think foreign travel a bit too much hassle and too much of a risk but i wait for them to test say i'm conscious of trying to protect their health service and that kind of pressure on the system say yes and i think i'll say i probably continue south isolation and stay in this country that i'm going to list of green and amber countries is still being finalized and will change if there's an increase in the current 19 infection rates but for the travel and hospitality industry it's a breakthrough. most u.k. travel shops remained shots but online bookings and inquiries rose sharply following the government's quarantine announcement and several tour operators

reported it was the busiest saturday ever i think there are 2 things that will definitely be happening which is 1st of all competitive pricing if you're trying to attract new business you don't put your prices up for a house that's one thing that we like a good deals around that's not just our members travel agents or prices also overseas hotels be very keen on getting brits pack again and i've also seen announcements by certain governments for example it's highly in one that they're going to encourage sites how. such a stay open later in the season european union diplomats are also considering this weekend whether to relax the current restrictions on travel as entering the e.u. use external borders and announcements on fast is also expected next week for many though 2020 will be the year of the staycation paul brennan al-jazeera southwest london. world leaders and celebrities have pledged their support in a coronavirus fundraising drive that's raised almost $7000000000.00 stars of music

film and sport join european commission president ursula vanderlyn for the online event the money raised will help the search for a vaccine and efforts to make it available to work countries the e.u. pledged a further 5 and a half $1000000000.00 to help vulnerable countries recover from the pandemic or the global pandemic has been making it difficult for crews on merchant ships to return home some have been at sea for more than 6 months other crews have been stuck on dry land unable to board their ships johnson rubble us reports from the greek port oppressed their athens. merchant seaman. 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 or that

when i 1st chose the slum if things were good that a family had dreams like in the past 11 is salaries have fallen by more than a heart attack said on our other seafarers are having the opposite problem their own able to get home after many months at sea because of travel restrictions due to cost of 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 $400000.00 merchant seamen 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 ship. whereas 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 doctors had to go on board and the job and cost cuts had to be done the vessel had to wait and then the test would come back and the crew would go would get off and the 2 would be quarantined then the group that would come in would be part of the men 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 considered potential sources of infection they spend weeks between ports and they remain the most isolated people in the world. and in part

2 of our series on people stranded by the pandemic will be meeting migrants stuck in kenya they're among tens of thousands left in limbo across the continent that's on sunday right here on al-jazeera in other news malawi's opposition leader has just been declared the winner of the country's presidential election the electoral commission says chuck where a won more than 58 percent of the vote but the incumbent leader peter with a rico's ruling party wants the results inodes saying there is evidence of irregularities he says his party workers were beaten and intimidated with a rico is the clear the winner of last year's election but then a top court overturned the results over irregularities which brings us to today's results and here would toss up monitoring events from zimbabwe. harry harris so the results just coming in. yes let's just as win wasn't too much of a surprise since people voted in choose days presidential rerun different polling

agents had been doing their own telly they had an unofficial results which clearly show that she clearly was in the lead or there waiting for was for the little commission to officially announce just by how much he'd won and he'd won by 58.5 percent of the vote so he is now the president elect and it's expected he's going to be sworn in on sunday in the capital a long way he's in his mid sixty's he's a former pasta he's the son of poor farmers in malawi he's a university graduate and he has managed throughout his campaign trying to galvanize especially the youth and he's promising them that when he became when he becomes president he's going to focus on poverty create jobs and fight corruption and the say this is a big deal for africa a continent sometimes known for disputed elections and post-election violence they saying that for months since the last is disputed election we saw human rights activists opposition groups also pay should loops going on to the streets demanding

fresh election the court ordered the read wine with a weight and they're saying that this is a sign perhaps that patient groups in africa do have some kind of power and immense amount of power when it comes to perhaps holding those to account in. and holding political elites also into account and what do we expect peter and with the rigors next steps to be what's the been saying well if you know if you for the final official result was released he gave a press conference and in that press conference you say that he thought this election in my life was the worst ever the country has ever experienced he said it was a very unfair intimidation of his supporters especially in opposition strongholds.

