it is the child with a culture of chocolates hearts of darkness and count as unpaid child labor as working in a 100000000000 dollar industry over a huff of the country's cocoa produces live below the poverty line. on al-jazeera. the top u.s. health agency urges schools to reopen to students following pressure from the white house. it is our firm belief that the better schools are essential places of business if you will that our teachers are essential personnel. this is our desire life and also coming up and saving lives but at what cost hard

hit florida moves elderly into covert 99 solutions and as. china vacates it shuttered culture that in houston was after ordering the us to close its mission changed due. to. the 1st friday prayers of istanbul's sophia after its controversial change of status from museum to mosque. so then the top u.s. health agency has issued guidelines calling for the full reopening of schools in september even as coronavirus infection spike in large parts of the country the centers for disease control insist it is safe for children to return to classes it's unlikely they say that they will contract or transmit the virus now states and local governments are under growing pressure from the white house to reopen schools

with president donald trump threatening to withhold federal funds from districts that the white house press secretary reiterated that call. it is our firm belief that the that our schools are essential places of business if you will that our teachers are essential personnel you all here are considered essential workers which is why he were coming into the briefing room every day during the candidate their meat packers where meat packing because they were essential workers our doctors were out there treating their essential workers and we believe our teachers are essential well the latest c.d.c. guidelines are a sharp departure from a leaked early a document that classified the full reopening of schools as a higher risk of cheaper arkan's are against the idea recent poll conducted by the associated press show that nearly 80 percent don't think that schools should open without major adjustments and the main teachers' union in florida has taken the governor a trump ally to court to stop schools from reopening the group which represents 140000 teachers says the governor needs

a reality check because the outbreak is out of control you know we're scared we don't want to bury a student or bury a colleague and we most importantly we really don't want you know. for some security to stop spreading it throughout the community i mean this can really get things well. not run to what you got and is president of the american federation of teachers joins us live now on skype from new york to run a welcome to the program good to have you here it's an important development it is an important element isn't it this is this call for a full scale return to school but now by the c.d.c. you represents what is it 1700000 members what do america's teachers think of this . so i don't actually read the c.d.c. guidelines that way i mean they you know they change their frame. based upon the trump politicization and his pressure tactics but when you actually read through the fine print of the c.d.c.

they're actually saying the same thing that we and others have said of course in school learning is very important but safety really matters and all of the safety protocols that they have had their beforehand still are there they're part fine but they're still there so ultimately nothing has changed other than their framing and frankly what i'm concerned about is this the trumpet administration yesterday made it quite clear to g.o.p. delegates that they were not going to put them in harm's way yet in that very stain state of florida they're willing to put teachers and show good in harm's way to open schools right now you need to do 3 things number one you have to actually contain the virus in a jurisdiction that's why texas and california and frankly florida need to wait

to have in school learning until they contain the virus and have a testing infrastructure so that they contain spikes number 2 every school in the country has to have the safety guard rails that the c.d.c. still calls for mass and 6 feet of physical distance saying cleaning and ventilation and number 3 we have to have the resources to do it and that is what we need to do to make sure that safety and health of children and teachers are not mr trump's bluster or threats or demands of course the president's argument is that children don't get as sick as adults. so if you think about this is part of the reason why when the pediatricians heard that argument they actually said no mr president if you're talking about schools you have to talk about the

safety of everyone because it is actually adults who teach children children don't teach themselves adult children and frankly we've actually seen evidence thank god that there's evidence that younger kids don't get so sick but older kids the evidence from south korea is that they spread the virus just like older adults to the point is this we need to harmonize the instruction for kids which is very important in school and the safety of everyone which is of paramount importance in countries in europe they work together on this and didn't and didn't open up schools until they contain the virus that's what we need to do in america as well and frankly my members before trumps bluster and

