you seem to grady bridge to be just a really deep hole with all continues inside story on al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thanks for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes 3 european nations threatened sanctions against foreign governments over repeated violations of a u.n. arms embargo in libya. 25000000 people infected millions more at risk iran's president warns this country's fight with coronavirus is far from over imo they should show strength drug cartel fighters flex their muscles as the mexican

president hits town and the u.s. congress loses a man described as its conscience john lewis the civil rights hero who shared a dream with martin luther king dies aged 18. and for italy with hamilton clinches pole position for the hung garion grand prix and defending for realign world champion will start at the front of the grid for the 90th time in his career. france germany and italy have threatened to use sanctions against countries that continue to violate a united nations arms embargo on libya the embargo came into effect in february but has been routinely flouted by both sides of the conflict meanwhile investigators

from the international criminal court are in libya's capital tripoli to look at. the weather forces loyal to warlord a half that have committed war crimes the 3 member team is expected to visit mass graves found in thought who now which is 60 kilometers south east of tripoli last month's the i.c.c. team says it's received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing men women and children. it's 9 years since the un security council unanimously referred reports of atrocities in libya to the i.c.c. here's mark would have been where he'd from tripoli with more details on the investigation. the government so far seems to be reluctant in revealing the details about the team's. details exactly but we know from sources with the government of national accord nearly $225.00

bodies have been recovered from the mass graves around the city of horner and also loss of the secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that in the past few weeks about the secret prisons where half the opponents including civilians in women were tortured and murdered and voted in the mass graves that's according to eyewitnesses government officials and local officials from the city of warner along with medical sources now the team is also due to visit several areas in southern typically to check the areas where a land mines were planted in civilian areas specially those if you like ns are neighborhood insular dean and also in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport these areas were like 2 or a bettle field during the military campaign civilian areas had. land mines were planted by helped us forces namely by the russian mercenaries from the bag group

and they killed dozens of innocent civilians who were impatient to return home immediately after the end of the fighting. meanwhile the internationally recognized government forces of moved closer to the city of see if the gateway to libya's main oil terminals the government of national accord says it is planning to recapture the area from the eastern based libyan national army witnesses in g.n.a.t. forces say about $200.00 vehicles moved east towards from ms that atta along the mediterranean coast towards the town of poetica the g.n.a.t. has recently recaptured most of the territory held by the l n a in northwest libya ending warlords have tartus 14 month campaign to take the capital tripoli where 3 e.u. nations if we were saying have put out a joint statement calling for an end to overseas interference in libya the leaders of france germany and italy say we urge all foreign actors to end their increasing

interference and to fully respect the arms of bargo established by the united nations security council we are ready to consider the possible use of sanctions should breaches to the embargo occur at sea on land or in the air continue. jason pak is president of consultancy firm libya analysis center nonresident fellow at the middle east institute he joins us now via skype from mit to chen in new jersey sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so in the past few hours we've had news of these 3 european countries who were meeting at the european council for something else but coming with this joint statement about enforcing the arms embargo that everyone seems to have flouted really when it comes to libya do you see this as a turning point any reason why people should listen to this embargo or the statement now when previous ones have been ignored. sadly there's no reason to

believe that this will be different in your maiden package you mentioned that the embargo had been in place since february it's actually been in place since 2011. what happened in january was the berlin conference whereby all of the main international players pledged to respect the embargo but because there was no one force meant the delivery of arms has increased and in fact we have every reason to believe that on the wake of this statement the turks and the russians will dispatch more mercenaries and more arms will flow into the country because there hasn't been a credible threat of sanctions and real action so if we see credible sanctions being put forward in naming and shaming then this could be a turning point if it comes at the same time were similar time as investigators from the international criminal court are actually in libya and they're looking while they're investing gating into potential war crimes committed by forces. have tad i mean what do you make of that i suppose any potential. you know any potential

effect that could come from the investigation but the fact that the i.c.c. are there in the 1st place i'm very happy that you're making that linkage because yes it is the ability to detect humanitarian work crimes that could allow a blanket sanctions that could unite the players for a kind of arms embargo sanctions that could change the military conflict so when turkey or not thurl on june 5th to jenae align forces they noticed that l. in a huff to align forces specifically the kani out militia had. had a kind of mass grave with more than 200 bodies and they had heat of the news where prisoners who were empty how far were boiled of burned alive really gruesome stuff and you know that caught media attention for a few days but then there was no follow up and of course it would be a their big mess human rights violations on both sides but now was the time that we

