but after what's been learned from pandemics and their influences on our skylines and way of life we also need to keep pace and adapt it's easy to assume that cities are fertile ground for spreading viruses and diseases millions living working at commuting in such tight dishes but one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how all this was put together and how it's run. the pond is actually speeding up ahead of the world health organization warns still worst is yet to come in the corona virus pandemic. hello i'm barbara sorry you're watching out for a life from london also coming up president trump meets top congressional republicans over claims that russia paid the taliban fighters to kill in u.s.

troops plus a. report from egypt and sudan urged the u.n. to intervene in the increasingly bitter dispute over ethiopia has granted in a sense down and 9 people on the left dead after gunmen stormed pakistan's largest stock exchange. the world health organization has warned a coronavirus pandemic is far from the control and the worst is yet to come it's sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which of course are still a know we all want this to be over we all want to get on with our lives. but the hard reality is this is not even close to being over

although many countries have made some progress globally. the pun actually speeding up. america's top infectious disease expert says the recent surge in u.s. krone virus cases is largely down to people ignoring health guidelines on wearing masks and socially distancing many southern and western states which push to reopen their economies are now seeing a spike in infections dr anthony fauci has called the community spread a recipe for disaster california texas and florida have already imposed the some restrictions including ordering bar stock close jacksonville the florida city hosting the republican national convention in august has now mandated the use of face masks chris is a louis joins us live now from new york so we heard of some measures that the

states in the south and west are are thinking of implementing it what else are they thinking about when it comes to their opening strategies. well they're thinking that for the last several days the united states has seen a big surge in new infections about $40000.00 of them per day and many local leaders governors mayors and so on are expressing concern about their hospital systems reaching capacity and the possibility of having to ration health care i talked about florida you talked about california and california the governor has ordered 8 counties to close their bars after allowing bars to reopen after they did that in the next weekend they saw a 40 percent increase in infections among young people between 18 and 40 years old the governor said many places were not at the hearing to the requirements to wear

masks and social distance and so he took the step of closing down these bars and he's threatening to do so in other counties as well that are on the borderline of seeing a lot of these infections in their hospitals become also close to capacity in florida not only did the city where the republican convention is going to be held announce a requirement for mass in places where you can't social distance we've heard that in broward county which is home to the famous fort lauderdale beach they're going to close the beach for the independent stage a live 4th holiday that was not something i can assure you that the leaders there did lightly that's a major source of revenue a major source of in the detainment for people but again the mayor of the town said that. the infection rate was just getting too dangerously high and they were really worried about the hospitals being overwhelmed and then you have texas another state where you've seen resistance to mandatory mass where there was

a full speed ahead to reopen and the governor there also dialing back closing some bars and some bar owners threatening to sue him for shutting them down but again this worry about these rising numbers and chris and how would you say their approach compares with the won in new york or you walk. well it's it's night and day new york have some of the strictest lockdown restrictions. we were under a lockdown orders longer than much of the country but now things are gradually reopening and here the infection rates remain low after peaking. and going up for $42.00 days we're now seeing. and new infection rates that are 7 what they were in early march at the beginning of this the trend continues to go in the right direction and mass requirements are in place here as the state proceeds forward cautiously have you heard the governor of new york

andrew cuomo saying that texas a plot of the governor of texas saying that this is the step that he should be taking in he called on president trump to issue mandatory mass wearing in public throughout the country he claims that's the difference between what new york has done and what these other areas and doing in that mask is making the difference in controlling the spread. so that debate continues at a national level chris and salumi with the latest there from new york kristen thank you. the european union meanwhile has agreed on a draft list of countries that will open its borders to from july the 1st travelers from 15 countries will be allowed in they include australia japan and canada bucked people coming from the u.s. turkey brazil and russia will remain barred as their virus infection rates are still too high people from the u.k. will be allowed in despite the country having more cases than any you nation as it