denials and threats 76 percent of them said that if we could get the safety guard else in places where we didn't have this huge spike lee at florida they were comfortable going back to in school learning but now they do not trust that we will have the resources or the guardrails that every other essential worker has had to have in order to be in this in in in person i'm work right and because it's not just teachers we're talking about here there's also a claim is this cafeteria worker has all sorts of personnel at schools that are in the picture and also a lot of the personnel in schools will be over the age of 15 and therefore risk it works. does your settings about what's going to help you was this i'm just going to say that what is also what's going to happen in you know when september in late august september when school's

a june to reopen are we going to school so people know what's going to happen my sense is because trub is anything but constructive because everybody sees the pressure tactics he's put on the last agency that used to have trust in america c.d.c. mike said to this piece just created more and more chaos so what i think is going to happen unfortunately is that more and more and more schools will open remotely rather than in person because we don't have the resources yet from the congress mr mcconnell today said it may take weeks to actually negotiate a new stimulus package so how do you start school with the resources that you need when those resources are not forthcoming how do you pay for people. when you don't have the money to do it how do you pay for the cleaning supplies when you don't

have the money to do it so i think we're already seeing in places with high risk like houston and atlanta l.a. san francisco they're going until remote instruction there are many places who are really trying newark new york city we're really trying to figure out how to put the safety protocols in place but we don't have the funding to do it ok so try and mcconnell don't actually give us the funding to do this and if they don't start containing the virus instead of letting it spike i'm really afraid we're going to be on remote instruction in many places in america running one garden we appreciate your time thanks very much indeed that's right we want gotten president of the american federation of teachers. well turning from the young to the old efforts being made in the u.s. to protect the elderly in florida

a surge in cases has prompted officials to start using covert 99 solution centers the idea is to stop the spread of the virus among most vulnerable but experts warn the strategy comes with risks and i've got a reports now from miami. 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 that is and to prevent the spread of coated 19 give patients the attention they need and free up space in the state's already strained hospitals 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 consent of the coven only facility in a state ravaged by the pandemic the bay oaks retirement home in miami is an exception there have been no coronavirus cases here but if any resident falls ill staff say isolation is a good option i think it's a great idea so if somebody has it they should be in a place where they can be monitored by professionals who are experienced whatever limited or experienced people now it's 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. but 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 aren't allowed 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 alzheimer's or dementia or may not understand fully what's going on and why are they no longer being visited every day 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 and older cases of 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 and a gala crowd is here or miami florida now

a group of men fall to be officials have forced their way into the chinese consulate building in houston moments after a deadline to shut the office expired on tuesday the u.s. government ordered it to be closed within 72 hours after accusing its personnel of espionage and data theft or accuse of targeting facilities in texas including medical systems and treatment sentence china has called the allegations malicious slander. or the u.s. has also arrested a number of chinese scientists over their alleged ties to china's military trying to win is due to appear in court on visa fraud charges in san francisco as she was the last of 4 to be arrested the u.s. has includes the chinese consulate in san francisco of harboring a u.s. officials have accused all 4 of lying about their status in their visa applications meanwhile a singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the u.s. to acting as a chinese spy hiding your castros in maryland and has more on these cases and the

developing diplomatic spat. the 4th of those arrests woman by the name of time join 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 in houston directly related to these arrests a workers there packed up today it was a vision time just about an hour ago and then we had about start only mirror image across the ocean in chengdu china where in retaliation for the closure of the

chinese consulate well 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 or jordan's foreign minister when you use coal to go in the united states reverse what he calls its wrong decision beijing has now retaliated by ordering the closure of the u.s. consulate in chengdu by monday true to you is that for us. here in downtown tendu and this is the new as consulate and there are a lot of policemen here that brought a dozen police officers also monitoring the crowds this entire street has been blocked off because since the chinese foreign ministry made the announcement that the u.s. consulate here would have to close but the desk rules are allowed to walk behind a lot of 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 close

to it all it said though is that there are some new. spatial so what would they say have been engaged in activities that are not consistent with their capacity we also know that is quite significant operation to the southwest of china it deals with us this is nearby touching and acts as an active listening post for events taking place in session jungle and it's a bet now the chinese foreign ministry has said that they do not want to do this or did not want to have to close the consulate here but they were forced by the u.s. one year china's top diplomat has laid the blame for the worsening ties between timing us 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 decision to close the embassy the consulate in texas that china will have no choice but to hit back measure for measure. so good here in alexandra more and why 2000 u.s. registered boeing 737 have been grounded.

