patito that. when i finally get the place to go home for these children and they see them become somebody. for themselves. to give me satisfaction. investigators from the international criminal court arrive in libya to look into whether the warlord. has committed war crimes. again peter will be here in doha you're watching al-jazeera also coming up in the next 30 minutes iran's president says more than a quarter of iranians 25000000 people may have been infected by coronavirus.

friends. time. united nations secretary general and highlights urgent global inequality especially in the wake of the virus pandemic. demanding justice protesters in france mark 4 years since the death of a young black man in police custody. investigators from the international criminal court have now arrived in the libyan capital tripoli to look into whether the forces loyal to the warlord have committed war crimes the 3 member team will investigate after this 14 month siege of tripoli mass graves and bodies were found in the city of tire last month his fighters left behind booby traps and improvised explosive devices south of tripoli after they

retreated. joins us live from tripoli actually started their investigation now. well peter the government of national accord seems to be trying to keep the investigators issue a low profile but meanwhile sources of the government say that the team the i.c.c. team is due to be transferred to several locations in southern tripoli to check the landmines it. planted but have to his forces namely by the russian mercenary wagner's and also in the city of to investigate the world crimes possible war crimes and crimes against humanity according to the government that includes the mass graves in the city of who now as you know peter that nearly 225 bodies were recovered by the government to put a medic's teams from the vicinity of the city after horn or from mass graves of by

that were created by have to his forces according to government or our sources those who were killed in the mass graves include. in his include civilians whole families when we reported that from the city of herat who are now sources with the government there say that whole families were and my elated but have to his forces they were kept in secret notorious prisons which we reported to. them they were murdered by half of his force and voted in their mass graves according to the government sources also the international criminal court was requested by the government to send a team to investigate the possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his forces also. including the besides their war crimes there also other crimes that were committed by have to us forces during the 14

month military campaign including targeting that is eventually areas where there are heavy weapons killing. hundreds of innocent civilians and also the targeting of state facilities including its ports and airports and also hospitals in tripoli during the 14 month battle that was launched by half the forces of the past year as you know peter that in the city of horner have those forces committed several types of work crimes including get beating get opponents to death and torture torture and get some innocent civilians to death including whole families as i mentioned my one thanks very much. correspondent in tripoli the iranian president hassan rouhani has said 25000000 iranians could have been infected by coronavirus that's more than a quarter of the population some of the 35000000 are at risk and the real figures

from the health ministry are far higher than the official number iran is the hardest hit country in the middle east. has no card to get favorable one of the most important matters is that here is to medical recommendations and social distancing to limit the spread of the corona virus according to the ministry of health estimates 25000000 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus so far and we have lost about $14000.00 of them within $150.00 days it is possible that $30.00 to $35000000.00 citizens are at risk to be infected in the coming period this means that the number of patients who will be hospitalized will double it is possible that the virus will continue until march. well to put that in context for you johns hopkins university which is tracking the pandemic puts the number of cases globally in just over 14000000 and says iran has more than 271000 confirmed infections and nearly 14000 from tehran here's in basra view on what those numbers

actually mean. we saw these numbers that he stated the 25000000 number during a meeting of his coronavirus task force this meeting comes on the day this alarming hard to believe number comes on the 1st day of return to lock down to a lockdown situation here in the capital tehran after we've seen a record number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks now in the hours since this meeting took place in the hours since the president made this statement about 25000000 people potentially infected number that he said could turn into 30 or 35000000 in the next few months there was clarification from the secretary of the science committee on his taskforce and this gentleman put out a statement saying that the number that mr rouhani was talking about reflects those who were tested and showed signs of having antibodies and those were people that

were potentially asymptomatic for the covert 19 virus and were not hospitalized he also made the point of illustrating that actual figures of infection and death that iran compiles that it then sends out to the world official confirmed figures those come from people who are hospitalized and are tested positive in swab tests for covert 19 coronavirus now what we see here the figure that mr rouhani is talking about perhaps a better word than infection is it's the total number of people that have been exposed in the country to the coronavirus now whether he misspoke or whether this was president hassan rouhani trying to fire a warning flare to illustrate iranians it remains a serious problem that they have to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously the point that the president made today either way is that iran has been and remains the worst affected country in the middle east. is