is still in the brics it transition period a finalist is expected to be announced on tuesday. health workers in india have reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states are reimposing or extending their lockdowns after nearly 20000 cases were confirmed more than half a 1000000 people have been infected almost 100000 of them in the past week alone. but the kremlin and the white house are denying newspaper reports that russia offered the taliban the taliban a bounty for american soldiers killed in afghanistan at a white house news briefing the press secretary insistent president trump was never briefed on the alleged program alan fischer reports. from the white house podium a denial the president was ever briefed on the so-called bowing to kills the now

say this that the u.s. receives thousands of reports a day on intelligence and they are subject to strict scrutiny while the white house does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations the cia director n.s.a. national security adviser in the chief of staff can all confirm and i know the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged russian russian bounty intelligence. afghanistan is america's longest war american troops have been there for 19 years and despite talks of a peace deal there's no indication to leave anytime soon american help contribute weapons to push russia out of the country in the 1980 s. and killed russian mercenaries in syria 2 years ago according to the new york times it's people like type newspaper says the russians offered cash for kills coalition soldiers and general american soldiers in particular but from the kremlin another denial. to. 1st of all those statements are laws secondly

if in the united states special services are still answerable to the u.s. president then i suggest focusing on president trump statement he really gave an appraisal of those reports he did in a tweet intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible and therefore did not report to me or v.p. possibly another fabricated russia hoax that says the white house explains why there has been no response from the american side the story didn't stand up on capitol hill lawmakers have demanded an intelligence be focused on who knew what and when and if the president was in fact briefed on intelligence sources tell media outlets not only is the information solid it was given to the highest level of the white house but there's still a lot of unanswered questions and while there remain unanswered there lies a potential risk to a president who's had a difficult relationship with russia from even before he took office alan fischer

al jazeera. the u.s. supreme court has struck down a louisiana law that places restrictions on doctors who perform abortions the surprise decision to the friend the procedure on abortion rights comes after fair supposition from conservative justices the vote was 5 to 4 with chief justice john roberts voting with the court's 4 member liberal wing it's the 1st big abortion case since trump appointed 2 new justices shifting the court to the right. egypt has told the united nations it faces an existential threat from ethiopia's construction of a hydroelectric dam on the blue nile river ethiopia began construction of the ground in a sense than 9 years ago and is expected to start filling it next month egypt which is almost entirely dependent on the nile for its fresh water supplies is the plea concerned that wants the u.n. to intervene earlier the security council discussed the project at

a virtual meeting convened by the united states of the brotherhood and healy of the vengeful proportions of the murdered but google groups on both single source of livelihood over $100000000.00 egyptians ground with you would be rid of those that . it got off the project but if you're look at the growth of the blue nile good in britain you have to think europe and very survivable nation by imperiling it's was rings of. it here for this foreign minister hit back saying the security council should not be used as a forum for asserting diplomatic pressure in its entire history it has never caused threats to any kind it doesn't still contribute to the cause of peace through it is active participation in disc in peace building to the early days of the united nations. this see little me be clear about you tim

doesn't believe the issues being discussed would be illegitimately as in the security council it is bound to set a bad precedent and opened a pandora's box this council should not be a forum for exerting diplomatic pressure still to come this half hour forced abortions and state sanctioned sterilizations an investigation uncovers how china enforces its birth control policies on with our women and a former french prime minister and his wife for a given jail sentence says over a fake job scandal. my.