were able to forensically determine who did this that real teeth are put into these sanctions and people are angry enough to change the situation on the ground i mean you mentioned changing the situation on the ground i mean we've seen libya become a proxy war for many regional and international powers as well what do you think would need to happen for i guess either the powers to respect of the embargo or maybe some kind of negotiation between the 2 warring sides but we live in a new phase internationally which i call the global enduring disorder and there is no universal leader troops america has ceded international leadership and therefore there's no reason that the russians or the turks of the immoralities would magically wake up and say oh i'm going to all of a sudden respect the arms embargo you know it's in their interests to not respect the arms embargo we need a coalition of actors probably led by the europeans to actually deploy real

sanctions and threats and drive people to the negotiating table if there's not a mutually hurting stalemate the actors won't come to talk peace and that mutually hurting stalemate needs to be imposed so i hope people could grow a pair and actually make concrete threats we'll see if that happens in the coming weeks and months jason pack president of consultancy firm libya and alice's thank you thank you. coming up on al-jazeera this news hour the high price of health why many bangladeshi hospital beds are lying empty despite a worsening pandemic french protesters marched to remember a young black man who died in police custody his family continue their campaign for truth and in sport to indy car drivers walk away unharmed from this airborne crash fire will be here with that story and more.

for the 2nd day in a row the world health organization has reported a record single day jump in global corona virus infections in the past 24 hour reporting period worldwide infections rose by nearly 260000 the biggest increases were in the united states brazil india and south africa and the w.h.o. also reported more than $7300.00 new deaths the biggest daily increase since maintained. well meanwhile iran's president hassan rouhani says that 25000000 people more than a quarter of iran's population have been infected with corona virus in a televised speech on saturday he said another 35000000 or risk of infection iran has officially reported about 271000 cases but when his office says his much higher figures are based on research estimates by the health ministry further restrictions

are being forced in the capital tehran and elsewhere after a surge in new cases the virus has killed nearly 14000 the reagans same bus driver he is in tehran for us with more on president rouhani statement. 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 hour 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 he 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 repeatable that were potentially asymptomatic for the covert 19 virus and were not hospitalized he also made the point of illustrating the 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 the covert $900.00 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 said yes must show us is an associate professor in cellular and molecular sciences at northumbria university he says the accuracy of antibody tests and be questionable. we've known from the 1st few weeks when people started putting the availability of antibody tests that out these are not necessarily precise enough to be able to tell apart the 4 common flu coronaviruses from the covered 19 virus and as a result of that having not seen what exactly the techniques used in iran are accomplished the comment on whether or not about 25000000 is an overestimation a lot but based on what we've seen in the rest of the world. we've we we have a prevalence of that this is of no more than 5 percent of the population being exposed i would hazard that this number is perhaps a little bit exaggerated a bit not necessarily an overestimation there have been protests in tel aviv over

the government's handling of the pandemic there israel very imposed restrictions after researching cases last week demonstrators are also rallying against the economic situation with some demanding prime minister benjamin netanyahu resignation every fall such as more now from west jerusalem or separate protests have taken place. there are 2 simultaneous sizable protests going on one here in west jerusalem close to the prime minister's residence where we hearing reports of water cannon being used again of a large number of streets around the residence being sealed off in order to keep protesters away and as you say this other major protest intellivision there been small protests throughout the country there are those who are protesting as part of a long term campaign against benjamin netanyahu on the grounds of wanting to get rid of a prime minister who's also facing trial on the trial in 3 corruption cases that

the numbers have been very much buttressed and swollen by people who are protesting against the economic fallout of the pandemic the protests in tel aviv. largely or at least they've been talked about as protesters from the communities of small business owners of restaurant owners because they feel that they are unduly bearing the burden of the shutdowns that have been taking place as you say the restrictions imposed last week further restrictions imposed just a couple of days ago including beaches to be closed from next week all non-essential shops and morals to be shut down during weekends gatherings restricted to 10 indoors and 20 in open spaces but they also plan to shut down all restaurants from 5 pm on friday there was a revolt from restaurant owners who said they'd already bought all of the perishable goods for this weekend the government reversed itself on that because it was afraid apparently of the kind of street protests and public disorder that could

