tricked into immigrating and trapped by under scrupulous poverty. to cain saying it's part of slavery and 21st century before the now does iraq. the u.s. accuses china of bullying over strategic stretches of water and says claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful. helos the whole romany watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha are also coming up to many countries are headed in the wrong direction. the virus remains public enemy number 113000000 corona virus infections and the warning not to ease up on the fight. california starts to shut down again new lockdown measures

are introduced to curb the spread of the virus. and washington's n.f.l. team drops the redskins name and logo after criticism they're offensive to native americans. welcome to the program one of the world's most strategic stretches of water could be about to become a new point of tension between the u.s. and china u.s. extrinsic might pompei or says beijing's claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful and it 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. china claims about 90 percent of

the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others the scarboro reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that dispute began 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing fishing vessels in the area mark a tree in the us our correspondent live for us in beijing and standing by china really not happy with my pompei as comments. no not happy at all for china all issues of territory are a red line and they've become firas at this statement now we haven't heard from beijing as yet but we have had a statement from the chinese and the see in the u.s. quite a lengthy statement saying that they firmly a porous us secretary of state's comments saying that he's trying to stir up trouble in the region that he's intentionally sowing discord between china and its neighbors and that is also exaggerating the problems in the region it goes as he

goes the statement goes on to say that the u.s. is flying against the u.n. convention on the law of the sea something that it doesn't itself even ratify it doesn't even follow it also says that even though there have been issues china has been working to improve the disagreements that it set up various mechanisms for dialogue that it's talking to its neighbors and that the situation overall has remained peaceful and calm recently and now it's then it ends with encouraging us to step back to refrain from taking any sides in this territorial dispute of which it has no real stake and also accuses the u.s. of increasingly flexing its muscles in the region and throwing its weight around and causing further problems of course the statement unsurprisingly doesn't really acknowledge any of the truth in what might pompei are saying certainly in recent months china's navy its coast guards have been very active and aggressive in this

region there have been various run ins with malaysian shipping vessels for example and china has been ramping up its building of artificial islands in the region including naming 2 administrative regions in the islands of shisha and in the south china sea so the statement doesn't acknowledge that and clearly china will probably hit back and further make statements on this later today these will keep abreast of what happens with you katrina in beijing thank you. now a warning from the world health organization that too many nations are heading in the wrong direction coronavirus cases top $13000000.00 to the general tundra scope or a of source says that there will be no return to the old normal in the forseeable future california's governor has just ordered indoor restaurants bars and movie theaters to close again for the 1st time since the start of the pandemic last in america has seen the number of covert related deaths exceed those in north america and face

coverings are to become compulsory for shoppers in england from july the 24th well the u.s. accounts for more than a quarter of the world's current virus cases with more than 3200000 recorded infections but despite several states now seeing a spike in cases the trumpet ministration is continuing to push for schools to reopen particle he reports it's the latest fight for a president who is determined to keep america open the school should be up and the kids want to go to school you're losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed. he's warned states open schools or lose federal money the answer from some states so far just know we're not going to use our children. as the litmus test that we're not going to going to put our children in a place with their health is endangered it's that simple the 2 largest school

systems in california will not reopen the trump administration has been trying to convince parents it'll be safe but the world health organization disagrees our understanding of transmission in children is still limited and we know that overall they tend to have more mild disease but in some situations they can have severe disease and we have seen children that have died just like the schools the trump administration moved to reopen the economy quickly and the states that did are now seeing the virus seemingly spread out of control officials deny that there's a connection but the nation's top infectious disease expert disagree all you needed to do was look at the films on t.v. of people in some states who went from shutdown to complete throwing caution to the winds bars that were crowded people without masks and some states are reversing course california closing bars and indoor restaurants and in many places churches

and gyms as well a sign that while some might want to see the country's economy reopen the virus has the final say particle haim al-jazeera america. kid is an infectious disease and global health expert on the university of oxford he thinks the pun demick is a test for how well global society will adopt to future problems lock down is never a solution lockdown is really a last resort and unfortunately we're in a setting now for example in parts of the u.s. where a lockdown is probably unfortunately going to be necessary to slow things down but we have to get away from this idea that lockdown is going to solve problems it's an emergency measure that can buy time to protect your health system and save lives until you can put in place other measures that can help to control the spread of the virus that's widespread testing that's contact tracing and isolation systems we need to do is get the level of transmission down low enough that those kinds of systems can handle it once you reach this exponential growth phase that we're

