on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al-jazeera. the world. with coronavirus infections at an all time high european leaders struggle to agree $857000000000.00 rescue package. i'm given al this is i was there a live from doha also coming up a visit to baghdad iran's foreign minister denounces the killing of a revolutionary guard general by the u.s. as a criminal act. syria holds its 3rd parliamentary election since 2011 but all the candidates a government approved pass. about trying to find different things you can build

into here if they want the daily routine. the battle to lose weight as obesity is found to worsen the effects of coronavirus. we begin in brussels where talks between era leaders on the block's budget and a crowd of our especially last have gone into all the time the 27 member states are meeting for a 3rd day to discuss of $857000000000.00 package to help e.u. countries cope with the pandemic but they're divided over how much money can be given out by governments as grants or as loans german chancellor angela merkel says she's not sure if a solution will be found. to indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether they'll be a solution i still can't say there's

a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today let's go live now to me barker who's following developments from london nave where the main reasons for the deadlock. well when it comes to money there are always problems in the e.u. largely because there are key distinctions between those countries that are net contributors per capita to the budget and there are those countries the beneficiaries the contributors tend to come from wealthier countries in northern europe the beneficiaries from southern and eastern europe and what we're seeing as a result of the pandemic is this problem significantly exacerbated so late into the night you've got these 2 key politicians trying to play peacemaker angela merkel the german chancellor emmanuel macron of france trying to get 4 countries known as the frugal for that include denmark sweden austria and the netherlands to

compromise a little bit the main difference is that many countries are worried about handing out this huge tranche of money in the form 'd of grants that need to be repaid instead the frugal countries want it to be paid out in the form of loans that do need repaying their biggest concern is that of course debt will be inherited by all day across the e.u. whatever happens so what we have seen is an attempt to try and play kate these frugal countries by reducing the number of grants the amount of money given out in grants a but that hasn't satisfied them tall they want the figure to be completely slashed that's according to sweden at least we've seen some pushback from some of the key beneficiaries in europe the likes of spain and italy their economies of course were badly affected by 19 we just happy concept the italian prime minister accused the

frugal nations of trying to blackmail the e.u. and i have results where in a stalemate situation neither side prepared to stake a step forward but the consequences of inaction could be dire some words of warning for money or macro on the french president he is deeply worried about. sending the wrong kind of message to euro skeptics across europe we've seen a tide of euro skepticism of course even ahead of the pandemic and it is also the spat between hungary in the e.u. that's having an impact what can you tell us about that yeah that's right this is a longstanding spat that predates the pandemic hungary has been accused of rolling back on essential. rules of law basically by for instance not beholding freedom of speech more recently there were changes the way in which the government ran the country giving extended powers to viktor or the prime

minister alarm bells were ringing in brussels of as a result of that all of that in mind we've heard from mark russell the dutch prime minister who's basically saying look we're going to give all this money out to certain countries we need proof that those countries are going to maintain the rule of law going to defend fundamental e.u. rights and freedoms and that point in the finger directly hungry and saying look if you want this money you need to step up to the mark and hungry saying well look if you could have to moms that are defending the rule of law as part of the tax as a condition for the money or we're going to reject that we're going to veto that and now we've heard from hungry allies poland and slovenia saying that they will back hungry and it stands so basically this disagreement between hungry and brussels also threatens to derail any kind of agreement to these are crucial crucial talks a vast amount of money is being discussed to help many many countries economies were devastated by the pandemic i think that needs barker cost of elements from

london. corona virus infections have risen by record levels around the world for a 2nd day the world health organization says more than a quarter of a 1000000 people were diagnosed in just 24 hours the biggest increases were in the united states brazil india and south africa the w.h.o. also reported more than $7300.00 deaths that's the biggest daily increase since may the 10th more than $600000.00 people have now died since the pandemic began with china's jang region has declared a wartime state after a small increase in cases 28 new infections have been reported since friday the city of orange she has suspended large gatherings of people mass screenings being carried out china is facing international scrutiny over its treatment of ethnic minorities in jan including ethnic we get him to come back was the. hong kong has reported a record daily high of more than 100 new coronavirus infections the territory is

tightening restrictions from monday all non-essential public employees will work from home and mosques will be compulsory in public buildings. and there is a heated debate happening in the u.s. as the 1st day of the new school year there approaches should children be sent back to classrooms during the pandemic and what are the risks of doing that from the science of this is what reynolds. well sanjay let's 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 i feel like with that more where i feel like we've got 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 they can of by cat risk my kids getting sick or possibly getting somebody else sick

