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nearly 11 and a half 1000000 people are now confirmed to have or have had corona virus around the world the u.s. remains by far the hardest hit country so far more than 130000 people have died from the virus there and infections are soaring the worsening situation has led new york's governor to urge donald trump not to be a coconspirator of the pandemic and acknowledge that it is a major problem latin america now accounts for about half of all new infections cases there. we have tripled in just a month with brazil mexico and venezuela the worst affected nations and israel has announced it's immediately closing all bars and nightclubs gyms and event halls prime minister benjamin netanyahu says is necessary to avoid a why to a lockdown ok for more on the coronavirus situation in the u.s. let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly halted who is in washington d.c.

kimberly we heard from como very briefly there but this was part of a wider press briefing and he had some very strong words. yeah as the situation in terms of crowd of virus continues to surge in the number of cases democratic governor of new york state andrew cuomo criticizing the republican u.s. president for not only enabling the virus in his view but also in many cases essentially downplaying the seriousness of it that the u.s. president for his part has blamed the increased number of cases on a surge in testing in the united states but he's also made the claim over the weekend that 99 percent of the cases are harmless something that many americans are pushing back on and this is the focus of criticism by the new york state governor who is the president don't be a coconspirator of covert do one simple thing

acknowledge to the american people that covert exists it is a major problem it's going to continue until we admit it and each of us states up to do our part. if he does not acknowledge that then he is facilitating the virus he is enabling the virus. ok really just as you were mentioning before in parts of the u.s. cases are soaring parts of them locked on parts of them are opening up to bring us up to date with what the situation is in the u.s. at the moment. i think you just capsulated some of the frustrations that local leaders are feeling as some of them have knowledge now that they've rushed too soon to open up their economies and now are having to do in some cases just the opposite

shut things back down that's what we're seeing in south florida an order being signed there in that state that will close dining halls gyms and other businesses and also what we're seeing across the sunbelt is this continuous spike in cases that is the southern part of the united states states like arizona texas as well what we're seeing is that there is a new average that's being hit me united states in a record being broken one that is not one to be proud of and that is the rolling 7 day average has hit a record high for the 27th day in a row now where we are in terms of numbers more than 2900000 cases 127000 deaths and again the frustration coming from local leaders is that they feel that the message from the top from the white house has been conflicting at times that we see this now shaping up as an election issue is the democratic presidential nominee joe biden showing a stark contrast he says in terms of how he would manage this criticizing donald

trump who of course is the president right now accusing him of stumbling in the response as the numbers continue to search and so departed toes correspondent kimberly holding the whole cards talking us through how politics and the coronavirus are becoming into mixed ahead of the election kimberly thank you very much. well as we mentioned earlier the infection rate in latin america is rising rapidly our latin american editor of the sea and human is joining us live now from santiago and across latin america we're seeing very different approaches to handling the coronavirus let's talk about brazil in peru the number of cases there is rising but they seem determined to reopen their economies what's the thinking behind this. well the that's something that's that's difficult to understand in fact latin america has nearly half of all the cases right now that the new cases we in the case of brazil 1600000 and more than 60 $5000.00 deaths

which is enormous and peru per capita has the 2nd highest death rate rather per 1000000 inhabitants has the 2nd highest death rate and a huge amount of infections much higher we understand that what is officially has been recognized and the problem is that in brazil we know that just like in the case of president donald trump of the u.s. his colleague. matter doesn't believe that it's more than just a mild flu he has fought. one health minister after the other who have been trying to promote a social distancing quarantines he has said that that is just simply won't have it and now what we're seeing is that after all these months instead of lockdowns being increased as the infection start there being eased in cities for example like sao paolo which is the largest city in all of brazil where for a while the governor and the mayor had tried to impose strict quarantine measures

