we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so much for. bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. is now really reelected as pones president in a race reflecting the deep social and cultural divisions and eastern europe. that i missed on the attack this is al jazeera live from cairo also coming up several indian states are looking down high risk areas as the number of coronavirus cases me as 900000. 2 prominent sentences are among 4 american

sanctioned by china today is off to washington target a chinese officials over rights abuses in. north bring money to syrian president bashar al assad an investigative report alleges anonymous companies in the e.u. in u.k. was central to the war fighting. now the political shift towards the right in eastern europe has gotten yet another boost with poland's incumbent andre judah narrowly winning the presidential runoff he secured just over 51 percent of the vote in a close race against the liberal was just koski of policy already controls parliament and this result means it can press ahead with its conservative agenda alexia bryan reports. it was the votes. seen as

a battle for poland's future and the results show a country divided but by a tiny margin andrzej duda will stay in office. he's been there for 5 years propped up by the rightwing law and justice party yet for all the control they wield in poland due to filed to secure a comfortable when they are not a bad example i want to make it clear and strong that i am happy about my victory for now. this is the man who ran against ruffled tresco versus centrist mayor who launched his campaign at the last minute started to bury . this all the votes just need to be counted which in truth will make this evening a nerve wracking one for everyone in poland but i'm absolutely convinced when we count each vote we will be victorious and we would definitely win. but despite his confidence it was only ray duda who came out on top the dude is deeply conservative

agenda including strong opposition to gay rights appeals to his party's nationalist base while his constitutional reforms that weakened the independence of the judiciary put him at odds with the e.u. compared with ruffo. whose liberal program called new solidarity was designed to evoke the movement that helped end communist rule in poland he was also pushing for stronger relations with the e.u. the clash between the 2 radically different agendas so voters turn out in record numbers analysts say the close result could see the election contested in court the opposition is already highlighting what it says with clear voter irregularities brian al-jazeera. well due to his victory is already being celebrated in nearby hungary president viktor orban posted this image of the tears again on his facebook page with one word bravo obama under it upas go allies and of work together to

block attempts at sanctions by the european union hungary's foreign minister linked it is when to recent conservative victories in croatia and serbia saying the european right wing had once again beaten what he called the liberal mainstream now yemen 3 the rebels say they've killed and injured dozens of high ranking military officers in saudi arabia according to their spokesman they had multiple military sites and a large oil facility just across the border they hear these claim this is all part of a major new offensive saudi arabia hasn't said whether anyone was killed or injured in the attacks however the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen announced it intercepted 4 missiles and 6 explosive drones over . what we saw it in about as 3 european ighly up with high position ballistic missiles not disclosed before and large numbers of drones armed forces destroyed warplanes and pilot barracks and their defense petri system infamy some shoot other military positions and just on

a not strong were destroyed also the joint oil installation in the industrial area of design was targeted targets were hit with high position our armed forces successfully targeted the tardo we military campaign matter problems were solved high officials were meeting as a result dozens were killed and injured. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack in the northern afghan province of some one gun at least 50 people including children have been injured or 30 you say a suicide bomber targeting the provincial intelligence office set off the explosion . well there's been another record daily rise in the number of corona virus cases around the wild 230000 people have tested positive just in the last 24 hours india has reported a surge in cases for the 6th consecutive day it had nearly $29000.00 and fictions local officials in indian administered kashmir are also expected to impose a lockdown after

a surge in cases there several indian states have imposed weekend curfews and shut areas considered to be high risk for the 3 generations of bollywood's prominent family have tested positive for the virus that includes former miss wells. and her 8 year old daughter that was announced a day off to her father in law india not to amitabh bachchan and her husband are both admitted to hospital elizabeth product has more details about the situation from new delhi. the indian government has announced that many parts of the capital of india administered kashmir that is sure to go around 90 of the worst affected areas of the city are now under lockdown there are also barricades being pushed in large parts of the city the government said that that's because the number of cases that they went from nearly 600 at the end of june and she may go to double that number of active cases and that they have had a number of requests from health workers from trade is to impose this lockdown bush

