with the us reporting over $77000.00 coronavirus cases that day the nation's top infectious diseases expert stresses the importance of wearing masks. down in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up new data shows that despite the high turnout last month's protests across the u.s. didn't spread the virus in some cities. as brazil's infection rate appears to have plateaued the w.h.o. warns now is the time to contain transmission. and fears of

a further crackdown against civil rights in the philippines as a new anti terror comes into effect. welcome to the program the united states is struggling to contain a rising wave of coronavirus with cases of infections and deaths soaring more than $77000.00 infections were reported in the latest daily tally another bleak record high resources in many areas are stretched to the limit and hospitals are in danger of being overrun with patients where debate is raging of a mosque where they should be made mandatory u.s. president donald trump has weighed in on the issue ruling out making them compulsory at a national level. would you consider what you consider a national mandate that people need to wear a mask i want people to have a certain freedom and i don't believe in that no and i don't agree with the statement that if everybody were a mask everything it just appears a doctor felt she said don't wear

a mask or surgeon general terrific guy said don't wear a mask everybody was saying don't worry mask all of us and everybody's got to wear a mask and as you know mask cause problems too with that being said i'm a believer in masks i think masks. the top infectious diseases expert dr anthony found she's urging state officials to do everything they can to convince people to wear masks the white house coronavirus task force has identified 18 states a so-called red zones where urgent action is needed i can say as a public health official that i would urge the leaders the local political and other leaders in states and cities and towns to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizen tree to wear masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when you're living your life and trying to open up the country you are going to come

into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important well face coverings are still only compulsory in a little of a hof of the 50 us states georgia's governor has urging the public to wear mosques but has banned any efforts to enforce it but where government has been reluctant to act the private sector appears to be stepping in major retail chains that woman and target have announced that mosques will be required for anyone shopping in their stores well our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more now on why mosques have become such a contentious issue. well this is a country that is really founded on revolution it's also unique system of government it's not a federal system but instead it's one that has strong states rights so in many ways the united states is like 50 countries all joined together that they're really the local officials have much more power than say the president of the united states when it comes to certain issues that masks are one of them in the state of georgia is really highlighting the confusion when you have

a global pandemic and you have such strong state rights as you played 2 there the governor of the u.s. state of georgia brian kept saying that he supports people wearing masks but at the same time he doesn't believe that people should be forced to do so in fact his lawsuit says that the mayor of the largest city in his state bought of that in fact she has overexerted her authority by mandating that and in the midst of all this we have a federal body saying that he urges dr anthony found people to wear a mask because it just makes common sense what we're seeing in the united states in the midst of this confusion by politicians at the local and federal level and the mix messaging is stores taking matters into their own hands for example the latest being 2 very large home improvement chains lowe's and home depot here in the united states saying look at it may be confusing on the outside but when you come in our store you're going to have to wear a mask if you want to shop here and that's what we're seeing in the business

community all across the united states well dr natasha cheetahs from the johns hopkins university school of medicine she says the mosque issue has become political which is preventing the government from taking action. we have other public health measures such as seat belts which are managed by law and which people do follow and so i think part of the reason this is unfortunately become so political is from mixed messaging from our federal government as well as our president. making it into a political issue unfortunately and that's why i think you can see a fairly clear split in terms of where our place is supporting masking unmasking mandates and where places that are not the u.s. is made up of states which have a fair amount of states' rights i think unfortunately due to overall lack of leadership from the federal government there has not been a move to have a national unified response and this is left up to the states and you know unfortunately some are some coming to their own pressures from their own political

leanings and others are not the world health organization says brazil's corona virus infection rates appears to have plateaued but should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission the country remains the epicenter of the virus in latin america but as a sea of human reports there's growing criticism of government responses across the continent. in the ignition to check it out a hospital in money that doctors fight to keep critical care patients alive unlike the city of rio de janeiro in much of real state virus infections continue rising infections in brazil have surpassed the 2000000 mark it took 4 months to reach 1000000 infections and less than one to double that number. and the death toll is now well past 75000 yet according to brazil's former health minister who was sacked by president table so natural the defendant confinement measures authorities and even ordinary citizens are not taking corona virus seriously enough as business.

people have become uncaring 1300 deaths a day is like 5 jets crashing every day but in people's minds it's like they don't understand that there's a 5 jets packed with people who could be your mother my sister your grandson my great grandson. but it w.h.o. is beginning to see the glass half full saying that infections applied tolling and no longer spreading exponentially it's an opportunity it says to bring the pandemic under control in latin america's largest country whose president is even infected but downplays the severity of the disease. from the largest to one of the smallest countries panama covert 1000 is causing havoc. doctors are protesting against what they say is the government's failure to provide sufficient protection money for more money we need more supplies and personnel we don't have enough for the number

of patients. driven north in guatemala the death toll is soaring after the government relaxed initial confinement measures hospital officials say they're on the brink of collapse well as galluses the map what's killing us is not the virus is the indifference of the state it is the indifference of the health authorities and as long as governments ignore calls for more energetic measures to control transmission health experts warn that initial signs of a slowdown in contagion will not last you see in human al-jazeera. the year leaders of met in brussels for the 1st time in months to negotiate a covert 19 recovery plan a proposed $860000000000.00 rescue package is aimed at putting the e.u. out of what could be its deepest ever recession but talks last month and that in deadlock some of the e.u.'s biggest economies germany france italy and spain but the proposal but other countries don't attach a bottle of records. elbow bumps and other socially distance to greetings replaced

handshakes for e.u. leaders in brussels their 1st summit in person since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in europe the e.u. commission president along with the leaders of france and germany wants to reach a deal on an 860000000000 dollar of covert recovery fund to help the blocs battered economies thanks couldn't be higher because if we do it right we can overcome this crisis stronger and emerge stronger from the crisis and all the necessary pieces are on the table and a solution is possible discussions are already fraught lead as a divided over barring such a vast sum of money from the financial markets and concert agree on whether it should be distributed as grants or loans 400 tranfield say here i am bring in the differences as still very very large and i cannot therefore predict whether we will be able to reach an agreement this time some fiscally conservative countries

including the netherlands worry about shared debt they prefer loans with conditions rather than grants. what is very important to us is that countries are reform and if they want grants on top of loans something we don't want actually then you have to nail down very hard guarantees that reforms will be carried through part for the french president emmanuel macro leaders to show solidarity and. so here we are at this very particular european summit the 1st to be held physically since the start of the coronavirus crisis and one that will be entirely dedicated to the european recovery plan and the budget for the coming years this is a moment of truth and ambition for europe mike ross says a failure by the e.u. to unite and help member states at a time of crisis could feel anti e.u. sentiment in the block and jeopardize its future the talks are expected to continue

for most of saturday but with so many differences and so much at stake leaders may need even longer to reach a deal natasha butler just 0 paris. residents in barcelona being to stay home to help control a rise in virus cases spain is recording steep jumps and infections with hundreds of new cases most in the catalonia and out again regions a catalan regional government has restricted gatherings to 10 people and close cinemas theaters and gyms. the month of june so a huge protests across the u.s. against police brutality these mass gathering spot fears of a surgeon's of coronavirus but in many big cities like new york that hasn't happened deborah is on that explains why. thousands of protesters on the streets in cities all over america demonstrators shoulder to shoulder huge numbers unified in a historic fight for social justice but this is not what social distancing is

supposed to look like leading many to ask did the protests lead to a spike in coronavirus cases this recently published research paper is the most definitive study to date addressing that question based on our research there is no relationship between the black close matter protests and spikes in kobe 1000 in any particular city at the population the study was coauthored by 5 economists and examined government coded numbers and cell phone location analysis in over 300 cities where protests occurred. the results showed what researchers call a void in speed havior people who didn't participate in protests went out of their way to stay home increasing social distancing and keeping infection rates flat we're looking at the entire population of the city not the protesters themselves and why you may have a 10020030000 person protest these cities that they're happening in are

