over 20 years. insights into circumstances which cloyd's. rapidly changing. 20 years of mean continues with good morning. on how to 0. in the in. the. iran confirms significant damage to an underground nuclear facility after a fire it had tried to down. play a watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back to bore also coming up attacks target an airbase outside the libyan capital foreign forces backing warlords highly for have to are being plain. mexico rethink some of its reopening

plans as it joins the list of countries suffering a surge in coronavirus something's wrong with donald trump ph the republican campaign that's working to get a democrat elected its u.s. president. iran's atomic energy organization has acknowledged that a fire at the natanz nuclear facility has cost significant damage said the blaze could slow down development of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but that iran would replace the facility with more advanced equipment as the report. what exactly happened at the natanz nuclear facility last week it's a question people in iran and around the world have been asking since a fire was reported at iran's main uranium enrichment facility on thursday a fire incident like this at the centerpiece of the country's nuclear program is

easily a cause for global concern but iranian leaders downplay the incident latest satellite imagery however seems to show the scale of the damage whatever the cause is bigger than initial reports seemed to suggest on sunday the spokesman of the atomic energy organization of iran confirmed the seriousness of the matter speaking to state news he said enrichment activities continue but the damage was significant enough to slow some work at the facility this incident may create delays in the medium term plan for the development and production of advanced machines god willing we will compensate in such a way that the capacities at the site will be greater than before the natanz nuclear plant has been the target of cyber attacks in the past at the time iran blamed various western nations and israel iranian investigators say they know what caused the latest incident but cannot release details due to security concerns but military leaders have promised to retaliate if sabotage is confirmed. the incident

at natanz happened just days after another explosion at a military base where iran develops missiles on june 26th a gas tank explosion at the parchin military complex northeast of the capital caused a fireball so big some to her own residents could see it from their homes on june 30th a fire and explosion at a medical clinic in north to her own killed 19 people. on saturday a fire broke out at a power station in the western city of a causing partial outages on the same dail chlorine gas leak at a petrochemical plant on the gulf coast injured 70 people these were likely just industrial accidents perhaps triggered by rising summer temperatures but the fire at the natanz nuclear complex happened in the backdrop of serious incidents that have rattled the country in recent weeks. libya's u.n. recognized government has condemned every day of recaptured

a base in the west of the country it says a foreign air force carried out the attack the not. a was among a string of recent defeats wallace i need to have to pushing him out of large parts of western libya have launched an offensive to seize the capital tripoli. has more from tripoli. 5 strikes targeted by an identified warplanes but the government here in tripoli especially of the defense minister just stated saying that. foreign fighter jets carried out the attacks on turkish military facilities in the. air base that includes an air defense system according to a pro. media outlets we have not. reported any comment from the turkish military as of yet but only the approach. media outlets that reported that among the turkish military facilities in other words targeted by

a poor health or fighter jet is an air defense system units no casualties have been reported but the ministry of defense at the government of national called in tripoli here says that this attack by poor half the world planes is trying to send a message to try to disrupt what it calls the victory that has been achieved by the government forces helped by the military and specially taken control of western libya from forces loyal to the world really for have to and they've been protests against the turkish intervention in libya crowds in benghazi shouted slogans and carried signs attacking a turkish president type radio on the eastern city is a stronghold of forces loyal to have tar is fighting against a u.n. recognized government which is backed by turkey maybe as divided between 2 rival administrations then several armed groups. it's

a region that's home to just 8 percent of the global population but latin america now accounts for about half of all coronavirus related deaths cases of tripled in the space of a month brazil and mexico are the worst affected nations leaders are being criticised for prioritizing economies over people's lives india reported 25000 new infections a new daily record and more than 600 deaths iran has also recorded its highest one day death toll and has now made wearing masks mandatory starting on sunday more countries are imposing restrictions again as cases surge kazakhstan and the capital of madagascar are back under law. colombia has also seen an increase in infections intensive care units in the capital are filling up and doctors are worried that deaths are being under reported and is on the run kitty reports from bogota. coffins carrying the 1000 victims arrive for cremation at this cemetery on the