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 they 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 but when you make it about politics than just people trying to. score points and get elected i mean that's what i really think it

is a disservice to how credibly important this issue is the conservative dominated school board in orange county california recently. we 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 los angeles and san diego schools will also use distance learning for students brenda del hero has a message for trump my kids are not getting picks i am not going to send my kid to school to see if they're going to get covert and to see if they're going to survive coach it an agonizing dilemma for parents teachers and kids now weaponized for political purposes rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. iran's foreign minister

zarif has been visiting the iraqi capital baghdad he held talks with the iraqi foreign minister and discussed relations which have been strained by foreign polls serif says neighboring nations have to cooperate for the good of the region without interfering in each other's affairs and he denounced the killing of iranian revolutionary guard commander concept sort of money after visiting the site of his death. or grit to save the nation because some sort of money was a criminal act it's a loss to our country and to the entire region and undermines the international if it's only so and to resume in the region again we reiterate we can you know maintain sovereignty and territorial integrity of iraq. and this is what iraq's foreign minister had to say to me and well if you are we look forward to continuing our balanced relations with all of the regional countries and neighbors based on 1st our national interest and then based on our mutual interest without any

interfering in our own domestic affairs so our full team has more from baghdad on the importance of zarif says it. well it very much is a diplomatic balancing act because iran and iraq are mutually codependent iraq is heavily reliant on a rainy and gas importance on imports of consumer goods in general so iraq very much must maintain good ties with iran on the one hand but iraq also needs relations with for example the gulf countries as well as the united states so this is a 1st visit by in iraq it's very much an effort to try to reestablish and perhaps heal a little bit the relations with iran that have gone through a rotter turbulent period phase over the past few months. i mean the new prime minister is somebody who was 6 very close ties to the united states and he's somebody who is seen as being closer to the united states compared to his

predecessor. the he's somebody who has vowed that he will restrain the weapons in the hands of the states and very recently he has made a move to try to curtail the influence of iranian backed armed groups in iran so certainly on the part of the iranian government there may be a feeling that their influence in iraq is pretty perhaps not as strong as it was during the. previous administration and this visit is very much aimed at stabilizing those relations and ensuring that the mutual interests of both countries are secured not just in the security side but also our salute power and control. but president bashar is facing challenges results of previous elections were not recognized by the international community the syrian leader will need to agree to political reforms in order to receive western aid to rescue the economy devastated by years of war and corruption.

and the election. process. after much delay the un announced the creation of a committee to rewrite the constitution head of internationally monitored elections there hasn't been any progress elections contradict the political transition agreed on by the international community but assad seems to have different objectives many say syria's president is ensuring the incoming parliament whose job is to ratify a new constitution will reject any changes to the president's powers and tenure in office he brought all the warlords or. people who fought with his forces on the ground so he knows. this people who would be

for too long for their cause which. they know they would be accountable. changing the constitution for he now believes he's won largely thanks to the help of his russian and iranian allies for many this latest election shows how little has changed in aside syria. beirut. european countries are threatening sanctions against foreign governments interfering in the conflict in libya their joint statement that leaders of france germany and italy urged what they call foreign act is to respect the un's arms embargo they also added that if breaches continue at sea on land or in the air sanctions will be considered turkey supports the u.n. recognize government to tripoli while the u.a.e. egypt and russia back warlord has before half. still ahead on al-jazeera. was. thousands of protesters demanding political change

in the democratic republic of congo plus. the energy is always just simply fighting the power of the we have to fight for our joy. and we speak to a popular comedian about the road ahead for racial justice in america. had a really heavy season of rightness been following the yanks he briefly went as far north as the yellow river basin as you can see the complete change in orientation of the system but if anything is going to start to fall back here and i think and concentrate on the yanks the old the south during monday now the eastern end of it briefly gave some fairly wet weather to the korean peninsula then disappears right up most of siberia which is currently undergoing some to give a continued heat wave such a probably quite welcome japan sits out of it far from

a few showers you'll be largely in the draw i unless you're on the northern coast of honshu glacier on tuesday back in china and the next developing areas like to move back further north from the yangtze towards university based on your reservation which is of course where you might expect to be this time the the rains should go north for xiang just about shows it briefly it rains on tuesday then it goes quiet and then the rain comes back on wednesday focused as light rain there will be heavy rain around not necessarily shown itself unfortunate change the forecast for the south west monsoon of india pakistan bangladesh is what's happening here from the pole through assam to bhutan heavy rain is returned for the next 2 or 3 days. algis the real world meets for remarkable both. survive this after those closest to

