powerful to account as we examine the u.s. is room in the world on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes ivory coast's prime minister collapses in a cabinet meeting and this pronounced dead as the u.s. marks new record coronavirus numbers it says the world is looking to it for leadership. of course the u.s. remains the world's leading the pandemic. the united nations running on the libyan

conflict foreign interference has reached unprecedented levels. eat out to help c out the u.k. offer is half price press trying to meals to kick start its economy. and i'm santa how much now have all the sporting commuting international cricket makes its return the following a coronavirus break with the 1st test between angle in the west indies behind closed doors. the prime minister of ivory coast ahmed do go no coulibaly has died at the age of 61 the president says the nation is in mourning bali was taken to hospital after he fainted during a cabinet meeting he had returned to ivory coast last week after a prolonged stay in france for a horse exam well let's speak to nicholas hawker who is following developments from

dakar in senegal for us so because what else do we know about the events that have surrounded the prime minister's this. well it was announced just moments ago as you mentioned and president wants are described him as his little brother even his son that's how close he was to the current president and want to and just before he entered the cabinet meeting. tweeted that he would be. seeking short term political gains but long term gains for decades to come comes for ivorians really setting the tone to his return back to politics and his tone to his campaign and shortly after he tweeted he entered a cabinet meeting when suddenly he entered into fits of cough collapsed and laid later was pronounced dead now this is a big blow for the president because with this death comes a political crisis

a political void the question is now who will replace coulibaly who was the chosen successor to want to or are expected to run in the next upcoming presidential election in october and whoever will come next will have to defeat the candidates which are only going to be a former president of ivory coast a heavyweight of the opposition and the young newcomer that was once a close ally of what. sorow so the announcement of his death is very problematic for want to not only that is problematic for the stability of ivory coast we know that in the past presidential elections have has led to conflict on just conflict but civil war in 2011 the election between president wants and all culminated into a civil war that left 3000 people dead and what people in ivory coast want to see

is not a repeat from the past they want to see a man that can bring stability and unite all ivorians and for the president that. was the man that died today during the cabinet meeting barbara as you mentioned there is a potential risk for this to cause serious instability in the country and of course the news was made official not that long ago it happened a few hours ago what reaction has there been so far both political and also just from ordinary people. well there is or shock from ordinary people because you know when when he was announced back in the country last thursday it was broadcast on national television in ivory coast the return of the candidates of watch her i watch her him self greeting coulibaly after his medical treatment and friends he appeared and good shape he said that he stands next to the president that he is here to continue the policies of the president and

let's remember that once you are with the way to the last moment to announce who would be his successor in march he announced it could be by the would be chosen candidate of the ruling party and when he made that announcement many people around him resign from their position they were shocked it wasn't something that united people members of his political party the challenge now is to find a candidate that will be able to fight against the going on and i mentioned. and the challenge also deal with the deep seated grievances that critics of ellison want to say have not been addressed during his time in power and although one or a has been able to bring back economic stability to ivory coast he's failed to critics to bring back the justice that so many people who were victims of torture

of killings of rain during the civil war all those people who saw injustice will didn't see that jury want to read time so there are still grievances that need to be addressed and the main challenge that comes ahead in situations like this when there is a political presidential election coming up people in ivory coast are fearful or fearful that again there will be violence so that's the challenge is to find now for a watch or a candidate that can unite ivory coast following the death of prime minister could be. very delicate few days and weeks ahead for ivory coast with the latest effort thank you. a record 60000 new coronavirus cases have been registered in the united states in a single day that's according to data from johns hopkins university the states of california and texas reported more than 10000 daily infections on tuesday and

that's pushed the total number of confirmed cases to more than 3000000 the u.s. has the highest death toll of any nation more than 130000 people have now died from covert 19 this fight that secretary of state might compel says the world is looking to the u.s. for guidance as a global leader in the fight against the pandemic well gabriel is on the joins us live now from new york gabriel having just read some of the statistics coming out of the u.s. it seems a bit perhaps difficult to comprehend exactly what might compare means when he says the world is looking to the u.s. for guidance so give us a little bit more detail on what exactly he was talking about. yeah he's basically saying that the u.s. is doing more testing than almost any other country around the world which the u.s. is doing a lot of testing and has ramped up their testing quite a bit and in states like new york where i'm at in new jersey the neighboring states