500001 1000000 or 1000000 you know. so you can have a protest vote on it people are coming out but then you can also have more overall social distancing behavior as people try to avoid these protests that was certainly the case in new york where the protests look like this. much of the rest of the city like this researchers call it a balancing out effect there were 2 other important factors as well 1st most of the protesters at least here in new york wore masks and all the protests were held out doors both factors health experts say. transmission rates down so while the protest didn't dance the cause of social justice there's little indication that they also advanced the spread of a pandemic gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york. the confederate flag has been

effectively banned from u.s. military bases following months of anti-racism protests the defense secretary announced the policy telling commanders of the flags which promote unity and respect are authorized the flag was flown during the civil war by breakaway southern states that advocated the condemnation of slavery it's seen by many as a reminder of the enslavement of black americans and as a symbol of white supremacy. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back despite the deaths of protesters and international mediation efforts the campaign to oust mollies president continues more on that stay with us. hello i think for the time being japan's out of the woods with floods except maybe in the islands further south okinawa got

a wet day coming up for example but if you look at what's happening in china and we've got this seasonal rain moving slowly north now it's still sitting of the yangtze and it's curving up towards the korean peninsula the next day or so arc in our new japan it will see rain on saturday then it dries up the temperatures slowly rising but if you're in one hand it's rain rain rain and big rain that so the floods will simply increase the orientation is changed as well so japan is like say you're out of the woods for a for a while at least now are countless stories in it for indonesia particularly sort of way so we're going to the batch of light is showers on their way through but this is the wet band at the moment through borneo just catching sort of back and further westward singapore in kuala lumpur the south of that java is largely dry as a mass of shells reappearing over the central philippines and i'm afraid the blue represents a good scattering the showers across the way. now the monsoon rain had taken a step back to be concentrating on maharashtra not through good europe's forecast

wise so it's now thinking again heavy showers the northeast of india and nepal. in the conclusion of the 2 part series people in power in vesta gates' allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic of babies the church realized that babies that are the could be sold to america a scouting quite a nice and reveals shocking new evidence of how and where religious orders disposed of those who died frankly torn in the system like this one church and state are there to keep the truth from coming helps islands mother in baby scandal on al-jazeera. roof. or. her own. home.

welcome back if you come out of our top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. coronavirus infections have risen by more than 70000 for a 2nd day in a row as the government sends mixed messages of a mosque president trump has ruled out a national mandate and many state governments are refusing to make them compulsory . the world health organization says brazil's coronavirus infection rate appears to plateaued and it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission brazil's the epicenter of the virus in latin america $34000.00 new cases were registered on friday. and e.u. leaders have met in brussels for the 1st time in months to negotiate a covert $1000.00 recovery plan a proposed $860000000000.00 rescue package is aimed at putting the e.u. out of what could be its deepest ever recession. now a controversial new anti terror law is now being enforced in the philippines that

allows police to bypass the court system and arrest suspects without a warrant they can be held without charge for up to $24.00 days critics are concerned it'll endanger civil liberties and maybe abuse to target opponents of president. government let's bring in richard hay darian he's a political scientist and author and he joins us now from the philippines capital manila richard many experts have warned the president to terror law is a dark new chapter for the philippines let me ask you though how draconian is this law and why is it so contentious do you think. well 1st of all we have to understand the context here for decades to philip. security forces have been arguing that the existing like regulations recent law was passed were extremely restrictive then lot of academic studies about chile proving that that's the case for instance there were very strict restrictions on preventative detention if drug

terrorists. speck was put in detention for a single day and later on it was proven that it was a mistake that person has to be compensated $10000.00 every single day of mistake by security forces so that was that was very much discarding this if your forces of doing that kind of conduct their provocative conder terrible operations that perhaps could have avoided the siege of isis a few late that forces for 5 months one of the philippines biggest cities in the south so their argument is that you need to reform that and devise that to give the security forces more leeway but the problem is this the government actually impose 2 years of martial law in mean that all falling to siege of isis affiliate that richard let me add let me just jump in if you have let me jump in here i'm currently really tense because if not i went with we're just running out of time and activists say that this will end dangerous civil liberties as well and that it could be used to target politicians how worried will the president's political opponents be by this new law. i mean to begin with there are safeguards weaving

