no. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera. the world health organization warns the worst is yet to come as corona virus cases continue to surge globally. i'm about this in and this is a disease a live from doha also coming up the white house says it will brief democrat politicians on reports that the russian military paid taliban fighters to target american soldiers in afghanistan. the un security council holds our virtual session on the ethiopian river nile dam project that's caused a bitter dispute with egypt and sudan. and anger in bangladesh at least

a $32.00 people are killed after 2 crowded ferries crashed on a river in the capital. the worst is yet to come and that's the warning from the world health organization on the coronavirus pandemic that shows says it's far from being under control as the number of cases continue to surge globally it's sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which is still unknown we all won 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 is actually speeding up. brazil has officially entered into a recession the economy has shrunk by one and a half percent during the 1st 3 months of the year economists predict a slump of up to 10 percent over the next 3 months of the country reels from coronavirus brazil has the 2nd highest number of infections in the world at more than 1300000 residents just both scenario has strongly rejected in forcing a nationwide lock down saying it would do too much damage to the economy let's go to dana he's live for us now in buenos aires with the latest across latin america let's talk about brazil 1st of all this was exactly what president bush also nado was trying to avoid when he rejected the idea of a nation wide lockdown jose likely to react to this news.

rover he still puts the economy the top of his priority list i mean you mentioned the recession but there's also other stark figures of the of emerged in the last day or so over a 1000000 the brazilians in the formal economy have lost their jobs since the start of the year and may saw an increase in the budget deficit of 11 percent that's likely to be even worse for june so the economic statistics are looking really bad the very thing the president. said he wanted to try to save in the face of the pandemic crisis that doesn't seem to be working there are more and more brazilians taking to the streets that have been taking to the streets in the last few days across the country protesting on political grounds on the way he's handling the 19 crisis and talking about the economy he still has his hard core support of an estimated 30 percent or so but more and more people it seems disagreeing with the way he's handling both the coverage 900 rises and the brazilian economy. thanks

very much indeed giving is that update from. america's top infectious diseases expert says a recent surge in coronavirus cases is largely because people are ignoring health guidelines to wear masks and keep away from each other to antony funnell chaves called the community spread recipe for disaster many southern and western states which push to reopen their economies and now seeing a spike in infections or kristen saloon this is joining us from new york and christine what is pushing states in the south and the west into rethinking their opening strategies. well we've seen our surge here in the united states in recent days with new infections topping 40000 a day in the areas that you mentioned the south in the west particularly states that move to reopen very quickly now they're worried that their hospitals are filling up in the if the trend continues they won't have enough room to treat

people and that they may have to re assess they may have to ration their health care if this surge continues to go upward so it just is and we just heard in the last hour that arizona is now moving to close bars and gyms and salons that it had reopened because of rising cases there are california that had allowed bars to reopen told 8 counties including l.a. county where the most cases in the most new infections are they've had their highest daily rate ever in california today they're now moving to close some 8 counties bars there after they reopen bars in california they saw a surge in infections in young people under 401-8240 they're concerned that behavior and lack of social distancing lack of wearing masks as recommended is

leading to this bike so california has also a florida announcing that it's closing its beaches on the independence day july 4th holiday texas also had moved forward with opening bars and restaurants now rolling that back closing bars and so on so we're seeing all of these areas rethinking their strategies in the wake of these rising numbers they're interesting to point out here in new york where i am which was once the epicenter in the united states cases continue to go down new infections and tallit is as well or at lows that we haven't seen here in new york since the beginning of march the governor. credits that to mask wearing requiring people to wear masks in public he claims that's the difference between what they've done here and what these other states have done the reopening has been very cautious and slow here in new york only now starting to reopen with those numbers going in the right direction so given the scenario nationwide the governor of new york is calling on president trying to require mass

wearing nationwide well we all know that president has resisted that call to wear a mask himself and to mandate it for other locations but in the absence of that national directive we're seeing more and more local leaders take it on themselves to imply strict to apply stricter social distancing guidelines and slow down they're reopening because of what's happening that's kristen salumi giving is not done due to the situation in the north america live for us in new york kristen thank you very much. well both the kremlin and the white house are denying newspaper reports that the russian president offered a bunty for american soldiers killed in afghanistan the new york times initially reported u.s. intelligence discovered russian operatives offered taliban linked fighters to kill coalition troops at a news briefing at the white house press secretary kelly mccann any insisted president donald trump was never briefed on the alleged program on a visual 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 from their subject to strict scrutiny while the white house does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations the cia director and n.s.a. national security adviser and the chief of staff can offer confirm and neither 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 america helped contribute weapons to push russia out of the country in the 1980 s. and killed russian mercenaries in syria 2 years ago no according to the new york times it's payback type newspaper says the russians offered cash for kills coalition soldiers and general american soldiers in particular but from the kremlin

