went on to become a target of the hindu for policy in search of india so i'll just 0. it was a pioneer of the us civil rights movement congressman john lewis dies at the age of 80. kim burrell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up federal agents in the u.s. city of portland durak used to detain the better lives matter protesters without any explanation. fears of a further crackdown against civil rights in the significance as a new anti terror law comes into effect. if this is where and miles.

and taking to the airwaves classes in zimbabwe are held over the radio schools stay closed because of the growth of violence. we begin in the united states where congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was a titan of the civil rights movement alongside martin luther king jr and helped organize the historic 963 march on washington his death comes at a time of heightened racial tension in america black lives matter protesters who took to the streets after the death of george floyd have been violently suppressed by law enforcement civil rights groups is suing federal authorities the months of protests have seen statues toppled and police officers arrested and sacked now the confederate flag has effectively been banned from u.s. military sites to begin our coverage with this report from how did your castro looking back at the life of john lewis we can argue about that cannot you that.

we cannot give you. john lewis was born into the segregated world of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those signs that said white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of dr martin luther king jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something and i would ask my mother as my father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why racial discrimination it was the best way to is don't get in a way don't get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in selma alabama police cracked his skull

as he led a 600 marchers across a bridge want to montgomery but i don't think i know what it was at age 23 lewis was the youngest leader of the march on washington 2 years later president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act into law protecting black americans from discrimination at the polls the act would foreshadow lewis's own political career he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 1986 his consistent defense of human rights during his decades of service earning him the title the conscience of congress john r. lewis has dedicated in 2011 who has received the medal of freedom from barack obama the nation's 1st black president a moment lewis called amazing and unbelievable and in 2016 he was honored at the opening of the national museum of african-american history the museum lewis had proposed nearly 30 years prior but even then the statesman's work was not done

louis continued to champion liberal causes like universe. health care and the rights of undocumented immigrants will not be. remembered as both fiercely partisan toward his democratic party and fiercely independent louis's legacy is his bravery in the face of perceived injustice have this abiding faith that the things that us all right so good so necessary if you're willing to die for. you not a for all of freedom right now following his mentor martin luther king jr to his final rest john lewis was the last of the great civil rights leaders that shaped modern american history leaving another tall shadow for the next generation to fill . well tributes from across the political spectrum have been coming in said john

lewis former u.s. president barack obama said on twitter not many of us get to live to see our own legacy playoffs in such a meaningful remarkable way john lewis did. for us federal agents have used tear gas to disperse protesters in the city of portland comes amid accusations federal law enforcement have detained people with no explanation the state of oregon is filing a lawsuit against the use of federal agents during black lives matter protests portent vocal u.s. have the american civil liberties union has also filed a case of brand 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 loved bella needed surgery and is hospitalized in serious condition rob reynolds

al-jazeera as you mentioned the confederate flag has been effectively banned from u.s. military silence following months of anti racism protests defense secretary mark esp a says only flags which promote unity and respect and the authorized a confederate flag was flown during the civil war by breakaway southern states that wanted slavery to continue actually lower on sunday this is an assistant professor of african-american history at the university of dayton ohio she says not listing the confederate flag by name in the new policy sidesteps the wider issue. i think it definitely was a political move to rights of its well not dissent obviously within the military about the constant usage of the y. which has been a historic descent african-americans have complained about the use of the confederate flag in the military since at least world war 2 and the korean war where if who oversees actually among troops they don't want to upset trump i think

mentioning can better fly directly would have set off some sort of alarm bells when we just had the president earlier this week in last week defending people who were lying to better like saying that it was an issue of free speech not mentioning the confederate flag directly really sidesteps directly addressing with the confederate flag me it avoids a conversation about the history behind the flag with the better suit was this are still this lingering idea that it's heritage and not hate that you know people want to fly a confederate flag they're not flying it because they support white supremacy they're doing it because they're proud of their southern heritage how this argument is still floating let alone from the highest office in the united states in 2020 is beyond me i hear it is not he was very popular in his seventies eighties and nineties around the confederate flag is sort of allowed better like iconography to see it as long as it did i just don't think it's sustainable for anyone to hear the

