current affairs that matter to you. the. storytelling the biggest issues. to do with. it was a pioneer of the us civil rights movement congressman john lewis dies at the age of 80. 1 can but al this is all just there a lot from dalhart also coming up federal agents in the u.s. city of portland are accused of detaining black lives matter protesters without any explanation. and miles are. taking to the airwaves classes in zimbabwe held over the radio school stay closed because of

coronavirus. and fire rages through the historic unarmed cathedral in western france that dates back to the 15th century. 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 lives matter protesters who took to the streets after the death of george floyd have been violently suppressed the norm for spent civil rights groups 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 we begin our coverage with this report from how did your castro

looking back at the life of john that. we cannot give up. 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 lines that 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 asked my father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why racial discrimination it was the best way it 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 $600.00 marchers across a bridge to montgomery would. never 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 as did it 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 lewis'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

. tributes from across the political spectrum have been coming in for john lewis former us president barack obama said on twitter not many of us get to live to see our own legacy playoffs and sell to meaningful remarkable way john lewis did it. well the fight for equality then there was continue to protest as important were met with federal agents and take us it 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 backlogs matta protests and portent the local unit of the american civil liberties union has also filed a case of brenham to parents. 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 wolfe 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 i mentioned the confederate flag has been effectively banned from u.s. military sites following months of anti racism protests defense secretary mark esp a says only facts which promote unity and respect and now authorize the confederate flag was flown during the civil war by breakaway southern states that want to slavery to continue. actually know inside this is an assistant professor of african-american history at the university of dayton in ohio she says not listing the confederate flag by name a new policy sign steps the wider issue. i think it actually was a political move to try to say well this isn't ababa leave 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 you will 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 here and cajun not eat that you know if 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's not he was very popular in his seventies eighties and nineties around the confederate flag i 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. protestors have tried to tear down the statue honoring christopher columbus and the u.s. city of chicago protesters scuffled with police on friday as they tried to bring down the structure which the city had previously covered in plastic i think 4 people injured columbus is known as the 1st european to make contact with the americas that is associated with the colonize ation of the regions to just people. the u.s. has recorded a 2nd consecutive day of more than 70000 corona virus infections deaths rose by more than 900 for the 4th day in a row president donald trump says he won't force people to wear masks. 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 disappears

a doctor about you said don't wear a mask or surgeon general terrific guy said don't worry i'm a risk everybody was saying don't worry mask all of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask and as you know mask those problems too with that being said i'm a believer in masks i think masks are good. but all the health organization says brazil's corona virus infection right appears to have plateaued and should seize the opportunity to drive it down the country remains the epicenter of the pandemic in latin america is no say in human reports is growing criticism of the way governments across the region have handled the outbreak. in the ignition to to give out a hospital in many guy doctors fight to keep critical care patients alive unlike the city of rio de janeiro in much of real state coronavirus 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 years 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 the w.h.o. is beginning to see the glass half full saying that infections are plateau ing 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 kovan 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. for the 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 it has them up what's killing us is not the virus it's 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. still ahead on al-jazeera. shows that despite the high turnout last month protests across the u.s. did not spread the virus and. the pandemic has exposed massive corruption that

is damaging public health in bangladesh. and some or all the heavy rain in the 4 calls across more south eastern areas over a year you can see the can very clearly here and there very precious sitting in spreading across the entire regions and all the heavy downpours in the 4 calls however a little bit better into the northeast of and then this is a rather pleasant sunset but i have to say that cadigan say it's beginning to accumulate a little bit more than that a me walk across into lithuania some very nice sunshine these children cooling down and these fountains now 1st of all across the u.k. there is more rain across is the tickle region that will sing south as we go through the weekend damages not see bad on saturday but there's quite a change on sunday meanwhile the rain pushing across into southern areas of norway and then to areas that system across the southeast it really is quite

a cloudy picture through much of central europe sunny warm out across the southwest and then through sunday that front sings southwards taking the cloud the rain with it a look at that drop in temperature for london meanwhile rather more unsettled through denmark and across into scandinavia and the shadows as well all the way from the coastal areas of poland right there down towards the south these when you put the temperatures on you can see why is it a bit cold across the north and the northwest warm elsewhere all say we've got a slight warming trend in the next few days london not too bad probably one of the better spot says power. an image change the way we ask if we're not seeing. well you could be talking about it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created this moment for a photo opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story but this clips and the talking points look pretty i don't

suppose it can forge a narrative or rewrite from the listening post gives you the full picture on a. world . either in can value watching al-jazeera or reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. congressman john lewis has died at the gage 80 he was a pioneer of the civil rights movement and organizer of the 1963 march on washington who was had advanced and had cancer. u.s. federal agents have used tear gas against protesters in the city of portland it comes as federal law enforcement agents a big queues to detain people without explanation during buck lives matter

