an unholy alliance on al jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm not matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes brazil's president jakob also not a who done played covert 19 risks has tested positive for corona virus if the situation in his country gets worse. and arbitrary killing a u.n. investigator says the u.s. drone strike that killed

a really in general hossam civil money was unlawful. social media giants respond to hong kong's new security law pulls out while others stop sharing data with police. and a new report accuses syrian and russian government forces as well as rebel groups of committing war crimes in the lead. i mean weddings are the sports news not for the return of formula one racing now the return of a 2 time world champion spanish driver fernando alonso has been lined up to drive from grand isle next season but same with whom he won his title. well after dismissing the severity and risks of coronavirus for months president president has now announced he's tested positive for that job also not it was taken to a military hospital on monday after coming down with a fever also now that has been widely criticized for refusing to wear

a mask in public. ignoring the social distancing rules global view a kid myself. everybody knew that sooner or later a significant part of the population would get it it happened i'm an example myself if i hadn't taken the test i wouldn't have known the result and it turned out positive i just got a positive result yes it's positive so it all began on sunday when i started feeling slightly ill and it worsened on monday i felt tired with muscle pain and had a fever that reached 38 degrees. while in april both senators said that even if they got the virus he wouldn't have to worry because he wouldn't feel anything and it would be just like a little flu but in may he was heavily criticized when he was spotted riding a jet ski at the same time the brazil became the worst hit country in latin america with over 10000 deaths also not who has continued to ignore rules ended curbing the outbreak in june he attended a number of events with his supporters shaking their hands without

a mask on but at the end of june a federal judge ordered the president to wear a mask in brasilia or face a day in the fine ok let's go to haasan massud now in sao paulo just talk us through the last couple of days leading up to this event. yes presently it was not all at the. events and activities through tweak. more and more then and one activity a while he was very near. people and supporters. arrived to his activities in brasilia. in oh so he made a fast trip also to the south of brazil and he was near people he was wielding the mask most of the time but he took

a lot of photos with with supporters even yesterday after he announced that he made the. $1000.00 test and he failed the symptoms also he accepted to take. photos with the supporters. beside the potus the floor of the potus before he entered the palace and before having that is old but also today when he announced. the positive. press conference he also started back and he took off. the mask the facial mask and he said that everybody can see my face and. good situation and he said that he will win this battle with the virus and he will continue his life he will continue also governing brazil from his residence he will use video

conference at the same time he confirmed that he is taking a queen as a treatment and he started from yesterday taking this treatment at the same time he one more time. who are in the risk category in brazil to stay at home and to take the. take more kids say oh the other people can return to work and then he said that brazil must return to work even after his infection that's how some lawsuit giving us that update on the state of polls and all of the president of brazil who's just been diagnosed with covert 19 was on thank you very much indeed ok let's bring in our lucky medicaid editor at the c. in human who's joining us live now from santiago this is just another indication isn't it that there are very different approaches being taken across latin america to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and talk us through roughly what the picture

is across the country at the moment. hello rob around latin america there have been different approaches but by far that have giant bull so natural has been the most if you like far out i mean he has not only dismissed social distancing and the need to wear face masks as all of us have to do here in chile but he has worn them just this weekend in fact he signed a decree making it. about making it to not compulsory for people to wear face masks in closed areas defying governors mayors politicians even from his own party as we all know he even had 2 health ministers within the period of one month whom he did not agree with so for him there is so much riding on this issue not just in terms of his health but politically if he can come through this fairly

unscathed he will say that he was right all along and other latin american leaders who have followed the little bit his example by trying to ease confinement measures in peru in in many many many countries they've opened them up they've closed them again like here in chile but most governments are being far more cautious even mexico for example who's president had 1st also understated the importance of covert 19 but now who is also taking it much more seriously as the can as the infection and deaths rise and rise more and more remember brazil has 65000000 deaths this week sorry 1600000 infections and 65000 deaths which is a huge amount so if by natural ends up being a like his british counterpart ends up becoming very very ill he will have to eat his words and what many people had said in the past that he had made a pact with the devil this was sort of the ongoing joke because of the amount of