confederacy with anything other than white supremacy the u.s. has recorded a 2nd consecutive day of more than 70000 corona virus infections death rows by more than 900 for the 4th day in a row the top infectious diseases experts have a faulty is edging everyone to use mosques the president donald trump says he won't force people by law. would you consider what you consider a national mandate that people need to wear masks and 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 disappears a doctor felt she said don't wear a mask or surgeon general to refer guys who 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 cause problems too with that being said i'm a believer in masks i think masks are good 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 citizenry 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. talks in the township cheeta is from the johns hopkins university school of medicine he 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 are 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 our 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 some coming to their own pressures from their own political leanings and others are not so ahead on al-jazeera the pandemic has exposed to massive corruption that's damaging public health and today. despite the deaths of protesters in mediation efforts the campaign to oust mollies president continue.

right there he's returned to west europe it's been in portugal for a few days as a heat wave warning actually people are enjoying it but inland that also means is that for much of europe has been a road more disappointing scene this passive crowd here which doesn't look very much has reduced temperatures so the heat is too in the southwest in seville is an example of that 36 is the average we're up to 40 but it is rather exclusive at the moment for example you've got 240 and 26 in london as an increasing sign but in vienna 2018 this whole area is to the influence of cooling wet weather some thunderstorms mainly just rain on the north but i think summers are can be seen to be returning the temperature is rising to 29 for example in paris 27 in berlin in north africa there's been a dust around this is what the orange sheen is is so in northern mali but the showers are more telling quite rights from the moment over at 30 pm south sudan the

really of as far north as bamako and almost up into the gambier's well now although it looks like the wettest is going to be saturday was sunday seeing the showers off shore they developed by day and they move very slowly it was so slowly from east to west. but. frank assessments tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result in poaching quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for diplomacy in a country that is not only disintegrating but he's reckoning the lady of the whole country inside story on al-jazeera. woo woo.

you're watching are just there are a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. congressman john lewis has died at the age of $88.00 was a pioneer of the civil rights movement and an organizer of the 963 march on washington who was head at onst progress accounts of. u.s. federal agents have used tear gas against protesters in the city of portland comes as federal law enforcement agents are being accused abstaining people without explanation during the blood spatter demonstrations. the u.s. has recorded a 2nd consecutive day of more than 70000 coronavirus actions deaths rose by more than 900 for the 4th day in a row president donald trump says he won't force americans to win mosques. let's

return now to our top story the death of congressman john lewis own fresh air has more on how he's being remembered well he's been described as a titan an icon a lion a giant the conscience of the house a huge row from both sides of the house starts how deep the feeling is for joy for john lewis you remember that it was the late last year that he and i used to that dance pancreatic cancer said this was perhaps the biggest fight they'd ever faced from a man who'd gone through what he'd gone through that was quite a statement he became a lion of the civil rights movement speaking out on many occasions and then served in the congress for year after year perhaps not. deeply involved in setting policy but certainly regarded as someone you would always test the water with before you advanced any sort of legislation his last public appearance was just a couple of weeks ago here in washington d.c. where he stood to on the new black lives matter mural which leads all the way to

the white house. and zimbabwe's schools have remained closed following an increase in corona virus cases for now children and poor households who don't have access to the internet are getting their lessons on the radio on the tulsa reports from harare. right. it wasn't easy for the students to make it on time for today's english lesson 1st the batteries in the radio died they parents put together what money they could to buy some all this english lesson is being taught over the radio instead of in the classroom because of the coronavirus pandemic but these learners complain they can't ask the lady to explain or repeat what they haven't understood they also miss the school teacher and there's plenty. of course did you need. to from. then to me it was under she teaches me. in there and there's tindall you. can get him to.

