holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. alarms the whole raman and this is the al-jazeera news our live from my head quarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes just hours before closure deadline china clears out its consular office in houston while retaliating with a shutdown order in the u.s. friday prayers are back inside istanbul's high gear sophia after more than 85 years under turkish president says it remains open for all. but top u.s. disease expert warns of 3 new york's most coronavirus cases grow and now there's

a warning about the spread from children. safety fears over the world's top selling passenger plane there's concern about engine failure on boeing 737 to grounded by the coronavirus fallout. and score major league baseball is back in north america after a 4 month delay caused by coronavirus the leak has started with no fans in attendance . welcome to the news our good t.v. company time is nearly up for china to shut its consular office in the u.s. city of houston over spying claims but the crisis between the 2 countries is only intensifying a chinese research or taken refuge in the san francisco consular office is expected in court soon accused of hiding her military connection when she applied for her.

u.s. visa in houston chinese consular staff have been busy clearing out less than 3 hours now remain to the closure deadline the u.s. ordered the move to protect american intellectual property well china's foreign ministry call vatanen justifiable act and then retaliate has ordered the u.s. consulate in chengdu to close our white house correspondent can we help it joins us now from washington d.c. it's been a very busy day and continues to be kimberly just bring us up to speed on this arrest in san francisco it is you would say directly and indirectly related to the spat between china and the u.s. . now there's no question that the u.s. is escalating its actions towards china this is the latest example of that let me just give you a little context of how this all happened this chinese researcher entered the united states in march of last year and it is alleged that she misrepresented her

background on her visa application that is why she is charged with visa fraud this is a penalty if convicted of 10 years 250000 dollars if convicted now what seemed to happen here is that there was an interview with the f.b.i. a couple of days ago or shortly after that interview we understand she sought refuge in the chinese consulate in san francisco now u.s. authorities cannot enter this property so it appears she may have surrendered herself voluntarily to appear in court via video link now the allegations that all of this she says she came over to do bio biology research at the university of california davis but in fact again the united states says that that she was working with the chinese military and again violating charges in terms of these a fraud so that is what she will be facing here in the united states as the u.s. is clamping down taking strick action against the against the china the number of

actions that have taken place in the last few weeks indeed i mean will windows will be endgame is kimberly because at the end of the day china and the u.s. continue to talk to each other on different levels on a range of different subjects at least to discuss what are they going to do about this particular incident. well the latest coming from the press secretary kelly machinating in just the last few moments she's holding a press briefing that may have just wrapped up but in it she made a statement essentially saying that the united states is calling on china to see that its malign activity whether it be the actions of this research or working with the military whether it be the actions in the consulate in houston the view of the united states is that essentially china has not been offering the same level of diplomacy that the united states says it has been offering that in fact that this consulate in houston was really being used for illegal spying for influence

operations and they are calling for this to end but they are also calling for an end to what they call tit for tat retaliation referring to the closure of the u.s. consulate in chengdu now in the midst of all of this you should remember that the united states has kind of had strategic competition with china for about the last 4 decades but the view of the united states is enough is enough they say they met in new york city last month why you just before that they once again pleaded with chinese officials to operate with essentially clean hands they allege that china continued to conduct itself business as usual and that's why the united states says it is taking this action for the update complete how could i want to post correspondent thank you. well china's foreign minister. is calling on the u.s. to reverse what he calls its wrong decision in the meantime the focus is turning to the u.s. consular office in chengdu which must be closed by monday between e.u.

is that for us. we're here in downtown chengdu and this is the new as consulate and there are a lot of policemen here that doesn't police officers also are monitoring the crowds this entire street has been blocked off to cars since the chinese foreign ministry made the announcement that the u.s. consulate here would have to close but the best rooms are allowed to walk behind are quite a few of them passing by taking photos taking selfies it's become quite a tourist destination now china hasn't said exactly why it's targeting this consulate all it said though is that there are some u.s. officials who work here with they say have been engaged in activities that are not consistent with their capacity we also know that it's quite significant operation to the southwest of china deals with us this is nearby acts as an active listening post for events taking place in and tibet now the chinese foreign ministry has said that they do not want to do this it did not want to have to close the consulate here but they were false by the u.s. one year china's top diplomat has laid the blame for the worsening ties between

time and u.s. completely at the foot of washington and he says that it's up to washington now to mend and rebuild those ties and china says if the u.s. does not pull back from the station to close the embassy in texas china will have no choice but to hit back measure for measure. rubin is a former deputy assistant secretary of state under president barack obama he says the u.s. china relationship is becoming more strained and will be difficult to repair. we are slipping in appears into a new cold war and it's this strange combination that we have right now in our american politics which is the domestic political pressure combined with longstanding grievances and concerns between the united states and china and it's really dynamic that he doesn't seem to have any brakes on that are there no guardrails what the administration is doing is clearly a coordinated campaign right now from inside the trump ministration to attack china

