al-jazeera. where. i. 'd last wrote. the president of malawi making it the 1st african nation to elect an opposition leader in a court ordered. blogs the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up a sharp rise in corona virus cases the u.s. records 2500000 infections and 125000 deaths also the new threat facing india as it continues to struggle with a surge in coronavirus cases. and cosmetic giants are to remove words associated

with whitening from their products in the face of the global backlash against racism. welcome to the program malawi's opposition leader has won the rerun of the presidential election lazarus got just under 59 percent of the vote that makes him the 1st african opposition leader twin power in a court ordered rerun reports now on a historic moment for african democracy. by the time lazarus shapiro was declared the winner of the presidential election rerun. already knew from 80 unofficial results that he would be the next president what he wanted to know was exactly how much he had won by losers so who was it can you do is attend this 57 1st. has attended with the majority of the little weeks.

did you do his duty just. a few hours before check when i was declared the winner president peter much erica say they'd been voting irregularities including violence and intimidation against his party election monitors suddenly. i was happy with. this election there were. in my history literally. girls who were beaten but abducted and intimidated you cannot buy disgrace in a boarding rushers. in february. overturn metallica's victory saying there was evidence of tampering that's why voted again in a rerun of the polls last tuesday and let's say the result is unprecedented on the african continent it's not just rear it's it's unique in the african context

we never had a election an old and then the result to be different than what the 1st round which was an old that result was so this is really the court stepping in to say that the elections were not run properly and then the electoral commission returning a different result in the rerun. where the president elect is promising to fight corruption and create jobs are to be sworn into office by laurie a country of roughly 80000000 people who are watching him closely to see what kind of leader he's going to be. the justice minister of the democratic republic of congo was briefly arrested on saturday as the country deals with a crisis over proposed judicial reforms now they spot demonstrations earlier this week with people blocking roads outside parliament the detention of celestin or to new york ascending follows a recent disagreement with president felix katie rounded

forces have killed 4 gunman during an attack in. near the border with brandy one desire me says 3 of its soldiers were injured in the cross border assault tensions are high between the 2 neighbors with burundi accusing rwanda of arming rebel groups to pose late president. who died suddenly earlier this month. in the u.s. hopes for a quick reopening of the beaten back by surging corona virus infections 2500000 cases have now been recorded there so far and a total of 125000 lives have been lost both florida and arizona have set new daily infection highs forcing the vice president mike pence to cancel campaign events across the country record figures of cases have been confirmed every day for almost a week several states are taking steps to reimpose restrictions threatening for a much hoped economic recovery it lets on those following the story from new york

he says the state's the push to reopen 1st and are seeing a spike in cases. anyways the coronavirus outbreak in the united states is worse now than it was back in march april or even may when the covered 1000 pandemic was in the northeast of the united states where i'm at right now new york new jersey. now you're seeing it spread elsewhere florida texas nevada arizona these are the new epicenters that we're seeing and really troubling huge numbers out of those states particularly florida over 9500 new cases just in the last 24 hours that's a record texas nearly a record in new infections in the state of texas as well and in harris county which is a 2nd biggest county in the united states it involves houston as well as suburban towns around houston 5000000 people just in harris county health officials they're saying

that the situation there is severe and uncontrollable this is a virus it's spreading very quickly in many key states here what do all of these states that i just mentioned have in common one thing they didn't take it seriously from the beginning and as part of that they were all states they began to reopen at the end of may and are now seeing huge spikes and are now trying to pull that back a little bit and close again some sectors but clearly there's lots of problems here as this corner virus pandemic continues to really become more of a crisis now in the u.s. almost than it was even a couple months ago. india has more than half a 1000000 quite a virus infections with the crowd a couple new delhi as the epicenter of the art break that's led to worries about a shortage of medical equipment under scramble to build temporary facilities but big story. 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 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. 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 coronavirus 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 into cave in 1000 cas and his experts are advising the federal government to prioritize reducing deaths over containing the spread of the virus may be. right. but. the doctors say expanding services is not enough india's public health system has faced years of cutbacks the impact of cave in 19 is exposing its inadequacies. 6070 percent going to be a good story. but i honestly don't. believe hospital facilities are already in and probably mostly little italy. will be like this because it is one of not.

