0 has teams on the ground just because it's life doesn't mean it cannot be crushed what about that thank you to bring you more room world with documentaries and live any. u.s. vice president mike pence visits one of the worst hit states in the global coronavirus death toll exceeds half a 1000000. columns on roman and this is al jazeera live my headquarters in doha also coming up removing a symbol of racism mississippi votes to change its flag carrying the confederate emblem following the death of george slowly. also the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives criticizes donald trump over reports of russian bounties on u.s. troops in afghanistan. and president micron's party faces

a setback but it's a good night for the greens after local elections in france. welcome to the program across the world half a 1000000 people have died from chroma virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all of those infections and deaths in the united states which is by far the worst hit country with a sharp spike in infections recorded in southern western states the u.s. health secretary is warning time is running out to contain the virus particle haint has the latest. the corona virus is marching through america in houston texas hospitals are quickly running out of intensive care beds in florida arizona and texas mobile testing sites are being overrun with people waiting for hours many

turned away health experts warned this would happen in many of these states mostly republican governors move to reopen businesses stressing the importance of the health of the economy now critics say the public health system and a growing number of people are paying the price well the trumpet ministration says there is no connection. all 50 states are opening up again to one degree or another states like florida and like texas actually began to open up in in early may for the better part of 6 weeks john we did not see any significant movement but if you look at this tracker showing which states meet the government's criteria to reopen only 4 are safe the ones in red are seen large spikes in cases and now at least one member of the administration is sounding the alarm window is closing we have to act and people as individuals have to act responsibly we need to social distance we need to wear fit our face coverings if we're in settings where we can't

social distance particularly in these hot zones but in many of these states where cases are on the rise there is no mandatory order to wear masks in public and in many ways this is become a partisan issue well the vice president attended that event sunday where the crowd seemed to mostly wear masks the president has not done the same and my understanding that the centers for disease control has recommended the use of mass but not demand required it because they don't want to send the president and that their president should be example you know real men wear masks for the president's part his focus at least on twitter was elsewhere we tweeted this video to supporters you only white power 6. he appears to have deleted it before leaving the white house once again his weekend spent golfing by some estimates the number of cases that have been reported each day has more than doubled over the last 2 weeks and given the way this virus spreads that means the number is likely

to jump dramatically in the days and weeks ahead particle haim al jazeera maryland well brazil is the world's 2nd worst hit country with more than 1300000 cases and there's 867000 deaths in response protest as a gathered in brazil and around the world to denounce present his hunting off the pandemic listen to ramp yet see how small and the colombian capital. as the sun rose over the capital brasilia a 1000 crosses were planted in front of the brazilian congress. 57000 people dead of so far 1000 in the country but it was also the 1st of a series of demonstrations on sunday against president handling of the pandemic. groups of protesters in more than 20 countries in brazil's main cities called for his resignation. cheering supporters in the state of.

without a face mask despite a court ruling that required him to wear one. cases in the country keeps rising i reduction in the number of daily deaths. was enough for the mayor to reopen stores. this weekend but many customers say they remain worried i think it should be done step by step there can be no crowds everyone should keep their distance we all know our economy is collapsing and we have to get back to work but the viruses and visible so we can only wear our masks. the coronavirus and their mic continues to wreck havoc in much of latin america. even colombia that had managed to control the spread of the virus is experiencing a resurgence of infections after partially reopening the economy the mayor of the capital is asking president to reinstate the strict lockdown.