have resulted from from that. after 2 days of negotiations e.u. leaders do not appear to be close to an agreement over a coronavirus economic recovery fund a compromise has been offered by the president of the european council to try to break the deadlock shows michelle had revised the amount paid out in grants to countries needing help to bounce back from lockdowns al-jazeera is then following developments from london. well we have seen concessions on saturday to the so-called frugal for the netherlands sweden denmark and austria who'd been calling for less of this recovery fund to be in terms of grants and more in terms of loans shall michel the e.u. council president suggesting that the grants section could be reduced from $560000000000.00 to $500000000000.00 another call from

particularly from the netherlands was any country could effectively have a veto over the particular member states covered recovery spending plans something that is very worrying really for the likes of spain and italy who are likely to be the big recipients of these funds michel there suggested that there could be what he's calling an emergency break a 3 day window where any member state could trigger a review by the e.u. 27 of the nation's plans and we heard from italy prime minister content who put out a video saying that things approve more complex than was 1st thought and that it reached an am pass and the e.u. the use commissioner for the budget commissioner you had his harness tweeting a solemn reminder as he put it to member states that the coronavirus was still around saying that it's high time to reach agreement which allows us to provide urgently needed support for us citizens in economies well not just vats but there's

the matter of the 7 year budget to agree on and that's really crucial because it will commit funds to things like the new green economy some countries have objected to an idea of allocating 30 percent of the total budget to meeting the carbon neutral target of 2050 poland who didn't sign up to that target wanted no reference to talk it just shows how many complex issues there are and why it's no surprise that this whole process is dragging on. the u.n. secretary general and tony good pettish has said the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world to breaking point exposing deep divisions in societies across the globe he made the comments during a speech marking then nelson mandela international big our diplomatic editor james bays spoke to him earlier. in your speech secretary-general you describe a world out of balance you say we are at breaking point it is an idealistic speech

but you are a realist how do you achieve the things that you want to achieve now my believe is that people. now aware of the enormous fragility of our world of our economies and of our societies for she with the addition to a microscopic virus that our sport that has put us on our knees for as you know the nation to climate change visualisation to lawlessness in the cyber space for deliberation to the new risks of nuclear proliferation again and my hope is that people will understand that when recovering when taking profits or the opportunity that of course after the coffee we need to restart when recovering people will be aware of the need to address the fragility that have caused the chaos that we have in today's world with the government and that requires fighting inequalities that require active climate action that requires international cooperation on the digital space that requires

a in the end much stronger unity and solidarity in the way international relations are conceived well it's not obvious that we are going to win this battle we see also nationalists we see populist we see people trying to use the convience. to. racism and xenophobia to the 5 but my feeling is that if one looks at the world populace are not doing well fighting the culverts and i hope people will understand that only by international cooperation and only by a very strong sense of sony that it would be able to not only overcome the call with but to build a system that addresses the fragility is there to cover those the most rated. mexican government officials are analyzing a video showing dozens of gunmen and armored vehicles apparently belonging to a powerful drug cartel the video's release coincided with president lopez obrador his visit to 3 states where the cartel has

a stronghold john home and reports from mexico city. he's on its can government forces instead this video appears to show someone else's army. and men show saying the alias of the mess you'll also get a savant is the leader of the highly skilled new generation kauto a bit of these are going to be more of the video hasn't been authenticated but it showed up online just as the president under his men well lopez obrador was touring the group's heartland and it seemed to send a straightforward message this video showed the overwhelming arm strength. cartels have had which we could call vital law. law being is using violence against the state against government forces to push for their agenda which often means getting the government back off from going off to their. busting their