but now that eaves them in fact as i speak they're going to allow gymnasiums to open bars restaurants these are on the list of the 3 most contagious places for people to go to during a pandemic and yet they're going to be reopened because they have because of very very strong pressure from the business sector which says that it's going bankrupt and that it can't take it anymore and the same thing is happening in peru the government had kept quarantines for 4 months and says basically has thrown in the towel and said this isn't working and people are beginning to starve so we're going to have to let people go back to work even though it has a bit of total opening up of the economy they were there they're starting to turn a blind eye to those who violate quarantines just as we were saying it is that very different approaches across the country to highlight but let's look at venice when the numbers there comparatively lower and yet it is going back into lockdown just talk us through the process behind bars. it's very

interesting both in the case of venezuela and argentina they are good that have very low infection rates compared to all of their neighbors they are there increasing more strict more radical measures if you like as numbers begin to creep up in the case of venezuela we all know that it's a country whose economy is absolutely bankrupt argentina also has serious economic problems but in the case of venezuela the hospitals wouldn't be able to take many more patients than what they're beginning to get now from what we're hearing there's a lot of concern that if it really does explode then people will begin to start dying out on the streets and on the other hand you've got a government that is not able to provide water for people to even watch their hands the and so the thinking is that there's been protests already and it's better to make sure that the army is out on the streets the police to keep people from leaving their homes certainly the opposition is suggesting that this has as much to do with political repression as it has to do with standard 3 reasons but clearly

that israel is not in good shape it to be able to to deal with many more increases of the pandemic nor to allow more venezuelan immigrants who are on the border to come back into the country in fact president. boodle said that he thinks already of other accused directly the colombian government of trying to seek revenge against him by making venezuelans who have are contagious or that have come to contact the 19 called back into the country through illegal border crossings and so they're stepping up the controls of the border as well that's not in our latin america and it's been giving us that round up from santiago thank you israel has announced it's immediately closing all bars nightclubs gyms and event halls are a false sense in west jerusalem and he says the new restrictions on to surprise. we knew that the coronavirus cabinet so-called was meeting on monday there's been

a lot of talk about the way the numbers have been spiking in recent days and weeks hovering at around 1000 a day though 817 on sunday not 107 overnight and there is real fear in the government that despite what was seen as a relatively successful early lockdown you remember israel shut its borders and went into a pretty extreme set of measures very early in the pandemic that even now if there is a 2nd wave as a seems to be in india government officials are talking about a 2nd wave that the health system could become under extremely severe strain if new restrictions on to imposed in this couldn't this might not be the end of it now isn't yos talking the prime minister about being on the step of imposing another lockdown but so far the restrictions are as follows or clubs at the close all bars at the close gyms as well all cultural events there was we understand some serious talk about closing all synagogues as well because again the docks communities in

israel have been a major area of hotspots of infection it is understood the health the interior ministry in syria minister rather not all docs politician argued for synagogues to remain open but they will be limited from down from 50 to a maximum of 1000 people allowed in a synagogue at any one time the number of infections is soaring in the occupied west bank the palestinian authority is imposing a strict lockdown but its reach is limited to areas where 8 exercises control it abraham has more from ramallah. the number of confirmed cases. in. this. friday. and there at. the falls to the health minister says the transmission rate. and that most of the cases have contracted the virus. and funerals not many people have been

. measures put in. several checkpoints this is one of them but there are areas. for. all crossings with. the united nations supervision organization. and 67 lines. to stay in the places. a short minutes drive from. this. because of the. president.

all. because of its. parts. this is business. a report from the u.n. is warning there will be more outbreaks like over 19 unless governments take action and suggesting ways to prevent a so-called zoonotic diseases which are caused by viruses that spread between in humans the result of an increased demand for meat intense farming and exploitation a wildlife report says countries in africa can. their expertise to lead the way in preventing a new pandemic democratic republic of congo and uganda have successfully managed outbreaks of a bowl of malaria and rift valley fever and the report recommends off one health approach that incorporates human animal and environmental wellbeing band of bet as co-leader of the international livestock research institute and he's joining us on