outskirts of. the recent increase in the number of deaths in the colombian capital has meant cremation service is tripled here in the last couple of weeks. it's a sad situation for the relatives who can't give their loved ones a proper goodbye. people are helpless they. entering the hospital 20 days before and never see them again until they meet in the closed coffin. sectors of the economy in june following a strict quarantine seems to be responsible for a sharp rise in hospitalizations. intensive care units are now 80 percent full in. the national government new ventilators to increase availability but a lack of trained doctors means not all of them can be used at the same time and

now authorities are worried by a sharp surge along caribbean coast soldiers and police in full protective gear or on the streets of the port city of. to enforce quarantine measures. the atlantic of provinces registered almost double the number of deaths compared to with only one 3rd of the population. authorities say here people have been more openly flouting social distancing rules holding parties in other gatherings and doctors fear some 19 related deaths are not being reported. many patients dying at home or arriving at the hospital dead are not being included in to sticks but from feedback from families and clinics it is clear that the person died of corona virus and we are not reporting it. the sharp upturn in colombia still pales in comparison with some neighboring countries like brazil it is very worrisome especially since health authorities say we're still weeks away from

reaching the peak of infections and the government is excluding the return to stricter measures saying it's time to revive the country's battered economy leaving much of the responsibility in the hands of people wearing face masks and maintaining social distance a lesson. israel's prime minister says stricter measures are needed to tackle a surge in corona virus cases nearly a 1000 new infections are being reported every day the government has once again authorized the use of a controversial phone surveillance technology to try to stop the spread of the outbreak harry fossett is in west jerusalem with more. and this is the time that the internal security service in his religion that has been sanctioned to. monitor people's phones this isn't some absolute you voluntarily download this is the security services monitoring where people are being who they've been associating

with and then sending them a text message to tell them to quarantine it it's assessed that they need to do so now this is through out the use of this tactic it has caused some outrage from human rights groups liberty groups but it has been deemed necessary to be put in place again it's newspaper reported that some 30000 people received such text messages since this began again on thursday and those who have some doubt of it want to repeal it they are finding it very difficult to get through to the ministry of health hotline which is being swamped with such cool's as well as that there are further measures that are coming into force 50 people maximum in places of worship in bars and in events spaces things like weddings and there are further measures under consideration the cabinet has been meeting today and there are things such as restaurants and other potential new troubles for the israeli government is that

they obviously don't want to be reimposed locked down for economic reasons not me i did say if the cases got back up to 100 a day you would reimpose lock down well now they're on a 1000 a day and he still seems unwilling to do so. still ahead on al-jazeera a desperate plea for help for dozens killed in thomas' face says devastating floods sweep through. i don't know how with a herd of llamas in a field reading the fight against poverty one team has come to this. i once again i'm afraid there's no letup in the heavy rain for southern parts of japan plenty of cloud shining up on the satellite picture you see the my you front which continues to drag its way out of central parts of china over towards such

japan you can imagine this is just like a rope of clouds and rain we're pulling that wetter weather across a similar area so we can see that rain making its way out of eastern china through the east china sea pushing back across cuba not a little further north which as we go on into monday says some really wet weather coming into western parts of honshu and it'll continue to move across a similar area as we go on through cheese day so we are likely to see further floods and further landslides here that wet weather continue into central parts of china north and south of that it's a case of some sunshine but a few showers certainly a possibility as well sunshine as showers say it to southeast asia we got some live shot was there once again heat of the day showers just around the philippines stan into malaysia want to show is still there into indonesia but nothing unusual has a western weather to say up towards thailand didn't play a wet weather into the northeast of india through me and ma the heavy rain the flooding rains they will continue up the western ghats gradually pushing up into

good rats. from imprisoned dissidents to inspiration. from founding the independent state. to fiercely defending his people from ethnic cleansing in the conclusion of a 2 part documentary series how does your own room because the rise to power of the 1st independent bosnia herzegovina. is a big event. from prisoner to president or not just. the with her for her for.

a reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera iran's atomic energy organization has acknowledged that last week's fire at a major nuclear facility caused significant damage that could slow down the country's production of advanced centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium libya's un recognized government has condemned air raids on a recaptured air base in the west of the country it says a foreign f. force carried out the a time the loss of the base was among a string of recent defeats for wartime if i have to talk and i mean crease in corona virus case is forcing many countries to re-impose restrictions to contain the spread of the virus mexico is tightly rose in his capital as a nationwide death toll passes 30000. in other news votes are being counted in need to minicon republics presidential election sunday's vote was delayed because of the corona virus pandemic 6 candidates are vying for the top job

including businessman and front runner not dare opinion poll suggests he could ousts a governing sentiment on which has been in power for 16. in the governing center right party is returning to power after better than expected election performance prime minister andre plank of h. celebrated in zagreb as official results showed his party winning 66 east in the 151 member on a meant you need support from several small groups but can avoid an alliance with a far right party who aisha's tories dependent economies in the midst of a recession worsened by coronavirus tanya novak has more from zagreb on this unexpected result. it's definitely surprising if the matter dead all the pre-election polls were predicting that the gratian prime minister and davies and under plank originations that will be forced to form an alliance or a coalition after election coalition with the home movement which is the right

movement. new on the political scene in crazy but under a plank of integration democratic union definitely now have enough seats for themselves to form the government without having to enter any coalition. these elections were held in the middle of the crew in the crisis the numbers are going up in the last week were going up in the last week of the complaint everyone has pretty much worried and there were some predictions that this situation might harm under planking which was very proud of how his government handled the corona crisis at the beginning of it in march and april grayson had handled it quite well having been relatively small numbers turning them down to almost 0 at some point when he decided to hold this elections a bit earlier that they would do and that would you in the autumn but none of the

polls predicted that this landslide victory by age does that and this is probably because he actually promised a lot of security for gratian people and his security healthwise security social wise security economic advice and people decided to trust him and let him. lead them for another 4 years. as the u.s. election approaches president donald trump is not just fending off attacks from members of the opposing party but also his own prominent republicans are saying they will vote for the presumptive democratic candidate joe biden and they're actively working to help get him elected political gain has more. there's morning in america this viral ad put a new group called the lincoln project on the political map not because it has been viewed almost 3000000 times under the leadership of donald trump our country's

weaker and sicker. this was an attack from members of the president's own party and he responded by attacking them well after midnight on twitter their reaction. republican operative rick wilson is one of the founders of the group he says the ad did exactly what they wanted every day donald trump is distracted every day don't i was running around like a crazy person doing the things that he does with a tweet gets in his head read it says his campaign is not focusing on beating joe biden every day he's thinking about us is nothing about him with surprising speed the group turns around ads meant to get inside the president's head something's wrong with donald trump he shakes. trouble speaking to walking hitting him on issues that he's made clear bother him like crowd size turnout in tulsa. his physical health we seen it you're shaking can't keep your palms up and it's

getting worse and his handling of the coronavirus i don't think it was. but the group is also airing ads praising former vice president joe biden and democratic senate candidates will also attacking republican senators up for reelection in richmond has a nice ring that's drawing criticism from other republicans but they're doing it not only opposed to re-election but to flip the senate to democratic majority control to say that yes. you know give the democrats control of the senate because you oppose trump that makes no sense thank you very much but wilson says it's a kind of insurance policy you know we don't want to have a situation we're going to if he does win a 2nd term has an easy route to continue to do things in this nationalist populous where it was because of danger to the country and more republicans are joining his cause hundreds of alumni from the george bush administration have formed a group to try to help biden get elected. to trim campaign says it's further proof

the establishment is working against them this is highly unusual members of a political party turning against its old leader openly and in public. imagine how big the crowds will be when he's gone actively raising and spending money to see him defeated and their own political party completely out of power pedicle hain al-jazeera. when i speak to tara dowdell about this she's a democratic and marketing consultant she joins us from new york thank you very much tyler for being with us on al-jazeera so just like in 26 scene a faction of the republican party has emerged to try to defeat donald trump and some are openly backing him as we saw there backing biden i should say it didn't work 4 years ago do you think their efforts will work this time around. well i think that there's a lot of uncertainty around the effort because donald trump despite them making despite this organization and all actually all of these groups making. videos and