seeing in the u.s. and so many other places right now it's tremendously difficult to do that and that's why we've made lockdown in some places as a reset it's just a tremendously painful measure one thing to know is that if you look at a place like japan or south korea they've been able to through aggressive and much more targeted measures actually never have to go into a full lockdown and so it is avoidable when this pandemic began and one of the things that i said was that this the corona virus pandemic is a dress rehearsal for 21st century problems like climate change that are route really going to require global cooperation and coordination because these are problems that know no boundaries unfortunately we've really not risen to the occasion yet we spend a lot of time you know talking about this is like this is the olympics and comparing this country to that country but we really need now is a massive dose of global solidarity cooperation and coordination how can we learn from places that have done really well how can we make sure that scarce resources

like testing equipment in p.p. can be distributed to where it's needed most and we think about it the one place we've had extraordinary cooperation during this pandemic has been among the scientific community. well there's just an outstanding amount of work being done now in a race to develop vaccines and treatments but when those vaccines come available and they will how are we going to work together to make sure that they get to the places that need it most and aren't going to be hoarded by wealthy countries that's going to be the next challenge 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 iran saddam along of being complicit in the rigging of past elections they say malone is biased towards former president just of kabir who formed a coalition government with president felix tasha katie mollies the prime minister says 11 people have died in 3 days of protests demanding the president's

resignation but they are unhappy with the president bring him to book archytas handling of a long running conflict and economic crisis as well as disputed elections in an effort to calm tensions several detained opposition figures have been freed and create a sudden resigned as chair of the parliamentary defense committee a little attack has more from senegal. both camps the protesters and the president and the government are trenched on their position right now the streets are still being purchased by security forces heavily armed security forces in the streets of the micro person. that is leading this protest movement well his house is protected by of 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 result of the elections of the national assembly that took place and april of course it's unclear whether the president itself according to the constitution can actually. dissolve the constitutional court don't go through the national assembly before doing so the significant resignation of his son. 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 footage of 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. well still ahead here on al-jazeera

kosovo's president arrives in the hague ready to be grilled over alleged war crimes . longer on the same wavelength why the u.k. is a long relationship with chinese tech giant weiwei we seem to have those stories after the break. i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast we still have plenty of rain into central and eastern parts of china you can see my you front which now runs out of the east china sea towards the korean peninsula little area of low pressure typical of a pressure just settles there pushing over toward secu shoot towards honshu the wetter weather will slide further south what's a nice with the least over the next couple of days we will start to gradually see that rain turning on less wet less heavy across a good part of q.c.

dry skies coming back in across the korean peninsula staying very wet into central and eastern parts of china anywhere from shanghai to hand and beyond still some rather heavy showers into the southeast but for much of southern china it does look fine and dry sunshine and showers meanwhile across southeast asia little area of development just making its way across lose all now so northern parts of the philippines could see some flooding some damaging winds for time but it will move towards the north and west quite quickly and then the usual rash of showers there across a good part of southeast asia but the a showers continue into the northeast of india into bangladesh up towards nepal the rain is going to continue to for the west and get. the coronavirus may force us to change the format of head to head for the time being. that would stop me doing robust interviews with challenging direct questions

in a u.s. election year on the sea accountability from both sides of the political spectrum on who's to blame for the horrific coronavirus desktop on how to fix the us health care system and whether the war of words with china is entering a new and dangerous phase join me mad the arsenal for a special series of head to head on al-jazeera. world. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera me so ho rom a reminder of our top news stories the united states has toughened its stance on china's disputed claims to offshore resources in most of the south china sea calling them completely unlawful. also thousands of protesters in the democratic

republic of congo against the appointment of a new electoral commission chief opposition politicians accuse ron sidemen longer of being complicit in working past elections. and restrictions of being reimposed in california to combat a surge in corona virus infections businesses including gyms bars and movie theaters have been told to close is one of several u.s. states which have seen a spike in cases. now south africa is the worst hit country in africa with over a quarter of a 1000000 people infected the government is reintroducing lockdown restrictions to try to combat the soaring numbers for me to miller has more from johannesburg. president still ramapo says blame gatherings like this and what he calls drinking sprees for a surge in covert 1000 infections with more than 270000 cases south africa

has one of the highest rates of infection in the world the government has again banned the sale of alcohol after allowing its sale to resume just 2 weeks ago there is now clear evidence that the resumption of alcohol sales has resulted in substantial pressure being put on hospitals including trauma and i.c.u. units due to motor vehicle accidents violence as well as related to trauma that alcohol induced. family visits and other social activities have also been banned but people can meet at restaurants malls and other public areas and parks have been reopened for exercise while wearing a mask is mandatory the government says people are not following the rules and there's concern that health facilities can't cope some health workers a using social media to speak out it's an absolute hear us i have had

3 deers in this race all is than 2 hours birth period was the most shocking i just find out that the family has remained. always for recreation or is . he minister of this of brit replaces hacks who agrees the we don't even have any oxygen ports to put patients on additional facilities and quarantine areas have been set up across the country the government's allocated 37000 beds for quarantine and securing thousands of into later is an oxygen for those who need them while more than 4000 people have died here south africa does of one of the lowest death rates compared to other countries but it might not stay that way a quarter of those deaths were recorded in the last week alone and estimates indicate they could be between 40 and 50000 deaths in the months to come. yet the

government says it's reluctant to return to full lock down millions of dollars and thousands of jobs were lost when it did that in march the government insists it's trying to revive the economy while at the same time protecting lives but with 500 new infections every hour the speed with which the virus is spreading may make that more difficult for me to al-jazeera johannesburg. kosovo's president has been questioned for war crimes that a special court in the hague actually is facing a 10 point indictment of serious crimes including murder torture and disappearances committed during kosovo independence in the late ninety's steadfast in ripples. singing k.l.a. battle songs former kosovo independence fighters arrived at the court in the hague to show support for their former commander of now president touchy i am ready to

face with a new challenge and succeeds. my family my people my confidence as a commander of the kosovo liberation army or kalay that he is accused of his role in the killings of serbs costs of. other ethnic groups but she denied the accusations and says it was a clean and just war more than $13000.00 people died during the war which ended after 70 days of nato airstrikes it's rare for a sitting president to face questioning over allegations of war crimes here at the hague. has been accused of obstructing the special court says that this process is the price he will have to pay for peace a process that brings back memories of a long apnic battle in a bloody and complicated war but there are fears the allegations about events happening decades ago could cost even more problems now the dialogue between

crosser and serbia that is restarting with the facilitation of european union is in trouble because russian thought she was a keen. representative of course with this dialogue the courts will decide before october 24 if that she will go on trial the course of one president has announced he will resign if that happens step class and al-jazeera the hague. iran is asking south korea to release billions of dollars it owes for oil exports in transactions dating back several years speaking to al-jazeera the foreign ministry spokesman said tehran is currently negotiating with seoul. we will explore all legal and diplomatic avenues to bring this money back to the country it's held illegally in south korean banks and their reasoning is totally illegal and irrational the us is putting pressure on them that's not related to us it's between them and the us our nation wants the money it earned through illegal trade back we've had

a historic and traditional relationship with south korea but these actions have a negative impact on this relationship. hundreds of sailors in california are battling a fire on a u.s. warship for a 2nd day crews have been trying to keep the flames away from nearly 4000000 liters of oil on board the u.s.s. bonhomme richard a fire suppression system was knocked out when the blaze began on sunday while the ship was docked in san diego dozens of people are being treated for minor injuries the pressure is growing on other top u.s. sports teams to change their names after a move by the washington redskins the american football teams is dropping the redskins reference with its logo which has which has long been considered racially insensitive to native americans it's been in place for 87 years but pressure has grown and it's the black lives matter movement and questions about colonialism likely sponsors of us the team to change its name and nike stop selling the team's

merchandise i did it castro has more from 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 historic wrongs calling out race and racism well it's not just a blip but rather something to stay now this team has been under pressure for years 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 with black lives matter protests happening across the country and monuments to historic figures with racist paths 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 stillman blazoned on the home stadium reading to withdraw support well apparently money talks leading to the statement that came out today that this 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. of indian country today which is a digital news platform that covers indigenous communities joins me now from phoenix and i was at it good to have you with us on al-jazeera and thanks for your time it's perhaps a sign everyone knew that it took the death of a black man in minneapolis to kick start the debate once again on how we did you describe unities have been treated for hundreds of years in the u.s. so this decision really is a long time in coming. i think that's right and i think indigenous communities tend

to take the long view anyway that if you're going to fight for justice sometimes it's a 100 years it's a 1000 years and you just keep at it and our community had a lot of people that were just elated today but they recognize that this is just the 1st step and that there's a lot more to go indeed i mean will the name change be welcome does as you said it will be or is it a necessity for the club to do it in relation to the protests and debate that is sort of been pushed already but influential sponsors that have withdrawn nasa pulled from a very large money making game it's interesting a lot of pressure on the companies has come from the native american community and they've been working very closely with a lot of investors to put pressure on fed ex and pepsi and some of the other companies so that too is seen as a victory among many in the native community can i just mention several of the sporting teams here in the mix we've got kansas city chiefs chicago blackhawks

we've got the southern california apaches the florida state seminoles i mean basically sporting teams have been using native american names and symbol in some cases with the approval of indigenous tribes is this is debate that is going to continue until all of these names the removed or is the division within your own community. suzanne harjo who's been one of the leading advocates for change they were working on this for more than 30 years put a list together all the images of sports mascots and found that 2 thirds are already got and if you think of 2 thirds already gone there's just a 3rd left that shows you how much progress has been made 'd really in the last 5 years why is that been progress made then you might say do you see that native american indians and their issues have been highlighted more have had a better organizational drive to them than the raw the you might say need jerk