skype from nairobi thank you very much indeed for a giving us your time on knowledge as you know sir if i understand it the w.h.o. it says that there are already about 200 diseases like this isn't this something that should be incorporated in ongoing research thank you for this opportunity yes we are doing lots of research to understand the courses or the processes which it needs to end much and. you see this lake. why is it that the corona virus has decided to trigger this kind of response and this request for a change in the way that people should so it should interact as they say with with animals. many of such diseases are usually ignored don't neglect that if we don't have. and so what does come out clearly is we need might. be in better mental east's bit in their dns and medical professionals so as to

understand what courses that look from from from from area and better mental changes which then drives the causes of these diseases demand for meat and intense farming and exploitation of wildlife been going on for years and so far it does seem that governments in either have either been unable or perhaps unwilling to try to counter it hence the reason we've seen mares and saws and and uncovered 19 why should they be prompted to do anything differently. there's been that trend towards an increase in such cases if you look at you know sort of reports from way in 1930 s. up to now it's that trend towards an increase in such diseases and so we think if we don't do anything now then things it wasn't in the future but the main focus is to understand what causes these fundamental so that we can then in the future be

able to implement better control mischa's to stop such it's one thing isn't it governments and big organizations to take responsibility but is there anything that people as individuals can do to help yes so what we're encouraging people and individual levels is really participate in something a lot and so when the worst. could be in communities in if you're dealing with more. and more actions and so we can we should encourage communities who have bought incidences like these 2 of 30 days at a very fast instance but i bet is called leader of the international livestock research institute we appreciate your time sir thank you very much more ahead on the news i am including. the you know the law. is no

longer under colonial rule china wants britain against interfering in hong kong security law as prominent activists appear in court in the territories. and devastating floods and mudslides sweep across southwest japan killing dozens of people. and still no offers from the n.f.l. but colin kaepernick has just signed a deal with disney details coming up in the sport woodley. the u.k. has sanctioned those involved in the 2800 murders of saudi journalist. a total of $49.00 people and groups have been sanctioned under the u.k. government's new regime targeting human rights abuses the u.k. will also sanction those involved in the killing of russian lawyers said the magnitsky the crackdown on the hinges and those responsible for abuses in north korea those with blood on their hands the thugs that dispose the henchmen of

dictators will not be free to whoops into this country to buy property on the king's road king's road to do their christmas shopping in knightsbridge or frankly to siphon dirty money through british banks run the financial institutions and the labor party says the u.k. government must reconsider stopping the sale of all to saudi arabia. action against those involved in the appalling. shocking and kind of gently say to him that although today is not the day aspiring across the dispatch box that it would be welcome if it marked the start of a more consistent approach from the government towards saudi arabia and in particular the arm sales from this country being used to harm innocent civilians in yemen. books on farming farming on is a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge and she's joining us on skype from london thank you very much indeed for being with us

how significant is it the saudi arabia is on this list was a departure for the u.k. because it's been quite careful about how it's handled the relationship with. mohamed bin some on the crown prince of saudi arabia. commercial relations that have a great deal to do with the amount of arms sales that the u.k. depends on and therefore it's been quite careful about commenting on the yemen war and about the show the. people that have been as it's been part of the killing so this is come as somewhat of a departure because foreign secretary dominic robb when he was making this statement earlier said we can engage with countries and make sure human rights issues are not airbrushed that's when he was talking about saudi arabia now is that somewhat optimistic well certainly it cuts down their opportunity to take that

these issues and close door settings for example has in the past been the excuse if you will that's been used as to why greater public. blame has not been leveled against for example those responsible for the whole show assassination and so i think this is definitely a departure and it is also an opportunity for the u.k. to exercise a very strong. active sovereignty now that it is moving away from the e.u.'s the timing was very key and that's where each and the opportunity to delay their departure from the e.u. took place this weekend and so this was a strong to show that nuclear is going to stand on its own and it's going to exercise this right now of course this wasn't just targeted at soda but people

within saudi arabia we're talking about people in north korea and a 1000000 more under russia as well but there are going to be questions on there about who is not on the list. just yes certainly there is a question has arisen about chinese. actors that perhaps he came a point on to this list later again this is something he has in the past primarily in conjunction with the e.u. or the un so now it is developing a list on its own and also having to anticipate the blowback that this may create and china has already indicated that it will take retaliatory action should the british continue what it's calling pressure and endangerment of its own national interests and that has risen over the hong kong issue so i think there has been