temperatures have been tempered in the east coast of the u.s. as this mess isn't so represents a cold front is on his way through then you've got the southwest monsoon so showers and actually a bit of flooding in tucson arizona but maybe that's the most obvious feature this is a tropical storm due to make landfall on saturday morning and the texas coast and then disappear inland is mostly a story of a large amount of rain i think between 150 and 250 millimeters more than you'll get from most of the showers of the shown here either in kansas or nebraska up towards the midwest on another slow moving frontal system. so also named storm this one here disappears in the gulf of mexico i want to briefly have a look at what's happening in the caribbean behind me you've got hannah storm then just coming in probably over the top of grenada is he's coming gonzales will be

hurrican probably a category one hurricane moving fairly quickly to go top of the island most likely sometime during saturday maybe early sunday potential damage obviously from that sounds a little quiet until you get down to probably the river plate where again your frontal system which is change the temperatures is taking right now back up into the south of brazil. from. frank assessments saying that 76 percent of the relation of life is being sorted through informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many cars are the only at region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after is a proxy because not every sunday enters the philippine people in-depth analysis of

the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder the top stories this hour and 1st the top u.s. health agency has issued guidelines calling for the full reopening schools in september even as corona virus infections spike in large parts of the country the centers for disease control says it is safe for children to return to classes it's unlikely they will contract and transport the virus. china has now closed its consulate in the u.s. city of houston staff and moved their belongings as a 72 hour shutdown order expired u.s. officials accuse chinese agents of unacceptable levels of intellectual property

theft. and china has retaliated by ordering the closure of the u.s. consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu beijing says the u.s. is to blame for increasingly strained relations between the 2 countries. are now the white house's new restrictions to allow u.s. defense contractors to sell more drones to foreign countries is doing this by reinterpreting a cold war era arms treaty signed by 34 nations this will allow the u.s. to sell drones that fly under 800 kilometers an hour to countries it considers to be its allies previously these drones were classified as cruise missiles and subject to strict export restrictions the us military has released what it says is proof that russia has violated gay u.n. arms embargo in libya the pentagon claims the satellite pictures show military equipment supplied by russian mercenaries being used on the front lines of the conflict these include fighter jets said defense systems an armored vehicles the

russian the u.s. says russia is boosting support for warlord who leave her have to his forces have been pushed back from western libya over the past few months by the un recognized governments. 2 of his president has joined thousands of people for the 1st friday prayers at the high give sophia in more than 80 years 1500 year old site is revered by both christians and muslims it was converted from a museum to a mosque after a turkish court ruling earlier this month a decision which was criticized by many christian leaders as you know because europe is more from istanbul. after serving as a museum for the past 8 to 6 years the nearly converted. welcomed thousands of turks for friday prayers some had travelled from cities across turkey for the big occasion and a stumble. leaders and dignitaries from other countries listened as clerics performed their rituals christian mosaics and frescoes of jesus and mary

were traped with curtains. for the reopening of turkey's present treasured tape aired on the site at the opening section of the court on. pleased to make a great people were eager to pray here thousands participated in the prison we came here together to pray the government and the authorities concerned to do the necessary renovations the new hug us a few more school be something great that makes us very proud and will always be open for all citizens visitors and the tourists as well. i guess i feel as restoration as a mosque came 2 weeks after turkey's highest court ruled that a 934 government decree converting to play so for ship into museums was illegal after years. years where there. was.

