closed extrapolate data crush the country and the spread of corona virus appears fall one into the many want to. the end the over the air. gunmen launch an attack on pakistan stock exchange several people confirmed killed in karachi. play watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also ahead threats of detention and for sterilization china is accused of forcing birth control on way course. using process to send a message protesters in brazil demand their president to do more to control the coronavirus pandemic and taking down

a symbol of racism mississippi votes to retire the last state flag in the u.s. with the confederate emblem. to. thank you for joining us we begin in pakistan where an attack on the stock exchange in karachi has ended with at least 9 people killed gunmen try to storm the building mid-morning in pakistan a grenade was thrown as the men entered the compound and opened fire on god's security forces were quickly on the scene as fix our correspondent come out idaho's following the story he's in islamabad the capital off pakistan come on what more have you been able to learn about this attack. well 1st of all as you mentioned devil forward. exchange which is a financial hub of the country. which bank many multinational companies.

tried to enter into the compound they were heavily dad to drive and had several dozens of grenades need to hand grenades which have been recovered from the scene now however they face a different distance from the guards who are guarding the stock exchange the security forces obviously have been. because of the make. on the security situation however. the action of those guards to stop there. and take the 5 other people. including a police. guard also important to nor did they were that reaction from the security forces nearby also the fact that that stock exchange continued to function as normal during and after the attack. what who would sorry at this been no

claim of responsibility so far who would want to talk financial institution and why . 1st of all this is a sensitive institution. of course draw a lot of attention number one number 2 there seems to be. a blander tag from the number of ammunition and grenades that we have seen that have been shown on local t.v. as well. dried russian dates that these people were planning to infiltrate inside the building after lobbing those grenades and then. inside however doubts their suspicions of course really be. insurgent groups all it could be that you could talk about in pakistan. however if you look at their tactics and the way the attack

works got it out. here when the security forces were able to foil dodge attack israel thank you for that with the latest from islamabad. in other world news china is allegedly carrying out a campaign to forcibly know a birth rates among the weak or minority as the finding of an investigation by the associated press news agency the report says hundreds of thousands of women in the in the region of seeing john forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortion and the situation is said to be more widespread than originally thought in the past 3 years birth rates in many ways the regions have dropped by more than 60 percent but. 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 as forced laborers live to continue in beijing katrina quite a shocking report tell us more for us about what's in it and also about some of the punishments or consequences for we go women who'd had multiple children. that's right quite a harrowing report based on a number of interviews and also export expert findings and government documents in the area according to some anecdotes that they were mentioning some women were ordered to pay fines of about $3000.00 for having more than one child and these fines were given to very poor families and it was know that it would be basically impossible for them to pay this money and then those women were subsequently thrown into detention camps there were also stories of some men being forced into prison and given prison sentences for about about one year one for one year for each extra child that they had and other stories of forced sterilization women having to

undergo regular pregnancy tests and also abortions now the more staggering statistic i guess that this story mentioned was that in some regions of the birth rates as you mentioned fell by 60 percent and overall in the region the autonomy as a region of sion john birth rates between 20152018 fell by 24 percent that's huge compared to the national average of only 4.2 percent now. the muslim week of population like the rest of the minority population in china they were before they had been given exemptions from china's family planning policies the one child or the 2 child policy but that changed in 2014 now before 2014 families in the shin junge were a lot to have up to 3 children and this suddenly changed and then the government says that this is because they equalizing these family policies but certainly the rest of the majority han population in china has not been subject to this this kind

of treatment certainly what experts in this article called demographic genocide worse the government's response to this report and what reasons has it given for curbing births and should john. well china's foreign ministry spoke this afternoon just a few moments ago and basically they called this entire report fake news they said the a.p. the associated press had basically not used any facts that was purely anecdotal and this is really not a surprising response from the government they've really for many years now been denying any discriminatory actions towards the weak and muslim population in 27000 that was a government strike hard campaign in shin john province the government says that was in response to a number of knife attacks and bomb attacks and the government has always held that their policies and john have always been about terrorism stopping terrorism

stopping extremism that these are simply policies of national security but nanny human rights organizations many other states around the world have held that these are really human rights abuses targeting the weak and muslim population on basis of race and religion and they have been many examples of cracked cracking down on religious practices prayer even forcing children to have their names changed from muslim names to hand sounding sounding names changes to the way they dress and of course also very strict surveillance policies cracking down on this community so for many supporters of the we the muslim community many activists they say they're not at all surprised by some of the harrowing findings noted in this associated press report thank you for that katrina you live there from beijing half a 1000000 people around the world have now died from corona virus despite attitudes and restrictions relaxing that number continues to grow more than 4700 people are

dying every day the curve is flattening but many countries are yet to control the spread of the virus the us brazil and parts of asia have struggled in recent weeks with india seeing sidestreet days of record cases. this is a country that's free or safe with this virus i mean 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 and 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 forgot 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 u.s. which is a worst hit country now several states are walking back the relaxing of restrictions to try and stop a 2nd wave the u.s.

