al-jazeera. how they i'm convinced this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes straight to die has taken steps to suspend their extradition agreement. straight here becomes the latest country to take action over hong kong's new security law imposed by china. life on the lock down strict measures imposed once

again industry leaders 2nd largest city of melbourne to control corona virus infections. warnings from the u.n. of increasing levels of interference over the conflict in libya. and in the run up to a presidential election in uncertain future in ivory coast after the sudden death of the prime minister. and in sports a silent gesture that major league soccer hopes will act go throw out the world's players unite against racial injustice ahead of the competition's restart in florida. china has threatened to take action against a stray after prime minister scott morrison else just series of missions in response to hong kong's new security law his trade in government is the spending its extradition treaty with hong kong it will also extend visas for hong kong

residents in the country because gates has moved from city. this is quite a significant announcement and it was always going to be met with absolute frustrate. by beijing is surely has essentially told its biggest trading partner that it does not believe its read is safe in hong kong now this also is about the extradition order stralia says that it decided because of these new security rules that it had no option but to act because if we were to extradite someone from australia to you hong kong that person would end up in mainland china of course this comes on the off the back of pots intentions already there have been claims that china has been a behind some of the sauber attacks in a strangely it is being claims of political meddling and interference in astray by beijing and since a strongly a push for a an inquiry into the origins of coronavirus we have seen beijing act with hits to

the agricultural sector we've had massive tariffs on bali we've been they have banned some beef imports and they have been concerned that australia's lucrative coal industry would be next so many people in australia are saying that this is a necessary move maybe one that the prime minister scott morrison thought he had nothing else to lose because of the trade dispute that is going on but it will no doubt be costly and many businesses will be quite nervous about. meanwhile china's foreign ministry is certain to take harsh action against the australian move. well you for what you for the comments images from the australian side constitute grave violations of international law and basic international relations as well as gross interference in chinese domestic affairs will not work on china we condemn the comments and reserve the right to take further actions in response or consequences will be borne by the australian side. let's get reaction now from china katrina year joins me now from beijing so katrina what has the reaction from china been so

far. well as we heard there earlier kim beijing is furious with this move quite strong language from china's foreign ministry spokesperson jolly generally or today on thursday basically saying that beijing would not take this lying down he was reflecting some of the strong language used earlier from the chinese embassy in australia calling these measures and accusations groundless he then went on to say as we heard earlier that china will hit back we don't know exactly what they might do but he did mention if you pressure points that china could target he followed that up by saying that chinese students to a stray leo should be wary now this is a big deal for australia chinese students are responsible for about a 3rd of the revenue for straight is education sector and jolly jen mentioned that chinese students should think twice before going to australia because they might risk racist attacks and they should undertake some risk assessments he also

mentioned in australian think tank institute the astrarium strategic policy institute which has published a few papers on chinese interference chinese attacks you said that this organisation has sneered china and chinese state media saying that beijing is considering suing this think tank full live bell now it remains to be seen exactly how they might go forward with that it could be rhetoric but it is definitely true that there are a few things in the trading relationship between these 2 countries that beijing could touch on as a developed country as truly as one of them or is that is reliant economically on china it exports beef dairy wine lion or except china could raise tariffs it could cancel some contracts and say it's for compliance issues for example it could also impact the number of chinese tourists who go to australia of course nobody is travelling at the moment because of the pandemic but chinese tourists are also extremely important for strayer and this bilateral relationship is kind of been on a downward spiral since 2800 since the government put into place some anti foreign

interference laws in china has not been happy with the strong. for some time and certainly for a country where politics is very much tied up with economics in china the leaders here they do not like to do business unless they have a good relationship that they trust the person they're doing they're doing business with so it's easy to see how this could definitely impact the economic relationship between beijing and camera thanks so much for that katrina you there live from beijing. coronavirus restrictions are being eased on some public housing blocks in melbourne where people haven't been able to leave any reason since last week it comes as melbourne's 5000000 residents will now be barred from leaving home for 6 weeks accent for essential reasons these in the state of victoria say they are setting up a ring of steel around the city checkpoints any time and anywhere to enforce the law down measures borders between victoria and neighboring states was shut down on tuesday and joining me now from melbourne to discuss this further i'm michael

