what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired the digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. he refused masks and played down the risks but now brazil's president has tested positive for corona buyers. play watching al-jazeera live from a world headquarters in doha fully back to full also ahead. angry protests in serbia's capital as a curfew and knock downs are announced operates deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic the u.s. begins the process of withdrawing from the world health organization accusing it of

badly handling the pandemic and an arbitrary killing a u.n. investigator says a u.s. drone strike that killed the iranian general hossam some in money was unlawful. brazil's president has test has counsel to schedule for the coming days after testing positive for corona virus hateable so narrow is now in quarantine at home has repeatedly downplayed the threat from the virus defying social distancing measures and opposing lockdown even as brazilians deal with the region's worst outbreak latin america at its embassy in yemen reports. to world leaders have defied a cold 19 like brazil's jade bullshit novel. for months the president tempted fate and turned to doctors his school and callers to respect social distancing he seemed to relish defying even his own advisors always pressing the flesh and rarely using

a face mask many members of his cabinet had become infected even his wife's grandmother some joked he'd made a pact with the devil until what was probably the inevitable happened. everybody knew that sooner or later current of our city. important part of population a lot of people like me for example if i would not have done the test i would not know about a result that was positive yes it was positive. so far bosso not has admitted to having a feeder and body aches but continues to brush off the severity of an illness he once described as a little trouble even taking off his face mask after testing positive. for the bureaucratic of the 3rd book so you can see my face who wants to see my face i'm fine can thank god. thanks that i was there prayed for me were supporting me i'm fine thank god. it's not just balsam not his health but his

political reputation that's at stake he's waged war against lockdowns saying they're more harmful than the illness. he's clashed with governors who ordered businesses closed and the supreme court which recently felt compelled to order the president to wear a face mask or pay a steep fine thank you for taking his cue from donald trump also not or has threatened to withdraw from the w.h.o. and has ordered the brazil's health system distribute the anti malaria drug hydroxide chloroquine despite warnings that it's not safe or proven to be effective thing treating coronavirus he's in fact using it now himself. nevertheless wishes him while i'm a speedy and full recovery. from this disease or leaders around the world who have have had similar experiences and i think it brings home. the reality of this wires

. that will likely depend on how president bush or not a fence on whether he'll become seriously ill as was produced prime minister boris johnson or whether he'll be back at work in a week or 2 telling everyone i told you so. all this despite the more than 65000 positions lost their lives so far to the so-called little. you see in human al-jazeera came michael can call is an associate professor at the plentiful catholic university of rio de janeiro he says both scenarios illness could work in his favor this is not a man of deep insights i think it also it also true it's also extraordinary convenient for him in some ways indeed if it stays our late course right he'll be able to continue on his narrative that it's just a flu and can be cured easily he was also scheduled to be deposed by the federal police on its allegations of of one do influence taking next week so the

timing is not enough and one stays late course the time it's not altogether bad if it stays within these sort of 85 percent that are the life forces and it will likely strengthen those who are. who are doubting the severity of the operational it may actually end up lowering the end easing to cutting into it getting to be some distancing measures here which isn't likely to begin we've seen this kind of catastrophic responsibly that the country is had has to do with a total lack of leadership from the federal represent had every possibility of having an absolutely model response to this and make we have a very strong public health system we have 6 highly trained doctors we have good i.c.u. density we have what you know experience with pandemics treatment of hiv and aids here is actually quite quite advanced so you know it's

a sign of failure of leadership from the federal level this that this is turned out when the. police in belgrade have you gas to disperse thousands of protesters are gathered outside said yes parliament they're angry about plans to return to tough kona virus restrictions. the demonstrators were calling for the resignation of president alexander vote church has just put up a weekend cash back in place after serbia's worst day yet of the pandemic with 13 deaths. had restrictions in the weeks before his win in the june 21st elections including allowing crowds back to sporting events al-jazeera as yelena chess has more from outside the parliament. the president alexander who teach announced some new measures because of the coronavirus he said that during the weekend belgrade will be locked down and maybe not only belgrade but the entire serbia because the situation would put on a virus is

a very bad and the worst is here in belgrade that we have more than 4000 people in the hospitals just today 13 people died over the coronavirus this is the highest number in one day so what happened today is that people were very angry of this situation and we did this kind of measures why because serbia was already has already been in a state of emergency before and then dorothy said it took a now things are going better let's have an election so we had the parliamentary elections in the day after numbers started to increase and today the situation is even worse than before so people are angry. they think that the money should be invested in hospitals and not in the election and this is what happened tonight it seems like the situation

