on the whole just 0. the showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al-jazeera. man. india now has the 3rd largest cases of the covert 19 in the world as it prepares to reopen some of its famous money it's. ironic that this is al jazeera life and there are also coming out. an indefinite closure for the border between australia's 2 most populous states after a sudden rise in corona virus cases. in china detained an academic who has criticized president xi over the pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power. and renowned italian composer and un water kone best known for his western film scores

has died at the age of 90. 7 india has surged past russia with about 700000 coronavirus cases making it the 3rd worst hit country in the world globally nearly 11 and a half 1000000 people are now confirmed to have had the virus india is reporting close to 25000 new cases every day more than 19000 people have died so far many cities are now tightening restrictions to try to halt a new spike in cases and in australia the border between its 2 most populous states that's 2 to close on tuesday there's been a rise in cases in victoria prompting the decision to shut the border with new south wales indefinitely and latin america now accounts for about half of all new infections case the cases that have tripled in just a month with brazil and mexico their worst affected nations well elizabeth program

is in the india's capital new delhi and she says india is ramping up its effort against coronavirus. the indian government says that it has is continuing to expand testing in fact it says it's now tested 10000000 people testing 300000 people every day and what the worst hit states are doing is that they continue to test more people. and their facilities here and. the results of the series to determine the spread the virus we also heard from delhi's chief minister a few hours ago and he was positive about the situation despite the fact that delhi has reached needy 100000 cases and that's because he says that only a 3rd of the region's 15000 beds currently in use do you remember a few weeks ago delhi had a real problem. but he says that most people are now recovering at home having said

that he pleaded with those who. think that the worst hit cities are doing is they. as a way of treating patients and so people are trying to the government states are trying to deal with this by expanding testing expanding facilities but you can also see behind me i'm at. one of the most popular tourist sites in the country on the 1st day that monuments around the country have been allowed to open and despite the fact that something like 8000 visitors would come to put the every day there's been about 50 who come to visit in the last 8 hours that it's been opened and the reason being is people are not going out for non essential things because of that rise in the number of cases where as you mentioned the border between most populous states is closing on tuesday the new south wales premier says the decision wasn't taken

lightly. we have done mispriced on health advice and especially given the fact that when how nice and had those high number of cases back in february and march the vast majority of those prices were from either face travelers all the direct contact what is happening in victoria is very different which is why i've been trying to take these cases serious stance we would have taken the stance on this we absolutely had to want to know from our reporter nicholas gates who sent us this update from a strain is capital of congress 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 is charlie has been very successful up until now really to suppress. 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 over the not on sunday now that he's like the biggest jump in cases that victoria has seen since the start of this hand to make which is why many different social distancing measures have now returned so you dozens of suburbs now returning to strict social distancing measures but also you 3000 papal stuff at least 5 days if not more in 9 public housing towers in melbourne that means like on leave holmes for the next 5 days until the government makes another decision on what will happen. now that 3 high profile hong kong activists have appeared in

court charged with organizing an illegal protest last year the trio included the pro-democracy leader joshua wall who denied the charges his political party disbanded last week that the china imposed a controversial national security your own hong kong he said activist would be prime targets of the law which bans any activity that beijing considers subversive outside the court he said the protesters shouldn't give up with the rest of our present safety with a friend of life sentence and we might be worried also. by beijing but we also encourage the. global community to let our voice being heard in the world but as we still have any possibility we still have to let the world to know that that is the kind of hope and now it's time for ha ha let's keep our momentum in a related development hong kong court has denied bail to the 1st person charged under the new national security law

a 23 year old tong young kid is accused of driving his motorcycle into a police officers during a protest last wednesday he was holding a banner that read liberate hong kong revolution of our times that's a slogan that been banned by the government for inciting separatism and subversion . and china has worn the united kingdom to stay out of hong kong's affairs or face the consequences the u.k. side knows. is no longer under its colonial rule and the hong kong and. now. you're here has no sovereignty there is diction all right so supervision. and. the ok government keeps making you responsible remarks. ruling soul all 6 monthly recall on. what china has also detained

a law professor who strongly criticized the president xi jinping over the pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power in an essay titled the viral alarm when a fury overcomes fear zoos and root the cause of all these lies ultimately is the axle and that's a reference to shooting ping and the cabal that surrounds him it began with the imposition of stern bans on the reporting of and curate information about the virus which served to embolden deception at every level of the government well sarah clarke has been following the grounds arrest from hong kong we did have a number of sources confirm that he has been arrested and put in his friends i was wife said she received a phone call from police in sichuan saying that he'd been arrested for soliciting prostitution and he was reportedly taken away by more than a dozen place from his residence in beijing as friends say that he'd be put under house arrest from in beijing from around