a specific choice here for dominic robb to step away from needle a little chinese even sort of there although that does not mean that there won't be chinese add it to the system the future of the u.k. government has said that the sanctions are designed to encourage better behavior rather than punish do you think that the company the countries on this list actually care what the u.k. has to say. well it's a question that certainly is a justification to the domestic population and to the partners in the. e.u. and it's follows very closely the similar action that the u.s. took in 2018 particularly against these days saudi. operators in the bush over the affair or so i think that it quite is some in some way more complex and more nuanced that it's sending

a signal that it is now taking its own decisions that it is going to make life very difficult for those players are involved in britain and possibly how big the funding that's already here that can be shut down and that has been have been engaged in laundering which the u.k. is very very anxious to cut down but it's also very much a a an opportunity for the u.k. gets no it's hot into the rain on this which should dominate robb's has been wanting to do for some time but there's no particular aspect of this that would suggest that there will be any significant change in behavior as particularly targeted for individuals in terms of sanctions rarely will translate into being really appreciate your time it's good to get your thoughts on this thank you very much indeed for joining us on our jessica my pleasure thank you china has won the

united kingdom to stay out of hong kong's affairs or face the consequences the british prime minister has announced the u.k. will provide a millions of people in hong kong with a pos way to british citizenship the u.k. sorry no swap on home is no longer under the colonial rule and the hung home has returned time and is now time. youl he has no sovereignty restriction or rights of supervision. of the and. the ok government. making the responsible remarks. through it so all 6 monthly recall. 3 high profile hong kong activists appeared in court charged with organizing an illegal protest last year the trio included pro-democracy leader joshua wong who denied the charges his political party disbanded last week after china imposed

a controversial national security law on hong kong he said activists would be prime targets of the law which bans any activity beijing considers subversive outside the code he said protesters shouldn't give up sarah clarke was also outside the hearing in hong kong. 3 arrived at court to appear on charges of inciting taking pot and organizing what was deemed an illegal assembly in june last year at the place headquarters and this was at the beginning of those anti extradition anti-government protests that joshua won and ivan lam they pleaded not guilty to all those charges i just pleaded guilty to 2 of them inciting and knowingly taking part of the 3 valid to continue their fight for democracy in hong kong but in light of the introduction of the new national security laws they've acknowledged they face an uphill battle and they've called on the international community to help free up us. about our future with a friend of life sentence and also big by beijing but we also encourage the global

community to let our voice being heard in the world we still have to let the world to know that now is the congress time of hope and now is the time for home promise keep our momentum joshi along with the face of the occupy wall pro-democracy movement back in 2014 and he's long been a target of a political target and by china and hong kong government he's told the media he expects to be pursued under these new national security laws and could be extradited to china but he says he want to kowtow to beijing is already had his books removed from government libraries in hong kong but he says he won't be silenced as well. dozens of people are feared dead in southern japan as torrential rain and severe flooding continues across several asian countries many of the victims were elderly the been staying at a nursing home the region rescue teams are still on the lookout for survivors robert bribes has the latest. a weekend of punishing rains across the southern

japanese island of kew shu and this is the result. wide scale flooding and landslides especially along the swollen river which burst its banks. as the rains intensified thousands of people were urged to leave their homes but some opted to stay fearing the coronavirus despite assurances from the authorities that they'd be safe one elderly care home was inundated with a number of its residents presumed dead or missing rescue teams have been sent to the area to help look for missing people and to help with the clean up i wish there was someone who can help us says this restaurant owner the government says it's mobilizing all resources to tackle the emergency peers. over 40000 members through the units of the police fire department self defense forces and coast guard are putting all their effort into searching in rescuing to save people's lives. for