times that he had been in close proximity to corona virus or. well infected by it well also perhaps believe that that wasn't true after all one thing of course that we can't forget this is the fact that there are health services across latin america who are trying to deal with this is there any sense that any of them have had any sort of response to try to regroup i'm gathering or is it just the same pressure that they're facing day after day health the different countries have done better than others argentina for example imposed a lockdown very very early on and this had relatively little infections and deaths compared for the size of the country but it's come at a very very steep cost economically the same is true in it was true in peru they ordered a lot down but it didn't work people had to keep coming out and going out to work

because there weren't enough subsidies from the government to keep them at home a country where 70 percent of people live from the informal sector of selling things on the street in many cases so it just hasn't worked and the government has thrown in the towel in mexico we've also seen that all sorts of different measures have not been working and that the health system is coming under increasing stress countries like panama while here in chile it's beginning to subside slightly but it was almost exploding and then it's been a huge amount of deaths and infections so nobody really has that magic bullet nobody knows what the trick is too much credit too much locked down to little down not soon enough the recipe hasn't been written yet but the whole world is still dealing with that and latin america is one of those right now as you know the region that's been hardest hit as our lot in america added to the list you newman bring us up to date on the situation there you see it thank you very much indeed. well the world health organization says it can't rule out the possibility over

airborne transmission of the virus is specially in crowded and poorly ventilated settings have been engaged with this group since april when they 1st wrote to us on april 1st and we've had an active engagement with them and with many of the signatories on this through 2 different works and as we have said previously we welcome the interaction from scientists all over the world from many different disciplines many of the signatories are engineers which is a wonderful area of expertise which which adds to the growing knowledge about the importance of ventilation which we feel also is very important we have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission aerosol transmission as one of the modes of transmission of 19 as well as droplet we've looked at phone lines we look at fecal oral we look at mother to child we look at animal to human of course as well and so we are producing a scientific brief on summarizing where we are we've been working on this for

several weeks now and we've engaged with a large number of groups epidemiologists and clinicians i.p.c. specialists engineers mathematical model years to try to consolidate the growing knowledge around around transmission well dr david freeman is professor of medicine and epidemiology at the university of alabama at birmingham and he's joining us from birmingham alabama via skype thank you very much indeed for giving us your time sir if it is looking as though this corona virus is airborne what significance does that have in terms of how people should be dealing with it but of course also the search for a vaccine. you have to start thanks for having me the i think the airborne is not quite clear the extent and i think that's important i think that the large droplet transmission within 2 meters is still the most important road of transmission and what's being talked about now is the possibility of airborne

transmission in some circumstances especially having to do with ventilation systems and we know that there were transmission happens in the hospitals due to the types of the equipment that they have there but really the implication is in terms of the type of person or protective attire and devices that would be needed to work combat or in other words the end 95 respirators are indicated and most are very expensive and hard to come by right now masks that are in use in hospitals caring for coated patients and we don't even have enough of those in hospitals right now and if everybody in that were all had to wear one of the 95 masks to wipe it out it would have severe of locations because we just don't

have enough you know masks even for the doctors right now of that type and this might be an extreme example but i think it is a pertinent question that up until now most of the of the world seems to be of the impression that if they do social distancing if they wear the mosques then that will give them a degree of protection it strikes me from what you're saying if it is if airborne transmission is an issue and we are talking about it being transmitted through ventilation systems is there a possibility that even if somebody is self quarantining at home without a mosque and somebody next door or someone in the building has covert there is a possibility and i don't want to be alarmist about this but there is a possibility that the covert could come through the ventilation system and they might get to anyway. there is that possibility as i said there's really no evidence for it although it's not been investigated to a great to a great extent and it's how long those droplets are in the air what really hasn't

been shown is that these very tiny airborne micro droplets that's called the micro droplets. to carry infectious virus and how many of them really what proportion. when there are a mix created by humans back to a person you know travel very far and whether there's some sections virus in the these engineers that have been in the news the past couple of days have really done a lot of very nice experimental work in the world to reach where they used machines and not people to create these droplets and i think that's the missing link right now we need more human experiments. really interesting to get your thoughts on this thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera ok thank you more on the coronavirus pandemic and a 5000000 australians who live in the country's 2nd largest city of melbourne are going back into lockdown after resurgency in corona virus infections that have