another denial. 1st of all those statements are laws secondly if in the united states special services are still answerable to the u.s. president and 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 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 they 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 scott anderson is a senior fellow at the national security law program and columbia law school who's joining us live from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for being with us on i know you also have expertise in the u.s. government and also u.s. foreign policy as well give us some context here under what circumstances would a president of the u.s. not be briefed on information like this. you know it's really difficult to imagine a set of scenarios where the president wouldn't have at least received a heads up about a piece of information if it was deemed credible like this at least in the president's daily briefing the p.t.p. which is a sort of booklet the intelligence briefings that's assembled provided the president on a daily basis or near daily basis as well as other senior government officials now president trump notoriously doesn't like reading the p.d.p. i mean really receives actual in person briefings from staffers periodic lee so

maybe that's how they're parsing harris on this saying that he and other senior officials didn't receive it in person briefing but that the information was in fact in these printed p.d.p. it's not clear but given that the president has been actively engaging on russia issues most recently involved in pushing to have russia's inclusion in the upcoming g. 7 meeting it's hard to imagine something like this that is very clearly a bilateral landmine wouldn't have been flagged by him or him by staffers it was deemed as wrote a credible is it possible for a president to be able to choose essentially not to hear information or to avoid hearing information if the intelligence services are determined that he should hear it. that's a difficult question i mean the president can certainly refuse to take meetings with his intelligence prefers he can refuse to read the president's daily briefing i suppose in theory he could direct that they no longer provide it to him in

practice i think doing something that transparent would be such a departure would raise alarm bells for a lot of people but the report we had as recently as last week from metformin astrally advisor john bolton's book is that the president really does not seriously engage with his intelligence briefings at a very serious level doesn't it readahead doesn't have extended conversations where he's receiving information from his briefers and so you know in many ways this president has made that choice whether consciously or not not to be getting that incoming flow of information from his intelligence advisers other presidents seek out terms relationship is notoriously not good with the intelligence services in the us what do we read into the fight that this story has being made public now and of course we are in the run up to a presidential election. it's a good question you know i mean we don't know where this information came from i believe the new york times sourcing indicate it was by people have been briefed on this matter so that suggests that someone in government in the united states executive branch could also be someone from nato governments some of the most

closely were briefed on this at least according to some reports congress does not appear to have been briefed so it does not seem to have come from the legislative branch like certain other leaks might have obviously there's a timing issue here some of it is the upcoming election that's definite possibility but remember that the trump administration is also pushing for peace discussions with the taliban a negotiation that really held thus far in so far as the taliban has resisted push since february to target americans with attacks but they have pursued extensive attacks against afghan national security forces who've experienced in many ways one of the bloodiest months on record in the last several weeks and so it's possible people are critical of that policy may want to put this out there as an effort to show some of the tensions and challenges surrounding that policy position of the administration as well not to mention the push to build stronger friendlier ties with russia reflected in the g. 7 discussions i mentioned earlier i was going to get your thoughts on things like this scott on this and we appreciate it thank you very much thank you for having me

egypt has told the united nations it faces an existential threat from a hydroelectric dam that ethiopia is building on the blue nile river construction of the grander nissen's down started 9 years ago if the op is expected to start filling it with water next month but at a virtual security council meeting convened by the united states egypt's foreign affairs minister warned of conflict if the un doesn't intervene ethiopia built the ground when they saw as down on the blue nile which is the source of most of the miles waters egypt and sudan downstream depend heavily on it and fear their water supplies could be put at risk if the opiah says the hydro part of the down will produce is essential for its economic growth diplomatic editor james bays has more details. the egyptian position is very clear they are at the mouth of the nile ethiopia is that the source they've already built as massive down there are about to fill it and the egyptians say it will have the greatest consequence to the

egyptian people the threat of existential proportions is the position from the front from the egyptian side the ethiopians say well there's already a mediation by the african union in fact there were talks this weekend why is this come to the security council it doesn't need to come to the security council in fact the ethiopian ambassador said the council is being used as a forum for exerting diplomatic pressure clearly there are 2 different bodies that can examine this the a you for african issues in the un for international peace and security and both have met to decided i suppose some would say you have the choice of 2 different courts to discuss your issue then you choose the one you think might be more favorable to you and worth reminding you this meeting was called by the united states following pressure from egypt i think egypt believes the u.s. may be slightly in their corner on this issue and remember that the u.s.