they are saying is not general but containment saw and said what they call red zones already but i've been speaking to local journalists in srinagar and they say that this very much looks and feels like a complete lockdown especially because all those red zones are so scattered it's really difficult to move around these places the government has interestingly it's said that it's going to open up tourism that people from outside of indeed mr bush meat are going to be able to travel to the region from tuesday and remember that this is an area that's been under lockdown coronavirus it's been nearly a year since the indian government revoked its autonomy and put it under many restrictions people have really suffered economically so many of worried about further restrictions especially at a time when the number of cases of relatively you know and also at a time when tourists are being allowed and while the residents are being pushed

under more restrictions well more than a quarter of the wilds recorded code 1000 cases are in the u.s. and the state of florida is particularly badly hit at ease restrictions back in may and has also just reopened disney wild despite his concerns patty culhane has more . a new tragic record the largest number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in a single day in a single state of florida more than 15000 confirmed cases and the death toll is rising this is a state that was one of the 1st to reopen its economy and its republican governor was defiant at 1st a lot of people in your profession who wax poetic leap for weeks and weeks about out florida was going to be just like new york wait 2 weeks florida's going to be met just like it only wait 2 weeks well hell we're 8 weeks away from that and it hasn't happened it took a few more weeks but it has happened and it's actually worse than it ever was in

new york but unlike there the florida governor has not issued a state wide mandate to where mass. protests in one county tried to shoot down an over the weekend another protest yet a restaurant offering free food to people who refused to cover their faces is selfish for not wearing a mask i want to say to you that all the people calling the selfish you're the one who's trying to force me a medical procedure so that you can feel more safe on the risks are very very loud this is a virus that has a 99.6 percent recovery rate this is a virus that is very well contained this is a virus that the c.d.c. is removing epidemic status from none of that is true and wearing a mask is not a medical procedure still it has become a political statement for many in the u.s. the entire reason for the shutdown was so hospitals like the one behind me do not

become overwhelmed when the states that are seeing the biggest increases like florida arizona texas the hospitals are close to capacity and given what we know about how this virus spreads it is likely that that is going to continue stretching the hospitals beyond capacity. the president spent much of the weekend golfing but officials in his administration made clear they are gearing up for a fight against the lead infectious disease expert in the government dr and. i respect dr fauci a lot but dr fox he is not 100 percent right in the also doesn't necessarily he admits that have the whole national interest in mind he looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view questions now about whether the man who has led every national health emergency under 6 presidents will be fired by president trump in the midst of a growing pandemic pedicle here in el dizzier maryland now china is imposing retaliatory sanctions against 3 u.s. politicians and the envoy for religious freedom after washington blacklisted

a number of chinese politicians for alleged human rights abuses of the week a minority of those targeted include senators ted cruz and marco rubio both supported legislation that president donald trump signed back in june calling for sanctions over the repression of weak is the u.n. says about 1000000 weak as have been detained in reeducation camps and. china's foreign ministry is warning the u.s. to stay out of china's internal affairs and they found. the u.s. practice isn't serious interference in china's internal affairs in syria's file ation of basic norms in governance of international relations china opposes and strongly condemns that in response to u.s. wrongdoing china has decided to impose sanctions starting from today. correspondent katrina you has the latest from beijing. so far the move seems to be largely symbolic and just the latest and what has been a downward spiral of relations between the u.s.