reaction that we have seen perhaps with the black lives matter issue do you think they still have a long way to go before they get the real justice that black communities are looking for. i think both communities are looking for real justice and they're really tied together in a lot of ways i mean america's 2 original sins are genocide and slavery and they're connected all across the board but trent it's been a pleasure to speak to you thanks so much for joining us from phoenix and i was only thank you. manchester city have been cleared to play in next season's champions league after winning their appeal against a 2 year european band back in february your football governing body usa 1st rule is that he had committed serious breaches of financial fair play rules but the club took their appeal to the court of arbitration for sport who found that city didn't overinflate their sponsorship contributions although they did fail to cooperate with us this investigation c.a.'s ruled that the ban should therefore be lifted and

reduce the fines from $34000000.00 to $11000000.00. a 2 decade long partnership between the united kingdom and its biggest mobile operator could soon be over prime minister boris johnson is set to ban chinese while away from involvement in britain's 5 g. network he's been under pressure from the us which says the company is a security risk that he barba reports from london. it's part of britain's telecoms landscape but the involvement of huawei in the country's 3 g. and 4 g. mobile networks has already proved controversial in a virtual meeting with members of the u.k. parliament the chinese firm recently stressed that it poses no threat we are the most probably the most inspected. company in the world in the u.k. . and there is no malicious. back doors in in our products despite years or true.

but in the west way is widely seen as being compliant with the chinese government and for these experts who are always involvement in 5 g. was always going to be problematic in 10 years time the changes that having that back to access would pose once we're driving autonomous car to the top to traffic lights once we've got people who are experts in their field on the other side of the world the world doing remote controlled surgery because of the lower latency in the connection. those are when we're going to have problems britain's rethink follows political pressure from the u.s. and american sanctions which have locked out walk away from key components but some u.k. telecoms firms have warned that replacing qual way equipment could cost huge sums and delay the full 5 g. rollout by several years the british government like others in europe and beyond has faced a dilemma for years now how to make the most of emerging technologies without

compromising national security and that dilemma remains i don't think that actually the the budget is quite as bad as the park charlie part and spent many years representing the u.k. in china and he's not overly concerned about beijing's warning that they'll be consequences for him trade will continue regardless and he advocates a firm approach we wish to make macs. in my eyes good relations with china there's many things that we we want to get on what we try to with trade with investment whether it's its health. you know problems. pollution climate change their development there are many areas where we should be cooperating fully with china and but there are certain areas where we must prioritize our own national security interests and values the chinese response and how tough it will be hard to predict but many countries are doubtless watching carefully as they to weigh up the future of chinese technology in their vital infrastructure. al-jazeera london.

britain's home secretary says the country is looking to attract the best and brightest under its new post bricks and immigration plan pretty patel says employers will be encouraged to hire workers from within the country but health professionals will be able to apply the fast track entry under the new points based system that favors highly skilled applicants. with me said the 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 to u.s. secretary of state mike pompei has said beijing has no legal grounds to unilaterally impose its will on the region it came just hours after china imposed sanctions on 3 us politicians between you is in beijing with the latest reaction

from china. china all issues of territory are a red line and they they've become theory is at this statement now we haven't heard from beijing is yet but we have had a statement from the chinese embassy in the u.s. quite a lengthy statement saying that they firmly oppose the u.s. secretary of state's comments saying that he's trying to stir up trouble in the region that he is intentionally sowing discord between china and its neighbors and that is also exaggerating the problems in the region who will health organizations as the krona virus pandemic will worsen of countries fail to adhere to basic health precautions it says too many nations are heading in the wrong direction the number of infections worldwide passes $13000000.00 restrictions are being reimposed in california to combat a surge in infections businesses including gyms bars and movie theaters have been told to close this one of several u.s. states which has seen a spike in cases than thousands of protesters in the democratic republic of congo

against the appointment of a new electoral commission cheat opposition politicians accuse ron saddam alondra of being complicit in rigging past elections all these prime ministers people have died in 3 days of protests calling the president. to resign and happy with the president's handling of a long running conflict the economic crisis the disputed elections kosovo's president has been questioned by war crimes prosecutors in the hague he was indicted by a special tribunal in late june for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the $199899.00 conflict with serbia she and others are charged with being truly responsible for nearly $100.00 murders those are the headlines nick clark is here with more news in half an hour next knowledge is there it's one i want east to stay with us. an image can change the way we see the world if we had not seen that. it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the

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