is a permanent member of the security council with veto power. still ahead on al-jazeera forced birth control and threats of detention china's accused of trying to curb the we go population. under gun attack at pakistan's largest stock exchange a separatist group claims responsibility. and there quite a mix of conditions across united states plenty of scott authentic selves you can see the showing up a on the satellite and also want to see thunderstorms in all things you can see this rainbow appears over the skies in brooklyn now as we go through tuesday it's mostly dry across the southwest the winds are very strong little wind warnings in place of course the fire danger has been elevated across the 4 corners but to the north of there very heavy rains working their way across western canada and also down across the northern plains some heavy rain across much of the north and in

fact quite so few showers and some thunderstorms in the as we go through tuesday on into wednesday across the ohio valley and pushing eventually haunts was a carolinas and the southeast meanwhile behind that it is mostly fine and dry still windy across the southwest with at the time which is not as high as they have been want to share in the pacific northwest 21 is the high in seattle and then down into the caribbean and central america some fairly strong winds bringing in plenty of shastri much of the caribbean to the northern islands that across hispaniola and on into cuba i want to see showers into will send as they have here again across into costa rica and also across into panama mexico also picking up some fairly heavy downpours on she's days that into southern and western areas they'll continue on wednesday a little bit lice in nature and still those particular in cuba have on a c 3. in a new series al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century town why people

risk. influence the course of history felt that he did not get enough credit for it and in a budget he wants to be the biggest or go figure but he was nonetheless the biggest call in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up part time in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on a disease. you're watching out is here a reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization has warned that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come the u.s.

is the worst hit country and the top infectious disease expert there says its recent surge is because people are ignoring guidelines. the white house's says it will now brief democratic politicians on reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan democrats were left out of an intelligence briefing on monday which usually involves both parties. egypt has told the u.n. it faces an existential threat from a hydroelectric dam that ethiopia is building on the blue nile if iraq is expected to start filling it with water next month but at a virtual security council meeting of the u.n. egypt's foreign ministers minister warned of conflict if the u.n. doesn't intervene. the u.s. secretary of state my pump aoe has called on china to immediately and the forced sterilization of muslim we go woman an investigation by the associated press has found evidence of a 4 year campaign to slash birth rates in north western provinces china's

government denies the allegations saying they're not based on facts and brian reports. never forget the day chinese authorities told 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 and in an 10 minute camp. if they give shots and remove fetuses forcefully if they say it's illegal they make you get an abortion those who didn't obey were sent to the camps now people they are terrified of giving birth. the associated press investigation is based on government statistics documents and. and interviews with women like 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. are both systematic and ruthless we're talking the mass forced insertion of intro

year to run contraceptive devices we're talking threats of internment for those who are violent 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 had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on birth control and shin jang province in northwest china birthrights their decreased by about 24 percent last year compared with 4 percent nationwide but. the bottom is 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. at 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 they've been left with long term injuries a bit a reminder of everything they've lost alexia brian al-jazeera. the indian government has banned 59 mobile phone applications most of which are chinese phone companies have been ordered to block popular apps like tech talk we chat and share it on because of national security concerns the ban comes weeks after at least 20 soldiers were killed in the worst fighting in 4 decades along the disputed border with china h r venkatesh is director of training and research with boom fact check he told on

his ear the people in india reacted immediately to the announcement. on the layout of the new i checked picked up maybe an hour later and pretty much the 1st thing i thought was a person i followed by the name of i and the bill and he created a little tick tock video saying goodbye to star finally on instagram so all ready to talk with full of people reacting to the news in real time almost so hugely popular it's not just picked are there other apps like you know for example that sort of the foot of origin of talk it's more text based it's got a number of language based followers but tick-tock and the other absolutely huge and so use that it's not just the numbers that are important going to some stupid stuff on the other apps it's also the cultural impact they have on india especially as it comes with its popularity among people who are not urban indian.