the more we believe. in the good sense and the. only people. this is this this election was very different from a disputed election because this time the win had to get 50 percent of the vote which meant that candidate had to form coalitions which they did such a clear out was part of a 9 member opposition alliance that challenged because coalition and that's why perhaps he battled to get so many votes to defeat. the question now is what his challenge is he now has to unite a very big divided country how is he going to do that people will find out more when to give this speech once he is sworn in of course the biggest challenge now is why did we try to going to do yet 2 options he can either accept defeat or you can go to court and challenge the result or rights we'll see what happens thank you very much for the time being here with bringing us the update from harare or the

democratic republic of congo's justice minister has been questioned by prosecutors and released hours after being arrested it comes to a country deals with a crisis over proposed judicial reforms would spark demonstrations earlier this week of people walking roads outside parliament. was arrested after police surrounded his home in kinshasa it's thought his arrest followed a recent disagreement with president felix. much more to come on the al-jazeera news hour including probably. no time to be silent protest against fantasising colombia after the brutal killing of a mother and her daughter. a giant swarm of locusts closes in on india's capital with highlights of the city's international airport boring to watch out. i mean up and sport football fans in bordeaux aren't happy we will be here to tell you one.

started to see that thunder we break down and talk about for the weather across western europe now loss of showers rolling in from the atlantic that will introduce some fresh breaking the hates and the systems might. bump into this area of high pressure so i think we're still going to see quite a few showers across central and eastern parts over the next couple days as a fresher weather across the northwest london down to around 20 degrees celsius just a few days ago goes up $33.00 in london so that's quite a change for the notice because most of the fresh it will comfortable for sleeping at night kwesi showers further north northern england pushing up into scotland across holland as well let me go some wet weather now starting to push its way into central parts of europe still hanging on to the heat in those central areas 31 celsius there in vienna 40 back to around 28 degrees so that fresher air just makes

its way into the warmer we really picking up some lively thunderstorms that unstable has really bringing some bacon thundery downpours in large piles and the possibility very gusty winds gusty winds to back up to as a northwest as we go through monday temperatures struggling to get to around $900.00 stays fun and dry meanwhile across southern parts of europe sliced on a dry coast with a policy of africa with the showers around the gulf of guinea. on counting the cost of europe at a crossroads of deals with a rising china and a u.s. president who riles his allies also how the world's tech and investment money hasn't reached people of color and cyber attacks on vaccine may his in the bar trees. counting the costs on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world.

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around the u.s. florida are reported a record high of more than half 1000 new infections on saturday and arizona with more than 3000 doubled its previous high. reported another record jump of more than 18000 cases in 24 hours more than half a 1000000 people have been infected. malawi's opposition leader has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election the electoral commission says there are more than 50 percent off the votes. demonstrators have filled the park outside the police headquarters in the u.s. city of aurora colorado they're protesting against the death of a lie john mcclane an unarmed black man who died in 29 days after being detained by police on injected with a powerful sedative colorado's governor has promised to reexamine the case the

death is one of many being given renewed attention following the death of george floyd last month legislators in mississippi have taken steps towards removing the confederate emblem from the state's flag the state house voted to file a bill to remove the symbol many of you as racists the governor tate reeves says he'd sign a bill to remove the confederate symbol but insists it should be the voters' choice whether to abandon the flag mississippi's flag is the last in the country to feature the confederate emblem. and the producers of the u.s. animated series the simpsons say they will no longer use white actors to voice characters of color the show has faced years of criticism over its portrayal of ethnic minorities including the indian origin convenience store owner who who was voiced by white actor hank as area the actor stepped down from the role in january friday's announcement from fox did not say whether the characters would remain in