house secretary is warning time is running out to contain the virus. it's 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 mind is standing that the centers for disease control has recommended the use of mass but not demand with choir 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 to supporters you

only white power. 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 political haim al jazeera maryland protests are being held across india against rising fuel costs have ignored the government's restrictions on gathering because on a virus the opposition is calling out the government for increasing prices after almost 3 months of the. down it is a throw on him is out of protests 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 concert coronavirus restrictions 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 on the local oil prices are down and there is that the government is not laughing on the benefits of the low cost of procurement to the people that is increasing the taxes on fuel now india oh very has some of the highest taxes on fuel the government says i mean the revenue people are saying that it is putting them at a time when they're 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 of a protest in the cities of in part by a transport union here in delhi on the weekend and the congress party says it's going to ask the president to back on the fuel price hikes. search and rescue efforts are underway in bangladesh after a ferry capsized in

a river in the capital dhaka rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 30 people so far dozens are still missing the ferry was reportedly carrying more than 100 passengers when it collided with another vessel boat accidents a common in bangladesh because of for safety standards in the country's many ships yes. still ahead on al-jazeera caught in the middle why venezuelan migrants westgate the economic crisis are now finding it hard to return. and the presidential election in poland heads into round 2 out to the incumbent president fails. helos no longer hot in southern sweden and maybe it's can see why this june storm

is just expanding i call it storms windy and wet to be honest not particularly stormy but it does mean that temperatures are dropping quite considerably for example in stockholm and the winds up of the british isles and northern france where this thing has goes out a ridge is producing yet again some pretty nasty rain sometimes sundry sometimes freezing flooding and once again poland is a focus for monday less so on tuesday it may be going out to the baltic states and eventually into finland but these quieter weather behind it not caught would it still looks fairly summery but the hot weather has gone from scandinavia still quite open eastern europe is particularly hot down in spain and ireland for example in seville we're up nearly 40 degrees a heat warning out for temps around the 40 mark there just 34 window at the nowhere near a record which was 47 those africa's quiet breezy along the north coast but nothing more about the temperatures high twenty's maybe low thirty's they went weather

around west africa has been significant some pretty big showers once again around the ivory coast and i would jan has got rain in light winds for 3 days. but. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. i could afford 400 people it was you know here to be one. city and if that africa keep that up because if that everybody wants al-jazeera selects. the in the in the on.

the watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories at least 9 people have been killed in pakistan after gunmen stormed the karate stock exchange for attackers a policeman and gaunts are believed to be among the dead china is being accused of forcing the wiggler minority to lower their birth rates an investigation by the associated press news agency says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortions and more than half a 1000000 people around the world have died from corona virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of the cases and deaths are in the united states which is by far the worst hit country. first sale is that well 2nd worst affected country with more than 1000000 cold 1000 cases in response photo essays have gathered there and

around the world to denounce president handling of the pandemic and is on the run kitty has more from colombia's capital bogota as the sun rose over the capital brasilia officials in crosses were planted in front of the brazilian congress to honor the more than $57000.00 people that have so far died of cold 19 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 but number of cases in the country keeps rising a reduction in the number of daily deaths in religion was enough for the mayor to