a few days before so between june 30th and july for when they had gone to his house to welcome his release but as a result they found he'd been already been arrested now a bit of background about him as a prominent legal scholar he had a publisher in new york published a number of his articles which were critical of the communist party as well as she jumping and his friends think that my trickett he's a wrist now they his friend said basically that he confirms the rest but they've also confirmed he was suspended by his university in 2019 it was after publishing an article once again critical of the government or beijing has accused washington of sending warships to the disputed south china sea to provoke tensions between countries in the region the us has its 2 navy aircraft carriers have been conducting military exercises since saturday china says the u.s. is deliberately trying to show off its military power. iran is now admitting that. that's hands that nuclear facility cause significant damage it's atomic energy organization says that damage could slow development of centrifuges used to enrich

uranium the tehran says it is planning to update the facility with more advanced equipment. as 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. and only 40 people are feared dead in japan after terentia rain triggered floods and mudslides a roads and bridges on the island of cuba should have been washed away and leaving many isolated communities cut off and thirties have ordered 200000 residents to leave their homes the heavy rain is expected to last until tuesday afternoon so they are an al-jazeera we look at how sweden's urban farming operation is growing from strength to strength. collaboration of all it's how the u.s. and afghanistan are working together to preserve the rich.

had others been deadly flooding in q shoe and the risk of further rain is still with us because this system the seasonal system stretches from japan back to china is rather slow moving of the next 2 or 3 days where you get pulses of the orange running through it that is the heavier forecast rain cue shoes bangali in line again so is the rest of japan to be honest but it's just southwestern areas had it worst and will get more of the same on the chinese and the same potential is there or flooding there for landslides the potential there or some pretty nasty conditions it is sees no but you're unfortunate if you sit under there for 3 days back to be a negative effect the monsoon rains in indian are pretty widespread you can see satellite pictures sort of gives it away there's been a mess here as well an attempt to tropical circulation tropical depression which

brought bring several 100 millimeters of rain we think to go to rot throughout the rest of the day and indeed tomorrow again that is potentially quite dangerous elsewhere not quite as heavy rain but pretty well scattered virtually everywhere in northern india rather less so further south of course in the west and gets you might expect that with the southwest monsoon it is raining as a pakistan a scattering of showers but no more. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs for much better marketeers like bill gates was apple why should we ban the bomb bill made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired the digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera.

org . and again know what she out 0 among the top stories this hour and india has overtaken russia to become the 3rd worst hit country from the corona virus pandemic to its reporting nearly $25000.00 new cases every day with nearly 700000 infections not confirmed nationwide. china has arrested a professor who published essays criticizing president xi jinping is handling of the coronavirus pandemic that zoos and prudence of friends say he was taken from him in beijing by more than a dozen officers and that was on monday. iran's atomic energy organization is

acknowledged that last week's fire at a major nuclear facility cause significant damage this could slow production of advanced centrifuges until used to enrich uranium. opposition candidate. has claimed victory in the dominican republic the presidential race the election had been scheduled to take place may but was postponed because of the outbreak of the west of any caribbean nation and more apolo as will. the government of the dominican republic east coronavirus restrictions on sunday to encourage people to get out and vote in national elections. the dominican republic is the caribbean nation worst affected by the pandemic special voting schedules were adopted to account for elderly voters considered more at risk during the outbreak i hope that in this election's the candidate loses is a good looser and the one who selected knows that he was the people who chose not so he can benefit but he noted to work for the people on. sundays national

elections were the 2nd since 1904 to elect a president vice president both chambers of congress and representatives to the central american parliament to the minister of public is leaving now i'm unique and i have to say that we are witnessing in major shift in the believe over in the meaning where one party has only needed or the last 24 years their local asians. their scales in favor of them or their revolutionary or b r m. presidential candidate luis i.v. now that nominee for the modern revolutionary party was ahead in the polls in the lead up to sunday's elections. having secured more than 50 percent of the vote 52 year old luis we know that was announced president elect of the dominican republic and lit up a little al-jazeera. found its way to his mother the 209th anniversary of its

independence from spain with a military parade in the capital caracas president nicolas maduro used the occasion to criticize u.s. sanctions and the measures combined with the plummeting oil prices have pushed the oil rich nation to the brink of collapse this health care system is struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. you know in a final. when venezuela and other countries in the world were faced with the pandemic in march april of may we thought that american imperialism would take a pause stop its aggressions turns out to be the other way around on the contrary they intensified their criminal sanctions a campaign against food against medicine against petrol that venezuela seeks and buys in the world they sought to create an unmanageable crisis they sought suffering for the venezuelan people it's i'm a cob fascist vision that has prevailed upon the right wing coup mongers of venezuela of the anti patriotic right wing of venezuela as well as in the american

