and the spend that we meet with global newsmakers and tweek about the stories that matter is their own. an alarming 24 hours in the coronavirus pandemic as the world health organization reveals a record number of new infections and it's. this is al jazeera life from london i'm sorry you're not a beta also ahead claims of espionage on state secrecy the diplomatic dispute between the us and china intensifies concern about the safety of boeing 737 planes which were grounded as a result of the pandemic. first friday prayers it is the

bull's high here sophia after its controversial change of status from a museum to a. fellow more than 6 months since the corona virus was 1st detected in china the pandemic is still ripping through the world that record rates more than 284000 new infections have been reported in the last 24 hours that's a record rise according to the world health organization nearly $10000.00 people have died in that same period the biggest spike since the end of april across the planet the virus has killed more than 635000 people more than a 5th of those fatalities are in the u.s. the world's worst hit country new hotspots in the south and west have pushed the infection count past 4000000 light america has also recorded more than 4000000

cases war than 176000 people have died we'll have more on the outbreak in latin america in a moment but 1st this report from andy gallacher in miami. they are particularly bleak numbers considering when you think that the world health organization is now saying 5000 people are dying every single day across the world that figure in june was 4600 of course here in the state of florida the numbers keep on growing for about the past 2 weeks we've had at least 10000 new cases each and every day that tops out at 15000 on july the 12th they tell us the rate is edging ever closer towards $6000.00 or now fresh concerns about this state's over $65.00 population is from within the last few minutes at the federal authorities of announce that they will be placing quick testing machines in 23 counties because the death rate here is simply sell i am among the elderly now the state is also turning to isolation

centers for elderly people who contract covert 19 let's just see what that policy is all about. the coronavirus pandemic has taken a heavy toll on florida's elderly residents a staggering majority of the fatalities here are those 65 and older and with an expansive network of assisted living facilities and nursing homes the danger for seniors is serious like other states around the nation florida is turning to isolation centers for the elderly the state now has more than 2 dozen of them they designed to prevent the spread of coded 19 patients the attention they need and free up space in the state's already strained hospitals as covert nursing homes are places where a hospital could discharge safely long term care resident who's covered positive also has a place where if there is infections inside a long term care facility a long term care facility can send to the coven only facility in a state ravaged by the pandemic the retirement home in miami is an exemption there

would be no coronavirus cases here but if any resident falls ill stassi isolation is a good option i think it's. great idea so if somebody has it they should be in a place where they can be monitored by professionals who are experienced with whatever limited access areas people have now is terrible disease for the past 2 weeks in florida the number of new daily cases has hovered around 10000 miami has now mandated the wearing of masks but in other parts of the state those who can easily spread the virus are ignoring medical advice the number of cases among those who work with the elderly has also risen sharply but some experts say isolating elderly patients who contract covert 19 may not be the best thing one of the things not often talked about during this pandemic is the mental health aspect of living through these difficult times many elderly residents on to live to see relatives

social interaction is in many places not allowed and moving those who are infected with covert 19 may be detrimental to all involved those who specialize in geriatric care say isolation and patient transfers has its drawbacks many residents are very confused by the situation and with perhaps all timers or dementia may not understand fully what's going on and why are they no longer being visited every day by by relatives around 20 percent of florida's population is over the age of $65.00 but even in communities like the villages where people are $55.00 and older cases have quadrupled since the beginning of the month while isolation units for those who fall ill as seen as a good strategy risks remain for this state's older population whether they live in care facilities or not. now as for the state's approach to tackling the pandemic it remains a patchwork of different policies you've got the governor rod to santas point blank

refusing to talk about re closing businesses or going back to phase one and then here in miami dade county which is the worst affected county in the entire state the mare of miami has now put a curfew in place and also a mandatory mask policy that's being reinforced by over 40 police officers that were handing out tickets to people that don't wear masks but the problems here remain huge there's the other big issue of schools reopening next month that is something that the governor is also pushing for as well as president donald trump they want to get children back into schools but there are many concerns for people like dr anthony found of the center for disease control saying look we just don't know enough about children how they're affected how they might spread it and also the effect on the teaches and school staff who will be in these schools at the same time so a lot of questions need to be answered here in the state of florida and a lot of people looking for guidance from the governor but so far he isn't budging