people who are beginning to find their individuality and able to express control sort of a 4 sense it's a huge deal out of jail it's just your politics and your politics and strategy and india and china have had the face off what can the indian government do. they make the unusual step of publishing the fact that they banned 59 so with that here only to me it makes it clear that it is a political statement more than anything else. india says accusations by pakistan linking it to a deadly attack on the karachi stock exchange are absurd separatist fighters known as the bullets liberation army are claiming responsibility for the raid pakistan's foreign minister says clues are pointing to the involvement of indian sleeper cells so hot has more. gun battle at the end she said pakistan stock exchange in karachi security forces fired back at attackers he detonates

a grenade as they try to storm in who for a killed before being able to reach the main building was the that is what killed at the main gate the other the other the 3rd was killed at the center gate and the porter is one of those killed at that i mean it's good of destruction building so the law enforcement agency has the polish and the rangers played a very very vital role in combating this attack and. destruction the financial help of the pakistan. despite the gun battle outside brokers huddled together inside and trading continued and they did try to infuse a market with a negative impact but nothing happened we are confident and nothing is going to happen in the future as the separatists baluchi liberation army will be a group has claimed responsibility for the attack ethnic baluch groups have to use

food for independence from pakistan and accuse its as well as china exploiting baluchistan resources 2 years ago to be a attack the chinese consulate in karachi pakistan the u.s. and u.k. have listed it a terrorist group. a major general in pakistan's paramilitary force incident indian interference. details with you after the investigation but i can say this strike hawaii that this terrorist attack is not possible without the support of a strong intelligence agency and at the top of the list is india's foreign intelligence. with dozens of hand grenades and ammunition found at the scene heavily armed security forces believe they stopped the attackers from inflicting more damage in pakistan's knowledge is still keeps change it seem of government friends are experts and started collecting evidence at the scene and searched a ko used by the gunmen so to hide at al-jazeera at least 23 people including

children have been killed in an attack on a crowded market in southern afghanistan hundreds of people were at the cattle market in the helmand province when multiple explosions told through the site the taliban and the afghan military blaming each other of the attack. at least 32 people were killed when 2 ferries collided in a bangladeshi river in the capital dhaka a ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized when it was struck by a larger boat which then left the area and the child to reports from near the scene of the accident. anger and despair on the banks of the border going there either as relatives wait for news rescue or such the marquis waters hoping for survivors but finding many bodies instead. they want to know how he is my younger brother every day he comes to dhaka with this very big today this has happened i want to see his body to faeries collided during the morning rush hour a few meters from bangladesh is the largest river port outside the capital dhaka if

you know what you think of the ship capsized off it was hit around 30 people who were on top of the ships when and by the help of the surrounding and other posts managed to get into the bank at the time the however people inside the ship don't go out and drown the body 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 friday terminal in bangladesh know and i've got 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. 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're looking for. time to charge al-jazeera strother got dhaka saudi arabia has been forced to remove a claim posted on the government website that the world trade organization aside is with saudi against qatar in the 1000000000 sport piracy dispute now this month the w t o ruled that saudi arabia was behind the pirate broadcaster b. out q which illegally streamed content belonging to qatar's b. in sports that we have no spokesperson keith rockwell spoke to al-jazeera about the reasons for the original ruling the panel found it be out q had been using. broadcast transmissions without permission from be in and broadcasting around saudi arabia what they found as well was that the saudi

system did not provide them with due process under the law they did not have legal counsel and they were unable to bring any sort of judicial proceedings against be at q. now what the saudis have indicated because of the difficult situation that cats are in saudi arabia have now and have for the last 3 years the saudis said that for reasons of security they had to follow the steps they had followed and they should be exempt from the rules but what the panel said was there was not a plausible link between denial of be in access to the court system and the issue of national security. this is al jazeera these are the top stories of the world health organization has

warned that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come we all in one 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 pandemic is actually speeding up the white house says it will now brief democratic politicians on reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan democrats were left out of an intelligence briefing on monday which usually involves both parties. egypt has told the un it faces an existential threat from a hydroelectric dam that ethiopia is building on the blue nile ethiopians expected

to start filling it with water tanks month but at a virtual security council meeting egypt's foreign affairs minister warned of conflict if the un doesn't intervene china is being accused of forcing the weaker minority to lower the birth rates and investigation by the associated press says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortions. india says accusations by pakistan linking it to a deadly attack on the karachi stock exchange are absurd settlers fighters known as the liberation army are claiming responsibility for the raid that killed at least 9 people pakistan's foreign minister says clues a pointing to the involvement of indian sleeper cells and those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera ates people in power by. on counting the cost of europe at a crossroads it deals with a rising china and a u.s. president who riles his allies also how the world's tech and investment money

hasn't reached people of color and cyber attacks on faxing macon's in the bar trees . counting the costs on al-jazeera. when the coronavirus pandemic hit iran earlier this year filmmaker jamsheed majid ezzati began documenting his own life under lockdown in a nation already beset by international sanctions the result was this intimate portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries.