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down again the lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus and. the. the democratic republic of congo appoints new electoral commission chief that spock's violent protests. welcome to the program one of the world's most to teach it stretches of water could be about to become a new point of tension between the u.s. and china the u.s. secretary of state might palm pairs as beijing's claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful and they will not be allowed to treat the area as its maritime empire it's rich in oil gas and fishing resources and china is building military bases on several atolls but 5 south east asian nations also claim parts of the sea and last week the us navy held military exercises. or china claims about 90

percent of the south china sea including get a ship of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others and the scarborough reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that just keep going to years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the area are white house correspondent can be healthy it explains a significance of pompei statement. well i think what's so pronounced about this is the fact that up until now the u.s. had always maintained that when it came to disputes in these territorial waters and the claims that china has made in those waters that this really needed to be resolved at u.n. backed arbitration so this is a complete departure from that standpoint the u.s. secretary of state in his statement as well as tweets as you mentioned coming out very strong accusing china of bullying accusing china of being completely unlawful of its claims and making clear that the united states is now standing with its

southeast asian partners in terms of moving forward that they have been concerned for some time about what they call china's increasing assertiveness and have completely rejected the claims now i again this is something that we had expected but what we see is this kind of tit for tat that has been going on for days we heard from the national security adviser robert o'brian as late as late last week saying that we could expect tough action towards china it's clear that this is the intention of the administration to send a very strong message. statement came just hours after trying to impose sanctions on 3 u.s. politicians on the envoy for religious freedom now those targeted included senators ted cruz and marco rubio both supported legislation president trump signed in june calling for sanctions over the repression of china's weak minority the u.n. says about 1000000 weak as have been detained in reeducation comes in showing junk

. china's foreign ministry has warned the u.s. to stay out of china's internal affairs. they found south of yangon pensions the us practice is in serious interference in china's internal affairs in serious violation of basic norms in governance of international relations china opposes and strongly condemns that in a sponsor to us wrongdoing china has decided to impose sanctions starting from today. now the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic will worsen if countries fail to adhere to basic health care precautions infections in our top $13000000.00 and the agency says there'll be no return to the old normal for the perceivable future the situation we're seeing is countries that overcame the furthest peak of the outbreak but having is restrictions i don't now struggling with the new peaks and accelerating cases in several countries across the world we

are now seeing dangerous increases in cases and hospital wards feeling again it would appear that many countries are losing gains made as proven in measures to reduce risk are ignored implemented or followed but the years accounts for more than a quarter of the world's coronavirus cases with more than 3200000 recorded infections but the trump administration is turning its sights on the government's own infectious disease experts and to the found president donald trump has retreated a claim that the u.s. centers for disease control the media the democratic party and we quote most doctors are lying about the disease the white house press secretary downplayed tensions between dr g. and president trump. the president went his intended not retreat on expresses displeasure with the c.d.c. some rogue individuals leaking guidelines prematurely get

a 63 page plan that was leaked prematurely believes that that misleads the american public when their planning materials for least that are not in their fullest form in their best form so that's what he was getting at the notion that there is opposition research and that there is faulty versus the president can be further from the truth dr fouts he and the president always had a very good working relationship. the new restrictions have been imposed on california to combat a surge in infections it's one of several u.s. states which has seen a spike in cases businesses including gyms bars and movie theaters have had to close again the government says the measures are vital to easing pressure on the state's health care system runnels our correspondent live for us in los angeles so rob let's just begin with the situation in california to start with an across the u.s. sort of a lesson to be learned about opening up the speed of opening up in the reaction to infections rising because of the easing of restrictions.

you know so hale it's kind of a confounding lesson because california was the 1st state to impose widespread stay at home orders and to close things down pretty thoroughly back in march and april that continued until about mid june when the gradual reopening began but now here we are with more than $7000.00 deaths and 825000 total cases of positive cases of covert 19 so the governor yes says started the shutdown again these reeling it back it's a sign of just how powerful how insidious how transmissible the infection is that california was doing fairly well but now business is are being forced to close the bars will close indoor dining will no longer take place.

zoos museums malls in beauty parlors and in most parts of the country are of the of the state will be shut down further restrictions in some really hard hit areas there are parts of the state like imperial county on the mexican border which are experiencing huge spikes and really kind of overwhelming their local health system so now. it's back to this shutdown in california nationwide we're seeing. at large in the united states texas arizona and other states also. strengthening their previously loosened guidelines for businesses and we're seeing also a very alarming trend outside of the the main centers that we've been talking about for 4 weeks now really like california florida arizona texas so while there are