this show and change is coming to another popular american cartoon family guy white actor mike henry has announced he will no longer voice the black character of cleveland brown saying persons of color should play characters of color he also voiced the latina maids. facebook says it will start more posts that break its rules as it struggles to stop growing protests and an advertising boycott critics accuse the social media giants of failing to act on hate speech and misinformation some of the world's biggest advertisers are now refusing to work with the company wiping more than 8 percent of its stock prices in around $50000000000.00 in market value alexey o'brien reports. when the us president suggested protesters against racism and police brutality without and said that when the losing starts 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 follow once 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 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 campaign. on friday 2 of the world's biggest advertisers coca-cola and unilever pulled their promotions from the platform. unilever is also removing content from twitter and instagram until the end of the year well the $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 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 wasn't 2018 when zack a bit was called to testify in congress over his company's handling of use the data and how it was exploited to meddle in the 2016 u.s. 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 media last year even amid criticism which is very similar to what you're saying. their advertising revenues last year 2127 percent and nearly $70000000000.00 u.s. dollars so know that he's the king and he's the gatekeeper 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 efforts accusing them of censoring conservative views elixir brian al-jazeera. let's talk about this with lester spence who's a professor of political science and africana studies at johns hopkins university he's joining us from baltimore thanks for your time with us on the al-jazeera news hour so are all these changes a testament to the power of the black lives matter movement that changes are actually happening and quite quickly when they didn't before. yes so if you asked me just a year ago whether what what were the odds that the city i'm in it minneapolis for example their city council would vote to basically ban their police department disband our police department within 50 years i'd say it's slim and we've seen that if you ask me what are the odds of the new york city reducing their budget their

policing budget which stands at $6000000000.00 over the last 1020 over the next 102030 years i would have you know dogs or are slim if you'd asked me if nascar would ban the confederate flag i was like oh hell no no that's not happening and yet yet it's happened so yes it's a testimony to to to political action activism in crisis so what needs to happen to keep that momentum going well. mark zuckerberg and jet b. zos their wealth increased of proximately $7080000000000.00 you know during the pandemic that was as it may when i talk about the victims of police violence like george floyd george floyd was positive of. tested positive for cove it was a bouncer and a truck driver. arbor

a who was killed not by police but by police action but by police like action he was he wanted to be an electrician but he couldn't graduate as he didn't have to wish in the next has to be linking the this protest up with labor dynamics there's a reason why when i go to the convenient store to shop every employee is black the last asked for me that's what the next step and here's the thing i mean we still do see the divisions when it comes to republicans and democrats for example and we saw that earlier this week with the house of representatives passing the george floyd police reform bill but it does have little prospect of becoming law and that's because of partisan divide how do you see that i mean does that give you . hope for optimism well we're in the middle of a political struggle right now we've been in the middle but look political struggle

for a little bit but we're in political struggle with a tendency that arguably is and its death throes and they're not going to go down so i mean it the gains i talked about were gains that we never saw the house of representatives just voted to to make d.c. a state that's not going to get out of the senate but still just that action alone actually kind of gives us more resources can allow people who are organizing with us to double down a bit more and they able to creation of new institutions that can consistently push that fight forward. all right so we'll leave it there we thank you lester spence for speaking to us from the u.s. thank you thank you now rush on the taliban have denied a report alleging russian spies paid afghan fighters to target american troops as well as other nato forces the russian embassy in the u.s. says the new york times article is dangerous and baseless fake news the taliban also rejects the allegation saying it's not indebted to offerings from any foreign

country the newspaper reported that russia's military intelligence service gave bounties to taliban fighters to kill u.s. coalition forces in afghanistan 0 as political haynes has reports suggest the white house knew but hasn't acted on its. 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 as this is in essence 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 trump 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 now canceled g. 7 summit and that's created its own kind of controversy today. protests against families side have taken place in bogota with rights groups accusing the colombian government of being unable to protect women the demonstrations are in response to the killing of a mother and her daughter by the woman's partner there the latest in a long list of more than 300 gender based killings this year with the situation made worse by the coronavirus lockdowns. as at the protests in bogota and he says violence against women has shot up during the lockdown. there has been an increase in the number of killing women during the last down the coronavirus locked down

with women stuck home and that they ended up being victims of the violence in most cases or in many of these cases their partners are now well most crimes of gone down during the lockdown in colombia being almost sides in general robberies violence against women that has actually increased by 8.6 percent and there are organizations that are following this and they say that a 100 in 10 families sides are killing women on account of their gender this year in colombia more than have happened during the last down they want the tory these to do more about it the impunity is a big issue here unfortunately in these cases there have been all the 4 sentences so far this year 65 people have been captured but most of those trials are now moving forward so these women are trying to bring attention to the public of

