could impact be like this is an important part of the world and our leaders very good at bringing the news to the world from here. hong kong tightens coronavirus restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in infections. hello i'm adrian forgetting this is al-jazeera live from go also coming up. i think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the work week where we had 900 deaths in a single day we will take on this week false claims the u.s. president has challenged on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. talks continue through the eyes in brussels as e.u.

leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package and britain's plan to encourage weight loss to lighten the impact of the coronavirus. hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says there's no sign of it coming under control let's go live now to hong kong to al-jazeera as adrian brown so adrian until now hong kong's low infection rate made it the envy of the world what's gone wrong. well it's interesting isn't it adrian if this was the united states india or brazil an infection rate of just over

$100.00 a day would be considered you know a good day but that's not the case in hong kong because of course up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks we've had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that it's complacency hong kong that it's guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kong's existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew america sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential food supplies into hong kong now the hong kong government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the

current quarantine restrictions it would effect if we put hong kong's food supply driscoll and the not prepared to do that so i don't think that's going to change meanwhile the media on the mainland says that they believe the recent protests as well as an unofficial poll that happened here in hong kong last weekend in which more than 610000 people took part is another reason why the virus is spreading now on sunday night the chief executive carol lam said the situation was in her words critical and he also said she wasn't sure when this new outbreak would be brought under control what is really worrying the government i think is that 40 percent of the new infections have no known source we don't know where those infections came from as a result the government has now begun a. testing program right across this city state testing high risk workers such as taxi drivers as well as restaurant workers that will also possibly determine

whether some of them are very symptomatic and also as from monday more than 180000 public servants are being told to work from home for at least the next week you have to wear a face mask if you enter any sort of public place in tools that means places like supermarkets markets as well as malls and the chief executive is saying she's not sure how long these new restrictions will stay in place but if the figures continue to rise then those restrictions could remain for possibly another week or 2 hours it was adrian brown reporting live from hong kong adrian many thanks the united states is still struggling to contain the world's biggest corona virus outbreak infections are surging in many parts of the country including arizona florida and california the been 3700000 cases nationwide and more than 140000 deaths but president trump has downplayed the epidemic falsely claiming in an

interview that the u.s. has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world over here as alan fischer reports for more than the generic. what the white house described as embers has become a blaze the us now is seeing around $70000.00 new cases of cold meat at the the president's own health experts expressing concern masking has become a political issue now here we are not only with 70000 new cases almost every day but from my perspective also quite concerning the number of hospitalizations which is very close to being as high in the country as it was in back in april so yeah we've got a really dollar down here the number of deaths is rising to arizona and florida breaking new records the residents here are terrified and i'm terrified for the 1st time in my career because there is a lack of leadership johns hopkins university has been tracking the virus since day one it says the u.s. has the 7th highest mortality rate in the world

a figure disputed by the president in an interview with an american t.v. network i heard we have one of the lowest maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world you have the numbers from us because i heard we had the best word salad there are republican governor has warned his state could be the new florida keys numbers are heading in the wrong direction but he's still not ready to issue a statewide order telling people to wear masks were really in the message is that you were the mask for other people you wear the mask to to protect your grandmother you were the mask to and so it's not just the orders the orders are obviously important but getting people to buying and to understand and there's a warning there may have to be a new low tones across the country meanwhile it's been reported that the white house is trying to block billions of dollars for increased testing and contact tracing democrats want 70 $5000000000.00 and many republicans are now saying that they would support the move if that would help bring the coronavirus crisis in the

united states under control alan fischer al-jazeera northern virginia. deadlock and division are gripping the european union right now as leaders struggle to compromise on a major economic rescue package to help countries hit by the coronavirus pandemic a 3rd day of talks stretched throughout the mice with the session ending in the last 15 minutes leaders will meet again for a 4th time later on monday leave barker reports now on the efforts to avoid what could be one of the worst european recessions in decades how to share $857000000000.00 the questions confounded e.u. leaders for days and deepened all divisions within the block in one camp nations known as the frugal for austria denmark sweden and the netherlands the wealthy northern states pay the most per capita into the e.u. shared reserves they want strict controls on how the recovery fund is shared prefer ing to loan countries money the positions at odds with spain and italy both

economies were hit hard by the pandemic they want generous grants from the bloc that don't need to be repaid the german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mccrone have been trying to broker a compromise by offering e.u. countries a combination of loans and grants but a you leaders can't agree on how to do this. these compromises and i say this very clearly will not be made at the cost of the european goal not out of principle but will be made because we are facing an unprecedented health economic and social crisis and because our countries need it european unity needs it a fierce argument also erupted between the dutch prime minister mark rotter and his hung garion counterpart viktor orban over whether money should be withheld from countries that fail to live up to the e.u.'s core values in recent years victor or