a physician and professor university in the. reliable data on infractions. yes dying to realize that many more people are affected and up so i didn't miss any of them are i symptomatic and the figures that we've been using to decide whether to have a lot down or relax locked down are rapidly changing and we still don't know even 7 months into this what the actual mortality is if you get infected it started off with an estimate of one percent pain the recent thing is a point 3 percent and it might go even lower so i think what we're seeing is not enough as research is being done we don't have accurate diagnosis you can't policy with that accurate data and now early all it's reasonable to use your best guess is your best estimate but right now we really should be doing research in countries

like iran to better understand how to fight at least disease needs how contagious and something then we can decide what what where are the costs of law down up with the or whether we should be increasing the coronavirus pandemic has laid the inequalities around the world and exposed the vulnerable suffer 1st and worst in times of crisis so says the u.n. secretary general antonio terror in a speech to mark the birthday of nelson mandela. diplomatic get us a james bays is at the u.n. james what did he have to say it was a wide ranging speech the u.n. are describing as a landmark speech and those close to the secretary general is saying to me they believe this is the most passionate strongest speech the secretary general has made so far he talks about the pandemic he talks about global inequality he

talks about wider issues for example climate the digital economy gender in the light to me to race in the light of black lies massa and some of the things he's said going to be controversial. 19 has been likened to a next ray revealing fractures in the franchise skeleton of the societies we have built is exposing fallacy is now fossils everywhere the lie that free markets can believe or else care for all the fiction that end bade good work is not work the delusion that we live in a post racist will the meat if we are all in the same boat is because while we are all floating on the same seat it is clear that somebody in super yachts with others clinging to the 15 degree. clearly in many of the countries around the world where people are watching there are many who believe that the

market is king and that in some ways has been questioned by the secretary general i think that reference to educate to health care and private health care in the speech will be controversial given what a hot issue that is in the us system at the time of an election campaign that's currently underway i also think some of the comments he's made about the international system and the u.n. which he is the secretary general of saying that the victors of world war 2 still have the key roles in the system and that needs to change that again is going to be controversial the secretary general though i think feels that he is able to make these comments because he's not specifically quest questioned or criticized any one country it is all more broadly about the shape of the global system and how this shape of the global system has to change he says we are at breaking point now james

thanks very much james bay is a diplomatic go to serve there at the u.n. headquarters in new york. one of america's most famous civil rights activists congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was among the last surviving pioneers of the movement during the 1960 s. hided joe castro looks back at his life and legacy we can i give up rick can i give out. 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 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 but. i don't 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. so health care and the rights of undocumented immigrants will not be. never. 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 fair. john lewis who died at the age of

8 still to come here on the program prosecutors from soap and also an investigation after a fire damaged a 15th century cathedral in rome. it. also had taking to the airwaves classes in zimbabwe are held over the radio a school stay closed because of the coronavirus. and some more heavy rain in the forecast across central and eastern areas of china plenty of cloudy can see here on the satellite holes a few more showers across into areas of japan but some very heavy rain working its way quite quickly across much of the korean peninsula all of this is tied to the seasonal rains training right there back towards a sichuan province it will stay in this sort of a city as

a go through monday but the rains becoming even heavier some areas could pick up as much as $300.00 millimeters of rain of the next few days and generally we're looking about $175.00 millimeters but to the north of there is fine and dry and a warm day in beijing with a high of 33 degrees and then across into south asia plenty of activity here for the monsoon rains but of course into bangladesh it is not go to the stage where a 3rd of the country is actually underwater this is actually in northern bangladesh and of course there is more rain in the forecast little bit lighter on sunday the heavy rain is actually further to than all 3 in a poll working its way into b. town but really sunny back additions some very heavy amounts of rain and also the western gas particularly down into care of it kind of widespread pushing across into tunnel nodded as well and then on monday you can see these dark blue areas the yellow indicates again where the very heavy rains will be and generally get it will be in a poor and be time but still those rains very extensive right the way down towards the south.

for. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world here's sneeze and hero. you're watching al-jazeera my name's peter dhabi you're headlining stories

investigators from the international criminal court have now arrived in the libyan capital to look into whether forces loyal to the warlord after have committed war crimes mass graves and booby traps were found in the city of tarhouni last month. iran's president says 25000000 iranians could have been infected with coronavirus that's more than a quarter of the entire population rouhani also says another 35000000 are at risk. u.s. congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was a pioneer of the civil rights movement and an organizer of the 1963 march on washington. u.s. federal agents have used tear gas to disperse protesters in portland oregon it comes amid accusations that 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 in portland local units of the american civil liberties union has also filed its own case. a protest march is underway in northern in

a northern french town in memory of a young black man who died in police custody 4 years ago adama tree already was arrested on his birthday after running away from police officers who approached him for an id tag but hours later he was declared dead nobody has ever been convicted over his death and several autopsies contradicted each other more now from natasha butler who's at that rally. thousands of people have joined this protest calling for justice for adam or for a young frenchman of modern heritage who died while in police custody whom he is against his family to kill his sister axa to always become a bit of a simple enough to get head against police file and i've always maintained that i demurred died because of the actions of police officers however police officer who was there that a majority had died of natural circumstances they're being investigated and put some points over the years but without any clear and definite conclusions was the

tourist says that she will continue her campaign but there's little doubt that this campaign is really throwing the spotlight once again on police violence and from police in france have a history of abusive arrests and the country's worst john says that if you are applicable north african origin you want to be 20 times more likely than others to be stopped and checked by police and for those people who've come here they've said such discrimination just ahead and. the president of the european council has offered a compromise to break a deadlock over a coronavirus economic recovery fund shall michel's revise the amount paid out in grants to countries needing help to punch back from lockdowns e.u. leaders on the go seating now for a 2nd day after 14 hours of talks on friday failed to make a breakthrough well they divided over an overall proposed $850000000000.00 coronavirus recovery fund the main question is whether and how much should be handed out as grants or as loans be used for biggest economies france germany italy

and spain what most of the money to be paid as a grant but the leaders of the netherlands austria denmark and sweden to. a more frugal approach pressing for smaller grants and loans hungary meanwhile and poland as well object to the proposal being tied to democratic rights from london his not in on the developments out of brussels. one of the main players is the dutch prime minister mark return he said late on friday that the talks have got increasingly grumpy but he did say that he wasn't completely pessimistic you were outlining his alloys sweden denmark and austria's the so-called frugal for at least in the english language journalism they want fewer direct grants to the countries which are going to get the lion's share of this recovery fund the hardest hit countries

like spain and italy on the southern perimeter of the european union they want more loans and they want strings attached mark ritter on friday said this and it's quite strong that he's the southern partners should not drag their feet on reform that's labor market reform to make sure next time when for whatever reason there is a crisis again economic or otherwise countries are better able to take care of themselves president mccraw and chancellor merkel of germany trying to urge solidarity it hasn't worked so far but earlier on saturday shalmi shelvey head of the european council hosting this meeting came back with new figures and a new idea he says that if they did agree this this fund then there would be a super emergency break as they're calling it giving any member state out of the 27 the write a 3 day window to trigger a review by all of the other states of a particular country's recovery plan real in-depth oversight which is going to

prove controversial such ideas have in the past of course let's remember how greece felt it was dealt with over its budgets when it was applying for bailouts. the streets of barcelona are all but deserted after cinemas theaters and night clubs were closed to slow the spread of coronavirus hundreds of new cases have been detected mainly in catalonia and aragon the government's urging everyone to stay home for at least the next 2 weeks with gatherings restricted to 10 people the virus is linked to more than 20000 deaths across spain. children in zimbabwe who are missing school because of the virus and the restrictions that have gone with it are still able to do their lessons by tuning in to the radio classrooms remain closed because of the increasing infections of the home schooling broadcast help poor households which aren't connected to the internet or a metasearch is in 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 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 she did you just need. to from. them to me it was and she teaches me for. one day and instantly. we 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 power 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 our 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 our listeners in terms of the connectivity in terms of the guy just themselves because the telephone or the smartphone wouldn't be lost to the parent and most cases especially 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 in 1000 fictions is rising in zimbabwe that's why government officials say schools won't reopen just get alternative teaching methods allow children to learn without having to leave the safety of their home limiting the challenges of catching or spreading the virus schools across the country closed in march to try and stop the threat 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 cancelled so children repeat classes when schools reopen but other say learn is must push on with the syllabus easing whatever learning to say families can afford how demitasse . opposition leaders in mali see international mediation efforts to solve the political crisis there are a total failure quotes for personals from a delegation from the west african bloc ecowas include president. remaining in power protest is accused of abuse pardon me accuse him of abusing his power and assist he must insist he must quit at least 12 mali and were killed in 3 days of violent demonstrations this week tens of thousands of protesters in the far east of russia rallying against the arrest of a popular governor. governor of cover

osc region was arrested last week and flown to moscow he's accused of plotting the murders of his business rivals 15 years ago supporters in his home regions of the accusations are politically motivated iran has sent the black box flight recorders from january's ukrainian aircraft crash to france to be analyzed the boeing 737 was shot down by an iranian missile killing all 176 people on board iran later did acknowledge what it called a disastrous mistake a few days ago miscommunication and faulty equipment were blamed. a new anti terrorism laws come into force in the philippines critics are concerned it endangers civil liberties and may be abused to target opponents of the president roderigo to his government legislation allows police to bypass the court system so they can arrest suspects without a warrant they can be held for 3 weeks $24.00 days without charge which it is a manila based political scientist and author he says the definition of terrorism

here in this law 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 deem certain exercises of civil and political rights as posing 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 to add to tag anyone as terrorists even if that person started being subverting state institutions flooding in central china has forced nearly 30000 people from their

homes days of done ports of hit a province cities of flooded and thousands of homes are submerged soldiers joined rescue workers to help victims and assess the damage with a full cost as one more terentia is on the way. let's just say he lives in france because a cathedral that has caught caught fire what you're looking at just stacks from the french governments of course is just 15 months after the devastating blaze in paris as you can see there mr castro acts the prime minister as the fire is now under control he's been meeting with emergency response teams there harding sums up for us what happened to the cathedral just over the past 24 hours or so. the cathedral of st peter and st paul in not in flames more than 100 firefighters were deployed on saturday morning hours later thick plumes of smoke were still rising from the building president emanuel called the church

a gothic jewel. the fire started in 3 spots i can confirm to you i saw it with my own eyes inside the cathedral the prosecutor spoke a while ago saying that an investigation was going to be opened i think it subjectively too soon to come up with conclusions having spoken to the teams who were on site there reporting a certain number of analyses. just 15 months ago the fire came close to destroying the paris fire reports suggest not cathedral wasn't nearly as badly damaged. the fire came as a surprise given concrete beams were used to replace wooden temporaries destroyed in a previous fire partly as a precaution against another believed hardy al-jazeera. recapping our top stories for you so far today here on al-jazeera investigators

from the i.c.c. have now arrived in the libyan capital tripoli to look into whether forces loyal to the warlord. of committed war crimes mass graves and booby traps were found in the city of tire last month. iran's president says 25000000 iranians could have been infected with corona virus that's more than a quarter of the entire population has some rouhani also says another 35000000 are at risk. the u.n. secretary general antonio tara she has given an impassioned speech to mark the birthday of nelson mandela he said the virus pandemic had laid bare inequality around the world. 19 has been likened to an extra 8 revealing fractures in the french and skeleton societies we have built is exposing fallacy is not fossils everywhere the lie that free markets can believe or else care for all the fiction that bade good work is not work the illusion that we live in

a post races while the meat we are all in the same boat is because while we are offloading on the same seat it is clear that somebody in super yacht's with others and in the 15 degree the president of the european council has offered a compromise to break a deadlock over a coronavirus economic recovery fund era leaders are negotiating for a 2nd day after 14 hours of talks on friday failed to find a breakthrough a protest marches underway in a northern french town in memory of adama tree henri a young black man who died in police custody 4 years ago nobody has been convicted over his death and several post-mortems of contradict each other. u.s. congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was a pioneer of the civil rights movement turns an organizer of the 1963 march on washington. mr santa maria will keep you company from the 15 g. news i'll see you tomorrow up next the bottom line. this is the rose here it's

a report on the people often ignored but who must be hurt how many other channels can you say will take their time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global events about our past lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like palestine. and region and so many others you go to them to make up for we care. i am steve clemons and i have a question whether coronavirus pandemic be the tipping point that takes us in to years of joblessness and poverty let's get to the bottom line. when we look around we see a lot of people who can't find work and a lot of businesses that have gone bust but there are some winners out there it seems like the financial markets are always winning at least from my vantage point economists usually say that they saw what was coming after the fact there are

always rationalizations for the ups and downs of markets or of jobless rates of consumer and business confidence but let's take a look at the big.