what's happening again. particularly what has been happening during the last down now violence against women is nothing new unfortunately and in that country colombia is 2nd only to mexico when it comes to violence against women in the region but these people are saying more needs to be done we understand we should be home because of the law down but we're out here protesting to ask for people to protect women in this country stands economy has been seriously dented by the pandemic and now people are angry off to the government imposed a record increase in fuel prices the announcement was made days before the end of the financial year drivers will now have to pay up to 66 percent more to fill up the move prompted a wave of outrage on social media the pandemic has led the. i mean to shrink for the 1st time in nearly 7 decades residents in a satellite city of india's capital have been told to close their windows and

banged utensils to ward off a swarm of desert locusts india is currently battling its worst invasion in decades farmers near new delhi are concerned about their summer crops and pilots at delhi's international airport have been asked to take extra precautions previous infestations mostly affected villages near the border with pakistan. so you might remember. it's difficult to tell the exact number of the look is the only preventive measures for farmers and others is to make a lot of noise by banging utensils playing music or drums don't let them sit in your area we have a guest to sit it destroys a crop there we can only kill it after it's stationary we don't yet have any system to contain it when it's in the air tarantula downpours continue to wreak havoc across south in southeastern china more than 40000 people have been forced out of jangi province alone since tuesday rescuers used the rope to bring 6 people to safety after they were stranded in

a flooded river and heavy rain is expected to continue until next tuesday satellite images have emerged suggesting an explosion near iran's capital on friday happened next to a suspected missile site one photo shows charred scrub land not seen in images of the area taken before the blasts iran's defense ministry says the explosion happened in what it calls a public area but defense analysts believe it was close to the horse or a missile facility in a mountainous area east of to. rival political parties in arland have formed an unprecedented coalition government ending months of the law mccall martin is the new prime minister and for the 1st time his party will be partners with rivals along with the green party so new reports in the was known as the leader in waiting but on saturday that delay was over arriving to be sworn in as ireland's new prime

minister heading a coalition between his policy phina foil and his longtime rival finagle. a government of 2 center right parties propped up by the smaller green party or trade parties come from very different traditions we do not and cannot be expected to agree on everything however we have been able to agree on core democratic principles and on a balanced and comprehensive program. we are conscious of the fact that we have to work hard to build trust with each other and with the people we have a juvie and privilege to serve and in this power sharing deal mohsen replaces his predecessor until the end of 2022 then the leadership will rotate back to leo varadkar today civil war politics and in our parliament 2 great parties feet of all of the new gal coming together with another great party to green party to offer what this country needs

a stable government for the betterment of our country and for the betterment of our world. no one party won a majority in february selection talks of forming a coalition dragged on for months complicated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic but not everyone is backing this union the left leaning shin fein will lead the opposition came a close 2nd to fianna fáil in a surprising surge of support in the election this was a man's a fish in fame to enter into government and a mandate for a government for a change faced with the prospect of losing their grip on power fianna fáil and finnick a have circled the wagons for all the talk of the shin fein surge its tax policies and policy links with the ira paramilitary group proved to contentious for consideration as a coalition partner but voters who backed their vision of free health care for all and more available housing have not disappeared either but the electorate voted in

unprecedented numbers christian thing in february and that's not reflected of course in the composition of this government so i think in the longer term this will be a beneficial outcome for sinn fein because now they are the leaders of the opposition and and they will be organizing in that capacity over the next 5 years because martin now faces an economy struggling because of a housing crisis the global pandemic and bracks it the challenge will be how his new coalition government will maintain. a unified front in these unprecedented times. al-jazeera people in iceland have been casting their ballots in the country's presidential election the incumbent good new york hanson is expected to win a 2nd 4 year term in iceland's parliamentary republic the president's position is merely symbolic most powers lie with the government's police and fronts have arrested 6 people over the theft of an artwork by the street artist banksy commemorating victims of the 2015 paris attacks it was stolen last year from the

theater where 90 people were killed in one of several coordinated attacks the mural showing a mournful female figure was recovered from a farmhouse in central italy earlier this month you're with the news hour on al-jazeera in just a moment back to work liverpool return to training 3 days after winning the premier league. and still going strong is this the world's oldest coronavirus survivor we'll tell you right after the break. it's very difficult as a chef or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the kong for that is that what you're serving is going to be good seafood by nature is a high risk to be sometimes for instance really using production drugs. that are not approved for use in the u.s. the f.d.a. simply isn't testing enough on the imported market to really find all of these