bans governments been accused of attacks on the media minorities and the rule of law charges which he denies. so i don't know what is the person all reason for the dutch prime minister to meet me or hungary but he's attacking saul harshly and making very clear that because hungary in his opinion does not respect the rule of law must be punished financially that's his position which is not acceptable you have places its deepest recession since the 2nd world war the road to recovery hangs on solidarity need park at al-jazeera. david her is chief correspondent of politico magazine and says that relations between either member states are as french trial as the economic outlook. the e.u. budget 7 year financial plan in this case amounting to approximately one trillion euro more than that obviously in dollars is always the most controversial negotiation that leads leaders go through $27.00 countries in this case all have to

agree on what programs they're going to lay out how they're going to set their priorities over the course of the next 7 years add into that this historic situation with the coronavirus pandemic and the worst economic shock since the great depression now they're looking at this recovery effort a really new concept for the e.u. which is to borrow giant sums of money on the financial markets together and then give grants to the countries that need help this means that the e.u. would borrow together but then give to countries where recovery is most needed italy of course hard hit spain they are feeling very left alone in certain respects and what they want to remind the netherlands and austria. denmark and sweden is that those countries manufacture things they sell things it's great that they had to triffitt rainy day fund saved up they were a much stronger financial position to have that umbrella open and be ready for the storm when it hit but in fact they'll be standing out there alone under their

umbrella unless they make sure that italy spain france all these countries are also able to recover in the same way so what you hear is a lot of talk about divergence germany has recognized this how quickly did germany was able to unleash more than a trillion euro in support of its own economy other countries have not been able to do that they're already saddled with debt so they need this help and they're trying to explain that all together and you can make sure they recover in a much more cohesive way than if they struggle on their own saudi arabian state media is reporting that king solomon has been admitted to hospital for a medical checkup the 84 year old monarch was taken to king faisal specialised hospital in the capital riyadh early on monday with what's being reported as inflammation of the full bladder. a prominent saudi journalist has died after contracting kogut 192 months after being released from prison that's according to local media reports he was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 2018 for insulting

the wall course after a t.v. appearance criticizing corruption in the kingdom he once worked on the murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. mollies opposition has called for more protests after rejecting international media efforts mediation efforts i'm sorry a delegation from the west african regional bloc echo was held days of discussions with the governing party and the opposition the bloc proposed a power sharing government and the new constitutional court but the june 5th opposition group says the plan doesn't go far enough nicolas hawke reports now from dakar in neighboring senegal. well members of the opposition have dismissed it some leaders of the 5 movement this coalition members of civil society and trade unionists and opposition political opposition have described it as a failure from the get go we've seen that some of them some of these leaders wouldn't even step in into the negotiation room they said that 1st there needed to

be an investigation on why the government deployed a commando trained by the e.u. meant to fight armed groups such as al qaeda and the stomach state greater affiliates in northern mali well why were those troops used to deployed against protesters last weekend number of them were killed shot in the head or in the stomach so in order for a discussion to happen there needs to be an investigation 1st which which then the prime minister reassured would happen that they say that the the offers made by the echo was was more about trying to solve an electoral crisis but what they're saying here is it's a crisis of government that's happening in a crisis of trust that's happening in mali they they want to see the dissolution of the national assembly they want to see. resign or be stripped of his powers down

just just now we've heard that there is discussion about what they're going to do next so they say that they will continue their movement of a civil disobedience and they describe what they will do as a day in french. which means a day of ghost town will they will they will block the capital bamako bring it down still. weather update next day on al-jazeera then why medical workers in colombia a calling for another coronavirus lockdown. and from sunday services to sunday march is the catholic church weighs in on the crisis in the democratic republic of congo. how it's been raining in syllabic is no surprise there it's supposed to but has been significant right that massive crowd they don't often see that and it's on its

way through the empty quarter i mean on monday is going to be i think in northern yemen the southwest society where the heaviest back is that i would just be drizzle rather than proper rain so that's an unusual event and once it's gone it's gone which means that this part of the world this time of the year speed of a breeze is dusty the eastern saudi in kuwait the temperatures are really quite high 48 to 50 from northern iraq down through kuwait into existence out of saudi arabia the 41 doha suggests it's fairly humid weather which is not unusual just disappointing but of a boost i think for the rain in eritrea hardly surprising it's that same massive cloud you saw that of course help showers up in the sea opiah not much in somalia but the breezes taking this moisture up the coast through towns near and kenya will give a few showers here otherwise we're talking about the stuff that happens in land. now the active front that went through cape town $34.00 days ago now has more or less a period but there's a bit of a legacy from this and on shore breeze that mozambique taking showers into zimbabwe