on multiple fronts but the goal is not clear and there's a broad critique that essentially boils down to the united states of failed china is getting away with things that they shouldn't be and we have to stop it and that's about where it ends secretary pompei o is not called for regime change in china but he is constantly attacking the chinese communist party in language that is very reminiscent of that kind of objective and where does that take us it's not clear and with president trump getting more desperate in this election season it's very concerning that his rhetoric will continue to be very hostile to china president trump is now and then on the path that he appears to be heading on he's going to be very concerned about politically looking like he's giving to china so he may be asking china like he did ask parents according to john bolton's book that china helped him get reelected and maybe he'll come up with a breakthrough but that's very that's very much guesswork which means that we could

see this kind of rhetoric all the way through the election and then a lot of repair work to be done regardless of who's in the white house after november. so the state of florida has reported a record number of people being admitted to hospital and it has confirmed 12000 new cases of covert 19 knots in a single day the state is the epicenter of the u.s. break president all trump has canceled the republican party convention that's supposed to be held next month now a member of the u.s. code of virus task force urging the country to change its behavior we are already starting to see. towing in these critically 4 states that have really suffered under the last 4 weeks so texas california arizona and florida those major metros and threw out their counties and i just want to make it clear to the american public what we have right now are essentially 3 new yorks with these 3 major states and so we're really having to respond as an american people and that's why you hear

us calling for mass and increase social distancing. from miami 24 hours ago we were talking about this very thing and the i mean infections are soaring florida really becoming the new epicenter for the u.s. . yeah more than $12000.00 new cases announced on friday another $135.00 deaths more than 400000 cases in total and the death toll is creeping steadily up towards $6000.00 so there is no one in this state i think that can claim that any of these figures are plotting in fact for the past 2 weeks we've had at least 10000 cases each and every day on july the 12th it was close to $15000.00 and the infection rate is hovering anywhere between 10 and 14 percent now the approach here to tackle this pandemic is very much a patchwork approach you've got the governor of the state run the scientists not mandating mask wearing not talking about businesses re closing and encouraging

parents to send their children to school here in miami dade which is the worst affected county in this state the mayor of miami has mandated mask where in fact he's got a squad of police officers out on the streets enforcing that new rule handing out fines to people that won't do that so i think the question for many residents here is when will the leadership of the state run to santas make some decisions that will curb what's going on right now because as things stand every single day we're seeing more and more cases and losing more and more residents you touched on the issue of schools and the voice of reason many think and found she's been speaking specifically about the topic it's a real worry for floridians it is i mean school is supposed to start next month online learning from many parents here including myself isn't really working very well for children so there is a push i think from both president trump and ron to scientists the government here

to get children back into school but dr anthony found she talked about the uncertainty of that the science behind it let's just listen to what he had to say. i think we still need to learn a lot about children you know elementary school children getting infected what the percentage of their infection is and whether they either spread or not efficiently 2 adults a recent study came out that showed children up to 10 years old it looks like they don't necessarily spread infection as readily as adults do whereas children $10.00 to $19.00 appear to be spreading infection to adults as equally as well as adults spread to adults yet there's still a lot to learn about what the prevalence and incidence of infection is in children and as a group do they spread do they get any bodies what's the in family spread or not

so a lot of uncertainty behind people sending their children back to school but in a rare personal by mid dr anthony fact she also talked about the threats he's been getting to not just himself but also to his children it's now believed that he has a security detail despite being seen by many as a voice of reason and gallagher thanks very much in miami. still ahead here on the news hour. drama in the skies over syria passengers are heard on a rainy and plain as it's tailed by a u.s. fighter jet. and they're the worst monsoon rains in years we'll hear from people in fact countries like the poll among others. also in sports an individual award for the player who led the c's outstanding premier league team in.