tonia state government says the tough measures are the only way to keep the outbreak from spiraling out of control nicola gage reports from the capital canberra. after 2 days of record high infections lockdown is returning to melbourne from midnight on wednesday everyone will have to stay at home except for essential reasons including some workers involved jobs to buy food and medical items and to exercise restaurants will close on the takeaways will be allowed there is simply no alternative other than thousands and thousands of cases . and potentially. many many people in hospital and the inevitable tragedy that come from that 191 people tested positive for corona virus in victoria on monday the outcome hoped for after strict social distancing measures were already in forced in some suburbs to try and control the spread of the virus the high

numbers leading to the closure of the border with the neighboring state of new south wales a logistical nightmare with the defense force and police brought in to ensure no one crosses this is something entirely different this is going to affect the travel of my stuff because i have stopped. living and working on both sides of the border the most concerning part for authorities is that very few of the new coronavirus cases have been linked to other known infections making it near impossible to monitor and leaving premier daniel andrews with what he says was no choice but to bring back the tough measures even stricter measures are being enforced on 3000 residents in nonpublic housing towers in no been many from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds that our neighbor a is one of them she says they feel excluded and thinks the huge police presence below is unnecessary and must be quiet and i think it's time for her in the past

state had some difficulties with the police and racial. 'd and it's like it's being ultra left for some of the young people are safe because. the same in their perspective the police and police them until now australia has been successful in suppressing covert 19 infections but returning to lockdown is a major setback as a stray lions attempt to recover from the impending recession and rising unemployment become a gauge al-jazeera cambrai israel's public health chief has resigned as the nation battles a recent surge in corona virus infections in a facebook post a single set ski warned that initial successes in handling the outbreak are now a move towards dangerous place said it's added that the pandemic was 1st met with ethical leadership but no lacks of thought o.t. israel has more than $31000.00 cases and over $330.00 fatalities. iran

has announced its highest single day death toll since the start of the covert 1000 outbreak began there in february the health minister reported more than 200 deaths on tuesday just last week the country began re imposing restrictions after a surge in new cases said reports from tehran. iranians had thought they were past the peak of the virus but the new total of $200.00 dead within 24 hours has prompted the health ministry to issue a new warning. unfortunately many people didn't listen to me they didn't take demands of mine and my colleagues seriously we are facing a new wave now it's been 4 months since the virus hit and it's been responsible for the deaths of nearly 12000 people so far the government's blaming the resurgence on guidelines being broken. i ask people to take masks and coronavirus seriously masks and social distancing can prevent the disease by 80 percent now that we are

paying such a huge price people have to take my advice seriously how the time my colleagues and i were insisting people pay attention many people didn't believe us. hospital admissions are also including into iran iran's most populated city and financial center some patients have been receiving oxygen in a hospital carpark the wards inside apparently full to capacity the government has made face masks mandatory although there's no penalty for not wearing one and some provinces have reinstated lockdown measures but the blame at least from the health ministry is on the failure to observe guidelines on social distancing and mass gatherings this year but i'm in the hospital for about 2 weeks i didn't abide by chrono really rules we went to a wedding and 12 members of our family contract at corona we didn't socially distance there were many people in the party together for god's sake keep socially distancing wear masks and observe your personal hygiene. since i voted in february

i didn't leave home because i suffer from asthma for 30 years i have had asthma i didn't go out of my family did they didn't of their protocol and yet i got infected . i had a c.t. scan and he said it was coronavirus you have to be hospitalized and begging people to not go out. the government is also under scrutiny for easy to lock down early despite warnings from the health ministry. with the economy struggling the government faces tough decisions reposed lockdowns try to stop the spread of the virus and excess deaths i hope that people who take unemployed by the rules something that hasn't worked so far. 20 more ahead in the news hour including torrential rain hampers relief and rescue efforts in southwest japan where floods have killed at least 50 people. and child amputees return to the sport they love as coronavirus restrictions are lifted in gaza that's coming up in sports

with lead. the u.s. drone strike in january that killed top iranian general hossam so the money was unlawful that's the conclusion of the united nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings. says the killing went against the u.n. charter in january the white house said the attack and so the money was carried out at the direction of u.s. president donald trump was aimed at the tearing future attacks allegedly being planned by iran diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations and has more on the report. well it's a damning report from agnes kalamata who is the special rapporteur as you say on extrajudicial killings worth explaining what that is it's an independent expert who is appointed by the human rights council and these reports where she investigates