the numbers are overwhelming has reached 27000 cases and arraigned 600 dead the country has more than 88000 cases and almost 30000 deaths we need to prepare to go back to a strict quarantine. staying at home might be the only way to protect the health system reaching a critical state with something difficult to implement again in this and other countries in latin america with a large population working informally hand to mouth then needs to be on the streets every day to survive at least in the. mississippi senators voted to replace the state flag the last in the nation to display the confederate battle emblem the votes being carried by the state senate 37 to 14 being passed by the house earlier what many see the current design as racist for its links to slavery in the cells a proposed new design will be voted on in november. subject from new york on the

significance of the mississippi vote. it's a historic moment really when lawmakers in mississippi on sunday voted to get rid of this flag a flag that's been around for a 126 years as part of the state of mississippi but they voted to take it out at this particular moment because of the recent black lives matter and civil rights movement that has been sweeping over the country after the killing of george 48 in minnesota and so that is the context on why lawmakers were bringing up this contentious flag now they've been talking about it for several years many people arguing for years that this flag needed to be changed because it did have this confederate battle emblem on it a battle emblem that is often used by white nationalists and in the united states and and it's seen as a symbol that does not fit in 2020 now and especially in

a state of like mississippi where it's over 35 percent of the population is black americans but there was some pushback to it that's why it took so long for this to come about this change there were some that argued lawmakers and others that argued that this flag was part of the tradition and history and should not be changed nevertheless it was with this really historic vote in the senate 37 votes to 14 to remove this flag the last state flag in america that has the confederate battle emblem on it now to go to the governor of mississippi who is expected to sign this into law he said he would sign whatever that whatever the legislature agreed upon and then it will go to a 9 person panel that will come up with a new design for a new flag that will be voted on by the residents of mississippi coming in november . starbucks is the latest lead to pull through facebook the concerns of the media

giant of the. platform for hate speech the coffee company follows other multinationals like coca-cola unilever and levi's civil rights leaders have been calling for a boycott of facebook saying it doesn't do enough to stop racist and violent content on friday facebook announced little tag potentially harmful posts north african or forces loyal to libyan ward cleaver have to say they're deploying reinforcements to regions they hold in the center of the country now this video from the self declared libyan national army is said to show fighters being sent to the regions of call for and served they even recognize government of national accord has pushed back after forces from the capital tripoli on wednesday arab leaders called for a truce and peace talks between the warring sides. malawi's opposition leader has been sworn in as president marking a historic result in african politics lazarus one of the election rerun was just

159 percent of the vote but the 65 year old faces many challenges as her room a tosser explains. malawi's new leader spent time talking about good governance and uniting the nation in his inaugural speech the form up into coastal preacha city no said people didn't want him as a president his swearing in came after months of protests against last year's disputed election that left the country italy divided the new president asked malawians to give him a chance to earn their trust with your help. we were a store and new generation was trained. in the possibility of have been our government that serve. not our government our room. a government that is fired. not a government body europeans. a government that listens that our government that

show us. a government that fights for you i'm not against you. that would mean trying to work with his political rivals supporters the former president. who's criticised a presidential run saying when i was electoral commission known as the ne c. made a mistake these are perhaps the worst elections are held in the history of mali and we believe in me see means to ensure that he took holds the principles of quality elections in milan otherwise researching a very very bad precedent for future elections in most. jacquier is promising to tackle corruption poverty and create much needed jobs in one of the poorest countries in the world most of his budget comes from foreign aid the greatest challenge now is how do we set things right how do we rebuild malawi and this is

a task that is huge great promises were made by the politicians and now it is up to them to achieve those promises or else pay the price at the next elections i i i i it's the 1st time in africa a court ordered election has led to victory for an opposition candidate over the decades the continent has sometimes had a turbulent history with democracy some leaders a stage in office for much longer than a mandate required people are closely watching shakira who is promising a new start for malawians but can he deliver. well still ahead here on al-jazeera thousands flee their homes in mere miles rakhine state as the army progressed operation against put the separatists and the un is warning of intensified fighting. keeping it local border restrictions pushed turkey's team produces to turn over a new leaf stories after the break. and

the pensive got a little psalms across as the united states the law. is indicating the thunderstorms invite if a weather there in place 1st of all as i look at southern florida because this is the view was if you send across into tampa no so much the sunset nichols the sun really have skewed by old us a hollow dust which has been blowing in steadily over the last few days meanwhile across the southwest the volatile particular this one fire continues to rage you can see how close it is to the buildings the residents had to be evacuated to safety not surprising when you see the scale of the fire and also the ferocity of it now the winds that continue to fuel these fires there is a critical fire danger out across much of the southwest the winds will stay strong it's very dry very low humidity and in fact the winds could be gusting to as much as 110 kilometers an hour to the north of that you've got some rain pushing in across the northern rockies also across the ohio valley really of the next

a couple of days the showers the thunderstorms becoming more organized pushing up as you can see towards the great lakes but really that's where we'll see the heaviest of the rain meanwhile out across the southwest temperatures not quite as high but still very windy and of course a very dry so still that fog danger does remain meanwhile across into the caribbean quite a spot of showers and thunderstorms central america seeing some heavy downpours but taking on tuesday into costa rica and panama. rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry but tell us on the best of al-jazeera documentary it's historical. from bonded to now all these districts remind continues with returnability steep challenge when he stopped watching $300.00 species are going extinct every 24 hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera.

but the mark you want young to 0 in the cell romney reminds of our top stories across the world half a 1000000 people are known to have died from kroner virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all of those infections and deaths in the united states which is by far the worst hit country in brazil protesters have been demonstrating against president tribal sonority hunting of the crisis they set out of files and crosses in the capital brazil's the 2nd worst hit country in the world. and mississippi senators are voted to replace it state flag the last in the nation to display the

confederate battle emblem many see the current design as racist for its links to slavery in the south. the u.s. president has denied reports that he's been briefed on intelligence about russia paying taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan donald trump was referring to a new york times article which cited anonymous sources saying taliban fighters russian spies paid taliban fighters to kill u.s. soldiers in a tweet the president called it fake news and says none of his predecessors were as tough as him on russia but that comment was refuted by house speaker nancy pelosi who accused trump of siding with russia's leader vladimir putin. this is as bad as it gets and yet the president will not confront the russians on this or denies being whether he is or not his that ministration know our allies who were some of our allies who will work with us in afghanistan have been briefed and accept this

report just as i've said to the president with him all roads lead to putin he will not he will i don't know what the russians have on the president politically personally financially or whatever it is but he wants to ignore he want to bring them back into the g. 8 despite the annexation of crimea and the invasion of ukraine karen greenberg is director of the center on national security of the fordham university school of law and she says even if trump's denials of true the controversy isn't good for him. if this is a story that actually has some merit to it which if the new york times is right it seems to be that of that he would be briefed on it and not just him but his closest advisers would be briefed done and he would think that there would be some kind of investigation into the validity of it and some kind of sense of how to respond and what to do so if he wasn't briefed on it that too was

a problem because if there was a story out there intelligence sources or elsewhere then it's the kind of thing that needs to be brought to the attention of the president and so you go away whether he was briefed or not briefed and this actually was information that was in the intelligence community in the national security council arena then either way it doesn't look good for the president in the area of afghanistan pakistan intelligence services who is using who is. who to do their bidding which groups it's an incredibly cloudy complicated and untrustworthy area and if you study the history of the region over the past many decades you're there is always a little bit of who's on whose side who's doing what so it's not unusual but it is unfortunate and it just highlights the complexity of the region and how difficult

it is to know who's really on whose side and who's doing what but when you're in the middle of peace talks you really need a level of trust that this story betrays. thousands of people in mere miles rakhine state of flowed from their homes at the prospect of military raids the u.n. says urgent measures are needed to save civilian lives villagers were ordered to leave as the army prepared to launch an operation against the american army it's a rebel group which wants more self rule for ethnic rakhine buddhists the order to evacuate has been called off after the u.k. australia and the us as well as canada call for an end to the so-called clearance operations refugees and humanitarian groups say the operations are a cover for military crackdowns the military had to use the term clearance operation in 2017 when they targeted the muslim minority that led to the accusations of genocide well sure when is executive director of the human rights

network he says raids are still taking place despite the assurances of state officials. what we're hearing is it is just you know to show that they call off but it is not true they have still conducting some operations a lot of operations on the ground and i contacted myself my team also contacted a lot of people on the ground there saying that they have been hearing the shelling hiring and firing and there are so many few locations civilians have been detained to interrogate and berryman the interrogator regaling in torturing so they are facing torture because the rock and i think the kind of police but they are still because they are supporting. an economy konami so they try to create fear and pressuring the population to give them the information where they are about and in the meantime as. we reported within 48 hours for civilian has been

killed and there are several injured and also there are a couple of villages the houses have been turned on by the shelling by the military activity and also we are also learning that. 111 month old baby was killed. so the military operation is continuing and no matter how the community is crying and talking about to stop this so this military operation is clearly breaching. you know. provision measure the international criminal court of justice has you know ordered them to stop all kind of activities that they're going to suffer in your community in so they are killing breaching this order. the green party appears to have made major gains and runs as local elections while president manuel micron's party has struggled it's the 2nd round of polls

municipal councillors which was delayed because of the crowbar is locked out the election is seen by many as a test of michael reform policies and his handling of the outbreak potential butler has more from paris. victory for annie delgo and a 2nd term as mayor of paris the socialist candidate had teamed up with the green party to run on an environmental platform for the city she promised to continue her drive to cut cars and pollution and help the french capital's economy recover from the covert crisis was that is was the list was that this was you know that you've chosen hope you've chosen unity chosen a pair is that a city that leaves no one behind it or goes nearest rival conservative candidate fresh data conceded defeat a former justice minister on the nicholas sarkozy sheet campaign to clean up the city and crack down on crime trailing behind was and the candidate for president

emanuel macro centrist policy failed to convince voters to have a message about his unity but i want to thank all presidents he swam against the tide to place their hope and confidence in us by voting for a list i take on board the result. the 2nd round of the local elections took place more than 3 months after the 1st it was delayed because of the coronavirus lock down the health crisis and likely factor in the historically low voter turnout many restrictions have been lifted in france which is why these elections can finally take place there are other of course special measures in a polling station mosques are mandatory social distancing has to be respected and everybody who works here is behind a prospect screen across france there would be games for the greens taking cities including but it was a crushing day for the president's party the fail to win any major seats macro created his republican the move party to help him win the presidency in 2017 but

his struggle to expand its supporter base his party has suffered from the unpopularity of my coin self there was lots of trouble in the past 2 years and in the middle of a pandemic you don't expect a reward for the for the government certainly not in france where people are are criticizing a lot of the power of the day local elections have little direct impact on the national government in my craw has played down their importance of the voting in northern france he looked relaxed nevertheless 2 years before the next presidential election his party's poor results offer some indication of how much confidence voters have in his leadership and as such will be difficult to completely ignore. al-jazeera paris. or poland's conservative president has won the most votes in the 1st round of the country's presidential election exit polls show did receive around 43 percent of the vote he'll face his closest challenger all souls' liberal.

ski in a runoff next month's opinion polls place the 2 candidates neck and neck. the palestinian political group fatah has welcomed calls from its longtime rival hamas for a unified front against israeli plans to start an exciting the occupied west bank from next month hamas which controls the gaza strip purse call for a strategy to undermine the israeli plan the government of israel is due to vote on wednesday on the annexation of all settlements in the occupied west bank including the jordan valley fatah and hamas have been at odds since 2007 after how must seize control of gaza democratic republic of congo prime minister sylvester longer has protested at the brief arrest of his justice minister. the president to guarantee legal protections for cabinet members celestin to yack

ascending was released after being questioned by prosecutors night follows a disagreement with the president over proposed judicial reforms critics say they're an attempt to muscle judges come by. is at the center or for research on the congo he says the movement's call for evolves is in part due to felix to see katie's surprise victory in the previous ballot. i think it's important to look at this crisis merely from the election in 2018 the 2018 election he was contested by many as mean as fraudulent but what he actually created is a deal between the presidents who did not control the state the protests we can be . who controls both chambers of parliament it controls the military and many others to constitution reform is actually taking the judicial branch to be now under the supervision of the justice minister and that's predictable i mean the house if i

have to speak about the parliament. 350 members of the lower chamber are part of the copula regime while we have 500 members of parliament something for the senate so they have been putting in place laws that will actually change the judge judicial system works in their advantage boeing grounded boeing's grounded 737 months airliner is a step closer to getting back into the air the us federal aviation administration has been given approval for safety test flights to begin as soon as monday now the 737 max was boeing's best selling plane but it hasn't flown since march 29th teen after clashes in ethiopia and indonesia killed almost 350 people. turkey is one of the world's top t.v. producers but pharma say the state owned company is not giving them a fair price now with the pandemic and border closures they can no longer rely on

cheap labor from neighboring georgia cynicus a small. the journey of a cup of tea begins here this is turkey's northern tea grove ingrid in along the slope suffers a running down to the black sea to get the best quality leaves you have to pick them with care this is the 1st harvest of the year with 2 more by the end of august but the farmers who work for only a short season say they are not getting what they deserve from the state company which by 60 percent of their crops you know as you know conditions are better than before we used to receive our money once a year you know the state company pays every month the state has a purchase quota so we sell the rest of the crops to private companies and they beat down the price. most of the tea forms here are dotted along the rock terrain it is difficult to carry the loads of tea in these weighing nearly 50 kilos each from the farm to the village it's

a job people in the area no longer wish to do so since the 1990 s. nearly 40000 workers from neighboring georgia have come here to work in these farms often for lower wages than what the locals would ask for but this year the common $900.00 pandemic close the borders and the workers couldn't come so the salvation was the master should go this garden belongs to my cousin this year i picked his 3 georgians don't pay attention with the job is done properly or not they think the more they pick the more they are when the harvest begin in late may the turkish government lifted its travel ban allowing locals who live in other cities go back to their villages for the harvest industrial present it is hunger that georgian workers that income but $100000000.00 state in their pockets. we hope to introduce our unemployed brothers from the south to the job opportunities here so money stays in our country we plan to train students from the university on how to

cut professionally for content owners say they enjoy nature while working here with 10 other friends from southern turkey where they don't have many job options across the black sea region some 1200000 farmers factory workers traders and their families make their livelihood from the tea industry and the screen province a phrase that has been the center of the turkish teen dust free since the 1920 s. c.n.n. because solo al-jazeera. do what you know is there with me so rotten a reminder of our top stories across the world half a 1000000 people other than to have died from corona virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all of those infections under sort of the united states which is by far the worst hit country but the window is closing we have to act and people as

individuals have to act responsibly we need to social distance we need to wear for our face coverings if we're in settings where we can't social distance particularly in these hot zones in brazil protesters have been demonstrating against president tribals sonar is handling of the crisis they've sent out a 1000 crosses in the capital brazil's the 2nd worst hit country in the world. the us president says intelligence agencies have told him that reports suggesting that russia offered to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan are not credible donald trump has been referring to a new york times article which cites anonymous sources saying that russian spies paid taliban fighters to kill u.s. soldiers in a tweet the president suggested it was possibly another fabricated russia. mississippi senators voted to replace the state flag at the last nation it to display the confederate battle emblem many see the current design as racist because

it's links to slavery in the south gabriel is under has more than new york many people arguing for years that this flag needed to be changed because it did have this confederate battle emblem on it a battle emblem that is often used by white nationalists. in the united states and it's seen as a symbol that does not fit in in 2020 now and especially in a state of mississippi where it's over 35 percent of the population is black americans. forces loyal to libyan war teams after deploying reinforcements to regions they hold in the center of the country sources have told. have also been sent to the region. i'll have more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera to stay with us. in the europe at a crossroads that deals with a rising china and a u.s. president who runs his allies also how the world's tekken investment money hasn't

reached people and cyber attacks on the back. counting on al-jazeera. hello and welcome again to rewind. since the launch of knowledge back in 2006 were built up a library of award winning films and here on rewind we're very visiting some of the best of the day we're reminded to 2013 when we went on the cover on a wildlife smuggling trail.