and china now beijing has said that they're targeting 4 u.s. officials of the senate is ted cruz and marco rubio and also representative chris smith and the u.s. ambassador at large for their group international religious freedom samuel brownback it also sanctions the china commission which is an organization which reports to donald trump now we are still waiting exactly on the details of what this entails quaternion china's foreign ministry spokesperson did not elaborate but we can expect that it reflects the sanctions placed on chinese officials by washington last week as this is in retaliation for that now the washington shank sions mean that chinese officials mention cannot do business in the u.s. they cannot travel there and any assets they have in the u.s. will be frozen the u.s. put these sanctions 1st on china all these on these officials as well as the shinji on public security bureau because of many measures that they consider human rights violations surveillance against the separating families crackdowns on their culture

and religion as well as putting up 1000000 in concentration camps because of their religion no china has denied this it calls these concentration camps vocational training centers and according to beijing all of these measures that are imposed inch and john have nothing to do with religion but i'm also targeted at countering terrorism in the province. well now the chinese professor who strongly criticized president xi jinping as handling of the coronavirus pandemic has now reportedly been released after 6 days in custody friends of his a constitutional law expert at one of china's top universities say he returned home on sunday he was taken from his beijing apartment by more than a dozen officers last monday she published many essays critical of the chinese leadership and accuse she of pursuing a cult of personality. still ahead here on out there.

sharon must go on performers in argentina take the stage during. a live. hello welcome to another look at the international focus on places say we have got signs of some dry weather coming into southern parts of japan over the next couple days but we do still have some showers in the forecast the way to see whether that surround the yellow sea that's going to drive its way across south korea grassy pushing across japan honshu seeing the wettest weather as we go on through cheesed and there is likely to be some flooding here and possibly some landslides a slip across the high ground east in parts saying somewhat the weather is to go through choose day i will continue to drive its way further races but still a few showers in the forecast as you can see into q one of the line of platen right

the my you fronts into central parts of china shanghai to han's a good line to draw here where the wettest weather is got to be a possibility for the flooding as well to the north of that just a yard shot to the south of there be some showers around southeastern parts of china but for much of southern china for to dry humid $32.00 celsius there in hong kong now we've got some very wet weather continuing meanwhile across the northeast of india up towards the some state and beyond we got some very heavy showers continuing to into bangladesh add i'm afraid the heavy rain will continue because eastern parts of the poll and butat is still in the same place as we go into where to stay but turning dry this week. but for. a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of court official appeals of accepting bribes just the shoes of the most dangerous commodity on s. sometimes take a spark a day or an edifice to blow up

a custom of pot against judicial corruption as a michael ware about why i come out of my congress in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examine one man's extraordinary battle for justice in ghana at this time. to. hello again 7. let's remind you about top stories this hour on poland's conservative president has returned to office after a runoff vote in early one with just over a halt of the votes his rival rough it's called ski received nearly 49 percent. india has a record number of new coronavirus cases for the 6th straight day with nearly 29000

to confound on sunday a weeklong lockdown will be imposed in bengal to receive a spike there more than 23000 people have now died. china is imposing retaliatory sanctions against 3 u.s. politicians and the religious freedom envoy to washington blacklisted senior chinese politicians for alleged human rights abuses of the week a minority those targeted include republican senators ted cruz and bump of review. now members of the hong kong pro-democracy groups charged for organizing an illegal vigil to commemorate the 1989 chinaman square massacre have appeared in court the case has now been a chant until september organizers accuse the police of using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to ban the annual event sarah clarke has more from hong kong . this is the 1st hearing for these high profile pro-democracy activists they've been charged with inciting and organizing this year's tournament square candlelight

vigil on june the 4th. the group arrived chanting slogans like no to political persecution and political crimes included in this group is the founder of the media group apple dully jimmy lie as well as the founder of the organization that hosts the annual vigil to remember those who lost their lives in the channel square massacre but the group says they will fight these charges we will. fight it because . we have our constitutional right to march as according to the basic law and the international. political right and it is the god of the police that deny us all the right until they should be the one on trial and we will fight this because they said that we are incitement what do you mean by incitement everyone in sight to the crime of that one was a body the crime determines grandmas the girl is the one that incite people to come out to mourn for cause thousands of people joined this year's june for candlelight vigil despite social distancing rules being put in place and a ban on any public gatherings of more than i people