the numbers have come way down but overall in the united states it's a much much different story 35 states right now in the u.s. currently are seeing their numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases increasing and there's only 3 states that see the numbers decreasing of the numbers that of the states that are hardest hit i'll just give you a few anecdotes from each california the governor just said there that in the last 2 weeks the number of hospitals ations has gone up by over 40 percent in arizona they're saying only 145 i.c.u. beds are available left in the state in texas more than 10000 confirmed cases there on tuesday a record for the state for 24 hour period and in florida the epicenter of the core of virus outbreak in the u.s. right now there are 42 hospitals that say they have no longer have any i.c.u.

beds available for patients anymore so you look at these numbers and they are not very good they're trending in the wrong direction nevertheless as you mentioned secretary of state might pompei o says and claims that the u.s. is a model for the rest of the world let's listen to a little bit more of what he had to say. of course the u.s. remains the world leader in the pandemic. goes without saying. there are multiple dimensions that i've talked about each of them certainly the vice president has forced talks about them as well but whether that is the technical scientific solutions. both to how to stop the spread whether that's their appearance or vaccines the world turns its eyes to the best scientists and researchers and practitioners of the sciences that will ultimately bring resolutions probably it's the united states that the world looks to well pompei was right no way i mean the

u.s. of course does have some of the best researchers and health officials and and research institutions in the world among a few other countries as well nevertheless critics are saying this certainly the u.s. hasn't necessarily used them correctly given the sense that the country is facing this growing coronavirus crisis now that is growing in so many states and now you're hearing about trucking about reopening schools in the u.s. trump and president trump has been pushing to reopen schools as soon as possible nevertheless many school districts allow in the country are hesitant to do that many teachers around the world around the u.s. say they don't want to go back to school classrooms to teach until they're guaranteed that it's safe and right now there are very few indications that anyone can make that guarantee gabrielle is under with the latest on the situation in the u.s. joining us from new york again thank you. it's going to serbia now where the president

has caved in to demands of protesters reversing his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions aleksandr votes which says a weakened curfew cannot be implemented without a state of emergency being enforced thousands turned up for the 2nd day of protests in belgrade the spite the u.-turn try to reinforce measures after serbia's highest single day death toll from covert 19 protesters say he's partly responsible for the spike accusing him of lifting measures in june to hold elections which he then won well dushan had seen eclipses live for us in belgrade so 1st of all i'm looking at the shot behind you don't seem to be a lot of people there but in general what are the protests looking like this evening. is over barbara you know the show behind me in the streets are empty but the protests are very violent and we could say that the police was better prepared

tonight than they were the last last night yesterday so they had a better tactics tonight so they sort of attacked the demonstrators there tried to disperse them around the national assembly because most of the demonstrators a few 1000 the few 1000 of them gathered in front of the national assembly and they forced them away to the surrounding streets so they made sort of a small pocket of all demonstrators are around the national assembly that's making them easier to remove the demonstrators from the streets so most of the demonstrators went home and there is nobody on the streets but there is also still a group of demonstrators some i don't know 500 meters away from the national assembly and in front of them is a huge amount of police who they don't know in some kind of a standoff they are the police. strong units of police special and there is the curator of police of serbia john their merry regular police cavalry they're

all at that size for the last i don't know hour or so they're having sort of small clashes some point the demonstrators would go towards the police then the police would respond to those clashes and that's the situation at this point but most of the demonstrators are now out of the series the police cleared everything everything started this afternoon at 6 pm when people started to gather around for the 2nd day in a row because of the measures that president voters wanted to impose for the following weekend so everything started that at that point for the a while hours everything was calm but then. things started to escalate and there is still a last thing everybody thought for tonight because the police were sort of patient in the 1st hour of the closures that everything will be over of much faster than it

was last night because last night the closures where the police did some i don't know about 3 am it looks like that this is also going to be a long night but it seems lloyd that the police is about to finish the job and it seems likely that this brought the lower it is coming through it's still it's weiland but it's everything is coming to its end to show that cynical if you'll be following developments for us there but for the moment thank you. and coming up on this news hour from london building of relations while building a wall of mexico's president meets donald trump at the white house where the u.s. denies the release of a lebanese businessman charged with facing hezbollah is a prisoner swap and golf fans will have to wait an extra 12 months for one of the sport's sport's most beloved events details coming up in sports.

the u.n. secretary general and tony good ted ish says the conflict in libya has entered a new phase in a virtual session of the security council condemned foreign interference in the conflict saying it had breached unprecedented levels the u.n. says more than 100 civilians were killed in libya between april and june with the tatars warning of more bloodshed in the city of syria the un recognized government to supported by turkey while warlord a half that is backed by russia egypt and the u.a.e. the cease fire talks are underway between turkey and russia. so a telephone conversation a negotiator the prime minister said ouch and the call i received from field marshal after i made a strong appeal for both to engage fully in ensuring that effective ceasefire and move swiftly in advancing the political process you know i think nations the african union the league of arab states together know that you regional actors and

organizations and the european union will continue to work closely together support the people of libya as they seek to consolidate their economic security and political future that will test speaking their well diplomatic editor james bays as more now from the u.n. headquarters in new york well i think you've got everyone publicly stating that it's time for peace in libya the problem with this is they've been publicly stating that for a very long time ago back to the beginning of the year and germany was the country that was the host for the conference on libya leaders from all key countries came to burgle in for that conference they all signed up to a communique and the un's plan and yet they went home and they continued many of them what they had been doing before and that i think is the problem germany now wanted to reboot this because it just happens to have the current presidency of the

european union and of the u.n. security council it felt at this moment it was a good moment to try and push efforts towards police peace because we have had very important developments in the last few weeks and masses defeat in many ways for general haftar for over a year he'd had his forces right near tripoli trying to take tripoli and with the help of turkey the government of national accord the internationally recognized government has pushed general have to push his forces all the way back to sirte. well libya's internationally backed government says it's found the prison used by the have to have to torture opponents the discovery was made in the city of tire huna government leaders in tripoli are calling on the united nations to investigate mass graves found near the prison and sort of torture victims were buried there by have terrorist forces. human rights watch says the bodies of at least 180 men have

been found in mass graves in working a fossil they were discovered near the northern town of jubal the government is investigating claims that its forces carried out the killings government troops have been battling a surge in attacks by armed groups in the region the violence has forced more than 700000 people from their homes since the beginning of 2019 well we can speak now to careen who is the west africa director for human rights watch madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so aid in your report who do you think might be behind this well according to the 23 g. bill residents from various different sectors with whom i spoke they firmly believe all of them that the vast majority of those that were founded on the streets and along the highways of people were killed by the security forces now they say this for a couple reasons number one because well at the epicenter of this conflict in the

north it's controlled by the army and also there is a curfew. that's you know very strong curfew and people described how trucks were driving around and they heard the sound of gunfire in the following morning they didn't found these bodies so they couldn't think of any other explanation for armed groups feeling comfortable enough to be driving around in the middle of the town controlled by the army because of course the government has actually been battling a rebel groups for a while now and we've seen enormous displacement of people and obviously hundreds of civilians killed as well groups such as yourself have in the past asked the government to do more have you found that they just haven't acted. that's right this isn't the 1st time that we have made these kinds of allegations and other international organizations and local organizations have also presented credible evidence also people described a number of those 180 minute good number who were last seen in the custody of the security forces which. lends credibility to their involvement they have they

systematically open investigations which of course we welcome but we're concerned about the lack of progress into those investigations and you know that this could really reflect a lack of political will to get to the bottom of this well speaking of investigations the government has actually said it's investigating the claims that its forces carried out these killings that we're talking about now sa much hope do you hold out that we are going to get some kind of result of this investigation and that you know in your eyes it will be credible. yes well it is you know a concern of ours and the recent announcement that there will be an office of the un high commission of the human rights may put some pressure on them and there is building pressure on the armies of all 3 countries in the said how to ensure that their terror counterterrorism operations respect human rights because in the end. if they don't it just pushes more and more angry young men who are vengeful into the hands of the armed dissidents which ultimately complicates their counter