cases of possible extradition killing are then reported back to the u.n. human rights council remember that the u.n. human rights council is not a u.n. body that the trumpet ministration already look favorably on they pulled out of the un human rights council in 2018 and so i suspect if there is going to be a response from the trumpet ministration it will be an angry response the u.s. position they say they've made very clear in a letter they submitted to the security council 5 days after the killing of general sort of mani the iranian strategic expert and commander. in which they said it was a case of self-defense because of the possibility of imminent strikes but in her report. says that there is no evidence that he was planning an imminent attack against u.s. interests so she says therefore on the basis of the information provided by the u.s. and of course she doesn't have access to any classified intelligence information

she believes this was a breach of the u.n. charter a breach of international law ok let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly harkat who is in that washington d.c. forest kimberly as james was saying there that the u.s. had said that they were trying to prevent imminent and future attacks by carrying out this particular targeted attack just give us some of the context of the discussion and explanations they were given at the time. yeah it will still and going and that is the criticism has been that there has not been any sort of tangible evidence that there was an imminent attack that has been supplied and that's why this administration has opened itself up to so much criticism whether it be from this latest report or whether it be from top democrats on capitol hill who were not satisfied back in february when the trumpet ministration issued its own report to congress claiming that it did have the authority to conduct this strike

that it was as a result of congress says authorization back in 2002 something known as the iraq war resolution but that legal rationale was heavily criticized and again was one of the main criticisms was the sort of scant evidence that there was any sort of imminent attack against americans that the administration says that is the reason that the u.s. president had the authority as commander in chief in order to protect u.s. national interests now with regard to this report that has been drawn up by agnes kalama and with regard to the fact that she was pushing this forward now to geneva where it will be debated in some sort of response discussed on thursday as james touched on in it's unlikely that the united states is going to do or say very much about it this you pointed out they withdrew from that body back in 2018 it's not a member of the council and also the united states knows that the council doesn't

really have that much power to take any further action now we've reached out to the white house as well as the state department to try and get further clarification or response so the something is coming but we are still waiting for that statement so white house correspondent kimberly hole could talking to us from washington d.c. kimberly thanks very much indeed. well i guess kind of report is due to be presented to the u.n. human rights council on thursday any she expressed concerns about the increased use of drones by dozens of countries with little scrutiny and report calls for accountability on targeted killings by armed drones and for greater regulation of the weapon the us is the largest producer and user of drones but 2 years ago they withdrew from the un human rights council where the report is going to be debated benjamin fame and its policy director of defense priorities is also i don't like to a george washington university's any at school of international affairs he's

joining us now on skype from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed it's good to have you on the program there was a significant increase in the in the use of drones during the obama administration sometimes with equally devastating effects but not necessarily on individuals all the time what makes this attack different. just attack is different from all the drone strikes the united states has engaged in because he targeted senior figure in the iranian government so whatever you want to say about mani's history and his alleged against the united states and other countries he was a senior figure in the iranian military and we killed them. at a time when we're not at war with iran so it seems like an act of war against iran or under other definitions of assassination i guess column and says that she's concerned about the increased use of drones by dozens of countries without scrutiny

what concerns do you have about the way that drones are being used not just by the u.s. but around the world. well drones make it easier. to keep in their arms to commit acts of war so i think for the united states we already have the problem in a sense that we're so powerful and secure or that we can make war or bomb people almost whimsically without sufficient consideration in the united states congress and by the u.s. public and drones are just the technology but they sasser bait depth problem so i think the problem is most profound for the united states but certainly you could see the same thing happening in other countries as as military breach extends without necessarily sufficient democratic control of it and come out reporters calling for increased accountability but how do you police something like the use of drones well i 2 think it's very difficult to do at the

international level under current circumstances like it or not so i you know has to occur within countries that are operating drones and it's been clear i think in the united states going back over a decade now that we need better control of the use of these weapons and by control i mean the united states congress needs to regulate using its powers or restrict presidents from doing this stuff willing nellie i mean this strike though under so i'm over against little money was more or less clearly illegal and yet we have no real pushback from the united states congress benjamin freedman we appreciate your time and your opinion on this thank you very much indeed thanks for having me. the world's largest social media companies are reviewing their operations in hong kong because of its new national security law but companies say they fear the new law passed in beijing will allow china's government to gain