this law with regards to abuses of human rights but the problem is the political and institutional environment in the philippines i mean you have reports of thousands of extra judicial killings in the country despite the fact that you have very strict laws that they're supposed to ensure to process and human rights and the problem with this new law is that even though there are certain legal safeguards its definition of terrorism is extremely broad and if you look at section 4 of the proposed law for insisting it's initial draft it says that if security forces deems certain exercises of civil and political rights as posing a risk to public safety then that could be defined as terrorism so it gives tremendous amount of rain to a quite an authoritarian leaning government this is what the critics are saying too to attack anyone as terrorists and if that person may not be in subverting state institutions yet richard i would know that at least 6 petitions against the law have been filed in the supreme court but the vast majority of judges on the court

appointees so when these when these petitions make a difference do you think. yeah this is the problem is that these things are going to philippines in a country like the united states whereby you have a conservative dominated supreme court and yet you know donald trump was handed one defeat after the other because in the supreme court of the u.s. you have a certain degree of independence of the court in the philippines 13 out of the 15 supreme court justices have or would be appointed by desire to and these justices appointments doesn't even go through legislative scrutiny so the problem is that you know as we see also right now present there is yet to lose a single case single major case at the supreme court and has won back in back many many controversial cases including martial law i mean the now of few years back and also the burial of former dictator marcos as a national hero so some people feared that even though the petitions could have a strong legal basis the question is will the supreme court of the philippines achree as an arbiter of rule of law and check executive abuses and call upon the

government to make certain adjustments in the new law to make sure that this is in consonance that we develop in civil liberties and political rights in the constitution richard head there and we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for talking to us but as you know a lawsuit has been filed over the use of federal agents during protests in the u.s. city of portland the american civil liberties union of oregon is targeting the department of homeland security and u.s. marshal service it wants to block federal agents from dispersing arresting or using force against journalists some legal observers are among those struck by tear gas and rubber bullets during black lives matter protests in the state now in many parts of the u.s. the large peaceful protests that followed the death of george floyd have gradually dwindled away the exception being portland where not your protests have continued for more than 6 weeks have been met by violence oppression by federal agents under president donald trump rob reynolds reports. as knightly protests over systemic

racism and police violence continue in portland a disturbing new development has emerged this week witnesses say federal agents in unmarked vans are grabbing protestors off the streets and detaining them without clear cause. this video shows a man being grabbed by armed men in military fatigues without name tags and without any indication of what agency they work for he is marched to a vehicle and driven away several protesters say they were grabbed put in cells in the federal courthouse and then let go without being placed under arrest or charged with any offense that it will marshals denied any knowledge of the incidents and the department of homeland security has refused to comment in an interview on friday oregon gov kate brown says she wants president trump to pull federal agents out of her state earlier brown said the armed agents were making the situation

worse trump troops in portland are definitely not the answer as we saw this only escalates the tension. and we need dialogue and deescalation trump has boasted about how federal officers he deployed routed portland demonstrators i guess we have many people right now in jail and we very much quelled it and it starts again well quality again very easily acting homeland security secretary chad wolf called the protesters lawless an archivist says oregon democratic senator ron wyden accused trump and wolf of provoking violence for political gain. the demonstrators focus has been on the downtown area federal courthouse which falls outside local police jurisdiction 6 federal officers there have fired tear gas smoke grenades and so-called non-lethal munitions at protesters in one incident widely viewed online a federal agent fired on

a protester hitting him in the head with a projectile and leaving blood on the pavement the man 26 year old donovan love bella needed surgery and is hospitalized in serious condition rob reynolds al-jazeera 3 white americans accused of shooting dead a black man while he was out jogging have pleaded not guilty to his murder a judge in georgia has now denied them a security bond to be released on bail michael his son travis and their neighbor william bryant facing 9 charges 25 year old ahmad aubrey was killed in georgia in february but it wasn't until may that police eventually made arrests that was often video of the shooting went viral sparking national outrage a major health center in lebanon has had to lay off hundreds of stocks the american university of beirut medical center is a crucial help for the city it has reportedly let go of more than 500 workers the