insurgency efforts as you mention that mean obviously this is nothing new we've seen violence invoking a fossil in these continuing battles but the scale of this 180 men because i understand all the all the bodies were of men how was that different to other cases that we've seen and do you think because of the scale it might become a turning point obviously there has been a steady stream of allegations from all armed groups and it's not just the jihadists there's not just the army from the jihadists from from pro-government forces and from the army you know there has been a severe deterioration in the sahara will in all 3 countries and again we have documented you know over 400 killings by the jihad december keen as well as then the hundreds by the security forces but we're hoping that this is indeed a turning point it is not the only allegation that we have denounced and that we also have on our list to confirm so it's extremely worrying. you. allegedly a professional conduct by the security forces according to

a west africa director for human rights watch madame thank you so much for having joined us thank you. the u.s. president has hailed what he described as a tremendous relationship between his country and mexico donald trump has been holding trade talks with his mexican counterpart and the rest and when the pez over thought at the white house the leftist leader had been criticized for traveling to washington to meet trump who was largely elected on the promise of building a border wall between the 2 nations some democrats say trump is using the occasion to drum up support among hispanic voters why can't i joins us live now from washington d.c. so obviously controversial certainly for the mexican president what did the 2 men have to gain by meeting well it was a public display by both of them off a new relationship essentially between mexico and the united states one must

remember that under the trumpet ministration the the relationship with mexico has struggled on many occasion on the questions of immigration on the questions of trans border wall so certainly there was a lot to make up between these 2 for president obama at all it's his 1st visit out of mexico since he won that landslide election certainly very important for him to show his diplomatic skills in terms of the a populous that voted him in for president trump not quite clear what advantage he's seeking out of this but as you mentioned the possibility that he's looking to gender of a greater hispanic vote in the november elections but whatever the reason certainly the relationship between the 2 leaders on the surface at least appeared remarkably a miserable this is what each had to say. the relationship between the united states and mexico has never been closer than it is right now and as the president

said a little while ago people were betting against that they were actually betting against it. but it's never been stronger never been closer we're doing tremendous job together we're cherished friends partners and neighbors our cooperation is founded on mutual trust and mutual respect between the 2 of us and between our 2 countries . yes but. i decided to come because it was very important for us to launch this new agreement but i also wanted to thank the people of the u.s. government and union president for being increasingly respectful of off the island mexicans and feel personal support in acquiring medical equipment to treat coronavirus patients. that's why i'm here to express to the american people but their president has treated us with kindness and respect long live the friendship of our 2 nations. and like at leading up to the 2016 election in the united

states donald trump often has pretty incendiary language when speaking about mexico and mexicans and has that been toned down i guess in light of this visit but just in general for this election campaign. here's that has been turned down considerably although president strums still goes off about his wall making it a centerpiece of his campaign it was one of his campaign promises back before the 2016 elections but certainly there has been a toadying down of the trump rhetoric with regard to mexico not necessarily so with the other partner in this new trade deal and that is canada the leader of canada justin trudeau did not attend the signing of the of the document in the course of the day on the face of it because he had a shuttling problem with a meeting of parliament however president trump has been very vocal about imposing tariffs on illumine him as president trump would say aluminum president through

prime minister trudeau would say so certainly that part of this relationship is a little bit rocky at the moment but this relationship between mexico and the united states appears to have put aside its past attempting to move forward one more point over the past year may to may exports from the united states have dropped by 86 percent in all the trade between the u.s. and mexico has dropped by 54 percent this is largely because of the coronavirus in recent months but it's a sign as well that fundamentally all is not quite right with the trade relationship between mexico and the united states mike hanna with the reaction there from washington d.c. mike thank you let's go to minor apple who joins us live now from mexico city so a lot of mexicans are obviously not enthusiastic about their president meeting donald trump because of everything that the latter has said but i guess is there an element of pragmatism that is also entering the discussion there because trade of

course with the u.s. is crucial for mexico. certainly so pragmatism has actually been the hallmark of the relationship between the 2 leaders but even before this meeting took place in the rose garden at the white house earlier today we were hearing from political observers and many here in mexico urging the mexican president not to attend this meeting many here seeing the invitation from the white house with distrust many people seeing it as a potential ploy by the trumpet ministration at a time where the campaign for reelection is still gathering steam and it's worth noting this this is mexico and president trump is not looked at favorably in mexico he's not a popular figure here and that has everything to do with the rhetoric the president has referred to mexican migrants in the united states as bad people as rapists as bad as murderers again with the ongoing rhetoric in his campaign regarding the wall that rhetoric completely different than what we heard today in the rose garden it