an order has gone out for urgent safety checks on the world's most popular passenger jet the emergency directive from the federal aviation administration in the u.s. applies to 737 next generation and classic ak raft that are not flown for at least a week the regulator warned the jets may have corrosion that could lead to engine failure after it received 4 reports of unexpected shutdowns michaela joins me now from washington d.c. to expand on this i mean what are boeing saying about this mike. also what burning has done is inform to all the operators of these airlines off the news from the f.a.a. the operators are all insistent that this will not affect their operations in any way essentially what happened is that the f.a.a. says it received 4 separate reports of single engine failure on the 7371 of them on alaskan airlines now the planes were able to land safely but on further

investigation the f.a.a. found that one of the valves on the engine was blocking because a number of aircraft have essentially been left in the hangars because demand has dropped during the pandemic so what the f.a.a. is now saying to all the operators is to go there check these planes any plane that has not flown for a week to check the valves on the plane and if necessary to replace it the fear of the f.a.a. is that both engines could go at the same time which of course would be a major disaster as i state that the planes that have been affected all landed safely the operators the major aircraft operators within the united states say this will not affect their operations in any way they will simply envelop in it in a normal maintenance protocol michaela in washington d.c. thank you well toto's isn't alone so to commentator under former pilot he says

engineers should have enough time to fix the issue given the slowdown of the aviation industry. it's going to cause a bit of france you can't seriously i imagine i mean fortunately the slowdown in aviation 'd will help them a little bit in as much as it is croft stores are affected and it's not as if it's a major structural corrosion issue it's to do with lead a valve in the engine which should be possible to rectify fairly easily any aircraft that risk coming out of storage 'd was very carefully checked by engineering department the pilot's preflight checks are really related to observing the outside of the aircraft to make sure that there's nothing or yes we have mess no release no damage no contamination in the way of ice or anything like that. but engineering stuff like engine valves is something that you wouldn't

know about until you had a problem in the federal aviation administration. probably got a little bit wake up call i think off to the max a bottle and i imagine that they're being very careful it's a world famous landmark prevented by both muslims and christians turkey's i guess a fear has gone from museum to mosque. hundreds of thousands gathered in istanbul for the 1st friday prayers held there for more than 85 years last 3 turkish president reza tabor one announced that the conversion of the building after a court ruling. we go ticklish to make great people were eager to pray here thousands participated in the prison we came together to pray the government and the authorities concerned to do the necessary renovations the new 100 years of fear

mosque will be something great that makes us very proud and will always be open for our citizens visitors and the tourists as well the haggis of fear has changed several times since it was built 1500 years ago it was originally the largest church in the eastern roman empire in the christian city of constantinople which is now called istanbul in $1453.00 the city fell to the autumn and after a $55.00 day siege and years of fear was converted into a mosque almost 500 years later in 1935 it became a secular museum reflecting the inclusive vision of istanbul after the fall of the ottoman empire all turkey's highest court ordered the conversion of the us go world heritage site back to a mosque earlier this month present one supported the switch which angered christian religious leaders and politicians across the world simcoe sulu is in istanbul and says the day is being seen as

a victory for the sovereignty of turkey and its leaders. prisons are gone was the primary gas of years of fear today he had around 1000 invitees some of them were even foreign politicians from other muslim countries there was a high level delegation among the turkish politics but thousands gathered here just to be able to attend in the 1st 3 years to witness this historical moment in their terms and their emotions some of them even even crying. just because they were able to share this moment with tradition since in the. hunger sophia was turned to a museum and during 8 to 6 years there were just. some minor prayers sided people feel like they are taking a symbol back from a foreign force or something because some of the people that i have spoken to they compare prisons are down with a part of my met the computer of example and also in all paris and they're saying

that rigid type are drawn to get sophia back when you ask from whom they say it was supposed to be a mosque. iran's foreign minister has warned that the interception of an iranian passenger jet by a u.s. warplane over syria risk disaster iranian state television says several passengers were injured as the pilots took evasive action what is on a u.s. sanctions list for supporting iran's revolutionary guard and hezbollah fighters in lebanon said a quarter report from the lebanese capital. a state of panic among passengers on board flight 1152 the air bus was flying from iran's capital tehran to beirut in lebanon on thursday night when the iranians say it was harassed by fighter jets data recorded show the airliner climb from 34000 feet to 34600 feet in less than 2 minutes before descending to 34000 feet

a minute later iran's state t.v. says several passengers were injured due to the sudden changes in altitude the jet landed safely in the lebanese capital. they also want to damage when we reached the airspace of syria a fighter jet approached a my hunter plane in order to avoid colliding with that jet the pilot rapidly decreased altitude and it caused injury for some passengers. hours later the u.s. central command confirmed a u.s. f. 15 was involved in the incident and not israeli warplanes as 1st suspected the u.s. said the f. 15 was on a routine air mission near the town of coalition base in syria the war plane conducted a standard visual inspection of the airliner at a safe distance says the u.s. and want identified the f. 15 opened distance from the aircraft in line with international standards. privately owned air has been under u.s.