community leader kid at the mall for help when ever he can he says he feels frustrated that's a bobby's radio stations are parrot educational programs i think we need to be practical because this is very important more than playing music. is a better to give your preference to these students 1st than playing music online learning is largely restricted to a privileged few who attend private schools for children in poor and remote areas the internet is a luxury the infrastructure in terms of online products is still quite limited with online we are only maybe at the very much mum talking of the to percent of all in most in terms of the connectivity in terms of the guy just themselves because the telephone or the smartphone would be lost with a parent and most cases for sale in the rural areas and the cost also of the

connectivity is still quite high so already it is kind of. the number of cars in 1000 infections is rising in zimbabwe that's why government officials say schools won't reopen just hit alternative teaching methods allow children to learn without having to leave the safety of their home limiting their chances of catching or spreading the virus schools across the country closed in march to try and stop the spread of coronavirus countries around the world are trying to manage how and when to reopen schools zimbabwe is no exception some parents when the academic year canceled so children repeat classes when schools reopen but others say learn as must push on with the syllabus using whatever learning to say families can afford. al-jazeera. in bangladesh more than a dozen health workers have been arrested on charges of selling thousands of fake certificates claiming people are free of the disease corruption has only added to the challenge of fighting because that 19 outbreak of

a child has more from dhaka. bangladesh has increased the number of hospital to treat cope with 19 but despite the infections rising more than 2 thirds of the hospital beds are lying empty with people worried about the quality of treatment they would receive the government turned to the private sector to boost health care capacity but many private hospital were cold with 1000 cases are being treated do not have any credit monitoring and supervision to be sure that back in the room when you take i fully slum brought his father to a private hospital in the capital for treatment he was dismayed by what he found i mean the condition team of this in the office i took my father there thinking things will be better because it's a private hospital but once admitted we found the conditions are but most often even have any protective gear the hygienic condition was very poor they not only misdiagnosed my father but also charged us an exorbitant fee hospitals have been found to be operating without proper licenses labs providing fake test results and

pharmacies selling expired medicine in may this year 5 patients died in a blaze at a private hospital in dhaka fire department reported it violated safety standards and some senior officers have been charged with negligence you need to do my father in law died due to a gross negligence of the united hospital he was occurring on a gated patient yet they kept him in the isolation koren a ward located outside even though he died because of the fire incident at the hospital the presented us with a bill of a 1785 us dollars the next day saying you will get the medical reports after the payments are made. in another high profile case a private hospital owner and a government doctor where rested over there are alleged in. wildman in a covert 1000 testing stand. rigid hospital administrators signed an agreement with the government in march to turn it into a dedicated coroner by the us hospitals law enforcement agencies raided the care

center last week and sold it off some health care workers are charged with issuing fake 1930 pickets and illegally demanding money from patients bangladesh's health ministry didn't respond to i'll just request for an interview a recent transparency international bangladesh study revealed many health care facilities in the country are being operated without following government regulations. exposing corruption is becoming a challenge in bangladesh in recent months many journalists academics and doctors who spoke out about mismanagement in the health sector were detained by authorities under a digital security law critics say there's a growing climate of fear that will only impede the fight against coronavirus.

dhaka bangladesh the european union leaders remain deadlocked over coronavirus stimulus deal despite 40 knows of negotiations on friday ahead the 1st face to face meeting in months on the $858000000000.00 package is disagreement about the overall size of the funding and how it's distributed to. discussions in brussels are expected to go on for most of saturday. nominations have opened for candidates in hong kong's legislative council election in september pro-democracy groups say they face a major hurdle the government has the power to disqualify candidates because of their political views it's the 1st election since a new security law was opposed by beijing which critics say restricts freedoms brown has this update from hong kong. the picture behind me speaks of prosperity but it's also a picture that in many ways belies the mood right now here in hong kong and i would categorize that mood by being one of suffocation suffocation from the effects

of this new draconian national security law and also suffocation from the restrictions arising from covert 90 min mixed in with all of that we've also seen displays of the defiance on saturday as candidates begin submitting their nominations for those elections due to be held in exactly 50 days time on sunday september the 6 but not all candidates submitted their nominations on saturday especially those from the more radical wing of the pan democrats including people like joshua wong and lester shroom that's because at the moment the law in hong kong stipulates the people who want to stand for parliament have to swear allegiance to the basic law of hong kong as well as the government of the special administrative region of hong kong and these younger candidates quant can't quite sort of align themselves with that but of course it may not even come to that they