drugs and arrest in their lesson on saturday our phones will do russell mit's crew security minister tweeted this. there's no criminal group with the power to successfully challenge federal security forces and definitely not with this obviously staged video. but this cartels never been scared of attacking authorities about 3 weeks ago its crew city's police chief was shot up and blamed the group for the attempted hit. this late to show of force increases pressure on the government struggling to deal with going wolf and recall violence john homan al-jazeera mexico city. we can now speak to mike vigil he's the former chief of international operations the u.s. drug enforcement administration he joins us live now from albuquerque by skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera 1st of all what was your reaction when you saw this video emerge and to coincide of course with the

president lopez obrador is a visit to that region. well the fact of the matter is barbara that it didn't come as a shock to me because i'm very familiar with the current held at least going new generation and in their tactics this is a cartel that about a year ago not down mexican military helicopter with a rocket propelled grenade several months ago they ambushed a convoy of state police officers in the state of the truck i'm in kill or did he these officers and they executed the ones in survive on the side of the row so the correct tell is basically sending a message to not as old as the one who was visiting the state so why not want go colima in how these go out which are of the billy strongholds of this current general but not only do they operate in these 3 states they operate in about $27.00

of the $31.00 mexican states they aren't the most violent court al in the leader in a mess you know so you know senator biden who is called by his nickname and mentioned oh has literally transformed himself into not only a cartel leader but also to a drug war lord it's been interesting watching at the president's i guess policy when it comes to fighting the drug cartels whereas in the past obviously the military had been sent his policy is called hogs not bullets and his focus is social reform he thinks that that is how the government is going to try and control and potentially break drugs crime a what do you think of the policy and also has it been going. the policy barbara has totally plot it's not working and there is none confrontational

tactic that locus i would have thought has initiated has only empowered him bolden and caused these cartels to operate with even greater impunity so he's got to change this tactic the development of infrastructure in creating jobs you know creating opportunities for individuals is a good thing but that is a very long term project and the only thing that these court now else understand and i worked in mexico for 13 years is. force the understand force in if you're not willing to engage with them they will only become even more by 0 at last year in mexico we had $35000.00 homicides which was the highest number in the history of mexico this year the

1st 5 months we were up to $15000.00 homicides and a lot of those barbara got even go reported mexico is pockmarked with cemeteries and mark cemeteries and the government you know plays the number of homicides so you can see the level of violence there is basically mean the names around the republic of mexico of course mexico's i suppose the problem is partly strategic and geographical because it is in many ways you know that the shipment route for illegal drugs to go to the united states when it comes to the demand of illegal drugs and other things that can be done to try to control the cartels by stopping that the bad what do you think could and should be done there. well the thing is that we here in the united states have the greatest demand for illegal drugs so we need to educate are you we need to develop

better treatment facilities so that the demand goes down because if it's not mexico it's going to be another country and i don't look at this as a war on drugs this is going to be probably a permanent campaign against droughts in terms of mexico the united snakes state needs to develop a new more comprehensive strategy with the mexican government to combat the cartels they need to work with mexico to basically restructure not only the justice system but also the correctional system because of rampant corruption the other thing we need to do in mexico is to really bat and reconstitute the state and local police. agencies because they're endemic with corruption

and even the federal security forces will not work with them because of that corruption so there's many things that we can do but now is the time to do it and we need to change the direction of the strategy that is currently in place because if we don't do that mexico is only going to get worse in terms of violence and creating supersize cork outs like vigil former chief of international operations at the u.s. drug enforcement administration has also voted widely on the subject so thank you for sharing your expertise with us thank you barbara. still to come on al-jazeera this news hour back to school or maybe not the national argument that's dividing the u.s. what should children return to the classroom. fire damages another famous french church this time it's thought to have been deliberate and in sports one of

cricket's most high profile competitions that may be in need of a new home. and there are other caddy picture across the southeast of europe you can see this little swirl of cloud and it's not really moving very far at all and this will continue through some rather heavy amounts of rain quite a line of cloud as well streaming across northern areas and this is what looks like this across into the northeast of england up to sunderland so not a bad sunset the quite a lot of clouds up there and meanwhile across into lithuania very warm very sunny said these children enjoying cooling off in the fountains now across the u.k. this ash that line of things south has it'll take the rain with it push across towards denmark again into areas of scandinavia and then really just very unsettled

to the southeast some heaviest rain on it towards romania and then on in sumanda say that rain across the north that will work its way through germany and some heavier downpours across much of poland and again you can see that line of rain certainly impacting much of sweden but some clear skies out across the west and we put the time which is on you can see where the warm weather is not really very woman told across the northwest across scandinavia plenty of red coloring elsewhere some of the better weather of course in portugal and spain so madrid warm and sunny for the next few days it'll stay dr course as well in london not too bad clouding over pretty good in belin. what is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in 2008 al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see