japan it's the worst natural disaster since a typhoon struck last october which killed around 90 people q shoe is used to powerful summer floods and has in place strong defenses against them but for now with more rains forecast those defenses seem to be overwhelmed. robert bright al-jazeera. still ahead an al-jazeera a collaboration of odds how the u.s. and afghanistan are working together to preserve a rich heritage. on the quarantine weight gain and help this goal for when his latest title that's coming up with lean in this sport. the dust has settled in most places the middle east the strong and strong as it was

in the action is already in this edge of the moment soon whether been some big shows again developing in northern amman there in the forecast i suspect was the most active weather is across the saudi arabian sea in gojira out there be a spin off showers in the high ground the mountains nor the man of course allows picking up daily a complete cover of counting start to drizzle you get this orange sheen here that is the dust brought down in the breeze which is by no means a strong one those picking up again in northern iraq tensions on the high side of the forty's except notably in the $137.00 that suggests this coming off the gulf has become humid once more something will happen and loss across a long time for the next 2 months if you follow the satellite picture your eyes are drawn right across here just about into some houses where the big showers tend to be we get a little waves of them develop in the in the ethiopian hands and going west with or developing further west and sitting around some in the case recently in gondor nigeria and syria and they going as far north almost as sad ago and gambia

but also that is a very dry picture again the orange represents just held in the wind. but. it's all dismissed live under taker it's working here it's a 7 days a week that's grown with a community my father purchased a black ambulance and started to do the funerals in london and the family we saw stopping bothering to watch and we can is this part of the stories we don't often hear told by the people who the gift is such a level of. east and undertakers this is europe on al-jazeera. a secret mass grave in arlon discovered at an institution run by catholic non-news . a nation shocked to its core. people in power investigates

a scandal but destroyed families cost thousands of lives and still raises profound questions about the toys between the catholic church and the irish state. arlin's mother and baby scar. on a. if . you want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour the governor of new york andrew cuomo is urging donald trump to acknowledge that corona virus is a major problem and says trump should not be a coconspirator of the virus more than 130000 people have now died following

a massive surge of cases in some states. the u.k. has sanctioned those involved in the 2800 murder of saudi journalists. a total of $49.00 people and groups opened sanctioned under the u.k. government's new framework targeting human rights abuses. china has warned the united kingdom to stay out of its security law in hong kong or face the consequences meanwhile 3 high profile hong kong activists have appeared in court charged with all denies in an illegal protest last year over the law. russia is due to hold a video conference with members of the so-called open skies treaty they're expected to discuss the u.s. decision to withdraw from the agreement 34 states have signed the document which came into effect in 2002 it allows member states to perform unarmed observation flights over each other's territory at short notice no area can be declared off limits by the host nation the idea was to promote openness and transparency on

military activity but after president donald trump's decision to pull out last month russia has accused the white house are working to derail all control agreements. public felt and how as a defense and military analyst and as a columnist from the via gazeta he explains why russia is trying to mobilize more countries against the us in the treaty itself there is a cause that some state decides to abrogate as the macam decide that they should be in the months time a conference of the other members of the treaty to decide what to do moscow has officially said that they don't expect any breakthroughs but the same time russia kind of wants to mobilize either countries 1st or where european countries true are not happy with it or not trump decision and they really want this kind of see how much moscow can actually turn other european allies of the united

states against the united states in this particular issue but maybe and others too and this also moscow says it wants to do some kind of cost to be put in the south that the united states ashura to read some that's amber 22 as tears being this decided in washington well not to share get. intelligence from this treaty because under the treaty will be they think that it is shared between all the member countries and since united states is not there it should not get it so again that's a kind of try to get the others against america. the former associate of convicted u.s. sex offender jeffrey epstein has been moved from new hampshire to a new york city jail but his social life here in maxwell was arrested and charged on thursday she's accused to working with that student to recruit