access to their users personal and sensitive data center clark has more from hong kong. a week after the introduction of the new national security law in hong kong kerry lamb was quick to respond to the international condemnation of the legislation which has already been used to make arrests the national security law targets crimes of subversion suspicion terrorism and collusion with foreign forces . in. this is completely constitutional legal and reasonable i do not understand why certain foreign countries a sorry came to comment on this. the national security commission which len chairs has unveiled the powers granted to police think through grades without a warrant in special circumstances ordering internet firms and social media to remove content considered a threat to national security as well as a seizure of their equipment failure to comply with the law risks a $13000.00 fine and 2 years in jail. compared with the national

security laws of other countries it's a rather mild law its scope is not as broad as that in other countries and even china the tech giants and social media companies are not convinced the video sharing app tick-tock says it will stop operations in hong kong it's owned by chinese internet giant bike dance but isn't available on the mainland the company says its app will no longer be available in hong kong and social media platforms including facebook twitter linked in zoom and whatsapp have also announced they will suspend processing government and police requests for user data so i i think the work 2 here ok. here is already is a bad call. about the cyber expression freedom here is how it is and i believe the government will take further actions towards these social media platforms i think i can foresee that we won't be able to use these applications in

the future the us secretary of state has described china's new legislation as being an assault on hong kong's freedoms and rights much compiler like and the censorship to the totalitarian state in georgia over his famous novel 984 some fear the chinese communist party censorship enforced on the mind and is fast coming into effect in the semi autonomous city the government has acknowledged that some people in hong kong are concerned the current i'm says it's only been a week since the new no was introduced and education program will reassure the people that the legislation protects not undermines the city's freedoms saratov al-jazeera hong kong. still ahead on al-jazeera and a father to the voice silenced to the united nations condemns the killing of a prominent iraqi analyst and researcher. and in sports basketball's best players are getting ready for the resumption of the n.b.a. season.

but. hello there has been some drizzle in salon is trying to kick in more significant rains been showing in the fairly frequent thunderstorms in the mountains of northern among another probably carry on also not far away you've got proper heavy steady rain in gujarat and southern pakistan is trying to out most arabian peninsula of course cross the middle east with the onshore breeze in lebanon and this orange pole is the dust is picked up in syria or iraq in is brought south in the show is weakening and with that weakening the temperature drops but in doha you get more moisture and this is going to be humid feel free to pick over this time the most north and. kerry's draw at the moment is fairly breezy around libya but the big showers which come through in clumps start off often in these if in holland sometimes i'll swear on the gulf of guinea for example nigeria

looks wet in the next day or so but equally this rain developing in monrovia and further north than that so that's the area to watch for potential flooding south of that at the moment the on shore breezes bring in much rain through north madagascar all mozambique or tanzania but i think the next day or so it will become rather more active on the coast of tanzania to the south so that lastly it's a sunny picture. is resistance. in akra people are grabbing social and political issues by the horns. and time to sing creativity parity and protest to challenge and change i.d.'s.

a gun a controversial a witness documentary on al-jazeera. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions in the hearts and minds of the unions of the across the country and there's a dark side in detroit is you do see the grid philosophical majesty of the him into something more like the team i didn't see of the british today i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera.

you want to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour brazil's president has announced that he's tested positive coronavirus sonata has been widely criticized for refusing to wear a mask in public and for ignoring social distancing rules. a new report from the united nations has found that a u.s. drone strike that killed a top iranian general hossam sort of money in january was unlawful and this kind of art is the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and she says the attack went against the u.n. charter. several social media companies say they're worried about the implications of hong kong's national security law short video of tech talk has announced it's going to stop operations there facebook and whatsapp have also said they won't comply if the government asks for using data. a group of weaker muslims living in exile are calling on the international criminal court to investigate what they called genocide by china as admitted evidence alleges rights violations that implicate more than 30 senior chinese officials including president xi jinping

beijing however does not recognize the i.c.c. has jurisdiction around a 1000000 legal muslims are believed to have been put into in time and cam's body dixon as one of the lawyers who's made the submission to the i.c.c. and he says the case alleges crimes that go beyond china's borders. they have a very clear legal pathway to exercise jurisdiction over the case and recent case in the miramar situation is concerned that cross border crimes come within the jurisdiction of the court and we are say year because persons are being forced from i.c.c. member state countries into china that the court has jurisdiction over this case this is not a novel idea it's based on the law of the court and they are able to acknowledge it not squander this opportunity then we set out a list of suspects all the evidence has to be gathered and only if there is sufficient evidence can charges be brought and china should cooperate in that

investigation if they don't then the i.c.c. should take the matter up with the assembly of states parties and all states through the security council but as you know from from other situations. at high levels have to travel around the world and there's always the possibility that they could be arrested then if they have been investigated and if they sufficient evidence the u.n. says a string of airstrikes carried out by the syrian government and russian forces and it led amount to war crimes the report identified 52 so-called emblematic attacks between november and june and says syria and its russian ally have killed hundreds of people and forced nearly a 1000000 to feed their homes the report also accused the high attack iraq some of firing artillery into civilian areas with no apparent military objective and for torturing and executing detainees. we've come to the conclusion that the

attacks by the pro-government forces were so this systematic and and designed to force the population to move and in the foreseeable transfer of populations is a is a crime against humanity so we think that again may have happened. both acquired pro-government forces and by. armed groups and terrorist organizations seem pillaging looting happening which again. william lawrence is from the american university school of international service in washington d.c. he says such reports are part of a strategy to name and shame perpetrators of war crimes. it says it's unlawful and indiscriminate it's there were no nearby military targets it was no rationale and you worse it says that there are so warring logic were in strategy by the syrian government with its russian. backing in all these operations to target

civilians on purpose so indeed it saps up hospitals and military facilities. while our schools and. night markets we reverse that but this is a very damning report and it they report. hints that it will be up work right and prosecutions for coming across against him in this process here documents or crimes and this is that money report in a series that started since the beginning or eventually you often do get to the leaders and the rest warrants go out and trials happen when people can be arrested after new year arrests as you know i'm certain in some cases or 1015 years after the incidents happen there is a track record. now of these things that prosecutions only are successful particularly with his throughput and i think in the short term you weren't always simply to push back the violence that's going on and try to name and shane actors

into doing less of the violence that we now hear her government says britain can begin sending weapons to saudi arabia once again after new export licenses were suspended last year i want under government review that follows a legal challenge by campaigners concerned u.k. exports or violating international humanitarian law tony angela has more from london. over a year ago a british court ordered the u.k. to stop the new licenses of arms sales to saudi and to review the decisions surrounding preexisting ones that review is now concluded it's taken over a year and the government is saying while there were possible breaches of international humanitarian law these were exceptions and not a pattern it's not clear what methodology they used it certainly contradicts that u.n. panel of experts who found widespread possible war crimes in the conflict between

saudi and yemen and it's not clear how many isolated incidents it would take to constitute a pattern but the u.k. has concluded that the saudi government is demonstrating a commitment to comply with international humanitarian door and i quote there is therefore no clear risk that arms and military equipment exported to saudi might be used in serious contraventions of international humanitarian law so what this means is the government is now going to be processing that backlog of orders from saudia includes a multi-million dollar deal for typhoon fighter jets and earlier i spoke to the campaign against arms trade who really spearheaded the original case against the government they said they are baffled by this decision they've they've described it as morally bankrupt and reprehensible of they said that their lawyers and now going to be looking into ways to challenge it. united nations following governments and iraq's leaders are condemning the killing of

a well known iraqi expert on al qaeda and other on groups. was shot outside his home in baghdad so wonderful to reports. and authoritative voice silenced one of iraq's brightest gone. this coffin bears the body of dr who shot a man hashimi a prominent analyst and researcher shot on monday night by unknown gunmen a small group of family friends and journalists gather took company his body on its last journey from the morgue to his family home it was here in front of his own house where 4 gunmen on motorbikes waited for him on monday night he was shot several times at close range. his family blames the government for not protecting him in italy who if not the government carries the responsibility is the government that should provide the safety and security for the people prime minister most of them it dismissed the senior security commander responsible for the area and is

vowing to bring those responsible to justice. all the possibilities are open we'll wait for the results of our investigation through the responsible offices to find out who carried out the operation who shama hashimi was regularly interviewed by iraqi and foreign journalists including al-jazeera and was a trusted advisor to iraq's governments he also worked for a western think tanks most recently the center for global policy based in washington d.c. he 1st gained prominence for his expertise on al qaida and eisel but more recently turned his attention to shia armed groups including those with links to iran. this was his last interview on the latest rocket attacks in baghdad aired just an hour before his killing. in fact this series of events that all started after june 2006 are a reaction from these rebel groups that challenge the rule of law and the power of

