investigation sit down did the trump campaign collude with russia did you at any time birch former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form the closer to baghdad the investigation into michael flynn and also as you well know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera. 2 and a half 1000000 infections and rising in latin america overtakes europe's number of coronavirus cases. someone when you want your observer live might quarters here in doha also coming up a display for independence day the us president goes ahead with a patriotic show despite coronavirus concerns and protests also people flock to

bars as part of the relaxation of restrictions in the united kingdom but it's being called risky business and egypt is to hold elections for a new council of senators 6 years after the chamber was dissolved. welcome to the program saturday saw the highest number of krona virus cases worldwide since the start of the pandemic and the majority of those new infections were recorded in latin america the region has now surpassed to europe in the number of covert 900 cases some 2 and a half 1000000 and growing rapidly now the figures are being driven up by brazil which has reported more than one and a half 1000000 infections well more than 64000 people have died peru and chile are quickly approaching 300000 cases a mexico has also been reporting record you infections it now has the 2nd highest

death toll in latin america behind brazil alexandra p.r.t. is monitoring events for us in the region from bogota in colombia. see 2 asian it's getting worse in other countries that had been successful at least at the beginning and trying to slow down the spread of contagion for example here in colombia that is seen quite an important increase in daily cases since says been reopening parts of its economy with the return of its large population of informal people who work out and about on the streets they work hand to mouth they can stay home they have been allowed to return to work and in the last couple of weeks we have seen quite a big increase here the same is true in she less pay to even argentina who was that was probably the most successful country in containing the

virus together with wires seen an increase and the last days and weeks so very problematic pictures of fischel is here calling for a return to a strict strict measures in countries like where we are in colombia and the government the national government here though is saying that's not possible because of how weak the economy is overall how big is the need for people to go out and work which means will probably continue to see these numbers a growing gap policy that has a distinguished fellow in the brazil institute at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars he says presidents like both tomorrow not interested in tackling the virus. the federal government in brazil has given up it's not competent it's not a competent government never understood the severity off and then make in

contrast with state governments in brazil specially in some fall when other parks that have taken this very seriously are using the response that they can with the means that they have but obviously the lack of the presence of the federal involvement in the response has complicated matters resume has been without a minister of health for the past 3 months the situation is quite desperate this was completely unnecessary brazil we've always problems has a. variety of public health that is pretty decent achievable song model does not have. the tools and data electoral tools necessary to understand the severity of this and here's mark insisted. the family of

a covert 960 him in bolivia left his coffin in the street to protest against difficulties in getting a timely burial the man's body had spent 6 days at home in the region of culture bomba without being collected by funeral workers their body was finally transported to a cemetery after the coffin spent 4 hours on the street due to a recent increase of virus related deaths burials incriminations are being delayed and body section related. in the us the states of florida and texas saw a record rise in daily infections other parts of the country also saw big jumps in the number of new cases and despite appeals by medical health experts to avoid large gatherings president double trump hosted an event at the white house to mark independence day hundreds later turned out in washington d.c. to watch a fireworks display rob reynolds reports. vintage warplanes filled the skies over the national mall in washington d.c.

bombers and fighters from every war the u.s. has been in since the 1940 s. the 1st president trump who avoided service in vietnam by claiming medical draft deferments for bone spurs presided over the spectacle at the white house. despite pleas from public health experts and the mayor of washington d.c. over the risks of people getting covert 19 a crowd gathered many ignoring social distancing guy. thanks to the. courage of those patriots on july 4th 1776 the american republic stands today as the greatest most exceptional and most virtuous nation. in the history of the world trump praised american exceptionalism and the u.s. military attacked the media and china and praised his own performance in the fight

against covert 19 appealing to his base trump invoked images of rampaging radicals intent on destroying the nation's heritage we are now in the process of. defeating the radical left the marxists the n.r. kids the agitators the looters and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing. around the country people protested peacefully against racial injustice and police brutality. in pittsburgh protesters and trump supporters chanted rival slogans injured at one another. here in washington black lives matter protesters marched for the 6th weekend in a row following the killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis we as a community especially in in our capital city of the of our country need to come

together and protest unjust killings and get these murderers and to justice i just did what could be more american than protesting our president today you know it's not really helping. an enormous fireworks display capped off the extravaganza in washington the glitter in the east were perhaps a momentary distraction at least for some as tens of thousands of new cases of cold and 19 were confirmed. robin olds al-jazeera. now the world health organization is ending its trial of a drug tonto by president trump as a game changer interim results show 106 laura can produce little or no effect on the death rates of people all specialized with cave at 19 president trump had said he was taking that drug. the lockdowns been extended in refugee camps in greece but the government's been accused of misusing the pandemic to limit the movement of