on his stance of not closing businesses and also not reconsidering closing schools in europe covert 1000 is resurging in spain and france french that isn't so now advise not to travel to the spanish region of catalonia which has recorded more than 8000 cases in the past fortnight france's warning that its own outbreak may be accelerating reporting a 1130 cases in the last 24 hours and the leader of europe's worst affected country has admitted he could have done things differently pritish prime minister boris johnson has been criticized for acting too slowly to stop the corona virus outbreak which has killed more than 45000 people he says his government failed to understand how the virus was spreading among those who showed no symptoms. but when you look back at this crisis everybody can see that this was something that was new that we didn't understand in the way that we would have liked in the 1st few weeks

and months and i think probably the single thing that we didn't see the beginning was the extent to which it was being transmitted a symptomatically from from person to person mexico is struggling to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic 12000000 people there were left without an income in april alone but the government rolled out a major stimulus package here struck home and with one. after 25 years this is the last day of salvation and this is book shot through the looking glass 3 months without a sale during mexico's lockdown is dumb for it it but. the truth is that i and everyone who works with me have a profound love of books for us it's a big hit losing the but shop that's maintained me and 20 stuff. and leave 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 a month un 2nd amik commission for latin america estimate 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 refused to roll one now. he's wary of debt and 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 bating you know. and then or

president officially but if it's like we are creating jobs why is the president through about why isn't he i'm bailing a bigger stimulus package he. of the fed and these 8 he saw how on the. when the very high public. no i don't want that we have to. work not really. at least now because shops and restaurants are reopening because the country comes out the quarantine but the virus is far from b. . and even on her 1st day back in his sweet shop you did a son a break he's already worrying about what happens if customers keep staying away. not by the look of those in korea because monkey and 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 in. mexico city. more than 40 years since the u.s. recognized china's communist government relations between the world's 2 largest economies have sunk to their lowest levels in decades the us is warning china against it for tat retaliation after beijing ordered the american consulates in the city of chengdu to be shut down that order was in direct response to the closer of china's consulate in houston the trumpet ministration says it was part of a massive spy network but the super powers are clashing on a range of other issues including donald trump's accusation that china is responsible for the coronavirus pandemic the white house has also been

a furious critic of the new security law in hong kong along with china's territorial claims in the south china sea how does a pastor of joining us from maryland so there's been a number for us in recent days is the white house pressure is beijing heidi. that's that's right and the 4th of those arrests woman by the name of time john she was just in federal court in california she had been hiding within the chinese consulate in san francisco after having been questioned by f.b.i. agents and what the u.s. is accusing her of is they say she is secretly a member of the chinese military who posed as a student in order to gain access to u.s. universities and steal research and trade secrets to take back to china now china has vehemently denied those accusations but we see this really as an escalation

with the u.s. also ordering the closure of the chinese consulate infused in directly related to these arrests a workers there packed up today it was a vision time just about an hour ago and then we have that start really mirror image across the ocean in chengdu china where in retaliation for the closure of that the chinese consulate will china ordered americans to close their consulate in chengdu so really a moment that reflects perhaps the most acute deterioration in the relationship between these 2 countries since diplomatic relations were normalized more than 40 years ago during the height or so we expect that the situation to avoid to evolve in the coming days and months. well certainly there is more tension in the air and the fear here is that this is the week of another cold war at a time when the global economy certainly would not like to see one these 2 nations together make up 40 percent of the plan is g.d.p.

and some of the considerations here in the u.s. are the political factors with the president trump increasingly targeting china as the scapegoat for his own much critiques and criticized response to the coronavirus . to hear him referring to that as the china's china virus now repeatedly and it may be more red meat tossed to his political base within 3 months of the election in which he is of course fighting to remain in the white house but apart from those political considerations of course there are these long running tensions that span everything from the military to economic to trade wars between these 2 countries and it appears that these small as fallacious are certainly building up and the fear is that both countries are coming so close to the group to building a wall of tension that will be more and more difficult to surmount right heidi

thank you for that update from maryland. coming up in just a moment. panic in the skies above syria all after an american war plane flies possed an iranian us and europe. is of asia's devastating monsoon season storms through the ball killing dozens of displacing millions off people. hello the last winter storm is winding itself up and drifting fairly quickly after say just touching victoria and tasmania and disappearing towards a new zealand what's more unusual is what's happening in new south wales we had an unusual rain this is the middle of winter in tropical queensland now look at the coast and inland in new south wales this is significant rain for the next few days

with an increasing breeze ran down the coast opposite direction of the woman caused so much damage but it's a strong wind is still story weather and fairly heavy rain on its way down towards sydney then the weekend same time a passing frontal give a shower to maybe in perth but no more than that very active weather on the seasonal rain you can see this here has produced flooding throughout south korea it's been notable in busan but it's been measurable further north as well that's more or less done to death now you got an easterly wind a few more showers a bit more rain to come mostly on the northern half of south korea just going to north korea but the heavy rains probably going to be in japan in honshu and then the tail of it comes back the next developing system it's going south be on the yangtze here but in sichuan another level develop and produce yet more potential flooding.