a little bit quieter now but to morrow maybe we'll see the same picture again. in the u.s. hospitals in several states say they're intensive care units are reaching maximum capacity as coronavirus cases continue to jump the number of people who've died there has passed 130000 infections have been surging in states which bush will reopen early including texas and florida but present trump wants school surreal after the summer break. what we want to do is we want to get our schools open we want to get them open quickly beautifully in the fall and the you know this is a disease it's a horrible disease but young people do extraordinarily well in the next 2 weeks we're probably going to end up being what new york was 2 months ago i think that's what's going to happen and that is going to happen particularly because we have the 4th of july. holiday i mean lot of people did not listen

a lot of people went out and more likely than not we're going to see those patients come into the hospital to mix 2 weeks and the u.s. has begun the formal process of withdrawing from the world health organisation the champ administration has officially notified the united nations and congress but it will take a year to complete the process president trying to turn on the agency in april accusing it of doing little to inform the world about the corona virus outbreak ashley prata is a political commentator and a board member of republican women for cup progress she says it's another reckless decision by trump which will put americans at risk. for him that will just stand to be a talking point in his campaign you know this whole entire time he's blaming the virus on other countries and not taking responsibility for the disastrous effects that his response from his own administration and that here there are states that opened way too early and a lot of those states are states with republican governors who felt political

pressure from this president and this administration to reopen and as a result their cases are surging in spiking in those states and now they're faced with a tough decision to shut down their states again facing future economic impacts as a result places a huge void in the membership by not having the u.s. at the table and that really is what the problem is here it's going to affect clinical trials it will affect future vaccines it will affect responses to emerging outbreaks and that's really where americans are now being put at risk because of a reckless decision by the president so i do think who you know is at a situation right now where they're going to realize that the united states' membership was a crucial one and we've always been looked to as a leader i'm not sure that there is leadership right now it seems to be a large vacuum there when it comes to the current officeholder at $1600.00 pennsylvania avenue but at the same time i do think because this will take up to a year hopefully a responsible decision is made but this again does put americans at risk because of

the fact that we won't be information sharing with other countries that are working to develop vaccines and host clinical trials to really try to find innovations and solutions to fight these deadly diseases. in other world news russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution that would have extended cross border humanitarian aid to $3000000.00 syrians for a year the operation which is authorized until friday brings in surprise from turkey without interference from the syrian government aid workers have called a veto reprehensible diplomatic editor james frey's reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. earlier this year the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited one of the border crossings used to bring much needed aid into syria accompanied by the un's top humanitarian official marc local she was shown the bubble how a crossing considered a vital lifeline for the people in the last main opposition enclave in the province

of idlib. speaking on a facebook live link up with the young syrian ambassador kraft appealed to the other members of the security council to renew permission to deliver aid across the border we must ensure that the syrian people get life saving food and medicine and this is just a basic need this is a result this is between life and they're. not stressed the importance of this week's vote on across borders. this wasn't the only appeal to the un security council in the hours before the vote a u.n. commission of inquiry has released its latest report on human rights abuses in syria giving a damning assessment of what it describes as acts amounting to war crimes the chairman of the commission added this the very least the security council can do now is to renew the stream from the cross border and cross line operations pandemics no no borders nor should we need those please when tunnel.

the result of the voting is as follows 13 go out in favor 2 roads against. no abstentions the draft resolution has not been adopted or into the negative thoughts of 2 prominent member of members of the council both russia and china use their veto power was seeing a repeat of what happened 6 months ago until that point the un had 4 border crossings authorized for a delivery after using its veto in december russia managed to get that reduced to 2 crossings with the clock now ticking until the existing authorizations run out on friday having used its veto once again russia is now likely to push for just one approved check point greatly reducing the amount of aid that can be delivered to opposition areas james out just 0 at the united nations still

ahead on al-jazeera britain says it will resume arm sales to saudi arabia despite concerns over how they could be used in yemen. based on the defensive mexico's president is accused of selling out as he prepares to meet donald trump at the white house. hello key issues not out of the woods yet there's more heavy rain on the way now i think you go day off i think the heaviest rain is on its way up through honshu for wednesday the orange denotes the heavy rain so that's likely to cause a risk of landslides or flash floods that it's a little bit better back to accuse to the chinese and is waving around just going south of the young sea which has you know flooded response level right up to 2 as

of yesterday might drop again because the rains going sighs but that's only until the weekend unfortunately the next pulse is taking heavy right to cue she wants more the same place where the river cuba burst its banks are more danger from the further science bit of a gap to stop to clean wet in vietnam or cambodia but there are quite a few showers around west papua the southern philippines borneo and back towards singapore if you're in java it's a loss to find picture cation thunderstorms occasional showers one to rob the heavy ones are definitely to your north and singapore is in that zone the monsoon as you well knows burst right into pakistan now so the showers could occur anywhere and you can see where they're trying to build the heaviest rain there is going to be so we started running there the 2 more days of snow circulation and heavy rain. image can change the way we see the womb if we're not seeing this we'll be talking