migrants now there have been no confirmed coronavirus related deaths in any of the camps that house about 32000 people. more than 200000 people in spain's catalonia region have been put back under lockdown after the number of infections there almost doubled in a week in contrast pubs and restaurants and cinemas have reopened across england following a relaxation of lockdown rules the latest from london in a moment but 1st this report from nadine barber. opening up for the 1st time in months the archbishop of barcelona joining a group of health workers on a visit to the said grab a familiar cathedral soon it will welcome residents and eventually tourists spanish and foreign but nobody here is under any illusions that the coronavirus has disappeared. and then look at them. i think that we have to raise awareness in society and perhaps we haven't done it well enough and should try harder it seems good to me that they had a lockdown i think it's the only way to stop these outbreaks. elsewhere in the

catalonia region they've imposed a mini lockdown in the rural district surrounding the city of later it's after the number of covered 1000 cases nearly doubled in a week to 325 on friday and. some cases have been linked to fruit picking operations now the area's 200000 residents are banned from meeting in groups of more than 10 and they can't travel outside the zone. the new measures come a day after the united kingdom announced its so-called safe travel list those heading to dozens of countries including spain won't have to go into quarantine when they return notably absent from the list is portugal which thanks to quick action of voided the exponential rates of infections and deaths that spain has suffered on friday portugal reported $374.00 new covered cases mostly in and around the capital lisbon while the city's a tourist destination most british holidaymakers head for the southern coast of the algarve region and the portuguese government is calling the u.k.

decision census the prime minister tweeted comparing covered 1000 cases per 100000 people and stressing british visitors are still welcome the. new i will say that on the 1st of july the united kingdom had 176 that of people from covert 19 and globally we are speaking of a country that has a population 6 times bigger than portugal and has until today 44000 deadly cases. for now regions across europe which rely on tourism trying to strike a balance between allowing visitors in and keeping the coronavirus at bay nadeem barber al-jazeera. the ancient in alienable rights of free born people of the united kingdom to go to the pub is how porous johnson described it well here they are enthusiastically enjoying that right again after more than 3 months of lockdown plus going to the cinema getting their hair cut eating in restaurants and staying in hotels for england at least something like normal life has returned it feels 2

really feels really it's going to go on a bit. it's rather expensive by comparison with. my buying in. super saturday as the english press is called it was desperately needed by a struggling hospitality industry but business owners had to reduce capacity and make other changes to open a safe as possible we will take all the fortunes we can we put screens up between people you know wash your hands and everyone keep way past and stick places till you know we were watching everything you have to be so you know that's not what you were just hoping that there isn't a 2nd wave and that we really need. it is perhaps the most significant step yet in england's exit from lock down given the combustible mix of liberation and alcohol politicians both local and national have been urging responsibility well maybe we

should call it sowed the saturday then but i think it's a we've been it's been 3 or 4 months in which we've not been able to come to restaurants we not been able to come to bars you know been able to come to pumps or an englishman not to be able to go to a pub is a very bad thing so i think people are allowed to let their head and just a little but we want them to do that in a responsible way essentially this is a big experiments that carries with it a big risk if this does result in new flare ups of covert 19 the government is hoping that they'll be localized and could be dealt with with localized restrictions returning to another full national knockdown would finish off even more businesses than are expected to go under anyway. even if this reopening goes well for business and safety tough times are coming during the long term period we've seen many trust brands such as college. sadly fall into administration sad fact is i think we're going to see

a lot more of this simply accelerated the decline of a lot of businesses as of today i think there is maybe 250 branded restaurants which will not reopen and that number is only going to get bigger. this may have some appearances of normal life but it's still far from the real thing. how does iraq london. well still ahead here on al-jazeera we report on how residents of the philippine capital coping after nearly 3 months of lockdown and. i'm robert bright in busan south korea that has decided it's now safe again to go back to the beach and say to get festive. hello the weather stays hot and dry across the middle east no great changing conditions here still one or 2 little puffs of cloud across the far south of the

arabian peninsula but not too much in the way of any wetter weather might catch a shower or 2 just around that western side of the gulf of aden maybe into yemen but elsewhere it's about the way in still quite a brisk wind driving out of iraq the wind continues to drive its way down to us here in qatar but the winds in the process of easing says shouldn't feel too dusty as we go on through the next couple days temperatures here around 45 celsius kuwait could well touch 50 degrees and the sunshine extends further north up towards the black sea the eastern side of the med sunshine and showers meanwhile across central africa we are going to see that i'm on the way of cloud just driving its way in across ethiopian highlands notice a chance for some showers to just pushed. up into that eastern side of somalia as we go through the next dial to havea shallow as well it continues to make their way over towards the gulf of guinea little change here more of the same as we go on through monday and by monday they've got a chance of some more showers coming into southern parts of somalia to the south of

that what is generally fog and try across southern africa lossie clear skies plenty of sunshine but want to see showers the mozambique channel. for. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. al-jazeera selects. for.

but the mike you're watching out there of me is a whole round the reminder of our top stories latin america has overtaken europe in the number of coronavirus cases the region has more than 2 and a half 1000000 infections a new cases are rapidly rising brazil is a hotspot with almost $64000.00 deaths and u.s. president donald trump has been hosting the annual salute to america event at the white house to mark independence day celebrations across the country a muted because of coronavirus and spain has put part of catalonia back into lockdown after a sharp increase in cases of covert 90 around 200000 people living near the town leaders were affected. egypt plans to hold the 1st election for its recently revived senate next month 2 thirds of senators will be chosen by the public and the president will appoint the rest of the $300.00 member

chamber it was dropped from egypt's constitution in 2014 it was bought by a can draw amendments approved in a referendum last year those constitutional changes also allowed the c.c. to stay in power until 2030. chips fick the thing is the founder and chairman of the british arab network he says political situation in egypt doesn't fit with an election. if you've got 70000 people are locked. down inside jails a lot of many bloggers and we know. how locked in died in prison there's no crowds not roads at all and many of them we just had over the last 12 months about 3000 people who were jailed just because. they had the planets trying to diminish the nation in cairo so i you know i don't think the public would be

left with such exercise of sham democracy i think it's a problem in egypt is there is no clear voice for the public there's no proper democracy in the military control all aspects of life in egypt as we know and really corruption is just tried in every aspect in life in egypt egypt's top court has upheld a 15 year sentence for one of the leading activists behind the uprising in 2011 and the duma has also been fined $370000.00 as part of his conviction he was one of 230 people who've been sentenced to life in prison following the protests appealed his sentence and had every trial ordered which led to his reduced time a sit in protest against growing insecurity in sudan's central daal full state is now in its 7th day those involved want the heads of the police and military to be

fired saying they're not protecting them or their properties in a recent attack 3 farmers were killed near the town of negativity prime minister abdullah one doc says he'll send a delegation to discuss the problems while one is a doll for an activist she says. peace in the region will lead to see the groups dismantle. the sit in it started in the front of the minister to building because they have been asked frequent and continuous attacks on civilians by our militias in the area people many have been killed and these attacks actually have been moved became more significant over the last 2 months where we still a lot of people attacked by the british lost their lives and lost their cattle and livelihood and many women to being 'd as sexually assaulted any movement

toward pressing the issue but we think it is more come complicated than a delegation that can address it there the issue is the reason why it as you know use of the armed and licensed out by the militia so that we do at coole who are as the peace process to be expedited now there is a negotiations in juba been taken for quite a while and we do hope that the peace agreement will take will come to to light very soon so that can be transferred to the ground. turkey is increasing naval cooperation with the un recognized government in libya defense minister who lucio car made the remarks while inspecting a turkish ship off libya's coast last year turkey signed a maritime deal with the tripoli government but there's been tension between them and france as well as others in the mediterranean. and israeli minister government is planning to turn an industrial neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem into

a technology hub but opponents say the project is another attempt to illegally solidify israeli control over occupied palestinian land or a force that reports. for decades if you wanted to fix a tire by where or discount groceries in occupied east jerusalem what he jos has been the place to come but a new israeli project would see this neighborhood a short walk from the old city remade as a hub for tourism and high tech. i don't rents the land on which he operates his garish he and dozens of others have recently been issued eviction notices accusing them of breaking zoning laws instructing them to move out before the end of the year. we have been here for the last 60 years the municipality sent us evacuation orders without negotiating without giving us alternatives or compensation look on what the neighborhood. the west jerusalem municipal government along with israel's interior ministry want to rename what he jos silicon wadi with office space for

high tech businesses as well as hotels all part of a more than 600000000 dollar development master plan in the occupied east. but a project on this scale in occupied east jerusalem isn't just an issue of business and investments and jobs it's also an issue of politics and control throughout 53 years of occupation palestinians have been regularly denied building permits had homes demolished while israeli projects have sought to solidify israel's claim to unified city the municipality says the intention with silicon wadi is to improve employment and living standards we would love it if we had investment from the arab community themselves we don't want to take this and own it we want to do it in order for easter some to continue developing the way that it deserves to develop the municipality says garifuna as will be compensated but a lawyer acting on their behalf says even notices suggest no such thing and that

the entire project fails to meet the needs of residents and if you ask people here they'll tell you they want housing before high take the municipalities unfortunately fantasizing outside the palestinian vision it violates the 4th geneva convention to me and see this decision as internationally illegal has no long term plan and on the plans to manage the daily lives of the people as someone who owns land and businesses here hasn't heard bowie has been in talks about partnering in the project but he'd rather have permits to build apartments it's too big for us what they're asking and we don't want to rule the being invested people and we've been there in our lands it's very important thing was we want to make balance that elusive balance is at the heart of the issue in occupied east jerusalem the dying need for investment in infrastructure set against the cost of accepting increasing israeli control. al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. about $200.00 people protested in manila the day after the philippine president robbie go to

tatty signed a widely opposed anti terror law. critics fear the legislation will be used to silence dissent and give the government a new weapon to target opponents the law which congress sent to the president for signing last month allows the detention of suspects for up to $24.00 days without charge. well the philippines has imposed 48 hour long downs in parts of the capital to deal with the new krona virus cases the most severe restrictions since measures started easing several weeks ago. this is what a total lockdown looks like in one of manila's busy areas more than $7000.00 people in this community have been ordered to stay at home for 48 hours more than 30 villages across manila were told days ago that they wouldn't be allowed to leave their homes starting on saturday unless it's an emergency. in smaller alleys like

this one residency they are finding different ways to cope but for many look at this 48 hour door to lock down makes no difference to her family she says they've been under quarantine for months like you we couldn't earn enough so we had to open a small store just to sell to neighbors thankfully we do get to receive some aid like food and sometimes cash from the local government but i hope this situation isn't last long. but many businesses here remain closed which means thousands are unable to earn a living and are dependent on aid the philippines implemented one of the roads longest and strictest quarantine that's more than 50000000 people forced to say it's home and the entire region a bizarre one for almost 3 months but coronavirus cases been saying it's a go up over the last few weeks forcing cities like manila to implement its own

master sting program where fish will say the lockdown is bent not just as a restriction of movement but also to conduct a rapid test and the we did lee isolate those who are test positive march 5th being the 1st they have done and. it's hard to. that's the sense of people the people don't have enough money in jobs to. people slowly and no. more than 300 people were tested on this day the philippines still has one of the highest growing cases in southeast asia but the government has been under intense pressure to reopen the economy which is now officially on their recession many other provinces have eased quarantine restrictions but in manila the situation remains uncertain the rabbit says results came back no one tested positive and all the residents here are grateful they say

they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. south korea is going ahead with its annual opening of his speeches for the summer with special arrangements in place because of the pandemic but broad reports from the 2nd city of busan which is a favorite tourist destination. the beaches of blue sun or officially open and people love flocking to the south koreans are among the world's top spenders all overseas travel but most of this summer are looking to vacation a lot closer to home and still following strict rules to prevent the spread of coded 19 beach umbrella's are individually numbered so people hiring them can be traced in case they were close to someone found later to be infected for the leaf family this summer break is a new experience. we often go abroad in summer but we can't do that this time so we

decided on booth. they've also decided to come earlier than normal a majority of people in south korea take their summer vacations in a narrow window from late july into early august but companies are now being encouraged to spread holidays out to avoid overcrowding in the most popular tourist destinations tucson relies heavily on its summer season and local people are compensating for the lack of international visitors especially from neighboring china and japan. with only a handful of new cases of infections being reported to san can also host festivals again. at the opening of this annual food and film event. frontline medical staff are honored for making it possible. the theme this year food as a source of healing unity between cultural life has suffered in this pandemic if we

don't revitalize it and people will face more alienation and oppression we want to heal our audiences through culture. life is still far from normal but many here see this further careful reopening as a reward for south korea's steady progress against the virus. bride al-jazeera and south korea. because you thought all of those stories on our website updated throughout the day al-jazeera dot com. your challenges are of me so raman in doha a reminder of our top news stories latin america has overtaken europe in the number of creative ira's cases the region has more than 2 and a half 1000000 infections a new cases are rapidly rising brazil is a hotspot with almost 64000 deaths and it's under appear to use monitoring

developments in the region from bogota in colombia very problematic pictures some officials here are calling for a return to a trick to strict measures in countries like where we are in colombia the government the national government here though is saying that's not possible because of how weak the economy is overall how big is that for people to go out and work which means you will probably continue to see these numbers are growing. u.s. president donald trump has been hosting the annual salute to america event to the white house to mark independence day but many states counsel the festivities due to the pandemic florida and texas saw a record rise in daily inspections on saturday. and the world health organization is ending its trial of a drug targeted by president trump as a game changer interim results show hydroxy torah can produce little or no effect

on the death rate of people hospitalized with cope with 19 president try that he was taking the drug and there have been queues in crowds across england as pubs restaurants hairdressers and cinemas reopened following a relaxation of lockdown rules in london big crowds gathered in big gardens but the atmosphere was different in silent numbers are being limited to its table service only and there's no live music. spain has put part of cancer known here back into lockdown after a sharp increase in cases of cave at 19 around 200000 people living near the town of slater were affected. john the lockdowns been extended in refugee camps in greece but the government's been accused of misusing the pandemic to limit the movement of migrants to no confirmed coronavirus related deaths in any of the camps that housed around 32000 people those weather headlines about with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's. drugs. as

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