and possibly beyond into zombie lusaka 4 crosses sharing at least for monday. an image can change the way we see the will ask if we had not seen this week we'll be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created longing for a full opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story that is put on attacking coins for pretty i don't think it can forge narratives all right through the listening post gives you the full picture on a. well

again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour hong kong it's reimposing coronavirus restrictions after recording the highest one day increase in new cases since the pandemic began more than $500.00 infections been confirmed in the last 2 weeks. u.s. president donald trump is defending the handling of the corona virus pandemic going so far as to say the nation has one of the lowest mortality rates in the war those false claims come despite surging infection rates in arizona florida and california . and talks on a coronavirus economic rescue package for the european union will spill over into a 4th day leaders meeting in brussels of so far failed to agree on just how to share the 857000000000 dollar recovery fund. a surge in corona

virus infections has forced authorities to impose the restrictions the number of cities in colombia more than 190000 cases of been reported across the country and in the capital bogota many of the city's poorest neighborhoods are suffering as hospitals become increasingly overwhelmed al-jazeera. explains. soldiers and city workers live in thick streets after builder time poses a new coronavirus lockdown it's the 1st of a series of rolling measures restricting almost a 3rd of the city's 8000000 residents for 2 weeks at a time. i think that it is very important that people are aware and keep washing their hands the front of the house clean the issues triple entering their home we need to stop the virus together. entered what experts believe will be the worst phase of the pandemic and the outbreak is hitting the poorest neighborhoods the hardest where few people can afford to stay home. like street vendor alberto the.

we're just started recovering financially after 4 months of restrictions were eased ok so i think you're not make it is accepted by the landlord wants to kick us out i live with my mother my mother in law 2 young brother in laws and my pregnant wife i don't have anything to pay her with except what i managed to make on the streets across these neighborhoods small businesses including here salons that had reopened a few weeks ago have closed their shutters once again the mayor says the new restrictions have been planned to minimize direct konami impact in pledged government aid to 700000 people living in the newly quarantined areas. the mayor hopes to avoid stretching hospitals to their limit but intensive care units are already more than 90 percent full. doctors associations have repeatedly sounded the alarm saying that the health system could collapse any day

at this point and after call the tory distillery impose a strict lockdown in the entire city for a least 2 weeks. we know that various hospitals in the south of the city are already facing the dilemma of who to save who gets a ventilator and who doesn't partial lockdown will not be enough to stop the speed of the spirit. returning to a total lockdown is a tough choice in a city with so many people in need but it might become unavoidable if you had factions continue to rise and listen to them. brazil's president jaya balsa now has greeted supporters outside his official residence as he recovers from a covert 19 also has been in self isolation after being diagnosed with the virus earlier this month the brazilian president has been criticized for his handling of the pandemic brazil is the 2nd worst hit country with more than 2000000 cases nearly 80000 people die it south africa's death toll from the corona virus has

passed 5000 with more than 360000 infections south africa has recorded around half of the continent's confirmed cases the ministry of health is warning that people aren't following guidelines on social distancing and mosques the outbreak in south africa is expected to peak in the coming weeks. hundreds of protesters are demanding the dissolution of parliament of the democratic republic of congo the demonstrations in kinshasa were organized by the catholic church its supporters say the parliament is blocking meaningful reforms as a serious malcolm webb reports. the catholic church and its supporters the parliament in the democratic republic of congo is not ready to mint. hundreds marched to the parliament building in the capital kinshasa. we are the owners of parliament we have noticed that impedes are not playing by the rules simply because

they were not elected by us in the last election they are serving the interests of individuals this is why we are marching to demand the dissolution of this parliament and calling for deep electoral reform. the protesters say the last elections were rigged by an electoral commission that favors former president j if . they demanding electoral reforms before the next election he 3 years time. could be lifted down in the last election about 18 months ago. but he's widely seen to still be the most powerful person in congo. felix the security took over he was announced the winner although leaked documents show he lost to opposition to kerry's power depends on a fragile alliance with kabila and his party. the protests are happening is the alliance is increasingly strained by factions want to control the electoral commission nowness any i'm not sure i phrase to caylee's own coalition will really

like to have fully independent electoral commission one thing to. remember with this is that the results. was very short. please stop the demonstration when it reached the road leading to parliament this time it ended peacefully catholic church is influential in congo you have millions of supporters you can call them to the street it's promised weekly protest but dissolution of parliament looks on likely for now it could be his party still firmly in control malcolm webb al-jazeera. hundreds of people have been relocated by the un after violence in a refugee camp in northwestern uganda 3 people were killed in fighting between ethnic groups hundreds of families of and forced to flee thing pal or any account and seek refuge elsewhere uganda hosts over 1400000 refugees most of them from