empire. will always new president to lunch with trick where i was sworn into office last sunday but have scaled back and all gratian ceremony is now underway just 100 people are attending the event in the capital a long way because of the covert $1000.00 pandemic is also independence day in malawi an event that was originally planned to the $20000.00 seat national stadium trick where one in an election runoff to more than a year of political turmoil triggered by result was cancelled by the courts. the coronavirus crisis has disrupted global food supply chains needing to shortages in some countries and the world bank is warning 130000000 people could be at risk of starvation but an increasingly popular urban farming system could help provide a solution or research reports now from sweden's capital stock. it's harvest time but not as we know it these very modern farm hands are bringing in the crops

from a vertical farm plants growing from the walls instead of the ground no tractors required just a pair of scissors and artificial intelligence sensors that feed information on factors like speed of growth and nutrition content into a central database so that on this farm the computer is in charge. the farm that you're seeing here everything is basically connected so all the part of me is that we have that have an influence on the growth of a plan for controlling that we're building are basically food brain that control everything by help of artificial intelligence and recreate the perth or. the mint basil kale and get everything they could ever desire light water humidity temperature tailored to their individual needs and without the risky business of growing out in nature anyone inside the farm has to wear a protective suit like this to stop bacteria coming in from outside it also means

they don't need pesticides so you can eat the produce straight off the wall. they taste better than the average supermarket solids and they're already being sold in local stores and restaurants in stockholm. and local means local the sweet green farm hidden under this building in an old newspaper archive is part of a program called the neighbor food it aims to give all urban sweets access to produce grown within yards of the door. the global movement in urban farming could play a vital role in preventing food. he sees them as covert 19 exposes weaknesses in the supply chain that have left people hungry everywhere from zimbabwe to the u.s. the climate crisis the epidemic ongoing right now has shown us how vulnerable we are in the cities we become very passive consumers we want to turn that around and where people start producing in the spaces that are otherwise empty those spaces below our buildings can be used for food production this farms so-called food brain

is available on subscription so any start ups can have their own environment controlled from here it could make vertical farming a growth industry that puts more food within easy reach at a time when it's most needed paul reese al-jazeera stock. one of the world's most visited museums is opening its doors again after the pandemic forced its closure it's the louvre in paris of the mona lisa i did was last opened in mid march right to say the 16 week closure has cost the museum about $45000000.00 in lost ticket sales during peak tourist season the museum can draw up to $50000.00 visitors a day but manages expect those numbers to drop drastically with tourism in a standstill well the u.k. government is investing $2000000000.00 to help its cultural institutions and the arts during the pandemic emergency grants and loans will be available to both public and private museums galleries theatres heritage sites and music venues

industry leaders have been calling for financial help for several weeks warning that many of the venues were on the brink of collapse were challenges in london with more on the reaction from the industry to the offer. there has been a collective gasp of relief from across the arts and cultural world in the u.k. because as he was saying there this sense of desperation has been really building volume over the last few weeks with campaigns to try and prompts the government into some sort of action you can see one of them here outside this closed their missing life say the tape has been spread across the doors the fear has been that if nothing was done then. 50 to 70 percent of the is and music venues and galleries exactly just wouldn't be able to reopen their doors again when the coronavirus crisis passes some redundancies are already been happening the

national theater announced recently that it was laying off $400.00 casual star the sector employees around 700000 people in total so many many jobs could have been lost and then of course there's the hits that would have been taken by. the that the soul of the country really because culture is so important to how a country sees and views itself from britain is famous for its culture around the well said this so you $1000000000.00 in grants and loans is an absolute lifeline parts there are still big questions that remain because this is like this say they need some something like 50 percent of capacity to be filled just to break even so with social distancing and audience is reduced there are still you know a cloud hanging over the industry and that question hasn't really been answered yet . the oscar winning italian film composer in your marconi has died at the age of 91 . this marconi writes music for

more than $500.00 films but he was famous for the haunting and original schools featured in western the classics melodies and a fistful of dollars in the good the bad and the ugly are among his best well known because most well known work music writer andrew perry says that morricone is what changed how stories were told in cinema. the thing about film music was that it was always really guys just like your emotions through the story and. you know you didn't really notice it that was. what morricone soundtrack kind of. the mid sixty's almost particularly eager to get a face to get us to soundtracks is that a thanks to combustible row and. they were almost. certainly yes as a kid i remember. you know how big the. way to get crystal around in