sanctions for years accused by washington of providing financial material and technological support to iran's couldst force which includes the lebanese group hezbollah. accusations that. from that airline used very logistics support for running back forces in the region so that may well have been one of the reasons why the u.s. started taking a close look. at u.s. troops are in the l town of area near syria's borders with iraq in jordan the base was 1st established a fight i sold in 2016 it has since become an outpost to counter iran's expansion in the region as its on a supply route linking to herat to beirut that passes through syria the researchers say that this already or as basically a no go zone for the rainy weather also that you know whether any other

presence which the incident could have been an unfortunate encounter but many believe it was a message the fact that it came at a time of heightened tensions between iran and the united states in the region caused concern that there have been numerous occasions that the risk of an all out conflict. so far to one in washington have avoided all out confrontation this latest incident in the skies a reminder that the potential for an escalation is real. beirut. israeli police have made dozens of arrests joining the latest protest demanding the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu police fired water cannon at demonstrators outside his official residence in west jerusalem on thursday been weeks of demonstrations over the worsening coronavirus crisis and netanyahu is corruption trial a new wave of violence in south sudan has forced thousands of people to flee their

homes in the eastern region of people armed groups attacked a village in the jungle region on wednesday night around 6000 families have taken refuge at the nearby u.n. base the country is emerging from a 6 year civil war that killed 380000 people and displaced millions musgrave with the bodies of 28 sudanese soldiers has also been found in durham and after 3 weeks search prosecutors say the officers were involved in a failed coup against the former president omar al bashir in 1990 they were executed in mysterious circumstances after a quick military trial earlier this month another mass grave of trainee soldiers was uncovered it's believed they'd been trying to flee a camp in 1998 officials have been looking into human rights violations under bush's rule. countries all over south asia are suffering some of the worst monsoon rains in years weeks of rain have caused devastating flooding and landslides which

killed at least 132 people in the poll in just a week millions are homeless in several other countries including india and bangladesh so how about tons more. a river in the nepalese district of cheats one is best its banks umbrellas are a necessity to watch the fast flowing flood beneath further along the river bank a bird and a miniature temple just about managed to stay unscathed for many nepalis their hinds business isn't even livelihoods have been swept away the monsoon season in the polls started last month and took a turn for the worse on sunday with flash floods and landslides in 70 of the $77.00 districts across the country the number of deaths is 3 times higher than the same time last year. there's no way to get up there my house is now surrounded with water that has risen up from what you can eat a small stream. search and rescue teams the sifting through debris to find missing people and clean major roads which link mountainous parts of the country to the

capital katmandu. house near a begum is trying to get to her house things are also bad in bangladesh where this year's monsoon season is cool's heavy losses than previously. despite her flooded home her snare continues with her daily chores while a son studies. was suffering because the embankment was just joyed in the flood if the road had been in a better condition then we wouldn't have suffered so much with one 3rd of bangladesh already flooded in more monsoon rain expected aid agencies are warning humanitarian crisis is on the way already one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change bangladeshis are having to deal with some of the worst flooding they've ever seen homicide. i'm having trouble with my cattle water has got into my house i'm not anything now and i'm sitting at home. nudie

10000000 people across south asia have been affected by the severe weather conditions including india. this year's monsoon season has been relentless and it's not turning the people who are struggling to hide it and. well still ahead here on al-jazeera break gets worse we'll ask how the coronavirus is affecting its political stability. and the growing standoff in space russia was accused of launching an anti-satellite weapons. also for more countries are set to miss out on hosting a formula one grand prix this year and they will have that story in sports so do stay with us here on the al-jazeera news out. of. the house and dry throughout much of the middle east but nose to everywhere

we've seen some showers and thunderstorms across the southwest a soggy but also a persistent hours of rain across far southwest portion of yemen so some dramatic thunderstorms at the same time you can see here just lighting up the evening skies and it doesn't like a lot of rain but it has been a fairly steady and persistent in the last few days on there is more in the 4 call so it could actually lead to some flooding in the streets of sana this will rain as you can see here through saturday to the north of there it is mostly fine mostly clia i should say k. there is some blowing sand and dust and the winds are changing direction so it's feeling very humid and in fact as we go through sunday the touches noticeably low in g q 8 just 44 degrees celsius the winds coming in off the warm waters of the gulf and still some blowing sand and not a particularly good day then down into southern africa now the joint typhoon warning center so watching this very closely say it could develop into a tropical cyclone it is very close to the north. brings them have the most the

right investment strong gusty winds as well but it is very close it doesn't look as if it's going to develop into a tropical cyclone and then across into south africa front just sliding by 30 breezy go through the weekend and maybe going to 2 shows across into port elizabeth . for. mexico's club in 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital with the deadly upsurge inevitable to take a good home for the really of visitors every day there's really no way that they can go to this regard without quote. all has the governments on orthodox strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera. coveted beyond well. taken without hesitation. bolton died from. power defines our

we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we live here we make the rules people in power investigates exposes and questions they use and abuse of power around the globe on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news are with me still run the reminder of our top news stories chinese staff are moving out of their consulate in the u.s. city of houston are to be ordered to close it china has retaliated by altering the u.s. to shut down its consular office in the southwestern city of chengdu. the u.s.