them were taken away never to return. some of the 8000 muslim men and boys killed in the stripper needs a massacre 25 years ago heartfelt accounts from those left behind trying to move on from the pain of the past women who refused to die on al-jazeera. to my murder. her ordeal a job. you're watching al-jazeera remind all of our top stories this hour european union leaders are meeting for a 3rd day to discuss a multi-billion dollar package to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic

german chancellor says it's possible they will not agree all conditions attached to the grounds for the hardest hit nations. rounds from mr johnson race met his iraqi counterpart in baghdad i discussed relations which have been strained by foreign pals. in syria is all that is the bottom entry election since the uprising against president bashar assad began 9 years ago but it will be held in some form opposition strongholds for the 1st time in mutes. israeli authorities have arrested the palestinian government of jerusalem. is how to force it with the details. you know from his lawyer that he has been arrested his lawyer believes it once again to do with. allegations of political activities in occupied east jerusalem israeli police and authorities say that any such activities. legal under the oslo accords from $9.00 to $93.00 onwards and that activities are

doing israeli that is something that his lawyer does reject saying that these are attempts to humiliate and harass his client this is something that is very frequent in terms of mr gates since his appointment as the p.a.'s governor of jerusalem since. 2018 in the 1st year of his occupying not really he was arrested some 7 times he's been arrested several times since then he was arrested back in april for instance when he was accused of carrying out political activities on behalf of the palestinian authority for his activities in trying to. coordinate anti coronavirus measures in occupied east jerusalem of course it is jerusalem under international law is occupied israel sees it as sovereign territory having annexed it in 1907 and that is the logic of the arrow here between the p.a. and israel and mr gates is the one who often gets arrested usually these arrests

last 24 hours these detentions the last 24 hours judges tend to release him pretty quickly off to asking for any evidence from the police. to substantiate along going to tension. hundreds of protesters are demanding the dissolution of parliament in the democratic republic of congo. the demonstrations in the capital kinshasa were organized by the catholic church wants them to become regular sunday protests church says parliament is blocking meaningful reforms and webb has been following developments from the kenyan capital nairobi. calling for the dissolution of parliament and for electoral reforms and they say that the parliament in kinshasa isn't legitimate because it was elected in an election one and a half years ago that they say was rigged and under an electoral commission which they say was parties and i'm biased in favor of former president joseph kabila this

could be less step down at the time of the election he couldn't run again because it already reached its constitutional limits of terms but according to league documents the opposition were rigged out of their victory and felix the security the current president was announced the winner now to security and could be entered a fragile coalition after that which is widely seen to be an arrangement that was meant to keep joseph kabila in power but from behind the scenes now that coalition has been on the quite some tension in recent months and these calls come at a time which is he carries trying to assert his authority and joseph kabila seems to be trying to push back 5 days of heavy rainfall in eastern china have prompted officials to raise a flood alert to the highest level at least 14 people have died as the yangtze river and its tributaries swamped communities soldiers have been deployed to help build makeshift barriers with sandbags to keep water out with already have also

opened 35 gates of the 3 gorges dam which spans the river in an effort to reduce water levels. nearly 4000000 people in india's assam state in neighbor paul have been forced from their homes because of floods although 100 people have been killed the heavy monsoon rains caused rivers to break their banks coronavirus stopped on missions are also complicating delivery of aid shipments. protests by black lives better demonstrators took place in the u.s. city of portland again last night it's been 6 weeks without a break on friday the state of oregon sued federal law enforcement agencies accusing them of unlawfully detaining demonstrators dozens have been arrested the state attorney general is asking for a restraining order to stop federal agencies making any further arrests after unidentified agents allegedly dragged protesters into unmarked vans. u.s. president donald trump has tweeted to say he's saddened by the death of civil

rights leader john lewis flags have been lowered to half staff in the capitol to honor the late congressman many u.s. politicians paid tribute trumps either toral rival joe biden called him a moral compass former president barack obama said lewis got to see his own legacy play out in a meaningful and remarkable way well amanda seales is a comedian and creator of smart funny and black and hosts a podcast small doses she says the road to racial justice for black americans is long but each evil. america was built on oppression so when we talk about the civil rights movement of the sixty's the truth of the matter is we never left the civil rights movement we just stopped moving in the right direction a lot of us did you know there are many of us kept moving in that you know have sustained that work and john lewis is one of the few who really continued in

earnest to make that work threaten center but a lot of us were distracted as we got the internet you know as we got a black president you know as we saw pop culture you know expand and we saw black arts you know become such a global phenomenon yet again because it has many times the core but we still continue to be where we are consciousness in my opinion and mental health are the key to us maintaining the stamina that's going to be needed to fully challenge and eradicate systemic racism and fortify our communities you know for many of us the energy is always to simply fighting the power but we have to fight for our joy and i truly believe that if we're putting all of our energy into fighting the power and we don't get to have our joy will then they won regardless so we created my pony and black because we have we are inundated with all these negative images of black people whether it's racist image is fellow citizens whether it's police