a number of people in this group are facing other criminal hearings also for a legal assembly if you found guilty on these charges they could face up to 5 years in jail while hong kong is among the issues being discussed as e.u. foreign ministers meet in person for the very 1st time since the coronavirus pandemic began also on their agenda the situation in syria as well as libya and turkey tensions have increased between paris and ankara and recent weeks over their role in the libyan conflict and actions in the eastern mediterranean attash about to is in paris where she's monitoring events she says there may be lots on the agenda but turkey will take up most of the minister's time. well the e.u. foreign policy chief has a barrel arrived in brussels and said that really the main focus of discussions today among eve foreign ministers will be turkey and the e.u.'s relationship with turkey that's really up for question because there is

a sense among some member states that this relationship perhaps needs to be reassessed because some of turkey's actions are simply incompatible they say with some evaluate on talking about turkey's actions in libya in syria its decision recently to turn the museum back into a mosque for example and then in june france france accused turkey of using a turkish was warship to be aggressive against a french naval vessel that was taking part in a nato operation in the mediterranean securing the coast of libya that fraud said that turkey's actions were simply out of line out of step if you like and even had the french president accusing turkey of criminal responsibility in libya so even member states you foreign ministers a gathering today to talk about whether or not the relationship with turkey should be reassessed whether more touchline actions should be imposed on turkey there are

already sanctions from the e.u. on ankara over an oil drilling dispute in the eastern mediterranean some eve foreign ministers want more sanctions to be imposed other foreign ministers are saying that maybe even negotiations over turkey's accession to the e.u. should be suspended indefinitely. the rights group global witness says that companies in the e.u. and british overseas territories are being used as part of an international money laundering network to finance the syrian government its investigation found that the uncle of syrian president bashar assad regime moscow in 2012 there he met a businessman at the center of a network of banks businesses and offshore companies that allegedly allowed the government to avoid international sanctions front companies were set up in cyprus and the british virgin islands global witness says the body responsible for syria's chemical weapons and ballistic missile programs may have used to these companies to purchase materials there's also evidence that the government used them to buy fuel

and that they also enabled the syrian central bank to get access to hard currency well sorry for all feel as an investigative reporter at the organized crime and corruption reporting project and co-author of this report she says the investigation also exposed links between assad's government and russian intelligence. with our investigation we actually in fact we on korver that they would enact or was able to rely on you also on some good connection with the russian intelligence service so yes they were able to buy properties in moscow they were able to move money ward wide and what we also saw found is that. the more they in. the financial activities of their neck torkel overlock to with the activities of other well known laundromat systems and by now the well known for all the like for example the. monkeys keep roll don't try

colognes a lot broader russian laundromat the proxy platform these are all or laundromats instance that were on call the fighting o.c.c. of the. until last year the main problem is i mean it's clear that the sanction system is one it's one tool or 2 but was a sculptor to. to work to a regime that is not is not enough but because they use of anonymous enabled so these networks to move money around and so to keep the regime alive basically all kosovo's president is at the hague so those war of independence against serbia between 190-1909 they've also accused that she and the city of a campaign to obstruct and undermine their investigation step facet has this update from the hague. he has also again on sunday said that he is innocent and that the

war has been true and neutral and free or so he sat there is no international violation of any human rights or committed in costco he also passed some supporters here who have been screaming slogans and his name we have a right here in the hague who are partially also former. fighters from the cross both liberation army the indictment was very serious and the prosecutor has said that he has gone hat with the excitement because staci has actually obstructed the work of the 4th and so he has to face these charges that will be off of his questioning a pretrial charge will have to decide if. it's going to go through and touchiness out if that's the case that he will also resign as the president of possible. at least 140 people have died or gone missing during floods across central and eastern

china over the past month the government is warning that the west is yet to come close to 40000000 people have been affected by the record downpours since late june dozens of rivers of risen to their highest levels after heavy rainfall and the flooding has already destroyed more than 28000 tons. now malaysia's prime minister has won a motion to replace the speaker of parliament this was the 1st major test from weird in yasin who came to office 5 months ago yes and candidate is now expected to take over the speaker role a coalition of politicians have been trying to hold a no confidence vote against a religion but it's the new speaker who will now decide if that vote can go ahead. and one of malaysia's leading independent news portals is facing contempt of court proceedings over reader comments criticising the judiciary malaysiakini as editor in chief stephen gunn appeared at a federal court and put a gyre for a hearing reporters without borders is calling for the case to be dropped and this