places like north dakota and minnesota and missouri way outside the sunbelt the hot spots that are experiencing really alarming spikes in new covert cases and indeed of course this whole issue about the the gathering of people the numbers of people getting together whether it be 2 or 10 it's an issue that's grown especially when the new hot topic is about how schools are going to open it in september because that is now the focus of the debate from the white house and it's concerning educate his and parents and we'll consider them in the weeks leading to those schools opening. extremely concerning just over the weekend the education secretary betsy divorce was on public affairs talk shows talking about the need to. get all the children physically back into the classroom in the next term but she dodged and danced around any questions as to specifically

how that could be done in a safe manner so without the last in the lack of i should say of of strong leadership from the federal government or from the the trump white house every state every school district in the country is pretty much on their own it was just announced today that los angeles will not open up its doors to pupils in the next term that's about 630000 kids it's the 2nd largest district in the country after new york san diego also saying no thanks we're not going to do that and in new york governor andrew cuomo really blasted president trump for his what he called his blind insistence on reopening school saying nobody is going to make guinea pigs out of our kids and it's a terrible economic dilemma for many parents who work jobs where they don't have the luxury of working from home or working remotely and taking care of the kids at

the same time it's not not an ideal situation but if you have to go out and work. and you have a small child at home and there's no school it's uneconomic the lemma lot of people are saying in the united states now you can either have a kid or you can have a job you can't have both indeed said in an issue we could be very close on for the moment rob reynolds thanks for joining us los angeles. now thousands of demonstrators gathered in the democratic republic of congo's capital in defiance of a ban on protests there angry over the choice of a new electoral commission chief opposition politicians accuse or on saddam a longer of being complicit in the wreaking of past elections the same launders biased towards former present just to be who formed a coalition government with president felix she katie could be a step down last year after 2 decades in office but his allies hold a parliamentary majority and control most cabinet ministries just last month to be allies the pows judicial reforms and also sparked protests now the falls would have

given the justice minister more powers over judges and prosecutors president fetus to educate he rejected them and the justice minister was briefly arrested deepening the rift within the governing coalition catherine soy has been monitoring developments from the kenyan capital nairobi. while kinshasa right now is calm police managed to disperse the thousands of protesters who are running battles with the police all afternoon. these protests really were organized by an opposition qualification called and in the capital kinshasa we so. very influential politician with a huge following so he let he was leading this of thousands of his supporters they were heading to parliament they were dispersed by police using tear gas and they say that they are angry with this nomination of this president of the electoral

commission but they also say that beyond that they're unhappy with the leadership of president and leads to security and the coalition he has formed with former president joseph kabila they say that this question has plunged the country in a political and economic crisis and the president needs to act gently to solve the situation. still ahead on al-jazeera why the u.k. can no longer take water for granted a want needs to be done to stop supplies running dry. and bowing to pressure washington's n.f.l. to drops its controversial name those stories after the break. but. we've had some rather nasty storms into central parts of canada spilling out of alberta across scotch one heading towards the northern plains of the u.s.

a little further south as well we've seen some rather lively downpours some bacon thundershowers with some large hail here just around oklahoma that's all making its way further east was that west of weather through central canada out of the prayer is going to run across nebraska illinois pushing up across the lakes as we go on through the next couple days and it really will be quite heavy at times the big story does remain the hate for many ticks down towards the southwest that record breaking heat will continue phoenix still getting up into the low to mid forty's over the next couple days the west coast of the u.s. is generally fine in trial western parts of canada will see some bits and pieces of rain from time to time and talking of rain with that western weather that we have around the lakes that will continue to slide a little further southwards and a swiss one of the showers down towards the far south east and cold a little try a little on the human side just around the east coast over the next couple of days a lot of dry by the main well into the caribbean there are always going to be one or 2 showers it has to be said but plenty of beautiful sunshine coming through the

heaviest showers are going to be into the western side of the region and affecting a good part of central america. but for. a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of court officials accused of accepting bribes just to shoot the most dangerous commodity on air sometimes take a spot at the door an edifice to blow up a custom upon the games judicial corruption as in a couple clarified i come out of my congress in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examines one man's extraordinary battle for justice in ghana at this time. to.

because what you are just a rude means the whole wrong the reminder of our top stories the united states has toughened stance on china's disputed claims to offshore resources and most of the south china sea calling them completely unlawful. also restrictions are real imposed on california to combat a surge in corona virus infections businesses including james bars and movie theaters been told to close it's one of several u.s. states which has seen a spike in cases of thousands of protesters in the democratic republic of congo against the appointment of a new electoral commission chief opposition politicians accuse a wrong side of my longer being complicit in rigging past elections. molly's prime minister says 11 people have died in 3 days of protests demanding president.