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time for an update what the sports news and here is the during thank you very much let's start with manchester united who wins in the semifinals of the f.a. cup in england they were taken to extra time by knowledge but came out on top 2 goes to one david stocks reports. the f.a. cup was back after 3 months delayed by coronavirus those lost to the pandemic were remembered before kickoff and players also took the need to mark the black lives matter movement. after an uneventful 1st half it was manchester united he scored 1st after the break. nigerian striker already in a garlow sending them ahead nor a chip back though when todd cantwell try to look from 25 yards. i his sweetly struck drive levelling things up for the home side who haven't gotten this far in the cup since 1902. but with one minute left defender tim cross was sent off for a foul on the garland and norwich were down to 10 men heading into extra time

united used all 6 subs including paul pogba and dominated the added 30 minutes know each goalkeeper tim krul did his best to keep them out and they very nearly hung on for a penalty shoot out the pressure told eventually though and with 2 minutes left captain harry maguire came up with a winner for united. a scrappy go but it sends them through to wembley for a record for 30 f.a. cup semifinal only going to sources men on track to claim the trophy he won twice as a player david stokes out 0 liverpool have been holding an open training session 2 days after sailing the english premier league title knology you can clap delivered their 1st league trophy in 30 years but they still have 7 games remaining in the season starting with no white trip to 2nd place manchester city on july the 2nd. chiro are you robin is coming out of retirement take quick last year but the former by a new nick brown madrid and chelsea winger has now signed for his boyhood club in the

netherlands as thing going into. inspiring bassline are back on top of the league but only just they were out to a $22.00 draw at celta vigo who equalised with 2 minutes left it means basso now just one point clear of around what they did who have a game in hand. germany's been does a good season has been completed the 1st lady to restart amid the pandemic of course fortunate to have been relegated after a 3 no defeat at you your berlin or bush you mentioned club back secured a place in next season's champions league. around 1500 shaka fans have formed a human chain around their stadium they're demonstrating against the card management led by meat packing billionaire clements toni's who's been heavily criticized following a mass covert 19 hour break one of his appetite was meanwhile over in france thousands of bodo football fans gathered on friday in front of the city's town hall to protest against their ownership saw the 1st time there have been cause the departure of the club's longtime president frederic long people who many feel

prioritizes commercial interests finds for one child here lewis hamilton says he's saddened and hurt by comments from f. once former boss bernie ecclestone the now retired 89 year old crazed habitants efforts to tackle racism but then said that often black people can be more racist than white people when asked whether the sport should have done more to deal with racism he said teams are too busy trying to win races or find sponsors how will turn who was the only black driver in formula one described eccleston's comments as ignorant and uneducated and if one's coward bosses distance themselves from ecclestone saying they completely disagree with his comments which they say have no place in society well f one is delayed season starts in just over a week with back to back races in austria ferrari's sebastian vettel a 4 time world champion says teams will need to adapt quickly so the unusual vice

calender. well i have no experience heading back to the same track just that we cast and having a 2nd race but i've been around for a while i guess you know the level of perfection will be even higher the 2nd week and the level of errors. you know will be even smaller so i think we need to make sure that we learn as much as we can as quick as we can after the 1st week and take that experience into the 2nd week we will miss the fans i think racing without fans is definitely not the same i you know i've never done it i can't really imagine how it will be i think it's good to race it's good to get going but if i could choose obviously i would race with fans to the gulf and american dustin johnson is in contention heading into the final day of the trial for his championship the world number 5 hits a 9 under paul round of 61 to move up the leaderboard the lowest round of his career 16 on the pole he's in 2nd place but it's brendan talk to leeds he also hit

a 61 to move 2 shots clear australia's jason wu had supply a lot of to having a convert 19 times even though it can back negative and finally 6 of the 10 pakistan cricketers who tested positive for corona virus how now after we tested is negative but i must now return a 2nd negative result is all i can join the mind scored who leave for that sole of a good and on sunday and that's a loss for parts of the league thank you very much well before we go let's tell you about an ethiopian orthodox monk who is believed to be the oldest person in the world to survive the coronavirus take a look to the horn world of michael is thought to be a 114 years old and he's now recuperating at home and after almost 3 weeks in hospital that's where he was treated with oxygen antiinflammatory steroids some people there regard has survival as a miracle thanks for watching the news hour we're back in a moment with more news. a

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