to hear told by the people who the family jeff is such a level i should east and undertakers this is europe and how to 0 'd. there are now says a fire caused significant damage to the natanz nuclear plant but it's a damning to rebuild. parts of iraq when you watch al-jazeera of my headquarters here and also coming up an indefinite closure for the border between australia's 2 most populous states after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases also we seem in your shaky key key components and it's getting worse. the campaign by members of the us president's own party to

prevent his reelection. and formula one drivers take a stand against racism but not all of them deal in protest. welcome to the program iran's now admitting a fire caused significant damage at its natanz nuclear facility it's atomic energy organization says the blaze could slow development of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but iran's planning to upgrade the facility with more advanced equipment. has more. 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 laws causing partial outages on the same day a 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. iran's foreign minister has been heckled by members of parliament and called a liar during a speech outlining the president's foreign and economic policies.

it's a reef was briefing parliament and defending the government it was interrupted several times $200.00 m.p.'s have also table the mission to question president hassan rouhani saying his policies have led to the current economic crisis. well latin america is home to just 8 percent of the world's population but the region accounts for about half of all krone virus related deaths cases have tripled in just a month brazil and mexico are the worst affected nations leaders are being criticized for putting the economy ahead of people's lives india has reported 25000 new infections a daily record of more than 600 deaths iran has recorded its hires one day death toll and it's made wearing masks compulsory more countries are imposing restrictions again as we see issues in kazakhstan the capital of madagascar also back under lockdown while an outbreak in the australian city of melbourne is prompting the indefinite closure of the border between the 2 most popular states'

popular states partly little agaves our correspondent joining us from the australian capital canberra australia nicholas seem to have under control this issue of covert 19 and these unprecedented scenarios where we're now seeing cross border closures well are unprecedented for australia what's going wrong. well that's the big question why always seeing a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the city of melbourne when not saying the same situation across other parts of the nation there have been some people speculating about what happened during quarantine there when people did return from the ses but it has happened as well as restrictions have been easing across the country especially has been very successful up until now really to suppress that 9 tain which means that shops have started to reopen public gatherings have returned and this is when we have seen a huge but in cases in specific pockets of the city of melbourne and the

victorian premier daniel andrews gave an update a short time ago and he said that they had been 127 new cases recorded in the states or even not on sunday now that he's like the biggest jump in cases that victoria has seen since the start of this had to make which is why many different social distancing measures have now returned. dozens of suburbs now returning to strict social distancing measures but also you 3000 papal stuck at least for 5 days if not more in 9 kelvin towers in melbourne and that means like leave their homes for the next 5 days until the government makes another decision on what will happen and of course the focus is on the suburbs and on the social

housing and questions really rising it seems about the way the authorities communicate with those at the center of this break. well the big question that many have been asking is about the equality how fair is it that 3000 people stuck in their homes in these apartments in in 2 suburbs of melbourne when they were outbreaks in different areas as well and these other people are allowed to leave their homes the premier daniel andrews has said that he will be doing any everything anything to actual that these students get essential supplies food has been deleted and they are receiving. payments for what they are going through but there are many questions about i have this could have happened in the 1st place but how long this is going to go before and what is happening to the residents inside these apartments there are hundreds of police at the bottom of these complexes so

of course it would not be nice for the people inside many do not speak english that have been questions about the health messaging that have been put across the community since the 10 demick began to see whether that information was coming across and if we look at the closure of the border between new south wales and victoria that is very significant as well this is the 1st time this border has been closed in in 100 views of many towns full across both sides what happens if you're working on one side and living room of a so there are many questions around here we'll just have to say what the government decides in the days ahead indeed for the update nicholas cage our correspondent in cumbria thank you. know intensive care unit softening up in colombia's capital cases surge and doctors are worried many deaths are going on reported on asunder m.p.'s he has more from bogota. coffins carrying the bodies of 19 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 funeral workers say it's a sad situation for the relatives who can't give their loved ones a proper goodbye. people are helpless. entering the hospital 20 days before and never see them again until they meet in the closed coffin. reopening of important 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 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 could be 1000 related deaths are not being reported. many patients dying at home or arriving at the hospital dead are not being included in the statistics 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 that i'm just. i think 166 people have died in ethiopia during protests following the killing of a popular singer and activist officials blame the deaths on both the response to the arrest by security forces and into ethnic violence. desa was a member of ethiopia's largest ethnic group there over it was shot dead and at this other the last week. is a senior lecturer at kill university of the u.k. and an analyst of the whole of africa he says that too often ordinary civilians in ethiopia are victims of political violence. and i think it's important that the government take steps to ensure to conduct

a proper investigation in true or i can be as far as the videos are concerned but i think the bigger picture is an important one the prime minister's and our. huge group on the part of the autumn was of course to other groups but if you mean this my need to transition a process he made everything about the stuff he's mind it's when he came into power was too beautiful consensus and pull more pleasure he didn't evil that there was not discussion of political settlement for the country where that is one of the media that the country is in said they 1st views about why don't you as a going to be and we need to move there for the day most people in the country to have in common how many years future there's no discussion. in those boards we're not herons to the prime minister be ably wanted to recreate the country he

saw in me and i think that is where the problem that is it is you know the government has given every step that the government has. a huge blunder in terms of taking the country forward you know this is this incident simply put the transition in completely different next. italy is authorized a charity vessel that rescued more than $100.00 migrants in the mediterranean to dock was through those onboard ocean vikings were picked up after fleeing libya and are heading to sicily where they'll be transferred to a quarantine ship the migrants have been on the ocean viking for over a week and the charity had to declare a state of emergency on friday because of violence on board. well still ahead here on out is there an aed base outside the libyan capital is attacked by foreign forces back in world cleave hafter being blamed plus. i'm told how with a herd of llamas in

a field in reading the fight against covert 19 has come to this. how i once again welcome to the look of the international forecast hot dry sums up the weather across the middle east so business as usual hey we're seeing temperatures getting close to 50 degrees for some 50 celsius possibility in kuwait quite a brisk wind just making its way out of iraq a gentle smile fading down into the gulf as we go through the next couple days just knocking the temperatures back a little even though hearts around 43 to grace still plenty of enough lots of sunshine there as you can see maybe want to see showers still just around the southern end of the red sea joining up with the showers around ever try around the theo pushing across say uganda running over towards bond towards cameroon southern

parts of nigeria seeing some heavy rain once again so we'll see that wet weather continuing as we go on through monday and on into tuesday a little change here but notice some coastal showers just running up across kenya pushing up into southern parts of somalia just notice some showers too in the forecast for the northeast of madagascar as we go through the next couple of days elsewhere across southern africa well financed right pretty much sums it out lots of sunshine coming through temperatures there are 19 celsius in cape town winds will pick up here as we go on through choose day height then the 50. but. an image can change the way we see the womb if we had not seen the us we quickly talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created this longing for a full opportunity that can obscure the truth this is

a legitimate news story but this next and talking points are pretty i don't think it can forge narratives or rewrite from the listening post gives you the full picture on a. more. or. the off. book about what you know to 0 it means the whole rob a reminder of our top stories iran's atomic energy organization is a knowledge that last week's fire at a major nuclear facility caused significant damage this could now slow down the country's production of advanced centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium. the border between australia's 2 most populous states is due to close on tuesday

victoria has seen a spike in ukraine a virus cases prompting the decision to shut the frontier with new south wales indefinitely and colombia is reporting a surgeon covert cases of deaths along caribbean coast the region accounts for almost half of the country's fate tallaght doctors say many deaths are going on reporters. libya as you would recognize government has condemned to recapture their base in the west of the country it's unsafe for an air force carried out the attack the loss of the facility and he was amongst a string of recent defeats for ward cleaver have to push him out of large parts of western libya have to launch an offensive to seize the capital tripoli. but he would have had has more from tripoli 5 air strikes are targeted by an identified warplanes but the government here in tripoli especially the defense minister just stated saying that. foreign fighter jets carried out the

attacks on turkish military facilities. air base that includes an air defense system according to. 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 here 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 after warplanes is trying to send a message to try to disrupt what it calls the victory that has been achieved by the government forces it helped by the military and specially taken control of western libya from forces loyal to the world really for have to. well as the

a selection approaches president double trouble is not just the bill of attacks from by because of his opposing party but also his own prominent republicans are saying about vote for the presumptive democratic candidate joe biden actively working to help get him elected political hay reports. there's morning in america this viral ad to 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 weak 1 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 donald trump is running around like a crazy person doing the things that he does what

a tweet gets in his head or ad that 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. hitting him on issues that he's made clear bother him like crowd size turnout in tulsa. his physical health we seem you're shaking. keep your palms up and it's getting worse and his handling of the coronavirus i don't think he 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 relection 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 where donald trump if he does want to 2nd term has an easy route to continue to do things in this nationalist populous way that we think is a 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. the trump 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 hayne al-jazeera joe watkins is

a republican political strategist and former white house aide to george h.w. bush he doesn't think many of trump's supporters will be swayed by. i think to the degree that this election is about president trump and dislike of the president it becomes hard for joe biden to win on that alone because he'll have to show that he has policies that people that more americans like than dislike americans i think especially the president's base likes the idea of lower taxes and less regulation like what he's done with regards to the trade agreements that like what he's done with regards to foreign policy and i think that he'll continue to hammer home that before the pandemic he had helped build a very strong economy and that he's best position to return the economy to strength and joe biden is going to have to disprove all that it can't be the fact that you don't like donald trump that can't be the reason 'd and the reason alone for people voting for joe biden and that's so that's the case that joe biden has to make is

that you need me not only because you don't like president trouble because i have policies that you like better than the policy the president trump champions and i think that's a tall order but it's been counter the dominican republican presidential election sunday is that it was delayed because of the crime violence tunde i think 6 candidates vying for the top jumping cleaning business not from trying to lease the neda opinion polls suggest he could alse the governing center left policy which has been in power the 16 yanis model repeller has been following the election from mexico city. the polls have closed the votes are being counted rashly waiting at this point for the electoral authority to announce the 1st 20 percent of counted votes but in the lead up to the to the election on sunday it was a clear front runner ahead saloon now that he is a 2nd time political presidential candidate he's a well known businessman in the tourism industry and been in the public a u.s. educated economist and also the nominee for the modern revolutionary party or

p.r.n. in the dominican republic his main opposition party is the main opposition he's running against steele he is a former minister of public works and also the incumbent the nominee for the incumbent party dominican liberation party there isn't a lot of ideological differences between these 2 parties they're considered centrist within the context of presidential politics in dominican republic but a win by luis de it would take power away from the dominican liberation party's stranglehold almost 20 years of the last 24 years have been under the control of this party so there are signs of a massive almost tectonic shift in politics crozier's governing center right party is returning to power after a better than expected election performance prime minister playing cribbage celebrated in zagreb as official results show his hate party winning 66 of the

151 member of parliament to lead support from several small groups but can avoid an alliance with the far right party croatia's taurus dependent economy is in the midst of a recession worsened by the coronavirus well around the world the search zone for effective treatment to combat the virus in the u.k. scientists have turned to herd of lumber to provide very small antibodies which they believe could neutralize the virus has the story. what does a herd of llamas have to do with code 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. we have toddy we have sports. we have. and the star of this particular show fifi is the 1st in the universe is that we've used in the research. and other species such as camels and

alpacas produce specialized 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 coded 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. 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 of course for coated 90. the daily pace of llama life 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 lama nobody's to neutralize the coronavirus jonah hole al-jazeera reading. for the lords returned after a form of to lay calls by the pandemic but before the austrian wrong pre drivers protested against racial and social injustice david stokes reports. before the race in austria all 20 drivers took part in a protest against racism after reports of disagreements among the group is how best to do it they all wore end racism t.

shirts and the majority took the knee 6 chose not to the world champion lewis hamilton f one's only black driver was the only one wearing a black lives matter shirt. then it was time to race 4 months after the original opener in melbourne was called off because of coronavirus the sadie's valtteri bottas was on pole and got away cleanly at the start to open up a healthy lead. his team mate hamilton started back in 5th but quickly worked his way up to 3rd and that soon became 2nd after red bulls much to stepan was forced out with engine problems on lap 14. despite numerous incidents and safety cars miss avies managed to keep the tyson hamilton safely out in front but they did warn them they needed to look after their cars. well treatises james ticket box issues is critical to the state should show show then more drama followed kimi reichman lost his right wheel which meant another safety car had to come out while stewards

recovered his alfre m a o that bunched up the pack and allowed others to put the miss a tease and the pressure alex albon in the red bull attempted to pass hamilton with 10 laps left hamilton blocked him and alvin spun off and ultimately out of the race but it was to cost hamilton did too even though he crossed the line 2nd behind but us he was handed a 5 2nd time penalty which dropped him down into 4th which meant it was ferrari chose the clerk who took 2nd mclaren's lando norris inferred at 20 years old he's the 3rd youngest driver ever to claim a podium finish in formula one there was no social distancing back in the mclaren garridge i'm just surviving easy mistake to be on the podium in the 1st place yes it would be nice to share with the fans in. to have to have a few more people but yeah i'm just so happy i did not expect to be to finish peter today so yes we may debate a best out of it's for me best way to start the season as

a team i think we're leading of course we could have got more points i don't know if you're taking anyway right now i think it just the race is done and i just feel like moving forwards it wasn't to be for hamilton in the opening race but thanks to this season's makeshift calendar he'll get another chance at the same circuit in a week's time david stokes out 0. your child is there with liza her rob a reminder of our top stories iran's atomic energy organization is acknowledged at last week's fire at a major nuclear facility cause significant damage it could slow production of advanced centrifuges which are used for iranian enrichment also the border between australia's 2 most populous states is due to close on choose there's been a spike in credible risk cases of victoria prompting the decision to shut the front ear with new south wales indefinitely colombia is reporting

a surge in covert cases and deaths along its caribbean coast intensive care units in the capital are filling up the regional accounts on more than half of the country's fatalities doctors say many deaths are going and reported at least $166.00 people are now known to have died in ethiopia during protests following the killing of a popular singer and activists officials blame the deaths on both the response to the arrest by security forces and into ethnic violence cigarette how to hunt deaths or was a member of ethiopia's largest ethnic group the oromo he was shot dead in addis ababa last week libya's un recognized government has condemned raids on a recaptured air base in the west of the country it says a foreign air force carried out the attacks the loss of the base was amongst a string of recent defeats for warlord khalifa haftar. there's been protests against the turkish intervention in libya they took place in benghazi which is a stronghold of forces loyal to him after he's fighting again use the un recognized

government which is backed by turkey. votes are being counted in the dominican republic presidential election sunday's vote was delayed because of the crowd of virus pandemic 6 candidates vying for the top job including business but of the front runner luis updater opinion poll suggests that he could else the governing center left party which has beaten path for 16 years. and croatia's governing sensorites party is returning to power after a better than expected election performance prime minister. the celebrated official results showed his hate days said party winning at least $66.00 of the $151.00 the parliament and support from several smaller groups but can avoid an alliance with the far right those with the headlines the listening post is next on al-jazeera i'll see you in half an hour. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter. how does

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