resign they're unhappy with president's handling of a long running conflict and economic crisis and disputed elections it left to calm tensions several detained opposition figures have not been free to indicate his son has resigned as chair of the parliament's defense committee nicholas haq has more from senegal. both camps the protesters and the president in the government are on their position right now the streets are still being preachy all by security forces heavily armed security forces in the streets of bamako. that is leading this protest movement well his house has protected by protesters who want to allow security forces to come near we are hearing reports that they've been throwing. molotov cocktails toward security forces of the situation in that particular neighborhood still very tense meanwhile president. made some concessions

to the protesters. notably dissolving the constitutional court that had confirmed the results of the elections of the national assembly that took place in april of course it's unclear whether the president itself according to the constitution can actually. dissolve the constitutional court don't need to go through the national assembly before doing so the significant resignation of his son karriem kater who was a member of parliament who was reelected just recently and this comes on the heels just friday on social media where we saw him. partying on a yacht somewhere in europe while in mali half of the population is living on less than $2.00 a day and our need of humanitarian assistance. rights groups global witness a companies in the e.u.

british overseas territories are being used as part of an international money laundering network to finance the syrian government its investigation the uncle of the syrian president bashar al assad flew to moscow in 2012 and there he met a businessman at the center of the 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 as the body responsible for syria's chemical weapons and ballistic missile programs may have used these companies to purchase materials there's also evidence the government used them to buy fuel and that they enabled the syrian central bank to get access to hard currency so far all see an investigative report an organized crime and corruption reporting project and co-author of the 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 you also on some good connection with the russian intelligence so yes they were able to buy properties in moscow they were able to move money award wide then what we all saw found is that. they in . the financial activities of their network overlap to with the activities of other well known laundromat systems and by now the well known for all like for example the. keep role during the troika laundromat fraud the russian laundromat the proxy form these are all or laundromats instance that were uncovered by the r.c.c. up. until last year the main problem is i mean it's clear that the sanctions system is one it's one tool or 2 but was

a scalper to. try to work to a regime that is not is not enough because they use of anonymous companies. actually enable these networks to move money around and so to keep a regime alive basically humans who these say they've killed and injured dozens of high ranking military officers in saudi arabia a spokesman said that they hit multiple military sites and large oil facilities just across the border into iran as part of a major new offensive saudi arabia hasn't said whether anyone was killed or injured but the saudi u.a.e. coalition in the yemen said it had intercepted 4 missiles and 6 explosive drones. kosovo's president has been questioned by war crimes prosecutors in the aig touch he was indicted by a special tribunal in late june for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the

199899 conflict with serbia that won the province its independence in others are charged with being criminally responsible for nearly $100.00 murders doesn't actually said he complied with the prosecutor's request for the interview because he believes in dialogue and good relations with all nations. i am an idiot who fair is the new challenge. and succeed. for most of my family my bebo me my company. nobody going to. be voting. this is what i. read. a pro-democracy activist to fled hong kong after beijing imposed a national security law on the city has arrived safely in london nathan law left after testifying in a u.s. congressional hearing about the legislation law has said that the activists like him could now face arrest just for speaking to foreign journalists or politicians

the u.k. is easing visa restrictions and opening a path to british citizenship for people from hong kong. mandela the youngest daughter of south africa's 1st black president nelson mandela has died at the age of 59 she was serving as south africa's ambassador to denmark the cause of her death has not been revealed xin z. when della gained a global attention in 95 after she read her father's letter rejecting the white minority governments offered to release him from prison and i was asked to denounce his movement struggle against the apartheid regime. football team the washington redskins says it will retire its name and logo after precious and social justice the redskins name was cool name has caused what's called justice if he is force racial insensitivity towards native americans pressure increased after the death of george foley today he says us the team to change its name like you stop

selling the team's merchandise well it's. hard to construct has the latest washington d.c. for generations fans of the redskins have cheered for this team with its 87 year old name even though it is defined as a racial slur in the dictionary well the fact that this name is going away now is evidence that the cultural transformation we've been seeing across the united states with attempts to address historical wrongs calling out race and racism well it's not just a blip but rather something to stay out of this team had been under pressure for a year is to change its name but the team owner in 2013 said that this name would never go away telling a newspaper to print the quote in caps well 2020 years here and it's a very different time a black lives matter protests happening across the country and monuments to historic figures with racist pats toppled across the country as well and in recent

days we saw the sponsors for this team including fed ex and pepsi with their name still employees and on the home stadium reading to withdraw support all apparently money talks leading to the statement that came out today that this dame is going away what it will be replaced with that is still the open question a leading and popular contender on social media is the red tails which would commemorate the tuskegee airman the nation's 1st black military pilots. well earlier we spoke to michael calls about the name change also spoke about the red tails idea of the options the most likely names would be either the warriors which would allow the team to keep presumably their logo or something like the red tails or the red tail hawks which would let them keep the red part of their nickname so they could keep their team song and things like that that also was the