beschloss and he is a journalist and investigative editor at the age melbourne's daily thanks for your time so also response been among melbourne residents to this news. well initially in the not to for the look the lockdown started last night out time there were people out on the streets having enjoying the last opportunity to 18 at restaurants and so on beyond that the businesses have been very upset they had only just reopened restaurants cafes cabs that only just reopened they spent a lot of money on stock refreshing. their stock and rehiring people and now they've had to close down again so there are a lot of people saying that this will probably kill them off and as businesses going forward beyond that i think there is that's resignation people think that this pandemic is not going away it is serious and that they're just going to have to endure as you said this is this is the 2nd sort of locked on there it had been

looking like you know this had been dampened chrono virus infections had been dampened even talk of a travel bubble with with new zealand i want to how did this resurgent stuff. we as far as we can tell we can trace it back to the failures of hotel quarantine so a lot of returning australians were according to hotels for 14 days to quarantine unfortunately victoria unlike other states that i've seen by security guards who are ill paid and ill trained and many breaches of quarantine could doing those couple of weeks and process its aims the security guards themselves have sprayed this virus out into the suburbs and among their families and into their schools and so on and so forth and of course we know how wildly infectious it is so so that seems to have seeded this this resurgence in the pen demick finally michael as we mentioned earlier that

been a hard lock down on these housing estate tower blocks which apparently home to some of the more vulnerable members of the community what's the reaction to that plane. look interesting lee the reaction to that was was very strong particularly among the lift it seemed to some people that because a lot of refugees people from the horn of africa people who might be illiterate or or are you know less able to to kind of participate in economy with being with being disparate lee. badly affected by this and. and you know. that were tested very broadly and now it seems that all but one of those tells will be reopened but it's really quite a shock for the system i think in victoria i think that i think we've lost the vision that it was and to michael there and journalist at the age.

plenty more ahead on the news on including. rising tensions in the democratic republic of congo over a controversial appointment to the electoral commission. a 2nd night of protest in serbia's capital against the government's handling of the coronavirus on break. i did sports a new dates for goldstein's to profile team event followers here with that story. rising tensions within the ruling coalition of the democratic republic of congo threatening to bring down the government supporters of rival factions are rallying in the capital kinshasa backers of the president met outside the party headquarters before the demonstration the latest protests are over a controversial appointment to the chairmanship of the electoral commission an official accused of linking past elections catherine soils following the story now

from nairobi catherine just tell us why people protesting today. yes kiran as you rightly mentioned these are these protests by 2 sides of the ruling coalition and let me start with you d.p.s. which is the party of president relates to see cared for hundreds of supporters of this party and now marching on the streets of kinshasa they made their way to one of the offices of p.p.r. d.p.p. already is the party led by former president joseph kabila still within that ruling coalition so those so you d.p.s. supporters have been. off he says of p.p.r. de they've been trying to break down a wall the have been lighting fires they are opposed to the nomination of this electoral president by parliament they say that this nomination was not done in consultation and consensus of the ruling coalition on the other hand we have to.

cortez of p.p.r. de that the president's party they've also been on the streets saying that they support this nomination they say they're also protecting their promise they're protecting the president's party said we also have him the opposition groups evil society and the catholic church all saying that perhaps there should be electoral reform slowly then starts talking about the nomination of the president the luxor commission or even the commission as in this process really are happening at a time when this coronavirus in the country these protests have not been authorized by the local authorities because of coronavirus so we have also huge has is all the police on the streets gudgeon key institutions like parliament tensions very very high indeed on the streets of kinshasa right now ok you are seeing those images there from the streets of can shock and wonder what is this doing to the tensions

actually within the governing coalition. or the governing coalition is now very very weak indeed and just let me just give you some context if you're talking about quite lifton's within a coalition we have one side of the ruling party ruling coalition s.c.c. that is led by former president joseph kabila and then we have the other side called cash now this is led by president leaks just e.k.g. and basically the reason why this came about this coalition came about is because when just the k.t. to the leadership of the country was in a very weak position because he did not call control of his situation he had no numbers in parliament he had no numbers as the senate or the province is that these governors so basically they have to come together with f.c.c. former president bill as party so that she can he can be able to run the country but a lot of critics and supporters of the. saying that this is an equal partnership that