state of florida is reporting a record number of new hospitalizations on friday while i think 12000 new cases president donald trump canceled the republican party convention is supposed to be held there next month. and friday prayers to be held in turkey is how kids feel for the 1st time in more than 85 years after turkey's present president only one declared the structure of originally built as an orthodox christian cathedral and once again be converted to a mosque following a court ruling. u.s. investment bank goldman sachs has agreed to pay malaysia $3900000000.00 over its role in a massive corruption scandal the payouts will see all criminal charges against the bank dropped the scandal involved after billions of dollars from malaysia's sovereign wealth fund prosecutors say the money went to the former prime minister najib resigned and his inner circle it led to his ousting in 2018.

bolivia's interim president to use or not been elected could stay in power until the end of the year as it's had to perspire own its election due to the pandemic sinead and then is has tested positive for the virus along with at least 7 other members of her cabinet the decision to delay elections could cause political friction between the interim conservative government and the socialist party of the former president evo morales he resigned and left the country last year after social unrest loyalists was bolivia's 1st indigenous president since he was ousted ethnic tensions have got worse farnsworth is the vice president of the council of the americas joins me now via skype from washington d.c. always good to have you on the program mr farnsworth and thanks for the time i mean a delay in the election may on the surface seem a commonsense approach really because of the coronavirus pandemic but some will see it as a political move to keep both what's sections of the public and the political discourse quiet. yeah that's absolutely true on both counts i mean on 1st blush it does seem

to be common sense to delay the vote from september now talk to the last 6 weeks you have to remember that voting in bolivia is complicated because there are a lot of rural areas there are a lot of areas where there isn't a large state presence so just formally organizing a vote even the normal times can be complicated and in a pandemic which is never been tried before it's particularly complicated so yes that's absolutely right i mean. a little a little actors will always see some sort of effort to gain advantage or to seek advantage by manipulating votes and changing dates and so already the morale us forces have jumped on this and said the illegitimate son that the interim government is trying to create greater support for itself so we have to see how this works out indeed in the country is politically polarized right now into sort

of pro and anti evo morales groups is it really that simple is the divide is that indigenous this is not indigenous will is there more to it in terms of the left and rights of the political spectrum. it's a really important question and in fact it's much more complicated than just left 1st is right although you do have a very strong continued support for morale issues in exile right now in argentina you know and his base of support tended to be from those who didn't have a lot of public in previous years the indigenous population. in the cocoa growing movement folks who were part of the normal elites necessarily and with his ouster and with the interim governance of janine ah yes which now looks like it could be for as much as a year or perhaps more of the country's pollard ization has not been able to be healed in any particular way but there are a lot of divergence is in bolivia not just racial not just historical but also

geographic economic and so there are a lot of ways that this across many nations in the americas the economy has taken a hit because of that 90 i mean how important is it to get the economy up and running especially for cocoa farmers this is a big source of income and is perhaps the largest base political base for the ra let's come. well absolutely the cocoa farmers in bolivia have some coca production is actually legal it's a traditional. medicine it's used to fight altitude sickness the coca leaves and bolivia is a very high capital of possibly high capital ised in the world so i'll go to the really is an issue but it's not just a couple growers it's also the miners which are traditionally the most politically active and those who rapidly go out to the streets to the extent that they find that their own equities or their own interests are being negatively impacted and i think to the extent that this polarization does not somehow get addressed through

the electoral process you probably are going to see continued street protests will become even more serious and if the economy is not giving people a reason to really focus on economic gains and economic production that's just going to make the situation all that much worse so without souls of potential street protests and unions and various disparate getting involved how do you think janina and as the interim president has performed up to this point you've got to deal with perhaps a reality that she would never have thought she'd be facing. i think you're exactly right in fact a lot of chines the accidental president i mean they're all in snow indication last act over there in the fall of the chair with in the interim president through happenstance and through the resignation of people who are in the line of succession in front of her she finds herself in the interim president say this issue was supposed to have been resolved by elections last may which i have already

been postponed to september and now i was on the nz again so there is a bit of a process year that nobody thought would be occurring and they are trying to figure it out as they go and go along i think we have to be a little bit careful though to suggest that at the end shall be the one who benefits from all this luck if a country is perceived to be in chaos or the interim government can't get the pandemic under control that's probably actually going to weigh in favor of the opposition party when the elections eventually are so this this this really could cut both ways and i think most of the folks and believe me it's not everybody wishes in the 1st instance that they get this pandemic under control and look all it's later on all of them but we'll see what does happen is always good to get your insight phones with thanks for joining us from washington d.c. thank you. the mexico struggling to cope with the economic fallout from the pandemic 12000000 people in the country were left job in april alone but the government has ruled out a comprehensive stimulus package john holden explains. of to 25

years this is the last day of sylvan and this is through the looking glass 3 months without a sale during mitts because look is dumb for it but i get them the truth is that i and everyone who went to me have a profound love of books for us it's a big hit leasing the shop that's maintained me and 20 stuff. i know how you live the world economies are suffering but the code 19 full now could be about to hit mix code particularly hard the scenes in this book should begin to be playing out in a lot of other businesses in mexico in the coming weeks and months the u.n. 2nd amik commission for latin america estimates that half a 1000000 businesses are going to close in the country as a result of the coronavirus crisis. the economy's going to shrink more than in any of the of the 4 major nations in latin america estimates the international monetary fund it says that a big stimulus package is the answer but president under his money well lopez

obrador has refused to roll one out. he's wary of day he's relying mostly on small loans for some businesses and topping up already existing social programs to get through this is some objective and we have started to promote the economic recovery we are pushing for the creation of 2000000 new jobs. an economist says that job claim is misleading you are losing a high quality job we've placing it with barkeep baiting in a social programs and then or president officially it's like we are creating jobs why is the president doing that why isn't he i'm blaming a bigger stimulus package he. of the fed and these 8 he saw how on 3 went into the. very high public there. no i don't want that we have to walk

in and not really. at least now mix because shops and restaurants are reopening because the country comes out of the quarantine but the virus is far from b. . and even on her 1st day back in her sweet shop your dealers son a brace he's already worrying about what happens if customers keep staying away. with all the governors in korea because they can't hold out but maybe for another month but no more. than they were in the same situation hoping things get better. for others like silver and through the looking glass it's already too late john home and. mexico city the united nations says it's concerned about the actions of us police in recent protests a un human rights spokeswoman says arrest by an identified officers could lead to human rights violations they also called on police to limit the use of force

meanwhile the u.s. department of justice and homeland security say they'll investigate the use of force by federal agents democrats say agents improperly detained and transported anti-racism demonstrators in portland and washington d.c. the department's internal watchdogs will also review president trump's directive to restore order. a quarter zimbabwe has denied bail for a prominent journalist and an opposition leader who'd been speaking out against government corruption hopewell and jacob. have been accused of inciting public violence and calling for people to join to government protests next week and we'll toss a has more from harare. state prosecutors opposed to bail they say that if hope watching one of the feelers journalist was allowed to go home he could use the opportunity to go back on a social media pages and encourage people to demonstrate in next week's planned anti-government demonstrations they also fear that he could also use your

opportunity to leave the country when hope wasn't going to was leaving the magistrate's court in the capital harare he said he feels he's been persecuted for only doing his job. right now to consideration of the servant involved with the french reporting one of the organizers of the 31st deadline protested c n n so this is really journalism is being criminalized for $105.00. and look at the back of her struggle against corruption should continue people should not stop they should carry on with the. critics of the government say officials are using this as an opportunity as an excuse to suppress the media freedom and to stop people from gathering their say in these uncovered 900000 denecke as an excuse and human rights organizations are concerned we encourage the government to engage with civil society and other stakeholders to find sustainable solutions to grievances while ensuring the rights and freedoms are protected in accordance with zimbabwe's you

months of negotiations will include the responsibility of state guarantee economic social and cultural rights the government of zimbabwe denies the allegations it says it's only doing this to protect people it's discouraging people from gathering next week if the planned protest go ahead and they say they feel the people organizing this protest are doing it to undermine the authority of the state. more than 50 journalists have resigned on mass from hungary is leading news website index dot hates you it follows the recent ousting of their editor chief dull he was fired after warning that the outlets independence was at risk of political pressure from the government a pro-government businessman there quite significant control over the websites funding earlier this year prime minister viktor orban has built a vast pro-government media protestors in bulgaria her again call for the resignation of the prime minister boy kerbala solve who they accuse of turning

a blind eye to corruption. the reshuffle this cabinet on thursday to try and quell the 2 weeks of anti corruption protests president ruminative added a who's a vocal critic of box office is encouraging protesters to continue their rallies now a story of love and politics in hong kong a court has acquitted this couple of rioting and a potential 10 year prison sentence police detained them for 2 days during last year's extradition of all protests that was just before their wedding and they've spent married life awaiting their court appearance the couple burst into tears and supporters applauded when the verdict came. and russia has denied allegations by the u.s. and u.k. that it launched an anti satellite weapon into space the u.s. space command says that it has evidence that moscow fired the projectile on july the 15th and britain warn the move poses a threat to satellites the world depends on russia's foreign ministry says the test

complied with international law and sandra sticking z's a research fellow in space policy and security at the royal united services institute in britain she says it appears russia is ramping up its space program. i think it's important 1st not necessarily to refer to it as a weapon it did have characteristics that could potentially be a weapon due to its relative velocity and from the satellite from which it came i don't i think what we see is the recognition that space is becoming a much more important strategic environment or military operations and so it's no surprise that states are developing capabilities that could deny there are those theories access to that space assets but it's also important to recognize that this isn't new. you know from the beginnings of the use of space states have looked at how to develop these capabilities so i think it's we need to not move too fast with

narratives about weaponization of space and of space race and just take a bit of caution with that so many different states are developing capabilities we know china has anti satellite capabilities india tested a missile last year and we certainly have seen i guess a resurgence of russia. in terms of these programs coming back and you know when you look at the rhetoric for example coming from the united states and with the creation of a space force talks of space being a warfighting domain any state that has significant space assets is going to be looking at how to protect its own assets and also how to ensure that it provides a certain level of deterrence against act you know there are persons who might wish to talk at the. boris johnson has gone from fighting brant said to fighting for his life in the past year it meant the u.k.

government has the times been slow to act on the pandemic in his 1st 12 months as prime minister and one expects the country to be over the worst of it by mid 2021 he warns a threat of a 2nd wave remains very hard jonjo record reports. boris johnson in ways wanted to be prime minister and this mantra made it possible we can get bricks it done now his arrival in downing street came with ruthless sackings all of the top jobs went to his pro bricks its supporters and bricks it was done it had split the country and the conservative party. but then within a month came the biggest crisis facing any prime minister in post-war u.k. history coded 19 toweled did johnson handle it certainly has a lot of question marks around it there's a widespread acceptance and probably thinking government that the u.k. maybe locks down too late and he's been slow to come out of that before the virus

struck johnson was absent from 5 crises briefings i'm shaking hands can decide that i was at a hospital the other night i think there are a few there are actually if you create a virus a patient and i sure can deliver a body temperature. yet the prime minister himself became a coded victim narrowly escaping death polls show how much of the public sympathy for his plight waned rapidly it was reaction to blunders costing thousands of lives such as frontline health workers without protective gear and no attempts to protect the elderly in nursing homes. add to that johnson's refusal to sack chief advisor dominic cummings broke lock down rules. talks over a trade deal with the you a stalled and johnson refuses to break his promise not to extend talks into the new year is suddenly a very few ulcers if you like to believe in what they say is

a clean break has been best for 'd the british colony in the long term there's also the brics that referendum in 2016 taking center stage in another major issue facing johnson and his government johnson's government is accused of refusing to investigate what the report called successful russian interference in u.k. democracy like to watch out for this man here starmer took pile on the pressure is the new leader of the labor opposition party he's leading in the polls and many in his party see him as a serious threat john jay regan al-jazeera. well still out here on out in spalding leading us dr doing his best to flatten the curve on the baseball field and they will have a story in school look to stay with us. for

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all. talk about tough sport on his own thank you so much so the major league baseball season in north america has officially begun at last the start was delayed by 4 months due to the coronavirus pandemic with a familiar face in the u.s. his fight against coverage 19 getting the action under way somehow malik reports of allergy and infectious diseases to throw out the serum only for the major league baseball season is finally underway after a 4 month delay caused by the global pandemic and fittingly it was one of the men at the forefront of the u.s. as he fight against kobe 19 dr anthony found that was given the honor of throwing the ceremonial opening pitch. his effort however was indicative of

a man that's had little time to practice with the u.s. recording over 4000000 cases of the disease so far. because of the pandemic all the games for now are happening behind closed doors with his favorite team the washington nationals getting the action under way against the new york yankees. the nationals weren't helped by having one player test positive ahead of the game as they went down 41 with play ending early because of rain got great speed and here will score without a way i had a lot of butterflies today you know some of the ball or us our guys came out with an edge and. the impact of the black lives matter protest movement was also felt on opening day players at both the match in washington d.c. and the game between the dodgers and san francisco giants in l.a. saw players take the knee like the 1st match game 2 was