a young girls to be abused in these circles and she's facing up to 35 years in prison jeffrey epstein committed suicide when awaiting trial last august given the elizondo is joining us now from new york just bring us up to date with what's been happening here bill. maxwell was transferred from new hampshire where she was arrested last thursday and spent the weekend in a jail there about 2 hours north of boston she's now been transferred here to proclaim to this federal detention center the metropolitan correctional facility here in brooklyn that you see behind me she was transferred here mid to morning on this monday morning the bureau of prisons is not releasing much more information. other than that but we do know that she will have 'd a court hearing later this week at some point with a federal judge in new york city it will be a bail hearing where the judge will decide if she's allowed to be released on bail

or not prosecutors have already said they're going to vigorously argue against her being released on bail because they claim she has 3 passports and access to tens of millions of dollars in more than a dozen bank accounts linked to her all over the world now this maxwell now at this jail behind me is so appalled big fall from grace from her life in glitzy and glamorous life and very expensive homes that she had around the world she was arrested in new hampshire in a $1000000.00 estate that prosecutors say she bought in a with cash under a fake name to hide her identity she essentially had been in hiding so. last october when geoffrey epstein the man that she's been linked with of for many years now appealed himself in prison here they will sit with me for a moment gloria all read says a lawyer for a number of that stool victims is holding

a press conference let's listen and failed to pursue it aleesha may be the 1st victim of jeffrey epstein who has written evidence that she did file a police report alleging sexual abuse by epstein in the 1990 s. the failure of law enforcement to follow up on her report is inexcusable and aleesha deserves answers the women and girls who were also victimized as a result of the failure of law enforcement to do their job also deserve to know the truth about why geoffrey epstein was allowed to victimize aleesha without suffering and a legal consequences was there a failure to investigate jeffrey epstein because he was rich and powerful and well connected or were there other reasons was the failure to do any meaningful investigation because of rape myths such as the common myth that if

a woman goes to a man's hotel room she had she must have wanted to be sexually assaulted aleesha and the public have a right to know and we look forward to the response of law enforcement and after aleesha speaks we will show you. a large copy of the police report and also a photo of what she looked like on or about 197-1998 thank you. the. i met geoffrey epstein

in 1997 my friend worked in finance and saw epstein during a visit he made to the hotel in beverly hills and epstein asked my friend whether she wanted to be a model for victoria's secret. she said no she wasn't a model but suggested you should meet my friend aleesha because she is a model and she would love to be in victoria's secret's epstein said great hopper call me along with anyone else that you know who wants to be a victoria's secrets model. my friend shared this news with me and gave me epstein's number so i called him. when you're

watching a press conference being held or being hosted at least by gloria allred who's a lawyer for the number all victims of jeffrey epstein this conference being held in los angeles we held a good lady just speaking there is that allegedly one of the scenes victims who was outlining how she met jeffrey epstein a prior to that we heard gloria allred herself criticizing making allegations over failures by law enforcement to in vesta gates jeffrey you have seen questioning whether or not the failure was because he was rich and i want to bring back in our correspondent gabriel elizondo. gabriel this really highlights the fact that whatever happens with this case it's going to be held under the spotlight every detail of this case is going to be pored over for weeks to come. yeah that's absolutely right without a doubt and it needs a little explaining what you just heard there there is

a lot of talk about of course jeffrey epstein and the alleged crimes that he committed as you just heard from that alleged victim there more to point out jeffrey epstein committed suicide in a jail here in new york city last august so the question is why or is his name still being brought up because obviously he's not going to be put on trial anymore because he's no longer alive the answer to that is he lane maxwell the woman is it's now in the jail behind me prosecutors say that he laney maxwell was the key person they would recruit young women allegedly and then traffic them to epstein and others in the in the indictment against maxwell it said some of the girls were as young as 14 years old so what lawyers such as gloria allred that you heard there lawyers for alleged victims are doing now and what

prosecutors are doing now is the. they are starting to lay their case post publicly and behind closed doors laid the foundation for their case of the crimes that epstein allegedly committed and that he was serving jail time for waiting and waiting trial and connecting that to the lane max well that's what you're hearing there and that's why this is so important people still continue to speak out again important to point out maxwell so far is not entered a plea however she has said previously before she went into hiding it she denies any of the charges against her carol thanks very much indeed for putting that into context for us it's going to be a very complex case carol is on the reporting to us from new york. i have cropped suspected of being used to transport illegal drugs burst into flames after it landed on a highway in southern mexico officials say the plane arrived from south america and