the side of former president kabila seems to be very much in charge president just because he has been over the monster and to a fact his authority but he seems to be in a very very difficult position and just trying to hold together this very fragile a qualification thanks for that catherine sawyer there monitoring developments in the democratic republic of congo from nairobi. the u.n. secretary general is warning of an unprecedented level of foreign interference in libya and this is urging warring parties and their international backing to end the political stalemate and to agree to a cease fire and diplomatic editor james spader's has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. 2020 was the year the u.n. and the international community said they would bring peace to libya instead violence has intensified with repeated war crimes mass graves and civilian

casualties there are new risks as well as opportunities for peace now that general have to forces have been pushed all the way to say that time is not on our side in libya the conflict is the answer for foreign interference reaching and levels including in the delivery of sophisticated equipment and the number of mercenaries involved in the fighting. germany has been leading international efforts in january it pulled together key players at a conference in birdland germany now has the presidency of both the e.u. and of the un security council its foreign minister was blunt some of the countries who signed up to the berlin communique 6 months ago have been undermining it ever since with their actions foreign interference in may and the main driver of the conflict in libya it must be process to an end that means no more

planes no more tanks no more trucks or cargo ships full of weapons and no more lights so will those directly involved in libya now back down representatives of russia egypt and the united arab emirates said they support the u.s. position even though they're widely believed to back general have to militarily france has a growing strategic partnership with the u.a.e. and was strongly critical of fellow nato member turkey the main supporter of the government of national called. the problem is this porters of general haftar know he's now in a much we can position and they may want to bolster his military standing before any negotiations on the other side supporters of the government of national accord no battle with half the insert would be very bloody but after that there be an open road to the part of bolivia where much of the country's oil infrastructure is based

james zira at the united nations. ambassador nick compton is the u.k.'s ambassador to libya he joins us now from tunis thank you for your time as we heard there in james's report and as your colleague the u.k.'s representative at the security council meeting pointed out 6 months ago members of the berlin conference the participants committed to implementing the u.n. arms embargo and ending foreign interference and yet here we are why the lip service. i think it's very important that the security council briefing session took place yesterday and i think it's also significant of the 2nd general himself decided to brief the council and other than understates who participated in. it shows that were the very key moments in the situation on the ground in libya and i think the message came across very clearly as your report has

just shown that this is the time for all international. forces from various countries many of whom took part in the little bit in the libya conference they must now stop interfering militarily in libya saw bringing weapons into the country violating the u.n. arms embargo this is the time for deescalation to really push forward on the u.n. negotiations that lead in the group of 5 military to negotiations from each side and then back to a political dialogue and see the settlement saying we need these parties to to stop the defending is one thing but how do you get them to do that i mean some of criticized the u.k. for failing to pressure its allies to end foreign interference in libya what's your response to that. well i think the u.k. has consistently been very clear whether it was the prime minister at the conference in january old minister james i believe yesterday at the u.n.

session u.k. has been assistant it clear that foreign interference in libya must stall and it must stop straight away it is not going to help reduce a solution that benefits libyan people and it's not going to bring peace in the country this is an increasingly. violent conflict that will only get worse unless we see if the escalation suit so i think the u.k. message has been clear throughout and that's why i'm getting into again today. and the arms embargo and the stopping violence could be cut the u.k. be putting more pressure on the likes of the u.a.e. or egypt u.k. is very clear in all our contacts with partners and allies and other countries that what our position on libya is and where we feel with those countries to do more to promote peace and to help reduce foreign interference military in libya we met and

we give those messages very ok looking ahead to keep trying to bring the parties to the table. do you think that general haig is a reliable partner as you look ahead to negotiations. i think we have a u.n. process at the moment which is supported by your security council resolution 2510 and was put forward by the bergen conference leaders and the process of that was set up on the back of that which is moving forward in terms of looking at the various areas that need addressing security economy violations of human rights international humanitarian law and in all these areas are being put forward so i think that on the libyan side you have a point by process as i described led by the u.n. and the general how is represented in those top's as it is because the legitimate