a one sided affair with the dodgers cruising to an 81 win. u.s. president don trump who's been widely criticized for how he's dealt with the pandemic and the b.l.m. protests also got a slice of opening day action for himself he hosted a group of little leaguers at the white house to mark the occasion. to do a career in and around. the u.s. and its president have plenty of difficulties to deal with that present but at least for now the sport known as america's favorite pastime is giving many a reason to smile so he'll malik al-jazeera will canada's only major league seen this round so blue jays are going to play all their home games at a minor league park in buffalo new york the move comes after the canadian government declined to allow them to planes for a long time and the state of pennsylvania blocked a deal to house games there in pittsburgh shoots of a coronavirus pandemic trying to open the season it's hampered in

a few hours' time. i think we want people to stay home i think giving them sports to watch on t.v. actually is a good thing not a bad thing. working with the department of health i think we can come up with protocols that keep people safe and we've done that. and if we can get to rondo playing here i say great l.a. lakers star le bron james has described the fight against racial injustice in the united states now as a walk of life le bron was talking after scoring 12 points in 15 minutes during the lakers practice game here against the dallas mavericks it was his 1st appearance for the lakers in 4 months and be a regular season history to restart next thursday. well you black it's not a movement it's a lifestyle. we say there's is a movement in the laws movement always don't stop movement oh this is the walk of

life you wake up you black you that is what it should be a movement it should be a lifestyle this is who we are and we understand that we know that no for for one step that someone else might have or for one your someone else may have to take it we know we've got to take 5 more steps england's kurtz's of put themselves in a good position on day one of the 3rd and deciding test against the west indies for once england's ben stokes failed with the bats old bike a more roach for 20 an unbeaten half century for just butler along with all the pope's $91.00 knots out so the haunting finish today in manchester on c 100 and 58th for the series is poised at $1.00 to $200.00 there was a sight isn't. what we are really it's not at all alex salmond said they vote. against new yorkers. 'd now switzerland's attorney general has officer resigned as the fallout from

a corruption investigation into football's world governing body thief it continues my collaborator is a paling against a ruling that he lied to investigators about an undisclosed meeting with the for president jani infancy no no longer involved in any of the ongoing criminal proceedings against chief but of all caps in jordan henderson has picked up yet another trophy this time it's an individual ward henderson has been named the english football writers player of the year the 30 year old let england and liverpool even see their 1st premier league title in 3 decades it's. a famous drama seaven up on behalf of all the team and the players at liverpool football club because. without that this will be possible and there's only but only one in that dressing room would be very deserved to win this award so. when there was an element of it's about what this team has achieved over the past year and 4 no one

has cancelled all 4 of its races in the americas this season due to the coverage 19 pandemic gone praise in brazil mexico canada and the united states all scraps but 3 more european races have been added to the calendar year vice schedule now has 13 confirmed dates the final rounds due to be held in mid december in bahrain having to. ok that is a sports looking for so thanks very much i don't go into the you like this final story that we got for our viewers because it's been 5000 years in the making a russian fisherman has an earthy rains of a mammoth on the shores of a lake inside there is the animal peninsula the skeleton is intact and experts say it makes a unique find because mammoths are believed to come extinct about 5600 years ago they were about twice the size and weight of today's elephants what a great. discovery was the al-jazeera news on my colleague tearing up a cable have walls while london news sent in a few moments monday me on the news out say thanks for your time and your company.

who's to blame for the mishandling of the coronavirus kunda make in the united states i'll be putting the tough questions to trump surrogate jack kingston and former democratic party official just o'connell in a special edition of head to head he are not even through wave one as a result of a lack of a leadership here i said to my people slow the testing down please that is criminally negligent and i will sit there and i thought it was hilarious head to head on algis

iraq. august on out is aimed at the us republican and democratic national conventions delegates officially nominate their party's presidential candidates for the 2020 elections in india witness upon as a young conservationist tackling the deadly human elephant conflict with an unlikely strategy coexistence 10 years off to the chilean mining disaster we revisit the victims of a story that captivated the world one on one east and has the violent and we know it the mixed martial arts in russia and the former u.s.s.r. and the u.n. special tribunal delivers its verdict on the assassination of former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri focused on al-jazeera. on the culture of the cost this week rich countries a corner of the market for covert 9. but what does that mean for the world's poor will look at the coronavirus treatment following the patients and check out the

real price of developing. countries the cost on al-jazeera. an alarming 24 hours in the coronavirus pandemic as the world health organization reveals a record number of new infections and deaths. you're watching are just 0 live from london i'm terry navigator also ahead concern about the safety of boeing 737 planes which were grounded as a result of the pandemic claims of espionage and state secrecy the diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and china intensifies.