was hearing both leaders actually hit all the right tone in fact here in mexico despite the dislike that people have toward president trump there is an understanding that the weight of the economic agenda is such that it has to come 1st especially given that mexico sees itself on the edge of what is what could very well be the worst recession in the country's history so many here do see this 1st trip abroad by president under this model is owed a lot of as a good opportunity for the president to secure foreign investment under the context of this new agreement the u.s. m.c.a. between the united states mexico and canada in fact both leaders talked about that been ported relationship the respect that's the foundation of this relationship between the united states and mexico many would argue that that relationship is lopsided you could cite the incident last year where the united states threatened mexico with export tariffs if mexico did not implement

a immigration policies in the style that the united states wanted to turning mexico essentially. but not officially into a safe 3rd country one of the best analysis that i've heard recently regarding this relationship between mexico and the united states is that there is no such thing as friendship between states there's no such thing as friendship between countries when it comes to geopolitics there's only such a thing as interests and if you listen to the speech today between a president trump and president it seems that those interests were met for both world leaders manner that happened though with the latest there from mexico city man off thinking. also are still to come in this hour including rescued from rising floodwaters heavy rain causes chaos in large swathes of china and japan and thence for the player that based on a poem an opponent that gets his punishment a sound that will have all the details and later in the program.

hello on tuesday this thin line of cloud here with a lot of lightning strikes and it produced hail 20 up to 5 centimeters in diameter in western russia ukraine and that was the black sea now it's more described the way it stationary now that side of it is still nice and hot this side that it's cool down it's not cold by any means it's disappointing for july that's almost the european plane it is still hot from romania southward through turkey and greece and back through italy spain and portugal least in part the blue suggests where it's raining in the construct rain once again runs for the british isles low countries germany and up to the baltic states the forecast for london is not particularly pretty for a mid summer one breezy sunny intervals but showers at least on friday we should be

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back years a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the prime minister of ivory coast i'm a dog gone by lee has died at the age of 61 he was taken to hospital after fainting during a cabinet meeting he had just returned from a prolonged stay in france for a heart example the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the united states is now past 3000000 more than 130000 people across the country have died that's the highest death toll of any nation and service president has caved to 2 demands of protesters reversing his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions alex on the church says a we can't curfew can all be implemented without a state of emergency being in force. it's go back to our top story now the death of ivory coast's prime minister mary-rose air below is chief executive director of the africa international media group she says could be by

these death casts uncertainty over the future political situation. main problems occurring now you know we will be watching what really happened because we will we can reckon with a lot of tensions and also maybe president what i will say when it comes to sion allows me to run again and facing that situation we have a note of all a president 86 years old ronnie and yet a lot of tension we don't unite. a candidate see within my party so maybe i'll run meisner president went to war was not in a great comfortable position. to to begin with but now with this openly everybody all the political also may feel that means this signal to come up with their own ambitions and they're really i mean it may be great tense domestic

flights in nigeria have resumed after 3 months of coronavirus restrictions airports in the capital of jet and the commercial hub lagos have reopened with all remaining airports due to resume flights over the next week more than 660 people have been killed by covert 1000 in one area with the number of cases nearing 30000 admittedly this reports now from a butcher. it was a cautious 1st day for nigerian a troublous as process has arrived to check. they were confronted by a new flight in safety rules that want there before the copied 1000 pandemic. nevertheless john was eager to fly kate. just so i don't have consigned so far trust in my country and trust in our efforts put in place so far i expect my country and i believe in trust in the system and i know that it's safe to fly as is

safe to fly in any other country. but traffic was the in the 1st day for the resumption of unlimited shuttle. government leaders say they have used the past 3 months when airlines are grounded to address critical infrastructure needs to ensure passenger safety of sin in our ports we have a marked areas where passengers would be to keep physically distant would reduce the capacity of our. holes we have sequenced our flights to come in regulated the entry and exit of our ports we're doing everything possible to ensure that people are safe. despite increasing coverage 900 factions the government is going ahead with the open air space for domestic flights. to airports this one you know and the other in the commercial capital lagos problem chosen to restart domestic flight when the other airports due to take off soon now you're a similar vision of 40 will decide on went to allow international flight after

seeing how operations walk out in these airports over the next 2 weeks. i juz has lost 95 percent of its revenues in the past 3 months the feeling here is the longer airplanes remain grounded the more the economy will be. this is a country that you have 34 percent rate of return on your investment this is a country with 450000000000 g.d.p. this is a country a center of africa this is a country that has 20 percent of the african consumption so it sucked in this economy means that took a lot for the economy therefore we opened up. in style with caution they're sure that it was to save. our vision of a happy the 1st day of commercial flight since the covered 900 locked down when well what and such it is how all airports cool both domestic and international flights out to get back to their. al-jazeera.