government of the d.n.a. and it is important that the libyans agree a solution between you and the international community facilitates the support. thanks so much for your time there nick hopton the u.k.'s ambassador to libya thank you. ivory coast is facing political uncertainty after the sudden death of the prime minister ahmed do gone quite a bally collapsed during a cabinet meeting just 3 months before he was supposed to run for president nicolas harp reports. moments before his death prime minister ahmed who gone could be appeared upbeat as he entered a cabinet meeting chosen by the ruling party as its presidential candidate he just tweeted to have a vision is not about church and political gains but careful planning for decades to come but inside the meeting he suffered a coughing fit collapsed and died no official cause has been given but he suspected of having suffered

a heart attack last thursday you was welcomed home by president ouattara after spending 2 months in france for medical treatment over his heart condition the 61 year old was what he has chosen successor. i'm back to take my place alongside the president to continue the work of development and construction of our country the ivory coast. in an address to the nation what are described as his younger brother his son. with the death of. ivory coast loses a mugging for the youth an example of competence and persistence. after the tribute will come the political fighting his death creates a political vacuum with many eager to take his place and become the ruling party's candidate for october's presidential elections. the president's spokesman. and defense minister. favorites while the country's economy back on track critics

accuse him of failing to address the deep grievances that led to the 2011 civil war 3000 people died after former president refused to concede defeat to ouattara. whoever replaces you will have to put up a strong campaign against experience rivals including opposition leader only good o.b.d. a former president with elections just 4 months away the sudden death of puts ivory coast into a new period of political uncertainty nicolas hawke al-jazeera. so here's president alexander who has vowed to restore order after 2 days of protests over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic thousands of people protested across belgrade for a 2nd night calling on the church to resign alexei o'brien reports. hurling rocks flares and insults at the government protesters gathered 1st 2nd night across the serbian capital belgrade. security forces best outside

parliament came to avoid a repeat of choose days chaos when some protesters managed to storm the building. but the tensions remain high with more tear gas from police some in the crowd intent on forcing their way inside again. there's an accumulation of dissatisfaction the majority of people here don't have exact demands that most of them feel in just as protesters blame president aleksander the church for a sudden spike in coronavirus dates and infections after it lifted a strict lockdown just weeks before last month's elections demonstrations began on tuesday when the restrictions would be coming back to de lay said he said he had advised the government not to introduce a curfew but refused to take responsibility for the outcry. on the political rally was well organized

a part of our security services on the before md and was saying there was an involvement of various not only criminal groups but also international intelligence services. the church has asked people to stop attending anti-government rallies to avoid spreading the virus warning there were no beds left in the hospitals he watched them initial problem over i don't have a problem with these measures but i do have a problem with ending them because of the elections and then reimposing them. in nation the south some in the crowd chanted the church is a thief. i was beat and that the money spent on the elections should have been invested in hospitals especially during a pandemic obviously me. trust our government to simply looking after its own interests the people are just collateral damage. 2 weeks after his passing a surprise victory in the parliamentary elections is now facing widespread anger

that is calls for calm have fallen on deaf ears. on al-jazeera. libya's un recognized government says it's found a prisoner used by warlords and if i have to torture opponents government is in tripoli calling on the un to investigate mass graves discovered near the prison. forces of the government of national accord camps in the city from afghans fight is and you believe the warlord forces buried their torture victims let's get more now from the overhead joins us now live from the town on todd who now mahmoud just tell us more about these discoveries. we'll we're now in one of the prisons in notorious actually prisons founded by the government of national court in the city of tehran if you can see here behind me this is literally the prison cells inside out of turbo very tiny cells used to torture captives according to local council officials and d.n.a.

a government of national call officials here until now tell us that these cells inside this prison the very tiny little years prison were used by pro half their fighters specially or namely carney or a brigade a local brigade from the city of the owner that was loyal to the world a lot really for have to be used these tiny cells inside tools toward shore and to imprison their opponents security forces here with us who was touring with us here today in this prison tell us that they did not find. at the captives only one captive what was found here and he was being tortured for $1717.00 days before they found him they also tell us that they found the blood and the could be. corpses burrowed here in the city of the area

the showed us blood in some areas here and. tell us that some of those who were taken captive here inside inside this prison were transferred to eastern libya to other or notorious prisons prisons under the control of forces in eastern libya but meanwhile the i also suspect that some of those who were kept here were murdered in the mass graves that have been found in and around the city of the town as you know came that the international criminal court is looking into what it calls crimes against humanity and war crimes but how for his forces and in fact the government of national accord is expecting a committee from the international criminal court to arrive in mid july to investigate the mass graves by half their forces and other war crimes including