only who could be. new delhi is not alone in experiencing a surge of the 1000 infections other big cities across india say 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 gating be al-jazeera. will it stay in the country because residents in the city of guru graeme close to the capital new delhi have been asked to keep their windows shut because of a swarm of desert locust india is currently battling its worst infestation in decades farmers in the area concerned about their summer crops pilots working from new delhi's international airport have been asked to take extra precautions. is a professor at the institute of social sciences joins me now from google graham in india via skype thank you very much sir for joining us on the program any infestation of crops is damaging it any time of the year but for

a sizeable majority of indian farmers who rely on the income from their land this is going to be a financial disaster. you know at this point we don't have a goodish to be a good guy which good crop good crop is just about getting into. the 2 big drought we're getting kicked out by this but at the moment it is compain do small children really spirit and they're going to be quite proactive for the last one month so you know if the pick of. india has a huge stock of 75000000 tonne by a brutal about 50000000 tonnes in excess of what was required and grow. did it just come in the proof going to be a bone growth because the arctic sea ice free fall to the norm was that it was good more sewing and therefore growth was good and we have another 20000000 down which would be stopped because of the good crop that community it threw me so i started

getting the concern i think you know the body that bit less but yes vegetable prices can go up she breaks it can go up because that could get addicted very good looking at this point of time so it certainly sense it security for the moment seems ok but india's rule economy hangs on a knife age doesn't it because farmers have already been told with successive indian governments over the years over the market rate for their goods and the debt that they incur to produce that harvest add to that the at the cash economy that they used to work which changed during d. modernization it's not been a great time for the has it. that's trying to you know because of the motivations large amount of people go to you know unemployment you know and i organize victory which implies 94 percent and the same thing happened because of just because i know when i'm sick to go to do another pandemic is here and that's right and i was in a wholesale markets have declined in prices also crashed in the hussein market you

know i mean prices to me to prices crashed or just a few rupees crashed or roughly one 4th of one trip to what they used to be before the pandemic so the incomes of farmers are coming down not only supplies the market have come down but they've also been plowing in case it was into the ground because it doesn't then bring it to the market also a lot of the seams of the rotary in fact milk production also go to sector because demand from event down demand for poultry also going down because hotels restaurants you know invading. even took the all the cancer so in other words demand for food has been down and ducks like dr miller been down and gotten affected the income of the farmers you talk about the fact that stockpiles are quite good or that the government has been proactive in in the past few months but this isn't just india's problem it's a regional problem and india again needs to work with its international partners the locals seem to have come from the whole of africa a moved across the sort of the southern arabian peninsula into pakistan that across

into into india it is a it is a problem that the un is saying may give rise to an issue of food security india needs to work very closely with the un what sort of proactive measures has the country been taking trying to deal with the locust. so you know there's been extensive history ramadan the lucas has been coming and they've been trying to see in the desert where they have greedy and trying to you know street as well and then they've been using it. and they've been using. loans to spread the longest. longer to be coming into india but you're right you know it has to be looked at what is needed drawn from the horn of africa sometimes in uganda and partly in pakistan so there has to be a coordinated move and i think the un has to do what mission india has some garnishing with pakistan but i think that has not been looking very pale over the

last 6 months but recently i heard that india has been also trying to coordinate with pakistan in trying to control the lucas' because it affects both pakistan and india indeed it does for the moment joining us from it india thanks so much for joining us via skype thank you. still ahead here on al jazeera long seen as a sign of racism the last state of the us to still feature the confederate flag looks to make a change plus. i'm joined now on the isle of wight with the success of a trial involving the delivery of medical supplies to buy drugs from the mainland has important implications for high school aged communities everywhere. how we've got yet more hot sun side of the full cost across the middle east no

great surprise is that but some good news on the way around the gulf that's a very brisk winds recently pushing down around just around the northeastern corner of saudi arabia these winds will ease as we go through the next couple of days which is getting up to around 4344 celsius here in doha pretty much wall to wall sunshine the more cloud down towards the fos out of the region maybe pushing down into the gulf of aden we'll see some showers there as usual around the hollands plenty of southland showing up here running across the region there right the way across towards western side of cameroon where we could see some localized flooding southern areas of nigeria again seeing further heavy downpours and heavy downpours actually cool stretching all the way across west africa and we have seen some flooding deadly floods in fact into parts of ivory coast as we go through the next couple days some very heavy showers there spilling out says chad to stretch down across the central african republic into the democratic republic of congo south of

that is generally fine and dry a little bit of wet weather a possibility just around the western cape assist area cloud makes its way 3 runs across the southern cape temperatures in cape town 80 degrees. when the covert 19 pandemic hit iran. a filmmaker cut adrift from his crew began documenting life from the knock down i made on growing international sanctions. an intimate portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries coronavirus locked down iran people in power on a. war .