the u.k. government has announced a $37000000000.00 mini budget including half price restaurant meals in a bid to save jobs and pump new life into a coronavirus battered economy it's launching what it calls the kickstarter scheme it's offering to pay $6.00 month's wages to any employer who creates a high standard job for people aged $16.00 to $24.00 the threshold on tax paid when buying property has been raised to encourage people back into the housing market but chancellor or she soon i can ounce the furlough scheme would end in october it's been in place since march and paid up to 80 percent of people salaries if employers promised to retain their jobs well the u.k. government has announced as we're seeing that the 1000000000 dollar mini budget jonah hold reports now from boca readers in west sussex to see how it may be implemented there. the seaside town of reach is

a faded 19th century resort town with fun times feel like a thing of the past a place counting the cost of coronavirus more keenly than most but most of my money is through from busking a finger that is made during the summer and so our computer will be of a cushion but this year we're not going to have anything like that although. we do see it's all very handsome a lockdown may have lifted in time for the summer holidays but growth and opportunity seem a long way off. people need to know that although hardship lies ahead no one will be left without. so today we with a plan for jobs our plan has a clear goal to protect support and create jobs it's the latest in a series of interventions to support the economy the government here the treasury hoping to put hundreds of thousands of under 20 five's into work by paying their

salaries up to the minimum wage for the 1st 6 months of their employment it's intended to head off a looming crisis of unemployment with the economy predicted to suffer a 14 percent fall in g.d.p. this year. jobs are just one part of an economy feeling the heat measures announced by the chancellor to stimulate consumer spending include a sales tax cut in the troubled hospitality sector welcome news for restaurants but it'll take more than that to allay concerns about what lies ahead can't stand that they're helping people but it's not. obvious to all it's not going to buy any of this because i was. a lox and i'm no economist so i don't know so much bar called see how they can give away billions of pounds over these months and then have to say to somebody actually you know maybe 4 percent tax to pay back the coach will be in such a big such a mess of money that it's disappeared. and it's not just the jobs of the young at

stake there are fears across the economy with consumer spending down and furloughed workers in their millions facing possible redundancy when the government's job retention scheme ends in the autumn if the money is not coming through the door i can't afford to pay it i never want to get rid of good staff i want to incentivizing he could staff but i can't afford to take on staff i want to be updated on and the service staff that you need any sort of industry because the money is not there and people are not spending the picture drome cinemas celebrated 100 years of continuous operation in january only for the lights to come down in march and 4 months since coming attractions are uncertain jonah hole al-jazeera wagner reaches u.k. neurologists a warning that the coronavirus could cause serious or potentially fatal brain damage a study suggests it can lead to severe neurological complications including psychosis strokes and nerve damage how the monday co-author of the study any joins us now

from london by skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so tell us a little bit more about your study 1st of all presumably people that have had the covert 19 or still had it in what impact did it show. so we always knew that 1000 had the potential to affect the brain from our experience of sars and murders and the 1st studies from china suggest about 30 percent of patients with coded 19 had neurological symptoms and what our study has done is show what these new lot of complications are so we found cases of inflammation of the brain we had patients who had strokes and the strokes are in association with clotting elsewhere in the lungs for example because the blood in coated 19 patients is very thick and sticky we also had patients who had delirium. because of the infection because of hypoxia

and because of sepsis and so the impact obviously is dramatic but i would emphasize that these numbers are small considering that overall there are 11000000 people infected with 1000 with 500000 deaths so although experience is very interesting and important for physicians and doctors to recognize the numbers are small they are small for your study in particular if you tried to perhaps correlate it with similar studies a broader are we just to worry into the discovery really of covering 1000 for that to have happened yet. so this is the 1st study to really put together the clinical aspects the m.r.i. aspects and all the laboratory features to make a plan about what the complications are and so i think this will be a useful template for researchers around the world who will be seeing code 19 cases to classify which will help us do more research and find out the exact mechanisms