south sudan. the u.k.'s foreign secretary has accused china of gross and egregious human rights abuses against its mainly muslim weaker population in the western province of shin jang according to rights groups around 1000000 ethnic weekers have been detained in so-called reeducation camps to purge them of the faith and identity while the camps are shrouded in secrecy there's growing evidence of mass torture and forced sterilizations in order to slash birthrates exiled weekers of accuse chinese officials of genocide the crimes against humanity a the international criminal court to investigate beijing says the camps are vocational education centers to combat extremism where students learn mandarin and job skills the return is from the u.s. commission on international religious freedom and chairman of the week a human rights project he compared what's happening to the weakest in china so

atrocities of the 1940 s. . the seriousness of the crisis to surface in the last. 23 years. cried out for global condemnation strong government all response is. that has not been really shown until the united states government recently passed this bill we were human rights act and the. and sanctioning of chinese officials senior terms of officials under the sanction this should be just the beginning of the effort to address the worst one of the worst human crisis that have been described by experts in the makers and government officials as the largest interment of ethnic minorities since the 2nd world war. it was being bound and blindfolded loaded on the train headed for modern day concentration camps

absolutely sickening and also the the images that we have seen reminds us the events unfolding in auschwitz in 1940 s. the arguments of $944.00 shares a striking resemblance to what is happening to weakness in. the u.s. house democrats are demanding an internal investigation into the use of federal police to crack down on protesters it follows the violent arrest of several activists in the city of portland saturday and identified officers were filmed using force to arrest protesters without explanation dozens of people have gathered to rally against police brutality democrats say the trump of ministration is abusing the use of emergency authorities and suppressing the rights to peaceful protests. the u.k. is set to launch a campaign encouraging people to lose weight to help tackle the worst effects of the coronavirus science shows that chronic obesity can increase the severity of the

virus in some patients are serious laurence leamer reports from chatham in south east england. yes come and meet aaron young 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 more about trying to find different things you can build into year your day or your daily routine merely. 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 yes 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 expects 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 . and if that means if. i have a final i'm sure goes without saying it's. the promotion of great about how. it was. 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 getting the u.k. and other western countries to lose weight quickly will not be easy lawrence li al jazeera in south east of england. the united arab emirates has launched its 1st space mission.

the emirates mars mission hope took off from japan's. space center it's expected to reach mars in february next year project is promising to provide a complete view of the martian atmosphere during different seasons. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines of al-jazeera hong kong is reimposing coronavirus restrictions after recording the highest one day increase in new cases since the pandemic began more than 500 infections have been confirmed in the last 2 weeks adrian brown reports from hong kong that was a very bad day on sunday they've had almost 500 infections during the past 2 weeks we're not quite sure what has caused this sudden uptick in infections but medical

experts point to loopholes in hong kong's quarantine arrangements which means that pilots mariners sailors as well as lorry drivers bringing essential food supplies into hong kong don't have to undergo quarantine or indeed testing of any kind u.s. president ronald trump is defending his handling of the corona virus pandemic going so far as to say that the nation has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world not false claim comes despite surging infection rates in arizona florida and california have been 3700000 cases and cases nationwide and more than 140000. talks on a coronavirus economic rescue package for the european union will spill over into a 4th day leaders meeting in brussels of so far failed to agree on how to share the $857000000000.00 recovery fund a surge in corona virus infections has forced authorities to impose new restrictions in

a number of cities in colombia more than 190000 cases have been reported across the country brazil's president jaya both scenarios greeted supporters outside his official residence as he recovers from covert 19 also nora's been in self isolation after being diagnosed with the virus earlier this month the brazilian president has been criticized over his handling of the pandemic brazil is the 2nd worst hit country with more than 2000000 cases saudi arabian state media is reporting that king solomon has been admitted to hospital for medical tests the 84 year old was taken to king faisal specialist hospital in the capital riyadh early on monday with what's being described as an inflammation of the gall bladder and there's the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera after the listening posts next.

the portrait of 3 creatures control the. lower margin gives birth and you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories we're covering this week poland relaxed its present after the government turns back the clock to the good old days of state controlled television he won the nobel peace prize last year but now the ethiopian prime minister has shut down a major news network and jailed its founder. kind of funny the palestinian voice that like so many authors got his start in journalism. and disney world in florida lays out the welcome mat. through a video that goes spectacularly wrong. polish voters have reelected their president

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