about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created this longing for a photo opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story but the scripts and talking points are pretty intensive it can forge a narrative right through the listening post gives you the full picture of. the. top stories on al-jazeera brazil's president has counseled his schedule for the coming days after testing positive for a call that 19. important team at home has repeatedly downplayed the threads from

the virus. thousands have been protesting the problem in time for the announcement of a return to tough corner virus restrictions that called for the resignation of president alexander who has put a weekend curfew back in place after the worst day yet of the pandemic and the trump administration has begun the formal process of withdrawing the u.s. from the world health organization president has been critical of the w.h.o. over its handling of the corner virus outbreak accusing it of being influenced by china. and the u.k. says it will resume selling weapons to saddam arabia more than a year after it was forced to stop because of alleged war crimes in yemen the british government says the saudis have now agreed to comply with international law this is station comes just a day after the u.k. impose sanctions on 20 saudis over the murder of south of journalists. 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 saudi it 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. a car bomb in northeast syria has came at least 7 people 3 children who are among those who died the explosion happened in. order dozens of people have been killed by car bombs in the region since turkey drove up the kurdish y.p. she on top in october. the u.s. drone strike that killed top iranian general chaos and cinema in january was illegal as the conclusion of the un special rapporteur torn extrajudicial killings

. says the assassination in iraq's capital was against a u.n. charter now a burden manby reports tohu reign in general because some sort of money was popular among many in iran but was considered a dangerous threat to the u.s. by present trump that was the justification for druids on some the money convoy as he left baghdad airport on january the 3rd killing him an iraqi commander. and $100.00 s. among others a killing be called on new fool by un investigator actors come on the special rubber to own up to deduce the killing said in reports on tuesday in most of the evidence that the us has provided states the targeting of general stolen money and the deaths of those accompanying him constitution killing which under international human rights to the us is who sponsored this 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 mommy's history and his alleged offenses against the united states and other countries he was a senior figure in the iranian military and we killed him. 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. so mani was a leader of the could force the overseas arm of the iranian revolutionary guard corps. to help strengthen iran's ties with the armed group hezbollah backed bash al assad in syria and his forces played a key role in fighting eisel in syria and rock. trance accusation a solomon he was planning to attack u.s. targets. legally justifying an attack based on self-defense kalama says those insufficient evidence provided of an ongoing or imminent attack.

says a killing by an armed drone violated the un charter meaning it was breaking international law don't try to put the u.s. out of the human rights council in 2018 the report will be presented to it on thursday. the us may well largely ignore it but its color points out in her report it may lead to international pressure for greater regulation of targeted killings by andreas norbert the manly al-jazeera. a group of whig or muslims living in exile is accusing china of committing genocide and calling on the international criminal court to investigate they have submitted evidence alleging rights violations that implicate more than 30 senior chinese officials including president xi jinping say more than a 1000000 we go muslims are held in prison camps where they're punished and brainwashed beijing however denies this and doesn't recognize the i.c.c.

has jurisdiction. rescuers in japan are warning that it's a race against time to find survivors after to wrench all rain triggered floods and landslides war troops are being deployed to help with search efforts 7060 people are confirmed dead so far and about a dozen others remain missing a foreign story reports more rain is on the way. japan's self-defense force police and coast guards are all pitching in to help relief and rescue efforts across q schoo island in towns and cities residents are being moved to safer areas. this is unimaginable it's raining like a bucket of water overturned as we've seen the old. 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 weakened from the rain we fear that may be landslides even if it rains slightly by us 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 queue should say that 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. more than 50 protesters have been arrested in kenya during demonstrations against police brutality police fired tear gas at protesters trying to march to the center of the capital nairobi tuesday's

demonstrations were meant to mock 30 years since the day activists a mandate free elections but protesters also wanted to highlight allegations of police brutality on monday and an officer allegedly shot dead a man for selling fake hand sanitizer. zimbabwe's health minister has been fired for inappropriate conduct a statement announcing a d.m. oreo's dismissal did not elaborate further for you as arrested last month over allegations of corruption related to the procurement of $60000000.00 worth of coronavirus tests an equipment prosecutors claim 2 companies were illegally awarded government contracts without a competitive tender process. now the 1st copies of a new book by donald trump's niece have been distributed mary who's a trained psychologist alleges the president is a liar who's world few was shaped by his father's disapproval a white house correspondent could be how kate has more from washington mary trump

the president's niece has made some scathing criticisms of donald trump accusing the president of being a socio path and that this has much to do with his upbringing particularly the hounds of his father that it was a toxic family dynamic that created the donald trump that we know today now it is important to know that mary trump the president's niece her father did die of alcohol related and related diseases that he was depressed and the president for his part speaks very fondly about his brother but what makes some of her criticisms particularly credible given the fact that you know families do have squabbles is the fact that as you mentioned she's a clinical psychologist so she feels particularly well suited to tell this story she says that she's releasing this both because she could no longer remain silent she claims that donald trump destroyed her family but she does not want him to destroy her country so she's putting this ad out in advance of the u.s.