reopen stores in beauty salons of 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. and continues to wreck havoc in much of latin america. even managed to control the spread of the virus is experiencing a resurgence 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 then needs to be on the streets every day to survive. venezuela and so fled an economic collapse began returning home as neighboring colombia restricts economic activity to prevent the spread of call the 19 the decision has left a lot of migrants without money to buy food or pay rent but heading home is also a challenge for many 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. 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. 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 who are 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 to spread the disease complete a low we've proven the buses were contaminated so that venezuelans would come back and this is by the orders of iran venezuela was under siege and we're trying to take care of our border and 0 people. but human rights groups say that's not the case and abuses against returning migrants have put thousands of people at risk. we've seen margaret's 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 loan 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. 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 the legal mass gatherings officers were called in after thousands of party goers gathered in the capital streets home secretary pretty battell called it unacceptable. senators in the u.s. state of mississippi have voted to replace the state flag that last in the nation to display the confederate battle emblem the bill now goes to republican governor tate recently signed into law many see the current design as racist because of its name slavery in the south gable elizondo reports. 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 but 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 they can better at flag symbolizes hate my parents and grandparents experience much terrorism and tyranny under that flag 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 go 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 policies that are punitive and i mean right now we have to get rid of those policies so that we can have a deal 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. saba x. 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 will tack potentially harmful posts. voters in local elections in france have punished president emanuel rock hall centrist party green candidates in major cities enjoyed

a series of victories and the far right national rally won its 1st major city in the south voter turnout was a record low due to corner and demi concerns in poland the president has failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff next month in the presidential election preliminary results of sunday's and demi delayed election show andre dude atop the 1st round but fell short of the overall majority needed his main rival is a pro e.u. neighbor maryland so in a ago has more. it had been a tight race a battle of ideals pitted between populism and progress but a frustrated when for the manhood occupied the role for the past by years andre do with a tide his fate to the right wing law and justice party and placed his bet on a deeply conservative often homophobic agenda still he attempted

a positive spin on the outcome. can't come good out against them by still great results is better by far than the one from 5 years ago with one of the candidates thank you very much for your support but 1st foremost i would like to thank my compatriots for the turnout for this massive participation in the election but this was a campaign fought in extraordinary times deferred by the pandemic the vote was supposed to have taken place in may which would have put duty of comfortably ahead of his rivals instead the delay allowed his strongest rival. ski to throw his hat in the ring a pro e.u. centrist and the may also use liberal views have at times put him at odds with the country's influential roman catholic clerics. to consolidate his base invoked a nationalist program condemning the country's l g b t rights movement as a foreign ideology more destructive than communism and under his watch made close

to choose tional reforms that put the independence of the country's judiciary at stake by giving politicians the power to fire judges if they disagreed with their legal decisions a move that strained poland's relations with the european union you saw it as an assault on poland's blocks own legal system but under a do they also had international supporters who chimed in this populist tactics perhaps hoping an endorsement for the u.s. president just ahead of the election would boost his voting base is doing a terrific job the people of poland think the world of him and by the way this is doing a terrific woman terrific woman who we've gotten to know also through our various travels and meetings do this failure to secure an outright win now means that both he. will face each other again next month but what won't be clear is it will bring to an end poland's bitterly divided politics so did i ever al-jazeera

boeing test pilots are expected to begin recertification flies for the 737 max 2 crashes which killed 346 people in ethiopia and indonesia have grounded the airliners for 15 months software implicated in both disasters has since been modified boeing's desperate to get the jets back in the air to restore profitability and credibility demand for new aircraft further collapse during the coronavirus demi. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera at least 9 people have been killed in pakistan after gunmen stormed a karate stock exchange for attackers a policeman and guides are believed to be among the dead has more from his time a lot. of afforded to. the karachi stock exchange richard also

the financial hub of the country declared an area which are the banks many multinational companies the attackers are tried to enter into the compound there were heavily armed guard drivers and several dozens of grenades did a hand grenade which had been recovered from the scene now already a fairly different distance from the guards who are guarding the stock exchange security forces obviously have been ordered out because of the covert bear and make keeping an eye on the security situation however it was that timely action of the old guard who dropped the. china is being forcibly lowering birth rates among my noisey an investigation by the associated press news agency says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy check sterilization and abortions in the past 3 years but it's rates in many ways will

regions have dropped by more than 60 percent more than half a 1000000 people around the world have died from corona virus with more than 10000000 infected a quarter of the cases and death in the united states the worst hit country by far in brazil protesters have been demonstrating against president abbas in ours handling of the pandemic have set out 1000 crosses in the capital as the 2nd worst hit country in the world. the u.s. state of mississippi is retiring its flag senators voted to replace it and last in the nation with the confederate battle emblem many see the current design as racist because of its lengths to slavery in the south through you know if they would have lines on al-jazeera i have more news for you after a.j. celeste stay with us as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation and campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take

a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on and just. the. you know the voting more in. the female brain well with a heartbeat.