of these complications and therefore that will get better treatment and so just explain to us a little bit more about how wind when it would develop would be what this happened in patients that are showing symptoms and perhaps worrying symptoms of covered 19 or could it be patients that perhaps are asymptomatic but then developed this this side effect so the majority of patients in our study had 1000 illness of varying severity a summit very mild chest disease so mad very severe disease but there were some where the neurological presentation was the 1st manifestation of code 19 so i think that's important to recognize that it's not just respected treat complications but neurological confidential though small in numbers need to be recognized as a presenting feature of this infection and what's interesting is while i was reading what we're looking at your study is that something similar has happened before after the 1918 so-called spanish influenza the influenza pandemic then

because then there was an epidemic of brain damage linked to that pandemics of d.c. correlations or potential correlations between the 2. i don't know over emphasize that yes there was this late onset letter and get the light is lethargic or seen in the 1000 spanish flu epidemic but i think what it does mean is all these patients we're seeing now will need long term follow up to see what the long term complications of this viruses. ok we're going to have to leave it there heidi manjoo co-author of that that study sir thank you so much for having joined us thank you very much. a lebanese businessman who is accused of financing hezbollah has returned home after serene years in a u.s. jail cassim had been sentenced to 5 years in prison but was released due to poor health and risks of contracting covert 19 there the u.s.

secretary of state on wednesday called on all countries that classify hezbollah as a terrorist organization in a hoarder reports. qassam pleasure deal is back home the lebanese businessman charged by a u.s. court for financing the iranian backed lebanese group hezbollah was released from prison on compassionate grounds. landed in beirut after completing 3 years of his 5 year sentence the us administration denied his freedom was part of a backroom deal and insists pleasure dean remains a designated global terrorist but his release increased speculation of a swap months after a naturalized american was released from a lebanese jail the release of the incomes of the context of prisoner swaps that we've seen in the past varies between the trump administration on one hand and the rainy and. towser dean's arrival coincided with a visit by the commander of the u.s. central command general candace mckenzie reaffirmed america's partnership with the

lebanese army but not with the government the americans say is beholden to hezbollah the armed group along with its allies control lebanon's government and parliament on this thing because of possible i believe the united states is going to. increase the pressure now thanks for the guess has not very efficient but what is much more efficient will be would be or could be the thanks again of hezbollah ally. lebanon is caught in a power struggle between the us its arab allies and israel against iran as are the israelis does not signal improved relations between hezbollah and the us administration us. officials have said the move does not diminish the severity of the crime and that there are still determined to go after the group's finances just last month u.s. secretary of state mike pompei also poses a threat to the u.s. its international partners and threatens lebanon's stability hezbollah and its

allies see international powers are imposing a financial siege on lebanon. the americans are exploiting the piled up political and economical failures to incite the lebanese against hezbollah the decision to beseech hezbollah will not lead to any result we will not surrender the us has said aid is not flowing in because the hezbollah led ruling alliance is refusing to fight corruption and carry out reforms that would weaken their hold over the state's resources lebanon yet again is in a reno were regional international rivalries play out but the stakes are even higher this time with the country close to economic collapse. beirut. days of heavy rain have swollen rivers and triggered mudslides of hoss china and japan dozens of people have been killed in the flooding with millions told to leave

their homes and this far in slowing of reports the extreme weather is showing no sign of easing. some of the heaviest rain in decades has batted who by a province in china on the outskirts of hong kong city rescue workers dig through landslide debris in central south west and east in china rescue teams have evacuated people trapped by rising floodwaters in cities towns and villages university because the water is so deep we have asked the guy to help transfer residents by rubber boats dams and river banks are being reinforced further to the east heavy rain has continued to pound japan causing flooding and landslides it's up rooted trees and downed electricity pylons making some roads impassable water levels in many areas remain high. even though it may have stopped raining there are many things to be worried about whether there could be mudslide happening here as

well i was wondering along with you the worst hit areas of japan on the southwest island of to shoot which has seen the highest number of casualties more than a 1000000 people on japan's 3rd largest island have been advised to seek temporary shelter and stay with friends or relatives where possible to avoid overcrowding at emergency centers health workers say basic measures to prevent corona virus from spreading in the crowded conditions seem to be working on you know the fact there have been no coronavirus patients in this area proves that we are doing the best we can. weather experts are warning more heavy rain is expected over much of japan lawrence louis al-jazeera. still ahead in this news hour while fans are still barred from baseball games one japanese team has been getting creative with its crowd.