election now in this comes at a particularly difficult time for the u.s. president because of course this is the latest in a sort of tell all book to be released we've also had just weeks ago the tell all that was also critical of the present from the former national security advisor john bolton and we should add to that that this is a difficult time for president struggling to deal with coronavirus and also of course the poll numbers that show him lagging in the polls next to the contender for president joe biden the democratic presidential nominee. it's a meeting that's sufficient about trade but the summit between the u.s. and mexican presidents need to wednesday's already provoking a mixture of an. and they want to amend the new rapinoe explains why not believe the mexican president. is meeting with u.s. president donald trump this week at the invitation of the white house but what would normally be a standard meeting between 2 world leaders has stirred criticisms but. by sickly

there is an election season underway in the united states and the mexican president's visit could be misinterpreted but also over the years president trump has expressed many offensive things toward mexico and mexicans this is why many people have a deep distrust and reject the way president trump has treated us. president trump is not very well liked in mexico and much of that has to do with his past rhetoric regarding the mexican people when mexico sends its people there not sending their best they're bringing drugs they're bringing crime they're rapists and mexico will pay for the wall. one to do attitude soured further in 2019 when president trump threatened mexico with export tariffs unless mexico agreed to carry out a strict militarized immigration enforcement policy since the start of his administration 19 months ago mexican president under disciplinary lopez obrador has

sought to avoid a political conflict with president trump opting instead for a relationship built on pragmatism for a way that the visit scheduled for wednesday is the 1st time the 2 presidents will meet in person does visit out of the we can talk about baseball we can talk about a lot of things everything without confrontation because it's a political meeting and that you have a tough critics of lopez obrador to say the mexican president is making a mistake by sitting down with trump who many in mexico regard as racist and anti mexican a recent poll however found that while few mexicans are fans of trump a majority favor lopez over the meeting with the u.s. president with many hoping the. trip will help improve a bad economy but we're now going on in mexico there are many who do not look kindly at our president attending this meeting but there are those who understand the weight of the economic agenda and recognizes the economy's the result of political negotiations between leaders there's not such

a thing as friendships between countries and geopolitically their own interests. president lopez obrador says the focus of his u.s. visit is to mark the launch of the us mexico canada trade agreement or u.s. m.c.a. a replacement to nafta that mexico's president has said will generate jobs and help reactivate the mexican economy when. mexico city. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera brazil's president has cancelled a schedule for the coming days after testing positive for covert 19 jailable sonera who's now in quarantine at home has repeatedly downplayed the threat from the virus . 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 $38.00 degrees thousands of protest said mr b s pata meant against plans to re-impose tough coronavirus restrictions. would. have called for the resignation of president alexander vote church has put a weekend curfew back in place after the boy's day yet of the pandemic with a 13 deaths the jump administration has begun the formal process of withdrawing the us from the. world health organisation the president has been critical of the w.h.o. over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak accusing it of being influenced by china russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution that would have extended cross border humanitarian aid to $3000000.00 syrians for

a year the operation which is authorized until friday brings in surprise from turkey without interference from the syrian government the u.k. says it will resume selling weapons to assad eurabia more than a year after it was forced to stop because of an age war crimes in yemen that decision comes just a day after the british government announced economic sanctions against dozens of individuals accused of human rights abuses including 20 saudis involved in the murder of journalist. and a new report from the united nations has found that a u.s. drone strike that killed top iranian general your money in january was illegal the u.n. special repertoire an extrajudicial killings agnes column are says the attack was against the u.n. charter those are the headlines coming up next it's rewind silva phase with this. among the lower costs delegates also known as untouchables sit at the very bottom of the hindu hierarchy they perform the lowliest tasks such as manually cleaning

sewers often with no protective clothing or breathing apparatus given sing right or is a valid i don't know where he's taking us to meet some members of the community some of whom he represents carla benvar galas family of cleaners her husband was poisoned in a sewer 4 years ago 2 of her 3 sons now do the same work despite protections under the constitution doll it's untouchables are treated as out cause it's many dullards have escaped their predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity the b.g.p. controlled state of what the british has prepared a 90 conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human rights groups say the law is aimed at keeping ballots in that place.

hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. since the launch of al-jazeera english back in 2006 we've built up a library of award winning documentary s. and here on rewind we've been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today we're going back to 2007 to a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor enter edition come together in an unusual annual competition in recent years soph africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town.