a playground good about yucky you know it was. just what film he film music school a very different place but the latter is known for his call for well peace and resistance against chinese rule of tibet's but this year is decided to try something new reversal might. serve the customers. the exiled buddhist a spiritual leader is marking his 85th birthday with the release of a music album of mantras and teachings in a world came about when 2 musicians from new zealand contacted him in 2015 with this idea of collaborating. some of the earliest stunts use of buddha are among the precious items house at the national museum of afghanistan the united states estimates that nearly 70 percent of the treasures have looted or destroyed during 4

decades of war on the streets taliban rule now historians at the university of chicago and teachers in afghanistan working to preserve what's next of this cultural heritage 100 houses. under the taliban this would have been unthinkable bringing pre islamic art to students boys and girls across afghanistan. we feel like we're inside the national museum and watching all of the history our country has 5000 years of history we knew about it but we did not see them close up in conflict ravaged afghanistan travel can be prohibitively expensive often dangerous sometimes impossible so in an extraordinary collaboration with the u.s. state department the university of chicago's oriental institute has crafted 3 d. replicas of the historic treasures of the national museum of afghanistan in kabul afghanistan is one of the richest areas in the world for the history of the

development of civilizations and this very rich heritage has been threatened over the last 30 or 40 years by constant warfare that has devastated not only the country and its people but also the cultural heritage the history that defines what that country is. now halfway around the globe a mobile museum is taking replicas of afghanistan's cultural heritage on tour let you go to the doctor i saw all these specimens only in bucks but today we saw them right here this creature is called to it stood outside the assyrian palace of king sargon in what is now northern iraq around $700.00 b.c. it has the body of a bull the wings of an eagle and the wisdom of man and for that reason it's just the kind of graven image the groups like i still have destroy sac religious the

goal of the museum is to preserve endangered art like this and in afghanistan where many people can't come to the museum to bring the museum to them. and the project is one part education one part cultural preservation to end the kind of efforts to erase known islamic cultural heritage that occurred when the taliban blew up these massive 6th century british figures and bombing of. the statue of happened in the villages because often lack of knowledge about the importance of the city. with the taliban actively seeking a return to power the replicas recreated in a university of chicago lab or also insurance that whatever happens to the original objects of art crafted on afghan soil the country's historical artifacts will not be erased john hendren al jazeera chicago bus letters football captain leyland messi is going nowhere and he will finish his career at the council on club that's according to club president joseph but the bottom messi helped his side to

a $41.00 win over the league a. legal window villareal on sunday but there's been a lot of talk in the last few days about the auction time be unhappy at the club report suggested he might leave when his contract expires and 2021 of his presidents insists that's will not be the case. this is out there these are the top stories and india has overtaken russia to become the 3rd worst hit country from the corona virus pandemic it's reporting nearly 25000 new cases every day with nearly 700000 factions not confirmed why this birth has more from india's capital new delhi. single highest day raw is that we are seeing those almost every other day and. india is the 3rd worst affected

country now and the states are trying to deal with that situation by increasing testing the government has said that it's now tested more than 10000000 people in testing about 300000 people across the country every day the worst hit states like . china has arrested a professor who published criticizing president choosing ping's handling of the coronavirus pandemic zoos and grooms friends say he was taken from his home in beijing by more than a dozen officers on monday at 3 high profile hong kong activists we appeared in court charged with organizing an illegal protest last year the trio included pro-democracy leader joshua wall who denied the charges its political party disbanded last week after trying to impose a controversial national security law on hong kong and a related development hong kong court has denied bail to the 1st person charged under the new national security law 23 year old kit is accused of driving his

motorcycle into police officers during a protest last wednesday. iran's atomic energy organization has acknowledged that last week's fart a major nuclear facility cause significant damage this could slow production of advanced centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium. at the oscar winning italian film and your motor company has died at the age of 91 a more kind of roots music for more than 500 films but he was famous for the haunting and original schools that were featured in speakers western classics the melodies in a fistful of dollars in the good the bad and the ugly are among his best. all right your state with all the headlines on al-jazeera got more news coming up right after inside story after.

another setback for the iran nuclear deal to her own triggers a dispute mechanism saying european powers are doing their part to keep the agreement alive and with the u.s. to turn into isolation iran is the deal with saving face is inside story. hello welcome to the program on iran iran is expressing frustration with the efforts to save the 2015 u.k. deal it's triggered a mechanism to resolve issues with britain france and germany the iranian foreign minister sent a letter to.