university's president had warned of staff cuts to to lebanon's financial crisis and the impact of the coronavirus come on living that's needed if you didn't have a baby daughter who i need to get food and water and pay vaccines for i would have left by myself and if i knew that my $100.00 a month salary would bother them i would have left we got the short end of the stick we who have nobody to back us or help us they fired us and those who are backed by political parties or movements they kept them it's all favoritism. new restrictions of come into force in israel because of a surge in coronavirus infections public places such as malls and tourist sites are closed on weekends and there are limits on social gatherings both indoors and outside that in protest against prime minister binyamin netanyahu is handling of the crisis. the un is demanding an international investigation into the disappearance of a libyan politician and women's rights defender activists say. was violently abducted from a home by a warlord he for have to ask for says

a year ago she's an m.p. in the alternative eastern parliament which is backed by half top but had been critical of its military operations. mollies opposition is still insisting the president must quit despite international mediation efforts in the west african regional bloc echo us had been hopeful of making a breakthrough with the june 5 movement but the protest group that by cleric mahmoud vico described the talks as a total failure nicholas on reports. for the dead 15 year old isa my god died from a bullet in the head when security forces stormed the influential muslim cleric mosque in bamako outside 27 year old how is he was walking home when a stray bullet struck her in the stomach. the way they were killed was barbaric they were shot at close range some in the head others in the belly the attack was gruesome and we have many severely injured and. the prime minister.

is calling for an investigation after at least 12 protesters were killed when a commando unit fired live rounds against demonstrators protesting against the president last week and. i am hopeful that this political process will lead us to a solution and the way out of the crisis being of older people of mali but despite mediation efforts from the west african body led by former nigerian president goodluck jonathan the nationwide civil disobedience movement continues the demonstrators who call themselves the m 5 movement want president. to resign and the newly elected national assembly dissolved. and we. all want to solve the problems but indeed it was. too cool. we saw. but it appears the crisis is deepening while the president calls for

a national unity government the m 5 movement want a transitional government that would strip kate of his powers diego accuses the president of abuse of powers and naming family members and friends to keep positions without oversight this video circulating on social media of the president's son an elected m.p. on a luxury holiday has caused uproar among millions have of whom depend on humanitarian aid for food while millions continue to flee the ongoing armed conflict involving al qaeda and islamic state affiliates protesters say the death should not go in vain promising more actions ahead as anger is continues to spread they say the future of mali is at stake because hawke al-jazeera a british war veteran who raised $14000000.00 for the u.k.'s national health service has been knighted by the queen captain search on more walked a 100 laps of his garden for his 100th birthday initially set out to raise just $1200.00 but the nations came flooding in the ceremony was queen elizabeth's 1st

face to face meeting with a member of the public since the lockdown began in march. i'm not really. this is. this is a good. world we're more crime and you would wish. being out magnificent day for me. it's. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. coronavirus infections have risen by more than 70000 for a 2nd day in a row as the government sends mixed messages over mosques president trump has ruled out a national mandate and many state governors are refusing to make them compulsory would you consider what you consider a national mandate that people need to wear a mask i want people to have a certain freedom and i don't believe in that you know and i don't agree with the

statement that if everybody were a mask everything it just appears a doctor felt you should don't wear a mask or surgeon general terrific guy should don't wear a mask everybody was saying don't worry mask all of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask and as you know mask was problem still with that being said i'm a believer in masks i think masks. the world health organization says brazil's corona virus infection rate appears to have plateaued and it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission brazil the epicenter of the virus in latin america $34000.00 new cases were registered on friday e.u. leaders have met in brussels for the 1st time in months to negotiate a covert 19 recovery plan a proposed $860000000000.00 rescue package is aimed at pulling the european union out of what could be its deepest ever recession india is now the 3rd country to record more than a 1000000 cases more states are having to reimpose lockdowns to try and contain the outbreak which is left over $25000.00 deaths. mollies opposition is insisting the

president must quit despite international mediation efforts the west african regional bloc echo us met with the june 5 movement but the protest group described the talks as a total failure a controversial new anti terror law is now being enforced in the philippines allows police to bypass the court system and arrest suspects without a warrant critics are concerned it'll endanger civil liberties and maybe abuse to target opponents of president to test his government. a london police officer has been suspended after he was seen on video appearing to be kneeling on a black man's neck the force has referred the incident to the independent office for police conduct saying the video looks very concerning so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after chains make a statement thanks for watching but that. is the government the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still

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