you. can now hear sound there with the sport. thank you very much a bar brawl the 1st international cricket match since march got underway in england early on wednesday the home team are playing the west indies in the 1st of 3 behind closed doors tests moments before play began in southampton players from both sides to can me to show their support for the black lives matter movement there was also a minute's silence for those who've died from a covert 19 not much play was possible however on day one because of rain england

closed on a 35 for one i'm sure although today's been told pretty sure that we're going to have a great series against the west indies they'll challenge us. as a team in the street just wants to as we know that's when i want to play well so well and of course you've got 3 matches you know back to back so that will also join in just a little bit in terms of our selection going forward as well one of golf's most prestigious events the ryder cup has been postponed until next year because of the global pandemic the event that sees the usa face off against a team europe was scheduled to happen in september but it's been delayed due to the likelihood that fans would have not been able to attend safely instead the ryder cup will happen at the following september and with things. that do defend a particle has been abandoned for 4 games or for biting an opposing player the

spaniard bit cheez-it jr tonight even during the size $21.00 loss in syria on tuesday incident was spotted by far officials and patty was given a straight card or red card to her he's also been fined approximately $11300.00 his ban is a blow to light juice fading a title hopes with the club sitting 2nd 7 points behind the event is. general suffered a major dent to their hopes of staying in syria on their last 21 against napoli defeat leaves them a 3rd from bottom and in the relegation zone one point behind 17th place. one of asia's most promising football players is heading to germany's been this leader south korean forward he chan is joining our from a sister club red salzburg in austria where the 24 year old arrives for

a reported $16000000.00 and has scored 16 goals across all competitions this season . the world champion fernando alonso says he's excited to go back to renault as his f one return is made official the 38 year old who quit the sport at the end of the $2800.00 season that will be racing again next year along the one both of his the world titles that with the french team he left f one to race in various events including the dakar rally and more 24 hours. dean wants to be back at the podium or do i know it's our brand of i'm very close very proud to represent people again. you know i'm coming to be you're still my winning culture you know the aspects of the team on the group or know i know how to take a break in everyone and i'll come back. tell us well number one about the joke of

it has hit how to critics and claimed he was the subject of a witch hunt after a tour he organized turned into a corona virus fiasco the tour was cancelled during its meeting in. after several players tested positive djokovic revealed that he too contract that the illness and days later players were not obliged to follow social distancing a rules during games while images and videos of them playing basketball together and partying into a new tournament were posted on social media the joke of it believes that many had an agenda against him. or there was a massive upset in south korea's top baseball the the struggling s.k. we've survived in mind inning rally to be the table topping and see the nose in john we were nearly blew it though having led 3 to nothing the dinos got within one

run of them but partying hope would save the day he got the final out to help the weaver and seal $32.00 when. and with fans still enabled to cheer on their favorite teams from inside the stadium it japanese baseball teams have been getting creative . base whole exhibited a squad of robo cheerleaders at their home stadium the cheer crew which includes at least 20 human and her robots wearing the team's jerseys quadrupedal robots did an impressive area of dance moves these robots will perform at 16 home games. and that's it for me back to barbara well it's better than an empty stadium found a thing to you can get much more on that and everything else that we've been covering on our website al-jazeera dot com well that's it from the news hour but i'll be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news at the pure joy that right.

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ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises we doe as any migrant joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have to foot our nation what has happened to their opinion that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. this is not religion this is the politics me and an unholy alliance on all dizzy or. based again to the use and abuse of power across the globe on al-jazeera in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions and cuts and loads of you want to put across the country and there's a dark side is you do see the grit from his off the majesty of the him fix into something more like the team i didn't see of the british the day 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. ivory coast's prime minister collapses in a cabinet meeting and this pronounced said. hello i'm barbara sarah you're watching out as they are live from london also coming up as the u.s. marks new record coronavirus numbers it says the world is looking to wait for leadership. of course the u.s. remains the world leader in the pandemic. the united nations warning on the libyan conflict foreign interference has reached.