viral commercials that have taken social media by storm the rank and file the base of the republican party is still with donald trump so there's a lot of uncertainty as to whether or not this a significant impact on the election but i will say this from a democratic perception it definitely doesn't hurt and but i do think that what we're seeing from republicans is that by and large 85 percent are sticking with him that's actually higher than the numbers that george w. bush had in 2008 around this time so i think that it's really hard to say that it's going to have a significant impact at the point you say the rank and file is sticking with him but former president george w. bush and senator mitt romney won't support his reelection colin powell says he will vote for joe biden why are these republicans taking a stand against not how they think is it really about trump's record or more about you know the senate race and saving the republican party. well i think when it

comes to someone like colin powell he supported president obama as well so he has lately been trending toward supporting democratic candidates with respect to mitt romney it's no secret that he and there's no love lost between him and donald trump and also mitt romney state of utah has never been very supportive of donald trump so that gives mitt romney some freedom that other senators feel that they don't have in terms of speaking out against trump but the issue is that those are just a few people here's the problem there were probably a party again brit large has not hill donald trump accountable there has been scandal after scandal and they have continued to not only stand by him but to actively help him defend against some pretty damning allegations of corruption and abuse of power why is that a tire i mean to our international audience this might not be you know something that i think him understand if they can grasp why is it that these republican is

still supporting and still standing by donald trump despite all these scandals his handling of the coronavirus pandemic the impeachment and so on why is that. well there are several reasons but not the least of which at the end of the day the biggest check against both parties is the base of those parties the voters who put those elected officials into office in the us and so what we've seen with the democratic party is that the democratic party has no problem telling democratic politicians hey get out we don't support you and not supporting the republican party on the other hand has shown no interest in accountability against the republican party so if you're a republican you see that and you see that you can pretty much do almost anything in your party if not and that voters in your party are not going to vote you out so unfortunately that's created a crisis of accountability any united states and i think there's there's a long answer and i don't know we have time but you know the republican party spent

a lot of time diminishing our media so any time the media points out these abuses of power the handling of the koran a virus pandemic novel coronavirus pandemic to be precise every time they point these things out the bounty alleged bounty that russia has placed on the head of american soldiers all of these agree just examples of abuse what happens is the republican voters just. just shrug and say worse we're standing by him i mean as i mentioned his approval rating with him his party for the 1st half of this year with 91 percent and that's after a slew of. different scandals that have been most of which have been substantiated are cooperating in some way right interesting to talk to you about the sec you so much for joining us tara tara dowdell joining us from new york thank you for your time thank you. now these 34 people have been killed in southern japan as to renshaw rain and severe flooding continue across several asian

countries nearly half of the victims in the. living in a nursing home reports. it's a challenging tolls for these emergency workers in southern japan the risk of more month's lines is high on the island. a trail of destruction can be seen from the yeah there's more drenching rain and severe flooding in the weather forecast for the next few days weather conditions are hampering rescue efforts in the west hit areas. off of those killed or missing since sunday had been living in elderly care homes. and out of the cooma river best its banks transporting people to safety by bates is a difficult and dangerous job on sunday prime minister sets up a special to tackle the crisis and has deployed $40000.00 military personnel to help with the rescue efforts 30 you know people in the area are required to

continue to be on maximum alert with regards to self defense forces please prepare to dispatch 10000 personnel for further emergency support please do this that you are able to respond swiftly and adequately. 75000 people have been warned to leave their homes ahead of the floods japan's meteorological agency says the rainfall is the west it's has ever recorded in the region. in china people are bracing themselves for more flooding weeks some of the heaviest rain seen in decades has killed more than 100 people millions of lives homes and businesses have all been affected especially in the south it's also. we have disposable 50 people who had green water we have also this. video severely affected by the floods we are now making all over flows to prevent further from our being from water dreaming into orbit. and these homes along the water in india's financial capital mumbai all dangerously close to being flooded july is usually the wettest month