counting the cost this week rich countries are cornering the market for covert $19.00 vaccines but what does that mean for the world's poor we'll look at the coronavirus treatments for low income they sions and check out the real price of developing. countries the cost on al-jazeera. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. right. now that we're going to top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization says there was

a record increase in new coronavirus cases on friday with more than $284000.00 infections u.s. remains the worst hit nation with more than a 1100 new deaths on thursday. the spread of the corona virus is again excel aerating and from the more than a $1100.00 cases reported in the past 24 hours officials are concerned about arrivals in the spanish region of catalonia. china and the u.s. are getting deeper into tit for tat actions after the american consulate in the city of chengdu was shut down it follows the us ordering the closure of the chinese consulate in houston. pandemics had a devastating impact on the airline industry and now there are fears that planes which have been idle during the crisis have been corroding to a dangerous extent the american civil aviation authority is warning that urgent checks are needed on one of the world's most popular jets which could now suffer engine failure you barker reports. as passengers tentatively take to the skies

again and line still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic face a new challenge america's federal aviation administration has issued an emergency warning ordering all operators of the boeing 737 and g n 77 classic to inspect a key engine part after 4 reports of sudden engine shutdowns the f.a.a. said it was issuing the urgent directive to address corrosion of the engine bleed air 5th stage check valves for both engines which could result in compressor stalls and jewel engine power loss without the ability to restart which could result in a forced off airport landing the warning applies to any 737 that's been in storage for at least a week and given the number of extra aircraft grounded by the pandemic it's thought to apply to thousands of 70 seven's and dozens of fleets worldwide it's going to

cause a bit of rights you're going to see i imagine i mean shit lee this trailer down in the aviation 'd will help the rest of it in as much as it is a cross. our thanks. and it's not as if he's a major structural aeration issue but engineering stuff like engine bells is something that you wouldn't know about until you had a problem the boeing 737 is one of the most successful commercial jets of all time with a good safety record but the warnings a major setback for a company that struggled to regain trust after the grounding of its 737 max and craft following 2 fatal and crashes within 5 months these latest concerns to not apply to the 737 max the aviation industry has been badly bruised by covert 19 in may u.s. airlines said they were collectively losing more than $10000000000.00 in cash a month while boeing said sales of its craft were at their lowest in 60 years. is.

al-jazeera. after failing to get backing from congress president donald trump assigned 4 executive orders to try and lower prescription drug prices one order allows for cheaper prescription drugs to be imported all and other means the lowest possible price should be passed on to patients it also includes a measure to lower insulin costs for a low income patients president claimed his move put patients before a lobbyist and said drug companies had asked for a meeting to discuss price cuts. thousands of hunger areas have marched to prime minister viktor orban ons office in support of media freedom public anger is rising after the editor in chief of the country's most popular independent news site was sacked savile was fired after warning that the index websites independence was at risk of political pressure thousands of journalists from the clicked have now resigned in protest website has long been a target of orbán who once called it

a fake news factory one of his allies recently took control of the site's advertising sales. iran's foreign minister has accused the us of risking disaster after an iranian passenger plane had to suddenly change course over syria to avoid an american fighter jets several passengers were injured during the incident the pilot had abruptly changed altitudes the u.s. says its jet kept a safe distance said i heard the reports from beirut's where the plane eventually landed safely. 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 diminish when we reached the airspace of syria a fighter jet approached a monoplane 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 the root. he an 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 once identified the f. 15 opened distance from the aircraft in line with international standards privately owned by hand 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. crap from that airliner used to carry the juicy support for a running back forces in the region so that may well have been one of the reasons why the u.s. sided take a close look at the. u.s. troops are in the area near syria's borders with iraq in jordan the base was 1st established to fight eisel in 2016 it has since become an outpost to counter iran's expansion in the region as its on a supply route linking to iran to be a route that passes through syria the message is a this or a doors basically a no go zone for the. well that also you know whether any of their

presence. then fit in 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 locations that risk an all out conflict. so far to iran and washington have avoided all out confrontation this latest incident in the skies a reminder that the potential for an escalation is real. more than 130 people have been killed in severe flooding and landslides in nepal dozens of people are missing while millions have left have been left this place because of the floods triggered by heavy rain houses have been destroyed buildings swept away and roads damaged emergency personnel are searching the debris for missing people floods and landslides are common in nepal during the summer with more rain still expected. it's