had been tracked since it entered the mexican airspace local media reported that some of the people on board set it on fire in order to escape. 2 children have drowned and 7 others a missing after an overloaded fishing boat capsized off the coast of indonesia rescuers helped save $1000.00 people from the sinking boat which was carrying double its capacity. some of the earliest statues of buddha precious items housed at the national museum of afghanistan at the u.s. estimates that nearly 70 percent of the treasures have been looted or destroyed during 4 decades of war and under strict taliban rule now historians at the university of chicago and teachers in afghanistan are working to preserve what's left of this cultural heritage john hendren reports. 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 to dock ocean going to do that i saw all these specimens only in but but today we saw them right here this creature is called a lawsuit 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 destroyed a sack 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 and the kind of efforts to a race known islamic cultural heritage that occurred when the taliban blew up these massive 6th century buddhist figures and bombing. the factional happen in the

village if because of the lack of knowledge of voting both of you set a date. 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. still ahead an al-jazeera of 5 a side football for the pandemic we'll tell you about a new socially distanced game in argentina.

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it's time for the sports and here's lady. thank you very much bubble wallace the man who has helped change the face of nascar in recent times has today been the subject of sudden fierce criticism on twitter from u.s. president donald trump wallace is the only black driver in nascar and you may remember he became the center of attention a couple of weeks ago when he's taking from what i thought to be a noose hanging in the carriage the f.b.i. ruled out any sinister motive after finding it had been used as a door pole since last year but the ropes initial discovery saw fellow drivers rally around wallace in solidarity pushing his car to the fronts of the grid for the rice nascar has also banned the confederate flag from races to show support for the black clubs matzoh movement but now the u.s. president has weighed in he tweeted. wallace apologized to all those great nascar

drivers and officials who came to his aid stood by his side and were willing to sacrifice everything for him i need to find out that the whole thing was just another hoax that in-flight decision has caused lowest ratings ever well countries that statement has heard from fox sports and they say viewing figures from nascar on their networks is actually up 8 percent since return e.m.i. after its coronavirus shut down trump's tweets about wallace were brought up on several occasions in today's white house briefing. why should mr wallace have to apologize for that when his whole team and all these colleagues came around him to sources for and that's the best of america is coming around when the media alleged a hate crime i'm coming around and supporting bubba wallace as i they should have done any better is how loving nascar fans are i am the fellow drivers but i think it's important that we point out the fact that there was no hate crime the f.b.i.

concluded that time and the president trump was merely saying that mr wallace should agree with that consensus yes mary he said mario yes that's what we're trying to ask you your way is why should already have apologized about i'm not going to answer your question is it on the album as part of his attacks on f.l. player colin kaepernick for meddling during the national anthem he was protesting police brutality and vital inequality and he's been shunned by n.f.l. team since 2630 the company because today announced a production do with disney the 1st project will be a docu series telling the story of its journey from park to activist this partnership will also provide a platform to showcase the work of minority directors and producers. for playing football it's understood captain ache is ready to play but has received no offers in the wake of george ford's death and f.o. commissioner virgil goodell apologized to company and others for not listening to

them earlier form this season players will be allowed to nail. 23 national hockey league players have tested positive for corona virus while in training just a day after the lake and players association agreed protocols to keep teams safe when the season resumes the plan is to resume this season in late july early august with the team's biased in 2 cities in canada players and staff will be tested for the virus on a daily basis and players are not of the large to take part but must inform the league by tuesday if they wish to opt out daily challenges also for major league baseball as they get ready to restart later this month to milwaukee brewers players have tested positive for cart a virus or though both matic champions the washington nationals canceled man by his team walk out this morning because of coverage 19 testing delays which they say make it unsafe to continue. american go for bryson to shambo has picked up the