during the monsoon season but this year nearly a month's worth of rain has fallen in just the past 5 days. more than a 1000000 people have been affected by flooding in northeastern india many of them have lost their homes was that allowed to be the water level is increasing over here fishing is also bad and so we don't want any loss of life that is why we request the authorities to come here and see what is going on and most is not across asia and the agency service is a overstretched also dealing with a coronavirus pandemic and with more rain expected in some areas the coming few days may prove even more difficult said a height of. italy has authorized a charity vessel that rescued more than 100 migrants in the mediterranean to dock. those onboard ocean viking exploded with joy at the announcement with migrants

singing and a prodding heading to sicily where they'll be transferred to a quarantine ship they've been on the ocean biking for over a week and the charity had to declare a state of emergency on friday because a fights and so sad attempts on board. now around the world and a search is on for effective treatments to combat the corona virus in the u.k. scientists have turned to a herd of llamas to provide very small anti-bodies which they believe could neutralize a virus john hall has more. what does a herd of lamas have to do with covert 19 it's not the start of a joke but it could be the route to a cure bonnie jones looks after the animals welfare have sally we have totally we have sports we have alfie. oscar the one sitting down. and the star of this particular show fifi is the 1st on the university's film that

we've used in the research. and other species such as camels and our packers produce specialized small antibodies different to what you and i produce so what we do is we introduce a dead or small. protein into the llamas and they produce a natural body response so their small antibodies that bind on to the proteins that we introduce these pictures from a similar trial with alpacas in germany showed nobody's binding with the corona virus protein spike the covert virus is kind of a round virus that's got lots of spikes on it and these spikes we think are the things that latch onto our cells and infect us so the idea is maybe if we produce a nano body that combined onto those spikes or lots of those spikes we can prevent the virus from attaching to our cells and in that way prevent infections so the fight against the corona virus has come to this lumbers in an english field it's

not as unlikely as you might think the 1st llama derived drug was produced last year for the treatment of the real blood disease and that's triggered real optimism about similar treatments for a range of cancers for alzheimer's and dementia and also now course for coated 90. the daily place of law maloney is slow and so to the pace of scientific research but already there are promising results with the possibility of human trials in a year using lubber nano bodies to neutralize the corona virus join a whole al-jazeera reading. play again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera iran's atomic energy organization has acknowledged that last week's fire at a major nuclear facility caused significant damage that could slow down the country's production of advanced centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium

libya's un recognized government has condemned a raise and have recaptured a base in the west of the country it says a foreign air force carried out the attack and loss of the base was among a string of recent defeats for warlow $24.00 have tarm an increase in corona virus cases is forcing many countries to re-impose restrictions to contain the spread of the onus mexico is tightening walls in its capital as a nationwide death toll passes $30000.00 it's been reporting record numbers of new cases for several days and a sign that amputee is monitoring developments from colombia the mexicans are increasingly confused about what's happening in their country and their government's response that's because weeks ago but the president lope us over the door and the secretary of health said that the country was very close to reaching the peak or had already reached the peak and that they could expect a reduction in the number of cases and the following weeks instead the opposite as

happen now mexico as their 5th highest death toll anywhere in the world surpassing france and this week will most likely also overtake the number of deaths that in italy. votes are being counted in the dominican republic surprise eventually election sunday's vote was delayed because of the corona virus pandemic 6 candidates are vying for the top job including businessman and front runner their opinion polls suggest he could oust the governing center left party which has been in power for 16 years horatio governing center right party is returning to power after a better than expected election performance prime minister andre plank of age celebrated as official results showed a cheesy party winning at least 66 seats in the 151 member parliament he needs support from several small groups but can avoid an alliance with a fall right party those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's inside story to stay with us.

a little setback for the iran nuclear deal to her own triggers a dispute mechanism saying european pows all doing their part to keep the agreement allied with the us to turn into isolation iran is the deal with saving this isn't sad story. hello welcome to the program on iran call on iran is expressing frustration with

the efforts to save the 2015 deal it's triggered a mechanism to resolve issues with britain france and germany the iranian foreign minister sent a letter to.