planting landmines in residential areas and also targeting get it eventually areas and killing hundreds of civilians this only as i told you came this only one of other notorious prisons used about how to the forces to torture the opponents including civilians who opposed the military rule in the city of the horn or thank their mahmud under our head crucial reporting there from a secret prison used by have task forces in tahrir who are thank you. the saudi led military coalition fighting yemen's who the rebels have destroyed 2 explosive laden boats in the red sea saudi state t.v. reported the destruction of the vessels which it said happened south of the yemeni port of sound if the 2 remotely controlled boats were threatening navigation the coalition if it. the un special repertory on extra judicial killings has presented her annual report to the human rights council that's raising concerns about the growing use of armed drones photography killings agnes come on had earlier declared

the us drone strike on top iranian general custom sort of money in the eagle said the international community faces the prospect of some countries in the nation military targets outside of what she calls no one was. the un security council has voted against a russian proposal to reduce aid access to syria the proposal would have a limited entry for aid crossing over from turkey that millions of people rely on the council has until friday to agree on future operations. well time now for the heads jenny and yet more rain from japan and china yeah it is not been a good few weeks at all unfortunately as you say there is more to come so you can see straight here on the satellite again this long line of cattle being talked about for days now this is a front that is just refusing to move out of the area and if we actually move closer into japan you can see again this line of cloud with the very heavy amounts of rain again still really to straights across much of the country because once the

floodwaters begin to go down this is the cooper river which burst its banks you can just see the devastation that is left behind and of course this is just a typical of so many places across and also across into areas of honshu now as we go through friday there is more rain across more across into honshu but in particular is massive yeah you can see this is working its way across the korean peninsula is moving pretty quickly but it could still even produce some flooding on through saturday the rain notice as heavy across much of japan but even so it really is very widespread is trading back of course across into central southern areas of china and every day now we get more pictures coming out of different provinces this is who bay province and just look at the floodwaters raging through the streets that in fact here the rescue was their intent on getting to nearly 600 students who had been cut off in the dorm buildings and they actually took a load of students to a different buildings take some exams that is why they were there but the rain continues through friday the only change really maybe it's

a positive on is by saturday the rain still in the sea in the in the situation but actually moving further to the north so we have goals and clearer conditions to the south but even so kim is very very heavy rain and unfortunately it will just continue to lead to more flooding thank you for that. still to come here on al-jazeera. the u.k. government announces a $37000000000.00 stimulus package to protect jobs but the enough to save an economy down said by the pandemic. to getting insults of the cost the u.s. president to use what he describes as a tremendous relationship with mexico. it is for sad to continue their push for champions league qualification. but is resistance. in akra people are grabbing social and political issues by the horns.

and how to sing creativity parity and protest to challenge and change ideas. a gun a controversial a witness documentary on al-jazeera. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short personal stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. al-jazeera selects. why.

you watching are just there a reminder of our top stories this hour china is threatening action against australia for its reaction to hong kong's new security law this radio is offering a path to permanent residency for hong kong people and it suspending its extradition treaty with the territory. ivory coast is facing political upheaval after the sudden death of the prime minister ahmed who gone on to bali collapsed during a cabinet meeting 3 months before he was forced to run for president. and serbia's government is set to announce new coronavirus restrictions on after the president said a weekend curfew may not go ahead thousands of people protested across belgrade for a 2nd night against the government's handling of the pandemic. as a whole for scottish independence is higher than it's ever been polling is

consistently suggesting well over 50 percent of scots want to be the united kingdom it's been attributed to scotland success in controlling coronavirus compared to england and the overwhelming hostility to break sets of foreign state reports from scotland bert's has been dreaming of scottish independence for as long as he can remember he regards the english establishment as imperialists who stamped all over scotland just as that is the colors the fact of the independence campaign narrowly lost the referendum 6 years ago doesn't matter to him because he believes his day will still come to the us people who are still there there's still a strong as to where the people are marching the people march and march he's in glasgow and edinburgh and all over they're still there you know they haven't given up but and they want. lives in dun t. the heartland of independence support for leaving the u.k. and going it alone polls around 65 percent here now it's going in that direction