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera we sell robin a reminder of our top stories we'll always opposition leader has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election rerun the electoral commission says lazarus check whether won with just under 59 percent of the vote but the ruling party of incumbent leader peter mata rica wants the result in all this is a surging corona virus infections in the u.s. 2500000 cases have been recorded so far of the total of $125000.00 people have lost their lives both florida and arizona have set new daily infection heights. and in india authorities have reported another record jump of more than 800000 cases in 24 hours more than half a 1000000 people have now been infected and that's leading to worries about

a shortage of medical equipment. after months of lockdown restrictions costa rica is preparing to reopen the country to international tourists widespread testing has set it apart from other latin american nations which are still struggling to contain infections as manuel repeller reports. a massive coronavirus testing campaign is underway in. district it's a response to a recent spike in infections in this part of the country but it's important to know why you don't have the virus and to prevent more infections i think there are a lot of people that are infecting others and darned realize that i think mass testing is very important to prevent the spread of the virus. has applied a combination of mandatory social distancing a strict lockdown and wide scale testing it's a strategy that appears to have paid off the country is now the 1st in the region to announce plans for a gradual reopening to foreign tourists you see at our. i want to announce the

opening of the borders even happened yet we're going to wait until august 1st this will happen for the international airports and this will only be allowed for countries that have a controlled transmission and remember you can will follow a very strict health protocol so that everyone who enters the country can be traced . to a city that has announced a low coronavirus numbers means public spaces like beaches and shopping centers will soon reopen a cassette leak out with a population of just 5000000 responded early. in brazil population 212000000 and take over measures have been far less stringent the number of confirmed cases there has surpassed 1200000 the brazilian government's response to the pandemic has been widely criticized. although in the city of need to drive through testing is now available to residents here a positive test triggers an automatic contact tracing protocol in the city brazil

averages about 3 tests per 1000 people and that to roy has already surpassed 40 test for 1000 people this is key to following the infection rate and halting the spread of the virus. needed it was the 1st brazilian city to impose a law down and call for strict sanitation measures authorities say until brazil implements similar prosy. nationwide the coronavirus outbreak in the country will only continue to worsen. and we are below al jazeera. the voting has just begun and poland's presidential election which was delayed by the pandemic the conservative incumbent and of a dude is x. is ahead in the opinion polls but he isn't expected to get enough votes for a win in the 1st round roth vote is expected to be held next month demonstrators have filled the park outside police headquarters in the u.s. city of aurora colorado now they're protesting against the death of a larger mclane black man who died in police custody last year colorado's governor

has promised to rigs in the case mr mclean's death is one of many being given renewed attention following the death of george floyd last month that our state in the us to still feature the confederate battle emblem on its flag has taken steps towards removing it these state senate of mississippi pastor aleutian resolution that allows the flag which many view as racist to be changed but public and governor tate reeves says he'll sign any bill to remove it new designs that would then be voted on in the event as elections lester spence is a professor of political science and africana studies at johns hopkins university he says the black lives matter movement has created momentum for more political change. when i talk about victims of police violence like george floyd george floyd was positive of. tested positive for kobe and 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 intuition the next has to be linking the this protest up with labor diamond there's a reason why when i go to the convenience store to shop every employee is black the last asked for me that's what the next step and we're in the middle of a political struggle right now we've been in the middle 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 the house of representatives just about it 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 this to double down a bit more and they able to creation of new institutions that can consistently push

that fight forward. some of the world's largest cosmetics companies have been criticized for selling skin whitening products in the wake of the black clients much movement now that's led to some of the making big changes to the browns laura but not only holds it's a multi-billion dollar industry and one that's been bonded people with images of white skin desirable. as a black christ mass movement traction including a race. into suppression brands to rethink that put out. france based cosmetics brand l'oreal is removing the words promoting whiter skin from its products such as fat and light the very lovely product line by the indian branch of unilever for now drop the fat many of its adverts have in the past promoted quite a stand on bollywood celebrity. but the company executive says that they

recognize the use of words fat white and light suggests a singular ideal of beauty that they don't think is right and us cosmetics giant johnson and johnson discontinued 2 lines of products with the words fairness on the label but some worry and name change isn't going far enough just eliminating products doesn't solve the issue or changing and doesn't solve the actual bigger issue that we're talking about here and that is this ideology that their skin is considered elite that fair skin is considered ideal is better than darker skin action and that in itself is racism the world health organization says the skin lighting in the street is one of the fastest growing beauty industries in the walls it estimated to be worth $31200000000.00 by 2024 something at the racism movements are hoping to change the un has also warned about the dangers of skin whitening it

says many creams contain gradients that inhibit the production of melanin a chemical in the body with dark skin in the glue is hard to quit in an mercury both can be damaging device logons cause skin cancer and the formation of dark skin patches due to this danger many countries have moved to remove the products from the shelves doner code of law kenya rwanda has banned many skin like in products but across african countries it remains a lucrative business. india the un since a skin like an industry. 50 percent can market so many companies just naming the products will still not solve the problem. pakistan has announced a record increase in fuel prices only days before the end of the financial year kind of viruses done to the economy which has shrunk for the 1st time in 7 decades