name of an air squadron in the 2nd world war of black pilots from the tuskegee institute now bama so there's not really a local connection but there is a national connection behind that the problem is and the reason why they haven't announced a name is that most of these names have already been trademarked by people they call trademark squatters and there's one guy in particular who has trademark something like 15 or 20 different possible nicknames for the team and they're probably having to negotiate a deal with him to get that trademark there are other names like the kansas city chiefs american football team the atlanta braves baseball team where they look at the nickname as being something that honors the warrior spirit which is another reason why worriers might be the front runner for the washington team but this is taking place in colleges in america already for example florida state are the seminoles with the approval of the seminole tribe who are flora who are natives of

florida and never surrendered to the u.s. government others in north dakota say the sioux nation was divided on whether to continue to be the nickname of north dakota university to fighting sioux but the legislature in that state changed it anyway because i think the point is if you're offending a certain a certain percentage of any ethnic group why is it worth fighting to keep the name why not just why not just say look we're going to stop offending you and will choose another name. british m.p.'s have warned that the u.k. could face serious water shortages in 20 years if no action is taken to combat water waste and leakage but this comes after its environment agency signal this year that tops could run dry within a generation due to climate change and population growth barca has more. did something too many of us take for granted clean water on demand. but in the u.k.

famed for its downpours and frequent floods the seemingly plentiful substance could soon be in short supply according to a damning new report by m.p.'s tasked with scrutinizing government spending parts of the country could run dry within 20 years what we were really shocked at is that some of these warnings that he made 20 years ago in. progress in dealing with some of these issues particularly around leakage the government has some responsibility for making sure that consumers understand about the need to conserve water and we make sure we supply goods that use less power to. climate change means hotter drier summers that could reduce supplies by 15 percent the population is growing and with it greater demand for the way we handle is leading to shortfalls with the report blaming the water companies for failing to reduce leaks and when m.p.'s talk about leaks they don't mean the occasional dripping tap they mean the loss of 3000000000 liters of treated water every single day that's

a 5th of the entire country's daily consumption loss because of creaking pipes an aging infrastructure that's 2 and a half times the amount of water that's in this reservoir in north east london providing parts of the capital with drinking water the same as almost a 1000 olympic sized swimming pools m.p.'s now want a list of worst offending water companies to pressure them into plugging the problem the organization representing the companies responded to the report saying that leakage is a top priority and that progress has been made with leakage down 7 percent since records began the water companies do however acknowledge that more needs to be done and plan to harbor leakage by 2050. one of the world's leading experts on water conservation says the soil london and surrounding areas sit on makes stopping all leaks near impossible. brittle specially in london we've got to.

put it down which is the most difficult environment to have because it's shifting off and the pipes are supposed to survive m.p. say saving water isn't just a job for the suppliers they want manufacturers to put efficiency labels on appliances and experts warn that we all need to reduce consumption so shorter showers turning the tap off when brushing your teeth and not using the dishwasher until it's full the hope is that one day over using water will be socially unacceptable for securing the nation's supplies start with a stop to water wastage leave barca al-jazeera london. you're watching al-jazeera of me so robin a reminder of our top stories the united states has toughened its stance on china's disputed claims to offshore resources and most of the south china sea calling them

completely unlawful in a statement the u.s. secretary of state might pompei and said beijing has no legal grounds to unilaterally impose its will on the region it came just hours after china impose sanctions on 3 u.s. politicians restrictions are being imposed on california to combat a surge in corona virus infections businesses including james bars and movie theaters have been told to close it's one of several u.s. states which has seen a spike in cases the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic will worsen of countries fail to observe basic health care precautions infections are now top $13000000.00 and the agency says there will be no return to the old normal for the forseeable future. the situation we're seeing is countries that overcame the furthest peak of the outbreak but having is restrictions i do now struggling with the new peaks and accelerating cases in several countries across the world we

are now seeing dangerous increases in cases and hospital wards feeling again it would appear that many countries are losing gains made as proven measures to reduce risk are ignored implemented or followed thousands of protested in the democratic republic of congo against the appointment of a new electoral commission chief opposition politicians accused wrong side while longer being complicit in breaking past elections while his prime minister says 11 people have died in 3 days of protests calling for president abrahim boubacar care to resign they are unhappy with president's handling of a long running armed conflict an economic crisis a disputed elections those are the headlines more news in half an hour next its people in power to stay with us here on al-jazeera. on counting the cost of war games in the south china sea washington sends an aircraft carrier is beijing flexes its military and economic muscle by jiri and gets ready to export gas as big

oil prepares for a post covert world plus global remittances plus counting the cost on al-jazeera. 6 years ago in ireland a secret mass grave for babies was discovered near a home for unmarried pregnant women in an institution run by roman catholic nuns defined set off a scandal that has raced deeply disturbing questions about the fate of thousands of women and children and the relationship between the catholic church and the irish state in a special 2 part investigation correspondent lawrence lee has been in search of answers.