all comes just days after police questioned al-jazeera as journalists over a documentary about the plight of migrants during the pandemic a funeral service has been held for the former mayor of seoul who was found dead last week after being accused of sexual harassment pock one student's body was found on a mountain last week after his former secretary filed a police complaint against him the soul city government has been criticized for organizing a 5 day state funeral despite the controversy an online petition opposing the ceremony granted move than 500000 signatures. well the man who admitted killing $51.00 people at a new zealand law school last year has fired his lawyers which means he'll represent himself when he is sentenced next month brenton tarrant pleaded guilty to does. everything related to art is suspended and it's one of the last things that will come back i'm trying to be positive and focus on what i can but some of my

colleagues say online classes make them feel lonely or far away from everything tango has a lot of physical contact so it's going to be a while before we're allowed to go back to a stage. that's for a man that is now teaching students from all around the world and is managing to make ends meet but not everyone has been able to succeed. these artists have come to the presidential palace to demand government assistance. we're trying to create a common front to demand an income because we don't have anything the government should impose a tax on netflix and other streaming platforms because they're making a lot of money while we're not allowed to do anything. theatre cinemas and everything related to culture where one of the 1st places to shut down and they're likely to be the last ones to open this is the korean this avenue it's known as the broadway of south america because of the amount of beers that are located here all

of them have been close for almost 4 months even thousands of people without work many theatres are now streaming plays online and after watching viewers have an option to make a donation. are to say they have had to prepare safety protocols just to be ready if and when they're allowed to open the curtains once again. in this song they say they're anxious to be part of a play again because it will mean the threat of 1000 has passed they are. being asked every day i'm talking to representatives. when new york mexico spain and we talk about the same thing passing information that we don't have because we have never seen anything like this all theaters around the world are closed we are meeting with the government to see how we continue not to see how to i cannot argentina had a long time vibrant cultural life before the pandemic so many of these artists are

filled with hope and optimism that they'll be able to perform once again. and to see one of sightings. and of that this is out of there and these are the headlines poland's conservative president under a dude has returned to office after a run off 3rd didn't arity one with just over half the votes his rival rough out just cos he received nearly 49 percent yemen through the rebels say they have killed and injured dozens of high ranking military office in saudi arabia according to their spokesman they had multiple military sites and a large oil facility just across the border the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen announced it intercepted 4 missiles and 6 explosive drones overnight without saying whether anyone was killed or injured. what was already

a fan about is the european ighly up with my position ballistic missiles not disclosed before and large numbers of drones are armed forces destroyed warplanes and pilot barracks and their defense patriot system and jaime some shit other military positions and just on another strong were destroyed also the joint oil installation in the industrial area of just one was targeted targets were hit with high position our armed forces successfully targeted the tardo we military campaign matter problems were saudi high officials were meeting as a result dozens were killed and injured. india has a record number of new coronavirus cases for the 6th straight day with nearly 29000 confirmed on sunday a week long lockdown will be imposed in bangalore a city off a spike there more than 20 $3000.00 people have now died members of the pro-democracy groups charge for organizing an illegal vigil and hong

kong to commemorate the 1990 elements square massacre have appeared in court they're accused of inciting and participating in an assembly last month that's all thousands of people defy a police van the case has been adjourned until september well hong kong is among the issues being discussed as e.u. foreign ministers meet in person for the 1st time since the coronavirus pandemic began 5 story. on the pressure to step down volleys president is accused of failing to improve the economy and deal with threats from groups he's dissolved the constitutional court that controversially overturned the election results in march but is that enough of one of turmoil spirals out of control this is inside story.

hello welcome to the program adrian for the good it's been described as the worst civil unrest mali has seen in decades violent anti-government protests this week left several people dead president.