brutality etc and i say we need to have a place we can celebrate black culture where we can celebrate black advancement where we can celebrate ourselves and we have allies in the building as well who are supporting that but the truth of the matter is you know as black folks in america globally we are considered a young ethnicity you know when we're talking about the communities that exists around the world you know they're going back before christ you know has black americans in america we're still we're still young and rooted but growing and it is important that in that process in our development as a community as a people that we continue to love ourselves. the u.k. is set to launch a campaign encouraging people to lose weight to help tackle the worst effects of covered 19 scientists shell and that chronic obesity can increase the severity of the virus in some patients some health experts say the plan fails to provide the tools people need to improve their health care and sleep reports from chatham the

southeast england. oh you can i guess meet aaron young good looking fits and healthy quite the contrast with what he looked like just 3 years ago during that time he's lost over 100 kilograms it's been an amazing achievement and he's become a role model for many others but he openly admits that during the pandemic it's been hard to keep the weight off the 1st few weeks of cohered i was really struggling. but out of people being out of routine and stuff like that. it's just about trying to find different things you can build in to year your day more your daily routine really. for me i've been doing what you daily you know all my workouts and stuff going out for walks when i can and tidying up the house for the partner so you know just about trying to keep busy the great is enthusiastic tackling obesity to fight the virus is boris johnson the heavyweights british prime

minister who nearly died of coded and now looks visibly slimmer he wants everyone else to follow his example but countless experts say it's not as easy as it might sound physical health is one thing mental health something else again and the lockdown has been incredibly stressful for so many people with the kids at home and enormous financial worries playing on people's minds telling people they need to lose weight and expect them to be ready to do it are necessarily the same thing that's all indeed some research suggests a majority of adults in britain as elsewhere have put weight on during the pandemic . oh. i have. the pleasure rachel but how. just as confusing is that the same government recently announced a voucher scheme effectively giving everyone small amounts of money to encourage

them back into restaurants nor has the government done anything about repeated calls to take down the billboards and adverts tempting people into eating in fast food restaurants that alone wouldn't work by itself it has to be complemented by all the other measures that have been proposed but it would become a big difference just in the foods that we're seeing in our environment and i don't know about you but every time i see advert for an unhealthy food i want it if i didn't see i would be influenced like that the biggest visible upside to people's health in recent months has been a big rise in cycling as people try to stay off public transport but the queues outside the fast food joints tell another story it's in the u.k. and other western countries to lose weight quickly will not be easy lawrence lee al jazeera in southeastern england. the sound is there and these are the top stories european union think it is amazing

for a 3rd day to discuss a multi $1000000000.00 package to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic german chancellor says it's possible they will not agree on conditions attached to grants for the hardest hit nations invited to indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the farm and the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether they'll be a solution i still can't say there's a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif is in baghdad where he's met with his iraqi counterpart they discussed relations which have been strained by foreign powers serif denounce the killing of an iranian revolutionary guard commander after visiting the site of his death or great to save the says nation of custom so the money was a criminal act it's

a loss to our country and to the entire region and undermines the international if it's for committing only so and terrorism in the region again we reiterate we can you know maintain the sovereignty and territorial integrity of iraq iran's judiciary has suspended death sentences for 3 protesters according to one of their lawyers the men were convicted in connection with last november's anti-government protests well in 7000000 tweets using the hash tag do not execute were posted after they received their sentences. syria's holding its 3rd parliamentary election since the uprising against president bashar assad began 9 years ago voting will be held in some form opposition strongholds for the 1st time in years millions of syrians have fled the country as refugees or are internally displaced are excluded from voting. european countries are threatening sanctions against foreign governments interfering in the conflict in libya and the joint statement that leaders of fronts germany and italy urged what they call foreign actors to respect the un's arms

embargo it also says that if breaches continue at sea on land or by air sanctions will be considered several countries are backing opposing sides in the bia but the headlines more news here on al-jazeera right after inside story stay with us. already embroiled in a war for years in yemen faces an unprecedented environmental disaster a damaged oil storage facility is not very threatening in the red sea who is to blame and kind of catastrophe be averted before it's too late this is inside story

. rather than welcome to the program. years of civil war have torn apart the fighting has divided the cities destroyed the economy and trick of the world's worst humanitarian crisis now the country is also.