and there quite a bit of cloud across the southeast of australia and quite a bit of cloud as well across into new zealand that is where the showers are well to many showers across the southeast new south wales in sydney a bright start to the day this is the business district as the sun was rising but there is quite a bit of cloud as we go through the day on tuesday and as more rain on its way towards tasmania some fairly brisk winds i want to see showers as well into southern areas over strayer and also victoria but this system here this fall some very heavy rains and strong winds of meticulous in the path in fact for a while there are several 1000 people without any power and this will still has a strong winds within it so working those winds across into south australia against the shah's regime to the coast but it should be a better day wednesday into perth to 17 degrees so it's cool but at least it's dry and sunny but to say the rain is on its way towards the southeast on a sunny cool across both islands of new zealand with only 2 sheilds just 7 degrees in christ church as about 5 degrees below the average for this time of year then up into asia really is still about the rains of course into all central areas but just

look at this is massive landslides in this issue in provinces one particular least 12 people have died 10 people are missing you can see the mud that is left behind the rescues they're working very hard this more rain is a go through tuesday across the central areas and eventually that will push it towards japan. is a popular film and location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes you want. is reclaiming its image by putting its younger incidents behind the camera. the stories be don't often hear . by the people who the. media is what this is you go on al-jazeera. the in. the the and the.

back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the head of the world health organization has warned of the corona virus pandemic is far from the control with the worst yet to come it's sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which are still not know pressure is mounting on the us president over allegations that russia paid to the taliban to target u.s. soldiers in afghanistan donald trump says the intelligence briefings never reached him because the agencies didn't think that they were credible and the u.s. supreme court has unexpectedly struck down on the museum a law that places for strictures on doctors who perform abortions despite fierce

opposition from conservative justices chief justice john roberts voted with the court's 4 member liberal wing. china is being accused of forcing sterilization abortions and birth control on hundreds of thousands of we go women the slash birthrates an investigation by the associated press as found evidence of a 4 year campaign in north western provinces experts say it's a form of demographic genocide china's government denies the allegations alexey o'brien reports. never forget the day chinese authorities told her her 3rd child was illegal she says she was threatened told to pay a fine of more than $2.00 and a half $1000.00 should be locked up in an internment camp. the superfly they give shots in. remove fetuses forcefully if they say it's illegal to make you get an abortion those who didn't obey were sent to the camps now people there are

terrified of giving birth. the associated press investigation is based on government statistics documents and interviews with women like gold now who say they knew people jailed for having too many children many received a prison sentence of years even decades government efforts to reduce birth rates and shinji young are both systematic and ruthless we're talking the mass forced insertion of intra year to run contraceptive devices we're talking threats of internment for those who violate birth control policies zain says the brutal crackdown is part of government efforts to control the way to get people many of whom a muslim to purge them of their faith and identity. the investigation found the government and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on birth control and shin jang province in northwest china birthrates their decreased by about 24 percent last year

compared with 4 percent nationwide but i hope. that i'm as 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 labor as china says the camps are for reeducation part of what it calls a struggle against terrorism but rights groups accuse beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people to brainwash and punish them those not detained us spied on. says her neighborhood felt like an open air prison she tells how she was forcibly sterilized along with about 200 other we go women. but the love we lost a part of our body we lost our identity as women we will never be able to have children. again some women say he's been left with loaned her injuries a bizarre reminder of everything they've lost brian al jazeera. to fairies

have collided in a bangladeshi river in the capital dhaka killing at least 32 people one ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized when it was struck by a larger boat which then left the area 3 children were among the dead convert chowdhry reports now from the scene of the accident. anger and despair on the banks of the border going there either as relatives wait for news rescuer search the marquis waters hoping for survivors but finding many bodies instead. i want to know how he's my younger brother every day he comes to the doctor with this very big today this is happened i want to see his body to faeries collided during the morning rush hour a few meters from bangladesh's largest riverboat outside the capital dhaka. which you think i know the ship capsized off it was hit an amount 30 people who were on

top of the ship swim and by the help of the surrounding tula's and other posts managed to get into the bank at the time however people inside the ship don't get out and drowned the bridge ganga river bustles with vessels carrying people and goods up and down the hundreds of waterways which crisscross the country this is the law just passing the friday terminal in bangladesh known as saw their god the accident 'd happened on the south bank of the passenger terminal now the coast guard personnel told i'll just say that the rescue operation will continue until i left the boat salvage. accidents are frequent often blamed on bad weather poor maintenance or overcrowding if. this accident is very heartbreaking we'll investigate the people responsible for this and arrange for their exemplary punishment so this kind of thing never happens again. but critics say while investigation are often problem is corruption or the lack of manpower means inquiries are rarely completed. so these morning relatives may not get the answer