but lives drivers will have to pay around 34 percent more to fill up all the varies depending on the type of fuel. from the capital islamabad. well the reaction albeit need always drawn whenever there is a right whether it is the electricity traffic. already the fuel price is about discovered at a time when the government had earlier announced a considerable reduction in the oil price because of a crash avoided price in the international market and now we are told that because they have hiked up they want to pass that on to the public and also the fact that they say that they need to wear the supply chain now earlier because the price. there were reports of hording and export. people found upright very attractive that of god had led to

a crisis situation very diffuse. the petrol station and obviously coming at that time when the government did not very popular because of the hard economic times that the opposition off guard would be trying to you day i die munition but didn't really have a knock on effect across the economy because everything is dependent on the price of fuel and progress on it a major import. now a drone has begun delivering urgent medical supplies to a hospital in the isle of wight off the southern coast of england the trial is part of a government project to develop a transport system that allows unmanned aircraft to operate safely in the same airspace the whole reports now it could have a significant implication for the delivery of humanitarian aid to isolated areas. high above the soul and off england's south coast and unmanned drone hurries pathology samples across the water to a hospital on the isle of wight it's 4 times faster than

a conventional ferry crossing at a fraction of the cost and enormous benefit to remote and island communities and their stuff is there live or die either by boat which is really slow or by manned aircraft which is really expensive and so i can see a commercial operation in areas like that where there are poor logistics links where a really cheap platform such as this can reliably deliver things and can fly at night can fly and for can fly in poor weather the ground operated drone system was developed at the university of southampton with the aim of distributing humanitarian aid it's been given special permission to fly in britain skies to assist with the government's covert 19 response in fact i like to think of it as a sort of a land rover of the sky a similar sort of needs in that it's very robust very tough very easy to repair twin engines so it's capable of flying on

a single engine therefore very reliable the successful use of drone technology to transport medical supplies from the mainland here to st mary's hospital on the isle of wight is a breakthrough for island communities everywhere but think of the wider humanitarian possibilities the ability to deliver lifesaving supplies to isolated communities by air efficiently at times of natural disaster or war or pandemic. just to be to reach the. reachable before. just remotely which is in bangladesh for example i think we have a lot of charities like doctors without borders already make extensive use of drones for filming and mapping hard to reach areas but the animal of one trial with the ability to carry a 100 kilogram payload over a distance of

a 1000 kilometers is the most significant advance in autonomous drone flights yet jonah al-jazeera on the isle of wight and of course you follow that story on our website com of course our top story 10000000 people affected with current virus globally you stay with us here. you're watching over there with a reminder of our top news stories malawi's opposition leader has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election the electoral commission says. just got under 59 percent of the vote making him the 1st african opposition leader to win power in a court order but the ruling party of incumbent leader. wants the result. has been monitoring events from zimbabwe's capital harare and it's expected he's

going to be sworn in on sunday in the capital. city he's a former party. of poor farmers in malawi he's a university graduate and he has managed. to speak to the youth and he's promising them that when he became when he becomes president he's going to focus on public create jobs and fight corruption. the justice minister of democratic republic of congo has been released after being arrested on saturday the brief detention of celestin descended follows a recent disagreement with the president proposed judicial reform spot demonstrations earlier in the week rwandan forces have killed 4 gunmen during an attack in google near the border with burundi rwanda as army says 3 of its soldiers were injured in the cross border assault tensions are high between the 2 neighbors with their india accusing rwanda of arming rebel groups and there's been a fresh surge of new coronavirus cases in the united states there are now 2 and

a half 1000000 cases while 125000 lives have been lost spikes of new cases in both florida and arizona falls vice president mike pence to council campaign events. in india authorities there have reported another record jump of more than 18000 cases in 24 hours more than a half 1000000 people are being infected and that's leading to worries about a shortage of medical equipment staying in the country and there is also battling its worst locust infection and that station in decades residents in the indian city of google graham close to the capital new delhi have been asking to keep their windows shut because of a swarm of desert like west farmers in the area concerned about their summer crops those were the headlines about the next it's people in power do stay with us. on july 1st russians head to the polls to vote on constitutional reforms including changes that could enable putin to remain in office through 2036 but with

a drop in approval ratings for his handling of the pandemic are they willing to pave the way for an even longer presidency follow all developments on a jersey you know. when the coronavirus pandemic hit iran earlier this year filmmaker jamsheed majid ezzati began documenting his own life under lockdown in a nation already reset by international sanctions the result was this intimate portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries.