pakistan stock exchange comes under attack gunmen stormed the building in karachi several people and not confirmed to. play watching al-jazeera life my world headquarters in doha i'm fully back t. ball also coming out threats of detention and forced sterilization china is accused of forcing birth control on wigglers. using process to send a message protesters in brazil demand their president do more to control the

coronavirus demick and taking down a symbol of racism mississippi vosa retired that last state flag in the u.s. with the confederate emblem. so we begin with breaking news out of pakistan and an attack on the stock exchange in karate gunmen trying to storm the building just over an hour ago a grenade was thrown as the men entered the compound security forces were quickly on the scene and police say the attack is over several people have been killed let's get the latest from come on high doc correspondent in islamabad what more details can you tell us about this attack. what we know so far forward kerik stormed the kharaj stock exchange building there very larger security friend thing around the perimeter. and tried to enter the

compound however there were different from the guards adductor out your stock exchange and during that time the law enforcement agencies also were able to deploy to the area gunfire rich all 4 to. one policeman all shocked. and 4 of the guards who were. killed it is interesting to nor did i have spoken to somebody in the stock exchange. that while the attack was still underway business was. normal continued inside the trading continued and after the stock market in fact showing a bit of a high so engaged. the cannot be disrupted despite the fact that discredit been a very serious attack given the fact that a large number of grenades. dry phones have been recovered from.

india attack today so the situation under control not come on. who could be behind this attack there's been no claim of responsibility yet but who would want to talk at this institution and why. well 1st of all it did appear did the pre-planned attack because we also know that dad brought in dried rations they would have tried to get inside the stock exchange to cause as much mayhem. so far the number of attacks that have taken place in karachi have been traced back to that area get out of bond markets don and also by groups who have been involved in attacking targets not a security force. interest including the chinese embassy in karachi surely to have got it out but it appears that it carries. that back to ken ward

but. surely at the moment the figure of course right now we're trying to trace from whatever evidence they can get from those who were killed including telephone and to try to trace. what's planned thank you very much for that comes with the latest there from pakistan on the attack on the stock exchange in karachi. in other world news china is allegedly carrying out a campaign to forcibly know a birth rates among the way gore minority as a finding of an investigation by the associated press news agency the report says hundreds of thousands of women in the region of john f. forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortion and the situation is said to be more widespread than originally thought according to the inquiry those who don't cooperate are detained in the past 3 years birth rates in many ways have dropped by more than 60 percent but i hope. they want to eliminate us but they

can't kill all of us it's not possible because the world is watching so they're doing it step by step with policies like sterilization imprisonment or separating men and women and making them work has forced labor is. half a 1000000 people around the world have now died from coronavirus. attitudes and restrictions relaxing that number continues to grow more than 4700 people are dying every day while the curve is flattening many countries they yet to control the spread of the virus the united states brazil and parts of asia have struggled in recent weeks with india saying 5 straight days of wreckage cases this country free all safe of this virus means some countries of some small pacific islands for instance have been over to bring down the numbers right down but it will if the bars anyway it's everywhere that's really been demonstrated this week when some

people can't well people especially in the northern hemisphere where they're enjoying a summer they sky new football that this threat is there and unfortunately it's really come back to bite us a quarter of all infections and deaths are in the united states which is by far the worst hit country now several states are starting to walk back the relaxing of restrictions to try and stop a 2nd wave of infections the u.s. house secretary's warning time is running out to contain the virus radical hain has the latest the coronavirus is marching through america in houston texas hospitals are quickly running out of intensive care about 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 hope of the economy now critics say the public health system and

a growing number of people are paying the price well the trump administration 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 an 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 the 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 of supporters yellowy white power. he appears to have deleted it before leaving the white house once again his weekend spent goal thing 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 political haim al jazeera maryland . brazil is a wall 2nd worst affected country with more than 1300000 cases and over 67000

deaths in response vote have gathered in brazil and around the world to denounce president is handling of the pandemic and is on the run katie has more from her own b.s. capital bogota. as the sun rose 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. groups of protesters in more than 20 countries in brazil's main cities. cheering supporters in the state. without a face mask despite a court ruling require him to wear one but. cases in the country keeps rising

i reduction in the number of daily deaths. was enough for the mayor to reopen stores. this week and 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 corona virus and 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 but has reached 27000 cases and arraigned 600 dead the country has more than 88000 cases and almost 50000 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 but something difficult to implement again in this and other countries in latin america with a large population working informally hand to mouth the needs to be on the streets every day to survive listen to them. protests are being held across india against rising fuel costs despite the government restrictions on gatherings because of coronavirus the opposition is calling out the government for its decision to increase prices soft almost 3 months of locked out and as a random is at a protest in the capital new delhi. word of protest against the rising fuel costs and it is being broken up by police that's because protests aren't allowed as a consequence of my response to actions but they have been called for by india's main policy the congress party all over the country and that's because fuel prices

have gone out nearly every day for the past 3 weeks they're at their highest level in nearly 2 years and this is happening to local oil prices are down and there is that the government is not coughing on the benefit of the low cost of procurement to the people it is increasing the taxes. now india and very has some of the highest taxes on fuel the governor said i mean the revenue 6 people are saying that it is putting them at a time when they are struggling financially india is in an economic crisis because of one of the strictest lockdowns and there have been other protests this is just the latest little protest in the cities of in touch by a transport union here in delhi on the weekend and the congress party says it is going to ask the president to back on the fuel price hikes. still ahead on al-jazeera judgment day for. the former french prime minister faces

possible jail time for alleged corruption. there's still plenty of nice woman sunshine across some areas of europe not quite so nice across the northwest a huge mass of cloud here coming from an area of low pressure and spreading showers across. much of the northwest you can see head down into southern spain thousands of people out enjoying the warm sunny weather how the nose has been very well mainly across into moscow in russia now having set the time which is actually coming back down over the next few days there's been a system go through cloudy skies certainly through monday it should be dry there but you can see weather got more in the way of heavy rain this is across the central eastern hours opponent just what we don't need it just vocals we've had very recent flooding in the rain and pushing right the way down towards northern areas of actually still in the shanty pattern on monday across much of the

northwest across the u.k. and some heavy rain on its way into southern areas of the scandinavians again here the time which is slightly lower than they have been just 17 degrees and choose a meanwhile for london in paris temperatures not fairing to bobbie there is the child. into paris and a bit of the cooler in london and again this is chance of one or 2 pulsing showers and also those temperatures in paris. that the chance of showers and thunderstorms cools down with the scattered showers and warms up again when italy in july at this point me want to book or us the southeast it is warm and sunny. but. it's very difficult as a chef or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the confidence that what you're serving is going to be good seafood by nature is a high risk on the sometimes trip is really production drone strike and about expand are not approved for use in u.s. the f.d.a.

simply isn't casting a knock on be imported market to really find all of these violent aggressive take no one else is in. you're watching al jazeera live from doha a recap of our top stories at least 9 people have been killed in pakistan after gunmen stormed the karachi stock exchange for attackers a policeman and gods are believed to be among the day. china is being accused of forcibly lowering birth rates among the we go minority an investigation by the associated press news agency says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to

undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortion and across the world more than half a 1000000 people have died from corona virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the united states which is by far the worst hit country. now the u.k. is considering imposing a lockdown on the english city of leicester after a surge in corona virus cases meanwhile in london police have broken up a number of illegal mass gatherings officers were called in after thousands of party goal is gathered in the capital streets home secretary pretty patel called it unacceptable. you know as much as people do want to be out right now the weather is amazing stick to the rules follow the guidance we've made it quite clear that you know 6 or more people no one should be got through more than 66 or more people. evan is where venezuelans all fled an economic collapse have begun returning home as neighboring colombia restricts economic activity to prevent covered $1000.00

from spreading their decision has left a lot of migrants without money to buy food or pay rent but heading home is also a challenge for many yes there is a boy explains. his lawn was one of the millions of venezuelans who left the country in recent years she was living in england via right at the border with venezuela but when the colombian government imposed a lockdown she decided to return home because she couldn't find work the trip she says was one of the most difficult in her life yet. they kept us in a station for 4 days with more than 500 people there was lots of security and there was medical attention but it was filled with people i thought we were all going to get sick from there they were taken to a school where they spent 8 days until they were put on a bus towards 30 kilometers away from there in a swollen capital. of the world where for 30 hours we were given no food or

anything and all the time we were being stopped by security forces they wouldn't let us open the windows of the bus and i was trying to grab them when i arrived i had to spend another 2 weeks in quarantine. hiney sees is just one of the thousands of venezuelans who have returned but authorities are not making the trip easy for them even though the government has repatriated people using you many tarion flights there are thousands more trying to get back in by land but border officials are allowing only 300 people a day 3 times a week. 1000 infections have been on the rise in the past weeks who's in a major challenge to venezuela's health care system which some say is on the verge of collapsing president equal amado accuses migrants of being used by colombia's president even lugaid to spread the disease he said comparable oh we've proven the buses were contaminated so that venezuelans would come back sick and this is by the

orders of even in this way there is under siege and we're trying to take care of our border and oh people i don't know. but human rights groups say that's not the case and abuses against returning migrants have put thousands of people at risk going there. and we've seen moderates being called biological weapons carriers of the virus and they are paying a price for leaving the us while they're not given food or sort they're in overcrowded places and shouldn't be treated like. him if he can a lawn says the ordeal to return was worth it she's now back with her 2 year old son the challenge now is to survive in a nation where economic difficulties have become the norm. and. workers at this new land in the u.s. are protesting against violence to reopen the california theme park as called in 1000 cases rise across the country in a drive by demonstration employees expressed concern they won't be given enough

protections on the outbreak cases have been spiking across california disney had hoped to welcome guest spot for fox next month but the restart date has since been delayed unions representing some 700000 workers want the company to provide the 19 testing. we want the park to open but we wanted to open the safe and right now disney has not assured the conditions to do that they are resisting testing they can't tell us details of how they're going to handle cleaning what they're going to do if somebody gets sick and our workers want to come back they love disney they love their jobs but they cannot afford to come back safely and neither can california open theme parks and you've opened california to the world so when we do it we've got to do it state. senators in the us say to mississippi have voted to replace a state flag the last in the nation to display the confederate battle emblem the

bill now goes to a republican governor race to be signed into law many see the current design as racist because of its links to slavery in the south gable end is on the reports of a contentious flag that symbolized america's past connection with slavery soon to be gone. lawmakers in mississippi voted overwhelmingly to remove the state flag 126 years after it was adopted. the last of its kind in the us to carry the symbol of the confederate states that fought and lost the civil war to maintain slavery in america if you want to be on the right side of the free market and i'm proud of her personally tears here today and her credibility to the individual she came out and shot it appears that same. for many the confederate flag symbolizes hate my parents and grandparents experience much terrorism and tyranny under that

flag not as a younger mississippi in a millennia old it represents the darker days of our state when our state government and various others used it as a symbol of supremacy. others argue getting rid of the flag is another attempt to wipe out america's history they don't change if you take my. place. george washington. in 2001 mississippi voters decided by a 2 to one margin to keep the flag is the official state emblem but times have changed. with the death of george floyd in may sparking nationwide civil rights protests highlighting racial inequalities a renewed call to change the flag this time it was successful but a new flag is just a 1st step in achieving racial justice some argue more is needed in

a state where 31 percent of blacks live in poverty compared to 12 percent of whites in the flag of assembly. you know up won't them because now it will leave you to travel that i've faced daily and most african-americans in this state based so that is a. little substantive. we have to see these wells and they were punitive i mean right now we have to get rid of those. yet simple a 9 person commission will oversee a new state flag design voters will approve or reject it on the ballot in november gabriel's. socks is the latest company to pull ads from facebook over concerns that the social media giant has become a platform for hate speech the coffee company follows other multinationals like coca-cola uni lever 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 it would attack potentially harmful. the u.s. president continues to deny being briefed on reports russia offered to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan in a tweet donald trump said intelligence agencies didn't find the information credible and therefore he was not informed about it the new york times which 1st reported the story now says senior u.s. officials were aware of the plot as early as january the newspaper reports that at least one death was connected to the bounties house speaker nancy pelosi is accused of siding with russia's leader karen greenberg is director at the center on national security at fordham university school of law she says even if tom's denials are 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 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. poland's conservative president has won the 1st round of sunday's presidential election but fell short of the 50 percent majority needed to prevent a runoff next month under a duda is allied to the governing law and justice party is reelection is seen as crucial to maintaining its socially conservative agenda which critics say is homophobic due to his main rival is warsaw is man the liberal rafał ski only entered the contest in may after the vote was delayed because of corona fires. in

france president emmanuel mccourt centrist party has flops during the country's local elections and said there was a wave of victories for green candidates in france's major cities the elections also brought good news for the far right national rani which won its 1st major city the 2nd round of the municipal elections saw a record low turnout due to concerns over the coronavirus and demi. former french prime minister could face up to 5 years in jail as a paris court rules on a corruption case against him the investigation into fuel and his wife blew his 27000 french presidential campaign wide open but now there are allegations political pressure was applied in the case attash about every pore some. scandal that changed the course of the $27000.00 french presidential election a french newspaper allege the conservative candidate and former prime minister

fossil fuel had misused taxpayers' money when he was an m.p. to pay his wife penelope as a parliamentary system 3 years for no work the couple were placed under formal investigation field denied the accusations and said he was the victim of a political smear campaign on says 36 year to go like 36 years without any judicial problems today on the target of a ruthless one sided attack 7 days a week 24 hours a day old legal is this public pressure mounted on feel to step down he refused but the damage was done he failed to make it past the 1st round to the election losing out to the far rights marine le pen and centrist emanuel who went on to win his political career over feel was rarely seen in public until february this year when he and his wife went on trial in paris france has a history of corruption and nepotism in politics some say feel is

a symbol of both but others say the fraud inquiry against him was unfair politically motivated and time to end his presidential campaign the sciri to gain strength last week after president macro ordered an investigation into new claims the prosecutors were pressured in 2017 to move unusually fast against feel his main rival in the election race mccraw passed an anti corruption laws. targeted to cleaning up politics you know after his election but this magistrate says if the president is serious about the independence of the judiciary he must reform the system because if you will mom to do the judiciary's independence has always been questioned because it's the executive that appoint state magistrates the law dictates that magistrates around of your party of the justice ministry so as long as we stay with the system people will doubt the impartiality of magistrates if found guilty of misusing public money feel could face up to 5 years in jail his

wife or 3 year suspended prison term for complicity for one of france's best known politicians which comes so close to being president it's been a spectacular fall from grace. al jazeera paris. hello again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera at least 9 people have been killed in pakistan after gunmen stormed the karachi stock exchange for attackers a policeman and guards are believed to be among the dead. china is being accused of forcibly lowering birth rates among the wig or minority and investigation by the associated press news agency says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortions in the past 3 years both race in many way who regions have dropped one more than 60 percent but i hope. they want

to eliminate us but they can't kill all of us it's not possible because the world is watching so they're doing it step by step with policies like sterilization imprisonment or separating men and women and making them work is forced laborers. more than half a 1000000 people around the world have died from coronavirus with more than 10000000 infected a quarter of the cases and deaths are in the united states the worst hit country by far this country free all safe of this virus i mean some countries have some small pacific islands for instance you know to bring down the numbers right down but it where if the bars anyway it's everywhere that's really been demonstrated this week when some people can't well people especially in the northern hemisphere where they're enjoying a summer they sky know forgot that this threat is there and unfortunately it's

really come back to bite us. in brazil protesters have been demonstrating against president handling of the pandemic they have set out a 1000 crosses in the capital rosales the 2nd worst hit country in the world the u.k. is considering imposing an offer down on the english city of lest after a surge in corona virus cases meanwhile in london police have broken up a number of illegal mass gatherings officers were called in after thousands of party go was gathered in the capital streets the u.s. state of mississippi is retiring its flogs senate says voted to replace it the last in the nation with the come fed read em battle emblem many see the current design as racist because of its links to save slavery in the south those are the headlines inside story starts now. on counting the cost of europe at a crossroads it deals with a rising china and a u.s. president who runs his allies also have the world's tech and investment money

hasn't reach people of color and cyber attacks on vaccine makers in the bertrand's . counting because on al-jazeera. the source of life and conflict ethiopia egypt and on the top floor of the selling of africa's biggest hydroelectric dam on the blue nile to look for the way to bridge their differences this is interesting. hello and welcome to the program on the wrong call for thousands of years the nile has been the backbone of civilizations and a source of cold.