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welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera france germany and italy have threatened to use sanctions against countries that continue to violate a united nations arms embargo on libya mexican government officials are analyzing a video showing dozens of gunmen and armored vehicles apparently belonging to a powerful drug cartel and iran's president has said rouhani says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population have now been infected with corona virus and 35000000 more. corruption and lack of resources are hampering efforts to fight the virus outbreak in bangladesh families of patients say treatments in some hospitals are too expensive and concerns about

conditions are being stifled kind of your child 3 reports from back. 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 turn to the private sector to boost health care capacity but many private hospital where cope with 1000 cases are being treated do not have any credit monitoring and supervision to be sure that back into the room when you. brought his father to a private hospital in the capital for treatment he was dismayed by what he found i mean if you think a team of this is 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 about most stuff didn't even have any protective gear the hygienic 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 occurring in a gated patient yet they kept him in the isolation career in our ward catered outside even though he died because of the fire incident at the hospital 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 there are alleged involvement in a covert 1000 testing scam. 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 sealed it off from 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 200

children i'll just 0 dhaka bangladesh u.s. president donald trump has tweeted to say he's saddened by the death of civil rights hero john lewis flags have been lowered to half staff in the capital in the owner of the late congressman several u.s. politicians including former president barack obama have paid tribute to mr lewis the 80 year old was the last survivor of the big 6 civil rights pioneers in america castro looks back at his life and legacy we cannot give up we cannot give out. we cannot give you. john lewis was born into the segregated world of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up but i are subtle signs that say 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 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 $600.00 marchers across a bridge to montgomery would. never know what he 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. 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. protesters in northern and northern french town have been marching to remember a young black man who died in police custody 4 years ago at the metro rail was arrested on his birthday after running away from officers who approached him for an id trick but hours later he was the clear dead nobody has been convicted over the death and several autopsies have contradicted each other at reports. in the paris suburb of paris saw thousands marched for justice for adam a troy a young frenchman of mali and heritage who died in police custody in 2016 police say he died of natural causes his family say officers caused his death for 4 years

his sister as a has campaigned for the truth i never thought we'd still be here after 4 years that i'd still be demanding truth and justice for 4 years we've suffered relentless pressure but it's made us into soldiers the black lives matter movement of protests against george floyd's death in the us have propelled atomised case back into the spotlight in france and made asser a figurehead for those fighting against racial injustice and police brutality to. make by a little brother's name a symbol to tell the world that our brothers have the right to live and that they have the right to help build this world and build france and their own lives people walk through streets knew where adam lived and where he died were not a matter or i was arrested he was taken to this police station when his family came to find out what had happened it was several hours before police officers told them

that he was dead france has a history of abusive arrests this week 3 police officers were charged for manslaughter in connection with the death of a delivery joy for in paris in january citric was of algerian origin his family says officer. held him down while he cried out that he couldn't breathe the charges are rare in france where police are often accused of acting with impunity police violence is something we experience all the time in our neighborhoods even if not directly ourselves we witness it all the time we've seen the similarities between george floyd and adam of its police violence infamy this is a moment to find it. in the march was organized on the 4th anniversary of adam is death a young life lost in circumstances that are still to be kyra point until they are you sister and her supporters won't give up will forget. al-jazeera passau.

tens of thousands of protesters are rallying against the arrest of a popular governor in the far east of russia. sergei forego the governor of a couple of screech and was arrested last week and flown to moscow he's accused of plotting the murders of his business 515 years ago supporters in his home region say the accusations are politically motivated. iran has sent the black boxes from a downed ukrainian airliner to france for analysis the boeing 737 was shot down by an iranian missile in january killing all 176 people on board tehran acknowledged it made a disastrous mistake in shooting down the plane assuming it was a hostile target iran's civil aviation aviation organization says miscommunication and faulty missile equipment or to blame french officials will start assessing the

flight recorders on monday. an arson investigation is underway after a fire at a cathedral in western france the fire began on saturday morning in the 600 year old building in the city of not hearting. 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 yard 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's objective lee too soon to come up with conclusions having spoken to the teams who are on site there reporting a certain number of analyses. just 15 months ago the fire came close to destroying