demonstrations. u.s. has recorded a 2nd consecutive day of more than 70000 coronavirus of fiction deathstroke spying more than 900 for the 4th day in iraq president donald trump says he won't force americans to wear masks. let's go by top story now the death of congressman john lewis ellen fisher 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 that's how deep the feeling is for joy for john lewis you remember that it was the late last year that he announced to the fans pancreatic cancer said this was perhaps the biggest fight they'd ever face from a man who had 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 said in the congress for year after year perhaps not deeply involved in setting policy but

certainly regarded as someone you would always 'd 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. the month of june so huge protests across the u.s. against police brutality these mass gathering spot fairs apiarist serjeant's of coronavirus but in many big cities like new york that hasn't happened gabrielle elizondo 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 corona virus 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 code 1000 in any particular city the population of the study was coauthored by 5 economists and examined government kovac 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 why you may have a 10020030000 person protest the cities that they're happening in are 500001 ww 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 were masks and all the protests were held out doors both factors health experts say. transmission rates down so while the protest did it dance the cause of social justice there's little indication that they also advanced the spread of a pandemic gabriels on don't al-jazeera new york. european union leaders are having a 2nd day of talks aimed at breaking the deadlock over the coronavirus stimulus

deal 14 hours of negotiations in brussels on friday failed to find a breakthrough on the 858000000000 dollars proposal is disagreement about the overall size of the funding and how it's distributed to all 80 amendments. in zimbabwe schools have remained closed following an increase in coronavirus cases for now children and poor households who don't have access to the internet getting their lessons on the radio reports from. 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 their 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 as gently. as he did you just need. to

form. them to me was and if 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. it's a better to give your preference to the 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 that to percent of all or 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 with this kind of. the number of cars with 1000 infections is rising in zimbabwe that's why government officials say schools won't reopen just sit alternative teaching methods allow children to learn without having to leave the safety of the 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 other say learn as must push on with the syllabus using whatever learning tools they 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 coronavirus corruption has only added to the challenge of fighting the covert 19 hour break to have a child who has more from dr. bangladesh's 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 turn to the private sector to boost health care capacity but many private hospital were told me 1000 cases are being treated do not have any credit monitoring and supervision to be sure that i got into the room how many attacks i fully slum brought his father to a private hospital in the capital for treatment he was dismayed by what he found i mean didn't even think of 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 bad most staff didn't even have any protective gear for hygiene the condition was very poor they not only misdiagnosed my father but also charged us an example in 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 a colonel in a gated patient yet they kept him in the isolation career in a ward located outside even though he died because of the fire incident at the hospital the presented us with a bill of a $1785.00 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 their alleged involvement in a covert 1000 testing scam. religion the hospital administrator 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 pick and illegally demanding money from patients bangladesh's health ministry didn't respond to all just a 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 corona virus 2000 dhaka bangladesh flooding in central china has forced nearly 30000 people from their homes days of downpours have had province soldiers joined rescue workers to help victims and assess the damage weather forecasters warn more torrential rain is on the way. tension remains in mali even as diplomats from across the region continue their efforts to reach an agreement on how the country should be run at least 12 people have died in demonstrations against president abraham because and protest leaders describe mediation efforts as a total thing has nicolas. 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 is it to you said that about of the way they were killed was barbaric because 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 group. 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 is 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 newly elected national assembly dissolved. and they.

want to solve the problems but india did was. 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 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. continues to spread they say the future of mali

is at stake because hawk al jazeera dozens of firefighters are battling a blaze that an ancient cathedral in western france the fire began almost 3 hours ago in the cathedral of st peter and st paul an old and 5 devastated over say the long term cathedral in paris 15 months ago. these are the top stories u.s. congressman john lewis is dies at the age of 80 he was a pioneer of the civil rights movement and an organizer of the 1963 march on washington there was had advanced pancreatic cancer ellen fisher has more hello being remembered. well he's been described as a type 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 ever faced from a man who'd gone through what he'd gone through that was quite a statement u.s. federal police have used tear gas against protesters in the city of portland comes as federal law enforcement agents and the accused of detaining people without explanation during black lives matter demonstrations the state of oregon is filing a lawsuit against the use of federal agents. the confederate flag has been effectively banned from u.s. military sites following months of protests against racism defense secretary mark as poses only flags that promote unity and respects a now authorized. the u.s. has recorded more than 70000 corona virus infections for a 2nd consecutive day deaths also rose by more than 900 for the 4th day in a vote president donald trump says he won't force americans to wear masks. european

union leaders are having a 2nd day of talks aimed at breaking the deadlock over their coronavirus stimulus deal 14 hours of negotiations in brussels on friday failed to find a breakthrough on the 858000000000 dollars proposal there's disagreement about the overall size of the funding and how it's distributed to all members. flooding in central china has forced nearly 30000 people from their homes days of damp was a hit province where the 4 conses one more torrential rain is on the way. and dozens of firefighters are battling a blaze at an engine cathedral in western france the 5 began almost 3 hours ago in the 600 year old cathedral of st peter and st paul and it's a 15 month since fire devastated not john cathedral in paris more news here and i'll just are off to the listening post.

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