could be qualified in the disqualified in the days to come and the nomination period by the way runs for 2 weeks because some of these legislators would be legislators took part in protests in the legislative chamber and of course they also participated in that unofficial primary. election last weekend which saw more than 600000 people vote here in hong kong to decide who they would like to represent them in the democratic camps. and you add to tara laura stopping and forced in the philippines allows police to bypass the court system and arrest suspects without a warrant i could be held without trial to $24.00 days critics are concerned it will endangered civil liberties may be abused to target opponents of president puerto rico deter government. hadari an is a middle of based political scientist and author he says the definition of terrorism is very broad to begin with there are safeguards within 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 are supposed to ensure jew 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 instance in these 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 gives tremendous amount of rain to a quite an authoritarian leaning government this is what the critics are saying to to attack anyone as terrorists even if that person started being subverting state institutions. tension remains in mali even as diplomats from across the region

continue their efforts to reach an agreement on how the country should at least 12 people have died in demonstrations against president bush. and protest leaders describe mediation efforts as a total failure as nicholas hawke. prayers for the dead 15 year old isa my god died from a bullet in the head when security forces stormed the influential muslim cleric mahmoud decodes mosque in bamako outside 27 year old how is he was walking home when a stray bullet struck her in the stomach you said there when there's something about a bra 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 apologized and 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 a way out of the crisis for the well being of older people of mali but despite mediation efforts from the west african body ecowas 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 new elected national assembly dissolved. and they. all want to solve the problems but india did less. influence of the quote. unquote. 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 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 the millions half 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. continues to spread they say the future of mali is at stake because hawk al jazeera weekend rallies are planned in nigeria by women's rights activists condemning the increase in gender based on the coronavirus . the speaker of the jerries polman described rape as a pandemic during a visit by a woman from the movement against rape and sexual assault 36 nigerian states declared a state of emergency on sexual violence last month. and the crown prince of the united arab emirates is reportedly being investigated for his complicity in torture

in yemen the a.f.p. news agency says a french judge is looking into crimes by u.a.e. forces in yemeni prisons the proceedings name mohammed bin zayed as the commander in chief of the emirate forces. this is all just there are these the top stories u.s. congress congressman robert john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was a pioneer of the civil rights movement and an organizer of the 963 march on washington lewis had advanced pancreatic cancer ellen fisher has more on how lewis is being remembered well he's been described as a type i call him a lion a giant the conscience of the house a huge rope from both sides of the house starts how deep the feeling is for joy for john lewis you remember that it was leaked last year that he had no student

loans pancreatic cancer said this was perhaps the biggest fight ever faced from a man who'd gone through what he'd gone through that was quite a statement the confederate flag has been effectively banned from u.s. military science following months of protests against racism defense secretary mark says only flags that promote unity and respects and that authorized the confederate flag was flown during the u.s. civil war by breakaway southern states that want to slavery to continue. u.s. federal agents have used tear gas against protesters in the city of portland comes as federal law enforcement agents are being accused of detaining people without explanation during black lives mass demonstrations the state of oregon is filing a lawsuit against the use of federal agents. the u.s. has recorded more than 70000 coronavirus infections for a 2nd consecutive day deaths also rose by more than 900 for the 4th day in a row president donald trump says he won't force americans to wear masks. european

union the does remain deadlocked over a coronavirus stimulus deal despite 14 ells of negotiations on friday they had the 1st face to face meeting in months on the $858000000000.00 package is disagreement about the overall size of the funding and how it's distributed to all e.u. members the discussions in brussels are expected to go on for most of saturday nominations have opened for candidates in hong kong's legislative council election september pro-democracy groups say they face a major hurdle is the government has the power to disqualify candidates because of their political views it's the 1st election since a new security law was imposed by beijing there's the headlines more news here on al-jazeera right after inside story that's coming up next. counting the cost cold war true could the u.s. break come calling spread to the. currency shot turkey at war in libya and syria

and president putin hope to kick start the economy this yeah but how would he pay for his big plan. counting the cost on al-jazeera. taxes taxes taxes a group of millionaires edges governments to raise taxes to fund a coronavirus recovery they say charity is not the solution but will governments also buy a cool and how popular is this idea this is inside story. welcome to the program i'm laura kyle the coronavirus crisis seems to be spinning out of control day the world record its worst single day rise in infections almost a quarter of a 1000000 in just 24.