. in paris fire reports suggest cathedral wasn't nearly as badly damaged. the fire came as a surprise given concrete beams were used to replace wooden tempers destroyed in a previous fire partly as a precaution against another blaze. in the u.s. the new school year is approaching at the beta is raging over whether students should be allowed to go back to the classroom experts parents and politicians are split over a return to face to face lessons or virtual learning as rob reynolds reports now from los angeles. los angeles parent brenda del hero is helping her 10 year old daughter emma with school lessons online it's been kind of stressful just because i don't own i feel like with that more where i feel like

with that more work here than art school emma's mother says virtual learning is not ideal but she's against sending her daughter back to class the risk outweigh everything i can of my cat risk my kids getting sick or possibly getting somebody else or their teachers or vice versa on friday california governor gavin newsom laid out detailed guidelines for school reopening including mandatory mask wearing schools in counties with low numbers of cold cases and downward trends may reopen otherwise the school doors must remain closed schools that don't meet this requirement they must begin the school year this fall the distance learning school reopening has become a national political issue president donald trump says democrats are scheming to make him look bad and i think it's going to be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed no way so we're very much going to put pressure on

governors and everybody else to open the schools back in may house democrats approved 90000000000 dollars to support schools reopening safely but the republican senate has not approved that measure you know but when you make it about politics than just people trying to. score points and get elected i may not but i really think it is a disservice to how the credibly important this issue is the conservative dominated school board in orange county california recently voted to allow schools to fully reopen without masks or social distancing it's time to get these doors open and get these babies but the school board has no power to order schools to reopen that's a decision made by local school districts and so far the county's largest districts say they'll opt for virtual learning that los angeles and san diego schools will also use distance learning for students brenda del hero has

a message for trouble my kids are not getting pics i am not going to send my kid to school to see if they're going to get coated and to see if they're going to survive cope it an agonizing dilemma for parents teachers and kids now weaponized for political purposes robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour could these recycled russian pipelines provide europe with that few childress think high speed transport final qualifying for the 1st race of the motor g.p. season didn't go to plan for all the riders that far will be here with the sport next. plane a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis how many would have to die like this stock responses really for sale and investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia

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to the future now and the pioneering shape of things to come for intercity travel if engineers get it right instead of buying an air ticket why don't go by feel but not a traditional underground trains but speeding as fast as they are line or slow something called a high profile so fast and has the story from the netherlands. this old russian oil pipe in the middle of the dutch town of delft now has a futuristic function it's used as the 1st european test center for a whole new means of transportation the hyperloop a sort of tube train that can travel at the speed of an airliner well actually the 1st in the world it has been able to prove the special technologies and the next step is also to prove them at a higher speed entrepreneurial unmask received worldwide attention when he 1st

mentioned dipole open 2012 but a dutch company says its design is now the most advanced the idea has attracted the attention of one of the busiest airports in europe amsterdam's schiphol bajan having terminal station right next to the departure hall part of a larger european network another station pressure just board instead of an airplane a hard loop and go go it can go to berlin or london in just one hour talk. a recent study by state poll shows that 520-5012 1000000 passengers of the 73000000 predicted to fly between simple and european cities could travel by hyperloop this is how the hyperloop should work this cabin is connected to electromagnetic field so there's no resistance and it can't travel at extremely high speed inside this you know air pressure this could be our new means of transportation in a face for sure but for some

a little scary i mean. that's why the cabin is designed to make travelers as much at ease as possible traveling up to a 1000 kilometers an hour in a windowless jupe there's a very comfortable way of speeding up and slowing down the vehicle or you will feel almost nothing all that can we work around that is a very good question that some of the questions we do research on as well also the question whether or not passengers can use the toilet has yet to be answered train experts out of on hassles as predictions that travelers can use a hyperloop in the near future are far too optimistic. but that is all it's a fantasy that's all it's good to invest in research to find out if it's possible and to know what we can learn then that's fine but to say this is realistic i would say it's not absolutely not he suggests the netherlands to invest in existing