a world famous architectural tresor revered by both christians and muslims now turkey's high gas sophia has gone from museum to mosque hosting its 1st friday prayers in nearly 86 years but it's 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 now called istanbul in 1453 the city fell to the ottomans after a 55 day siege and how i guess sophia was converted into a mosque almost 500 years later in 1935 and became a secular museum reflecting the inclusive vision of istanbul after the fall of the ottoman empire turkey's highest court ordered the conversion of the unesco world heritage site back to a mosque earlier this month president support of the switch which angered christian religious leaders and politicians around the world said of course of all who has more from istanbul. after serving as

a museum for the past 8 to 6 years the nearly converted target sufi a mosque welcomed thousands of turks for friday prayers some had travelled from cities across turkey for to pick ok sion and. leaders and dignitaries from other countries listened as clerics perform their rituals christian mosaics and frescoes of jesus and mary were traped with curtains. for the reopening of turkey's present treasure to add on the site at the opening section of the course on. we go to make a great people who are eager to pray here thousands participated in the praise we came here to give the the government and the authorities concerned to do the necessary renovations the new 100 years if you most will be something great that makes us very proud and will always be open for all citizens visitors and the tourists as well. i guess sophia's restoration as

a mosque came 2 weeks after turkey's high school which ruled that a 934 government decree converting to place so for ship interim museum was illegal after 8 years the laird's. there they're all out here so it's not. bad and he was. the. real printing i guess sophia as a mosque again following the 1st prayer hundreds fresh to visit the famous landmark nursery thousands came here you saw the space wasn't enough may god bless those who made it almost again it. wasn't soltan man but it stumbles concrete to help the fast prayer after so many years is are the ones i'm very happy as a muslim. but many non muslims are against the conversion of the us call world heritage moment. church bells around greece who rang gets midday flags were low

over to protest what the head of greek also looks church called the unholy act of defiling the former critical of the bison to an empire. later say the conversion is an internal matter off national sovereignty that a supporter of the people dance critics say he's pushed through the populist move to consolidate his power in the ruling party and fend off potential rivals to his leadership. you the real opposition is among the conservative community itself that's going to change the balance in power the hacky a severe has a meaning in the conservative historical consciousness that's why when you support the hagia sophia you address 65 percent of the turkish electorate saying that i am defending all calls but this only has an impact on the marginal knowing person. an opinion poll this month showed 43 percent of turks saw the mosque controversy as a way for urgent to avoid discussion of turkey's troubled economy some of add ons

former allies agree but for both domestic and foreign tourists they're enjoying seeing you around the new look architectural treasure for your charge so you know because although al-jazeera stumble or those watch more analysis on that story on our web site al-jazeera dot com where you'll find the day's top stories and headlines as well al-jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization says there was a record increase in new coronavirus cases on friday with more than 284000 new infections it comes as the spread of the corona virus is again excel orating in fronts countries health ministry says more than 1100 cases were reported in the past 24 hours the 2nd consecutive day it's broken the 1000 thresholds it's led the

government to reimpose border restrictions with particular concern over the northern spanish region of catalonia. the u.s. remains the worst affected country in the world it saw more than 1100 new deaths on thursday alone florida is one of the worst hit states reporting a record increase in the number of daily deaths on thursday and that's led president trump to cancel part of the republican party convention that was due to be held there next month and he gallacher has more from miami. the intensive care units across the state are getting very very full indeed in fact i had a long conversation with a doctor the other day who just done a stint in i.c.u. and he said that it was it was terrible it was really bad they're running short on medicine they're running short on beds the mental strain on the. line staff is really incredible and yet we have a governor here rhonda santas who's at the white house meeting with president trump

saying that he will not talk about rolling back closures china and the u.s. are getting deeper into tit for tat actions after the american consulate in the city of chengdu is shut down it follows the u.s. ordering the closure of the chinese consulate in houston texas relations between the 2 have deteriorated sharply this year with a flashpoint over coronavirus and. airlines have been told they should urgently inspect the type of boeing jets its over fears planes park during the pandemic could suffer engine failure the u.s. civil aviation watchdog says 2000 boeing 737 could have suffered corrosion while parked for weeks as global demand for flights plummeted. those are the headlines on al-jazeera there's more news coming up right after counting the cost of my. incarcerated. in russia's toughest prisons stripped of their liberties.

unexpected creative opportunity. a singing contest like nor their offers a chance of redemption and hope for the talented few. the prison lives inside and out a tale of singers and murderers on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week as rich nations cornered the market for covert 19 vaccines and treatments what does that mean for the world .