the iraqi security forces several of his friends say he considered moving to northern iraq after receiving the numerous threats including from the armed group the type hizbullah but he believed that the government would protect him if. during our meetings with the prime minister we demanded to at least offer protection for the free voices but the result is we didn't get any protection and maybe we will all follow in her steps that's what they want for iraq they want an iraq without a state we are a country without a state and this is the victim. hashmi was laid to rest in the holy city of najaf in southern iraq he leaves behind his wife 4 children and the country shocked by it and other senseless murder. simona fulton al-jazeera but that around half a 1000000 people have been advised to leave their homes because of floods and landslides in southwest japan at least 50 people have died during 3 days of heavy

rain on the island of cuba show japan's government is doubling rescue operations phones louis reports. japan's self-defense force police and coast guards are all pitching in to help relief and rescue efforts across q shuai lead in florida towns and cities residents are being moved to safer areas. this is unimaginable it's raining like a bucket of water over turned as we used to say in the old days. but floodwaters and continuing rain are hampering rescue operations the government says it's doubling the number of emergency personnel and with more rain forecast for the next 2 days people are being warned to stay vigilant. the ground formation is weak and from the rain we fear there may be landslides even if it rains slightly i asked residents to please be alert for information released by local officials and watch

out for flooding in rivers japan's 3rd largest island hasn't reported many coronavirus cases local officials in q she say they're taking every precaution to prevent the spread in evacuation centers across the east china sea heavy rain has also battered several provinces in china with the worst flooding in 50 years reported in and the 2nd highest flood alerts have been issued in who bay and hunan province is with more rain forecast florence louis al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera in sports. it's society it's g.n.d. what's. the responsibility of a dollar. we hear from west indies cricket legend michael holding as england's players show support for the black lives motto.

or. so it's time for the sports here's leigh. thank you very much let's start with formula one and reports coming out of spain that for nanda alonso is making a comeback to the sport next season with. the spanish driver is believed to have already signed a deal for what would be his 3rd spell at the same despite driving for by ferrari and mclaren it was with right now that he won both of his world championships alonso left f one in 2018 to focus on trying to win the indy 500 but if this news is confirmed next season here replies daniel ricky aldo ran on who is leaving to

join mclaren well england standing cricket captain ben stokes says they will show a gesture in support of the black lives matter movement before the 1st test against the west indies the match darts in southampton on wednesday behind closed doors the 1st international cricket played since the coronavirus shut down both chains will wear the black lives matter symbol on their shirts during the series stoke stressed they're not endorsing the political aspects of the movement simply a push for equality. that say that we've got a lot but she. said the real powerful message we're really really excited as an individual and that same is really excited. that we're able to be a part of the world former west indies cricket star michael holding has told us that the onus is on society to change not just sports if the problem of racial injustice is to be tackled properly. the society is

what produce exist individuals are what produce in the human beings and the personalities that eventually do or are eventually do or to watch sport i the society is the one change i don't see the sport's changing and even if you are going to thing to do something in particular with my sport and whoever is in charge of that particular sport tries to get as much diversity as possible in that sport what about when those people that are playing in the us leave this world and go home or they go back into the real work and they go back to the same rubbish that was there before it affects their minds to it it affects anyone's head when they are not treated as an equal they might feel good on the cricket field or in a sporting arena but that doesn't last forever love to go home this laughter and have on the sport at some point when you are finished with the work you feel is the same thing on the outside in this. where you don't have equal opportunity treated equally i don't think this time around is going to fall off the news agenda

i think this time around it is being taken a lot more seriously because you see the corporate world is getting in you see companies pledging to do differently you are investing money in trying to make a change because without backing from because parisian and begin dusters and and ordinary people along with all that it will just as we have seen before and we don't need that we want some real serious change this time around. major league soccer gets back on to why on wednesday with the tournament what is the route in florida but it will be missing one of its teams f.c. dallas has drawn off the 10 players tested positive for corona virus that training camp and the disney complex without them m.l.s. is drawing up a new shuttle commission ever minds confident the health and safety measures in place all good enough. well you know we have 550 players that have already been tested 13 of them have tested positive so if we see we're going to have more

positives and if that happens we'll have to manage that as it occurs right now it's an extremely low percentage of it alice is not going to be participating in the tournament and will have to replace those regular season games that they're in a mess and continue to monitor the rest of the arrivals very closely. they're also in a disney bubble in orlando getting ready to resume their season later this month hasn't been any action since march but on july 30 the players will be back on course including one of basketball's all time greats le bron james if you see him staying safe during training wearing a mask major league baseball is also pushing ahead with plans to restart it so he's not a coronavirus suspension that's a big step on monday announced the fixture list 2 games on the opening night including the famed new york yankees but we're not sure when the league resumes on july 20th the yankees will visit the current world series champions the washington

nationals. and it's not just professional sport is making a tentative return to action after the coronavirus bright child girls are taking to the pitch for football once again as jonica reports. after months of being locked inside it's good to be out playing football again with your friends especially for these boys and girls who are just a small number of the 1600 amputees among grasses 2000000 people with just 72 corona virus infections and one death the palestinian territory recently allowed sports clubs and gyms to reopen and on cheese day the players returned to training . the children participate in an empty football day suffered the same consequences of. this a big change in our lives all of a sudden we cannot get close to our. friends and shaking we need to know

what i'm asking their confined places. and this participation sport that they can muster that they can be good at. it is very important for there for them to go back to their normal life as it was. at the largest possible extent of course are at the club was founded just 2 years ago by the international committee for the . it cross or i.c.r.c. and has adult players as well as children some have lost limbs after being injured in protests along the gaza israel border others through work accidents cancer or birth defects all benefit from having a place to come and play the sport they love alone. madison island no one cares about us but when we resume training we felt like there is someone who cares i would like to thank them all for the encouragement this project to have a little heated us and let me to discover my skills when i started the training i

felt like i got back my amputated leg. out on the pitch it's tough to get back after the coronavirus break it's been a testing few months but these children are used to a challenge and happy to be back playing the sport they love joining us al jazeera parts of the sport stories i'm supposed news for now but i'll be back with more light in the thanks very much to our international students studying and colleges in the us will have to leave the country if all of their classes for next term on moved online because of coronavirus restrictions so i highly doubt reports the pandemic is causing people worldwide hundreds of thousands of foreign college students in the united states the unpredictability is taking a turn for the worse they face being forced to leave the country in the autumn if their next semester studies are moved entirely online u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency you i see still monday that visas will

be withdrawn from foreign students including those about to start their 1st year. from india's just started studies at yale he's worried for his future one of america's top universities right now the uncertainty. is. because you have to. if you want to go to university and studied at the south. or you want to study on my own was a problem because most some of the passions don't have proper internet connections or. differences there's an exception for foreign a consummate convocation of students who transferred to an attend courses not held online but that's a dilemma for many educational institutions concerned with the spread just because it 19 is crosses a totem campus while most schools and colleges knew us yet to announce their plans the news came on the same day harvard announced all its causes for the next to condemn it will be held online international students are

a major source of revenue for u.s. colleges bringing tens of billions of dollars into the economy almost 34 percent now the $1100000.00 russians are from china 18 percent africa india 5 percent from saudi arabia another 5 percent from south korea and them the rest are from various countries again most of which are from the east the middle east or the latin american central america politicians and academics are trying to find ways around the problem with some suggesting including some face to face call says to avoid the loss of foreign students many are angry at the vizier announcements including democratic senator elizabeth warren who says it's an authentic president trump last month extended a pause on issuing some green cards and suspended visas for other foreign workers into the end of the year his critics are accusing his administration into using the pandemic to force track his immigration policies. that are just there. lauren teller's going to be here in

a couple of minutes with the latest on all the stories including the news that brazil's president shuttles an auto has tested positive for covert 19 i'm not this a good life. for.

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a 21st century evil on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . brazil's president. tests positive for covert 19 the virus he dismissed as and it'll through. on our intelligence is our jazeera live from london also coming up u.s. health officials say they're running out of time to get the coronavirus under control. 5000000 people ordered back under lockdown in australia's 2nd biggest city

melba. un's expert on the extrajudicial killings and says the u.s. drone strike that killed a top iranian commander a same sort of money was unlawful.