technology such as magnetic trains in stats which he says are cheaper to build and safer than atlanta aims to be the 1st to develop the hyperloop and plans to open in your opinion center in holland in the next year but the city's 3 kilometer test track will have to prove that the super fast international tube train is indeed the way to go step fasten al-jazeera that left. it's going to far now in doha for the sport. barbara thanks so much arsenal have beaten trophy holders magister city to reach the final of the f.a. cup 2 goals from. put arsenal through to the title decider for a record 21st time victory for the 13 time winners that wembley ended city's hopes of trophy treble up ordeal as team of already one league cup winner in the last 16 of the european champions league. on sunday man united played chelsea at the same venue in the 2nd semifinal both teams are aiming to win this trophy and also secure

a champions league spot. just one step away is at wembley so we just focused on that on the f.a. cup and the trophy of course that's must see for any player to win and any team to win so that's our main focus is always to get to the to the final and then we will get worse come and look at leicester after the atalanta mr chance to close the gap on italian league leaders eventis having gone one of the champions league quarter finalist were held to a $11.00 draw by hellas for owner the result leaves atalanta level on $71.00 points with 2nd place in turmoil an event as our 6 points clear at the top. leo messi has been back training with his teammates 2 days after he described the current barcelona side as weekend incapable of winning titles as he made the remarks after bar says fierce rivals around madrid secured the spanish league championship barcelona's coach says messi is right to say that things have to change if they are

to win their upcoming tie against napoli in the european champions league. it's true there are things that we agree on and other things that we don't it's normal that he's totally writes about it that if we play as badly as we have in some games we won't win anything but the reality is we've also had some very good moments this season and i believe we can go on and win the champions league. lewis hamilton has clinched pole position for the one gary and grand prix the defending formula one world champion will start at the front of the grid for the 90th time in his career . i found your mojo today. hamilton and his mercedes team a developed 3 boats has dominated the qualifying session in budapest canada's land stroll headed a racing point 2nd row alongside teammate sergio for us. being that it's a short season you don't have the choice to take your time so leave the go ahead

head has been during this period of time is to make sure you arrive at the 1st race as if you've already done multiple races and that's in terms of fitness in terms of focus and. the 1st race wasn't ideal but but i'm really happy with how these last 2 qualifying sticky have gone. and it was a record breaking day in spain as qualifying for the 1st race of the moto g.p.'s season took place france's fabio profit r.-o. smashed the last record at the harrah's circuit to take hope is ition for sunday's race he vetoed maverick event alice who will certain 2nd on the grid defending world champion mark mark has will race from 3rd this is the 1st most g.p. race any wants. again it is only major league baseball team the toronto blue jays won't be able to play their games in their own country due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus most games will be in the united states and canada as federal government says the amount of cross border travel required presents

a health risk one option for the jays is to play all their game home games in buffalo new york their season opener is next friday in florida. all this year's indian premier league could be moved out of the country because of the coronavirus pandemic cricket's most lucrative league has already been delayed it was meant to begin in march but may now take place in the united arab emirates later in the year in theory that would clash with the t 20 world cup in australia cricket writer said longer believes that events may soon be cancelled. no look given the crisis in the country is highly unlikely to be able to provide a biosecurity run meant for so many so many cricketers and. also to be able to get foreign stars into their secret stars to travel to can go is going to be a hassle and where as you eat has had had it much better with the road 19 than what we have about you and that i'm going to go to india because that is not what socal

time before it's between the 2 countries so a lot just to give you speaking commercially speaking it has come across as the best option should india not be able to go to shouldn't bindu not be not be able to go ahead with the i.p.l. in dia. and to indy car drivers were able to walk away unharmed from a huge crash and i were all donors how went airborne after this collision with rain as a v.k. her to said afterwards it all happened so fast he wasn't sure what was going on the crash did and his run of 4 consecutive top 10 finishes ok and that is all your sport for now it's now back to barbara in london scary pictures there for a thank you so much for that and that is it for this news hour to stay with us though i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with more of that these thanks for watching.

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