they are looking for. other gattaca. at least 9 people were killed when gunmen armed with grenades stormed pakistan's a stock exchange in the city of karachi the 4 attackers who were among the dead raid at the building in an attempt to take hostages separatists from the southwestern province of have claimed responsibility sahaya it reports. police helicopter hovers above the gun battle between security forces in gunmen attacking pakistan's stock exchange in karachi it's surrounded by sick war and it's heavily guarded. but the attackers detonated a grenade as they entered the grounds despite that they were unable to get into the main building security forces quickly reached the scene and for the attackers killing all 4 of them since the stock exchange director.

despite the gun battle outside brokers huddled together inside and trading continued. rule of the terrorists were killed at the main gate. the other the 3rd was killed at the center gate and the. gate of destruction believe the law enforcement agencies the police and the rangers played a very very vital role in combating this attack and. destruction the financial hub of the. overseer. with dozens of hand grenades ammunition found at the scene the heavily armed security forces believe they stopped the attackers from inflicting more damage in pakistan's largest stock exchange it seems government forensics experts who started collecting evidence at the scene and have searched a car used by the gunman sort of al-jazeera. at least 23 people have been

killed in an attack on a crowded market in southern afghanistan hundreds of people were at the. cattle market in helmand province when multiple explosions tore through the site the taliban and the afghan military are blaming each other for the attack the military says the taliban used a car bomb and mortar shells to target civilians while the taliban says the army fired rockets into the market dozens of people were wounded in the attack. more than a 1000000 people have fled their homes at least 2 people have died in heavy flooding triggered by monsoon rains in northeast india the authorities say the crisis is worsening by the hour the floods began during the weekend when one of the world's largest rivers the brahmaputra river burst its banks in some state or than 2000 villages have been submerged by water with more rain forecast over the next 3 days . francoise fior was the firm favorite to win the french presidency 3 years ago but

then a fake job scandal involving his wife blow the election wide open paving the way for emmanuel victory now the former prime minister has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 5 years in prison that reports from paris. former french prime minister francois feel arrived in court in paris with his wife penelope for the verdict in their trial judges found feel guilty of fraud and misusing public money when he was an m.p. paying his wife for a job she never did he was sentenced to 5 years in prison with 3 years suspended his wife received a 3 year suspended term the couple left the courtroom without comment their lawyer called the verdict a disgrace but naturally this decision which is unfair will be appealed during the process of doing so and they will be another trial the corruption scandal surfaced during france's 2017 presidential race fior the conservative candidate who is

widely expected to win with a french newspaper allege that it paid his wife more than a $1000000.00 in taxpayers money as his palm tree assistant the couple were placed under formal investigation feels presidential campaign was destroyed along with his political career the trial of francois feel was very closely watched by many people in france not only because he's such a well known public figure but also because there is a sense in fronts that politicians often abuse their privileges and also rarely held accountable many people express a kind of relief from. their happiness but at least find that justice was done i think that's what each of the french people not only because like harry took a lot of money but because it took this way for its family and that's something which is very very shocking for for many people because. many for people see that's . i mean you have one more problems like we could be in with everyday life during his trial feel say he was the victim of

a political smear campaign the theory that was this month when president bankrolled an inquiry into fields fraud investigation of the claims magistrates have been placed under pressure to fast track us but that's had no impact on the calls decision to punish feel a politician who for decades had projected an image of propriety. al-jazeera paris emmanuelle mccrone has promised to spend more than $16000000000.00 on measures to help tackle the climate crisis the french president made the announcement a day after the green party made major gains in local elections something his party failed to do he says he also plans to hold a referendum on whether to introduce the crime of eco side for harming the environment. the south pole considered to be the coldest point on earth is getting hotter at 3 times the global warming rate researchers compared temperatures over the past 3 decades there watching the continent concerned that ice loss would lead