everywhere else as well trust in the scottish 1st minister nicolas sturgeon has rocketed since she appeared to be in control of the virus response in edinburgh while the government in london is widely regarded as chaotic and incompetent add to that the outright hostility in scotland's a brick sits and has a lot of good news for scottish nationalists they have a survey that the u.k. government have been so inept and their handling that i think it has persuaded a lot of people who perhaps were not supporters of independence that we cannot chile manage to interfere is better and i think when you look at how nicholas sturgeon the scottish government of handle the pandemic is a big contrast to boris johnson and you keep government the question increasingly being asked here is how big a lead to the nationalists have to have before it becomes impossible for london to refuse another referendum on independence the extraordinary collision of the pandemic response and brics states have combined to put support for scottish

independence across the country surrounds 54 percent and there's not even any independence campaigning going on the view among scottish nationalists is that the government in london is doing a very good job on their behalf. if they haven't given up on another referendum they haven't given up on blocking it for scotland either next week will see the launch of a new campaign here to keep scotland in europe just a few months ago is unconscionable for the u.k. to leave without a deal no the tory government seems to be talking. we can't have that actually so it hasn't voted for it scotland is firmly pro e.u. country and so yes we should be campaigning and campaigning hard to ensure we're back in europe the scottish government has refused to rule out closing its borders with england if it eliminates the virus but england doesn't there's a power struggle going on at the moment scotland is gaining the upper hand largely al-jazeera in scotland. and the u.k.

government has announced a 37000000000 dollars stimulus package saving jobs and pumping new life into the economy that's been battered by the crown of the highest pandemic trying to hold reports from west sussex. the seaside town of reaches a faded 19th century resort town where 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 free from busking everything that is my during the summer and so our computer will be of a cushion but this year we're not going to have anything like that you know we do see so 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 hope. 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. for 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 all it's not going to buy any of us because i will go. along the economists. 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 for folks at tax to pay back the coach. in such a big such a mass 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 stuff i want to incentivizing he could staff but i can't afford to take on staff i want to be able to take on and the service staff that you need in sort of industry because the money is not there and people are not spending the picture drome cinema 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 bogner reaches. after months of taking a bit back the u.s.

president has welcomed his mexican counterpart to the white house on the menu or lopez obrador has been criticized for holding talks with donald trump who remains a divisive figure in mexico over his immigration policies and border walton's the leftist leader defended the trip is trade related some democrats say trump wants to use the occasion to drum up support among hispanic voters ahead of the november election f.b.i. agents are investigating a chinese billionaire with links to form a trump aide steve benen investigators want to know where quo when griese media company got its funding he's produced videos and social media posts of edge and corruption in china's elite who lives in self-imposed exile in the united states hired steve benen as a consultant 2 years ago. facebook has removed dozens of fake accounts links to roll just stone a long time and of president trump social media giant said the accounts had been

used to manipulate public debate using false information stone is about to begin a prison sentence for interfering with the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election facebook also removed false accounts linked to the brazilian president and his family. to the top universities in the united states is suing the trump administration over its efforts to force out foreign students harvard university and the massachusetts institute of technology are asking judges for an emergency restraining order on monday the government said foreign students would no longer be able to stay in the u.s. if it courses had moved online because of the pandemic. a donald trump is planning larger reelection rallies despite supporters testing positive for cover 19 at his last event in contrast democratic challenger joe biden has kept his campaign mostly on line biden's ahead in the polls but some observers a warning he'll need to do more to win the presidential election in november from

washington ellen fisher reports. it's been months since joe biden held a rally surrounded by supporters or given a major speech at a packed event it's now almost all done online like this gathering with educators is a member thing to do with him. but changing how to campaign during cold it has a heart all recent polls have the presumptive democratic candidate ahead one from monmouth university gives him a 12 point lead over the president most warning for trump is half of all registered voters say they won't be backing him joe biden shouldn't start planning his inauguration just yet it is still very early we are in the middle of the summer but you know you haven't had the conventions yeah you haven't had many debates you know . i think it's really early to start getting overconfident there's nobody that i trust more to campaign virtually with his old boss barack obama he's given

a major speech about the trump administration's reaction to the covert crisis from isolation and he's raised money lot saw that not just. recent protests over racial equality have seen president trump's approval numbers take a hit. to his handling of the kovac crisis and his reelection is in real trouble this job is about protecting americans in your. photo op but one analyst says joe biden has to do more than be the guy who is not going to trump that he can't just be anger at the other person what do you stand for what are people actually selecting when they select a job so he still has to put out. a lot about one ailing 8 abiding out. that it's still not necessarily making its way to the needy western region knows and. he's going to need. both sides hope there will soon make

a return to normal campaigning both sides believe this the poll numbers right rather curious facts both sites and says your candidate will win in november only one of them will be right alan fischer al jazeera washington. domestic flights in nigeria taking off the 1st time in almost 4 months the main airports in approach and lagos reopened others will follow over the next week and i don't know when international flights will resume and that interest reports from a budget. it was a cautious 1st day for nigerian troublous as passengers arrived to check they were confronted by new flight and safety rules that weren't there before the cup in 1000 pandemic. nevertheless john was eager to placate. just so i don't have to sign so far trust in my country and trust the 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 1st day for the resumption of the british. 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. horse we'll see coast flights to come in regulated the entry and exit of ports will do everything possible to assure the people are safe. despite increasing 1000 infections the government is going ahead with the open space for domestic flights to. 2 airports this one you know and the other in the commercial capital lagos had been 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 want to allow international flight after seeing how operations walk out in these airports over the next 2 weeks. i do sufficient sector has lost 95 percent of its revenues in the past leave it the feeling here is the longer airplanes are being grounded the more the economy will be. this is a country that you have 34 percent little 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 african consumption sold subs in this economy means a total loss for the economy therefore we open it up. in style with caution sure that it was to save. our vision officials are happy that the 1st day of commercial flight since the covered 90 lockdown went well what's on saturday is how an airport school with both domestic and international flights out to get back to their poverty trees al-jazeera. as

a crime has found outrage in colombia the gang rape of an indigenous go by soldiers as colombia struggles to recover from decades of conflicts last month attackers turn the spotlight on the military's record of sexual violence and human rights abuses and listen there are reports from the capital. there was shock in colombia when the 7 soldiers admitted kidnapping and raping an 11 year old indigenous girl 2 weeks ago. protests broke out outside a number of army bases across the country demanding justice as more abuse cases came to light. the usually reticent armed forces publicly admitted that since 2016 at least $118.00 incidents of sexual violence against minors have been or still are being investigated. while 45 soldiers have been sacked another 75 remain active despite evidence against them. as. the

military forces and its institutions should be protecting our rights not violating them if those who are supposed to protect our territories are abusing and threaten us what can we expect by the rest even wars when we see there's a level of silence by the institutions trying to keep these cases invisible. indigenous communities have long been vulnerable to sexual violence by both legal and illegal armed forces in the country's internal conflict and the signing of a peace deal with fart rebels in 2016 hasn't stopped the crimes as pressure mounted the head of the army announced that another 31 soldiers were going to be discharged but insisted that it had never tried to protect the soldiers implicated. no colombian soldier is trained within the institution to attack the human rights of boys girls or adolescents. it has been a particularly bad year for colombian armed forces as

a number of scandals have affected its image from accusations of illegals flying to the possible return of x. or did the actual killings but for many here was the sexual violence cases that were truly the last straw a new poll shows an unprecedented fall in support from 85 percent to 48 percent in less than 6 months it was marked. who led an investigation uncovering one of the abuses says that while military scandals are not being new to the men's for justice show colombian society is changing. conflict. since we used to have a major internal conflict society forgive the military because there was a big enemy the far corner bounds but there's no fark anymore and society is not willing to forgive anymore and these scandals likely mean this time reform of the armed forces will be inevitable. for those affected by the violence real reform can

come soon enough a lesson that m.p.'s and just. still had on al-jazeera and sports major league soccer makes its host conan virus return fire sale of that story.

you're the on. time off sports has far kim thank you so much major league soccer has made its return its a 1st north american men's league to resume since a coronavirus lockdown a comeback game was preceded by a powerful anti racism protests and richardson reports. a silent gesture that

major league soccer hopes will echo throughout the world black players for change has been formed to help fund racial injustice both inside and outside of the m.l.s. and more than 100 players from different teams stood side by side ahead of the leaks restarts. it was beautiful to see you know all the players come together on the field like that as one being on the field i could tell you very powerful so you know put my 1st the coronavirus is the more immediate challenge for the league all seems a based on a so-called quarantine bubble within the disney world resorts in florida for this tournament and no fans are allowed to attend games but one same f.c. dallas has already dropped out due to the high number of positive tests within the squad this tournament is something that's important to our way but anytime we believe that anything is going to happen that's going to threaten their health and safety and we're going to have to have it and make decisions you know we're

operating in this new code world and we knew that there were going to be some some risk and there were going to be some things that we would have to address on the fly the u.s. can't rely on a plan that would work in a league in germany or south korea or even spain or italy because we simply have way more cases and it's a numbers game ok the more cases you have the more likely a case is to sneak in to will be. after the regular season was halted in march this olsen a $25.00 team events will culminate in a final in early august orlando city beating into miami to warm and the league's comeback fixture. was to be different you know i was waiting for it is known for so long we've been working hard it's always difficult when you is there for us a long time without playing a game the m.l.s.

has top level basketball players for neighbors the n.b.a. league is aiming to restart with a similar set up at the end of this month and the richardson al-jazeera. barcelona have kept their hopes of winning the spanish league title alive a single goal from luis suarez was enough for them to beat a spaniel and move within a point of league leaders around madrid result means espana will now be relegated rail can restore their 4 point advantage when they play alvarez on friday. at the at a super bright a form in italy has continued they beat sampdoria 2 nil to extend their winning run in syria to 9 games atalanta have already reached the quarter finals of the season's champions league and are looking good to guarantee a spot in the competitions next edition the victory took them up to 3rd in the table. and liverpool have stayed on course to break the english premier league points record 2 goals for mohamed salah helped the champions be brighton $31.00

liverpool have now have $92.00 points with 4 games left in their season but as their city's $100.00 point total is the record they're aiming to beat when i think about $92.00 points that have been. a must it's unbelievable and. so that's unbelievable and we need it in moments like. last minute. that's all it is. to night again chris froome is to leave a team where he won 4 tour de france titles for him is and is decade long stay at team and eels and will join israel startup nation next year the britain will compete for inyo set this year's tour which is set to begin at the end of august organizers of goals ryder cup admit there's no guarantee the event will have a capacity crowd in 2021 had been due to tee off in september but on wednesday it

was announced that goals highest profile t. competition would be postponed for 12 months due to chronic bias are the trophy holders with the us set to host the event in wisconsin. and australia's the olympic committee has paid tribute to 2 time world champion snowboarder alex poland who died on wednesday at the age of 32 poland seen here wearing red on his way to the world title in 2011 was australia's flag bearer at the 2014 winter olympics well and drowned while spear fishing on the coast of queensland his impact is being huge yeah globally because nobody has before which is for those of his personality that there's a sense of great loss amongst the community have a say so as well as here obviously have thoughts and feelings that it was friends or loved ones to give us started and that we sadly missed. ok and that is all your sport for now back to you thank you so much for that. puts it for

me for the series oh my colleague it is so nice i don't mean we'll be back in just a moment with more on the day's news keep it here announcing. the latest news as it breaks this crowd of hundreds of people didn't come with invitations they came to pay their respects to george floyd we detailed coverage the government needs to balance the needs of the economy with the trace of the virus returning. from around the world organized crime is now beginning to try to

play the role of robin niblett by giving away food to win over the loyalty of people in desperate need. for thousands of years farmers and shepherds have lived to see what their traditional way of life has been for generations. as israel plans an extension into the occupied west bank al-jazeera world goes to the jordan valley where illegal settlements have already expanded and asks what the future holds for these palestinian farmers shepherds of the jordan valley on al jazeera in the u.s. civil war brought slavery to an end or did it there is a strong possibility that the very thrilled that you. could have been brought to your table by a little slave in this great start right here in the land of the free power's thems upon what has tricked into emigrating and trapped by on scrupulous property. to

cain slaves cause of slavery and 21st century evil now does iraq. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the world on al-jazeera. for war. libya's government accuses warlords sorry for those forces of torturing his enemies inside the prison. hello i'm sat me down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up astride the dyes taken steps to suspend their extradition agreement australia becomes the latest country to take action of a hong kong new security law imposed by china. rising tensions in the democratic

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