6 p.g.a. tour title but he's putting this one down to a change in lifestyle and focus during the current of our a shut down the world number 7 estimates he puts on about 9 kilos of mostly muscle with upright and that's helped him improve his power and distance off that say the 26 year old put in a fantastic front 9 burst in detroit on sunday i finished 3 shots clear it's all emotional for me because i did do something a little different changed my body changed my. mind in the game and i was able to accomplish when applying a completely different style and often it's pretty amazing to see that and i hope it's an inspiration to a lot of people that if they set their mind to it you can accomplish it. paralympic gold medalist aleksandar the he has undergone more surgery after his hand bike crash last month it has been confirmed the italian had 5 hours of surgery to the build his face it's the 3rd major operation he's had since the crash into an

oncoming truck on june 19th so now he was returned to the intensive care unit at the hospital and. in a medically induced coma. in a superstar cat to know messi is going nowhere and he'll finish his career at the catalan club that's according to president yes that maria bartiromo messi helped his side to a $41.00 a legal win as a viewer al on sunday but has been a lot of talk in the last few days about the origins i'm being unhappy at the club reports suggested he might leave when his contract expires in 2021 but bosses president insists that won't be the case meanwhile football fans in argentina doing everything they can to get back on the pitch including inventing a new sport and turn their local 5 a side pitch into human foosball table by marking out rectangular zones each player must stay within the box to help my social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic which as it turns out is not that easy and no tackling is allowed.

the idea is very good for these times given the situation we're going through it's being able to start something that gets us moving and to shake off problems through support for life and for me football is very important and it allows me to forget the daily grind. of the truth that i tried. and it's the 1st time i've kicked a ball in silence i'm telling you this truthfully i am emotional. because it was full for now. the oscar winning italian film composer ennio morricone has died at the age of 91 in what music for more than 500 films the tony getting reports. you don't need to be a fan of classic westerns to recognize music composed by any american any come. his collaboration with director says so-called spaghetti westerns such as the good

the bad and the ugly and a fistful of dollars helped define a cinematic era numbers controllable through. i don't describe images with my music when there is an important movie it's key that the music sees what isn't sid and what you cannot see. until the 1960 s. film schools were on a seemingly designed to go almost unnoticed that morricone changed that and unusually for a composer became a star. what morricone soundtrack. the mid sixty's almost 68 i guess the fight is to get us to. track is that a thank you much more prominent role. than are almost pop music the italian composer was honored by hollywood with an oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007 then 9 years later he won the academy award for best original

score for director quentin tarantino's west and the hateful 8 it was a job more kone a regionally toned down until 10000 allowed him to break with the style of music he'd written for westerns in the past. this is something amazing unexpected because really in my type of work you don't think of the positive or negative consequences in general dirani just have ones but sometimes they can also be negative consequences that is the film doesn't succeed or people don't like the music but this time everything went well thank goodness i'm happy amazed. marconi with a pearl if a composer not just in terms of the number of films he worked on but the diversity of genres it's a measure of his success there's some of his school with the even more famous than the films he wrote them for.

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. presents on donald trump jr was promised a damaging information about the hillary clinton allegation like to see an investigation sit down to see did the trump campaign with russia did you at any time a purge the former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form the close sort of backing down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you well know. next question battlefield washington on al jazeera. the way disease outbreaks have impacted dense urban areas like during the flu pandemic in the early 1900 has played a role in how our cities look and run urban planners reacted to that flu and other outbreaks changing how cities were zoned and led to updated infrastructure like ventilation and improved sanitation but after what's been learned from pandemics and their influences on our skylines and way of life we also need to keep pace and adapt it's easy to assume that cities are fertile ground for spreading viruses and

diseases millions living working at commuting in such tight conditions but one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how all this was put together and how it's run. india now has the world's 3rd highest number of corona virus infections the confirmed total now is 700000 but the real number could be far higher. this is our jazeera live from london also coming up. we will not look the other way you cannot set foot in this country and will seize your blood drenched bill gotten gains if you try britain target saudis over the death. as it puts human rights abuses in the crosshairs of its.