to higher sea levels worldwide some of that heating is big it is believed to be due to cyclons propelling tropical western pacific water south towards the antarctic peninsula the rest is being credited to human induced climate change. returning to the coronavirus pandemic and thousands of foreign fruit pickers are in limbo in chile because their savings are gone and the virus outbreak means borders are closed many are from bolivia which doesn't have full diplomatic ties with its neighbor because of a long running territorial dispute in the 3rd part of our series on people stranded by the pandemic are latin america editor lucien human reports from santiago. some have traveled thousands of kilometers from southern chile to get to this school in santiago to date a refuge for stranded bolivians here they're given a mattress and blankets and assigned

a classroom where they join the others. mostly seasonal workers who come to chile each year to pick fruit from october to march when summer ends but now it's winter it's raining and cold and like the rest of the government's family hasn't been able to leave home and in bolivia close the borders and declared a quarantine they didn't let buses or anyone cross not even a hospital ivins but 3 months they camped outside their poncelet asking for help but just like thousands of the new cuban colombian and peruvian migrants stranded in chile they've had to depend on charity now that their savings are gone. we have mattresses food and a roof over our heads but no thanks to the bolivian government it's abandon us that's what hurts the most modern i mean who are working in southern chile but they declare lockdowns there too so we had to come here we don't know when we can go home. 3 women have given birth while waiting to return to bolivia.

4 others are pregnant the 300 people here have been told the following dinner no one else will be able to enter after that the plan is to put this whole school under quarantine so that everybody who's in here coming guaranteed to be called would free after 14 days then they will be taken by bus to the border with bolivia but at this point there is absolutely no guarantee that authorities there will open the borders to allow these people to go back home. in the last month they've in fact allowed 2000 bolivians who undergone certified quarantines to reenter but with the number of coronavirus cases in chile now one of the world's highest many country. these are understandably less eager to speed up repatriations all this while the number of people stranded here grows but it does serious and lawyer there is a permanent flow of new people money we're only just beginning to see the economic

effects of this pandemic on white was in temporary workers with little. for many to wait isn't the worst part it's the feeling of being trapped and the fear of not knowing if the virus might take their lives or dose of family members back in bolivia before they can make it home you see in human al-jazeera santiago. and in the next part of this series we speak with cuban health workers stranded in mexico helping to care for other travelers that steer stay on al-jazeera. and other top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic is far from under control and the worst is yet to come it's sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease we all want

this to be over we all want to get on with our lives but the heart of reality is this is not even close to being over although many countries have made some progress globally the pond is actually speeding up the pressure is mounting on u.s. president donald trump over allegations that russia paid the taliban to target u.s. soldiers in afghanistan the white house has invited 8 members of congress for a briefing on the intelligence reports from says the intelligence briefings never reached him because the agencies didn't think that they were credible. the u.s. supreme court has struck down a louisiana law that places restrictions on doctors who perform abortions the

surprise the session to the fend the procedure and abortion rights comes after fierce opposition from conservative justices the vote was 5 to 4 with chief justice john roberts voting with the court's 4 member liberal wing egypt has told the united nations it faces an existential threat from ethiopia's construction of a hydroelectric dam on the blue nile river he began construction of the grand renascence dam 9 years ago and is expected to start filming it next month sudan and egypt oppose the project china is being accused of forcing sterilization abortions and birth control alone hundreds of thousands of girl women the slush for straights an investigation by the associated press has found evidence of a 4 year campaign china's government denies the allegations of the top stories stay with us this is europe is coming up next thanks for watching us you are but by.

a global pandemic mass protests demanding economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of. clemens in congress. on the bottom line. on u.s. politics. on. to kick new. outlook.