a real printing of yourself as a mosque again following the 1st prayer hundreds fresh to visit the famous landmark and all the what all of them eulogy was of the lord i can't express my feelings something is can be expressed but they shed tears of joy i'm very joyful in my own country the mass that was conquered by mammon the conqueror was shot down and i'm very happy that it's now reopened i feel blessed. church bells around grace harang gets midday flecks one loafer to protest what the head of greek also looks church called the unholy act of defiling the former because you go off the buys into the empire. later say the conversion is an internal matter of 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. look the real opposition is among the conservative community itself

that's going to change the balance in power the hagia sophia 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 your calls but this only has an impact on the marginal knowing percent and opinion poll this month showed 43 percent of turks saw the mosque controversy as a way for john 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 around the new look architectural treasure for your charge see now because although al-jazeera stumper the primary makers have a devastating impact on the airline industry now there are fears the planes which have been idle during the crisis been corroding to a dangerous extent u.s. a civil aviation authority is warning that urgent checks in needed on one of the world's most popular jets we've parker has this report. as passengers tentatively

take to the skies again and line still reeling from a 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 737 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 fleet worldwide it's going to cause a bit of right you're going to see i imagine i mean shit lee this way reality no

aviation 'd help the rest of it in as much as it is only cross. our thing. and it's not as if he's a major structural ration 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 air craft following 2 fatal and crashes within 5 months these latest concerns to not apply to the 737 max the aviation industry's 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 a craft were at their lowest in 60 years. is. al-jazeera. the u.s.

presidents assigned for executive orders to try to lower the cost of prescription drugs despite failing to get backing from congress donald trump says the move will lead to cheaper imports and match prices with those paid in other countries this comes as the u.s. leader faces growing criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic ahead of november's election according to him has denied bail to a prominent journalist and an opposition leader who had been speaking out against government corruption. no no and jacob in go to the room may have been accused of inciting public violence and calling for people to join antigovernment protests next week for more now from harare. state prosecutors opposed to bail they say that if a whole fortune one of the felines 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 was leaving the magistrate's court in the capital harare he said he feels he's being persecuted for only doing his job. right now to sit at a company called the 7 before for the 1st to report seeing more of the organizers of the 31st deadline approaches to see them so this is really journalism has been criminalized to wonder well if. you can look at the fact of very radical activist 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 media freedom and to stop people from gathering the same 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 and 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 that people organizing this protest are doing it to undermine the authority of the state thousands of protesters in the hunger and capital of marched on the prime minister's office accusing him of a crackdown on press freedom is widespread anger often chief editor of believing news website was silent fired after warning that the independence of the thought was that there was a risk of political pressure from the government. dozens of journalists from the website have resigned in protest for government business been a quite significant troll over the websites funding earlier this year. biggest gelatin of a meth is being excavated from a lake in northwestern russia a fisherman discovered the remains of the mammoth and the lake on the peninsula and

scientists are now working to recover all the bones that they can and they say the discovery is unique as the skeleton has almost all its fragments in place so well preserved mammoth remains have not been discovered in that part of the arctic for more than a decade it's. not time for a quick check of the headlines here and out there and 1st the top u.s. health agency has issued guidelines calling for the full reopening of schools in september even as coronavirus infection spike in large parts of the country the centers for disease control say that it is safe for children to return to class as it's unlikely they'll contract or transmit the virus randi weingarten is president of the american federation of teachers and she says most schools do not have the funding or resources to reopen anytime soon well i think it's going to happen

unfortunately is that more and more and more schools will open remotely rather than in person because we don't have the resources yet from the congress this mcconnell today said it may take weeks to actually negotiate a new stimulus package so how do you start school with the resources that you need when those resources are not forthcoming how do you pay for the p. e. when you don't have the money to do it china has been forced to close its consulates in the city of houston star from move their belongings as the 72 hour shutdown order expired u.s. officials accuse chinese agents of unacceptable levels of intellectual property theft. china has retaliated by ordering the closure of the u.s. consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu beijing says the u.s. is to blame for increasingly strained relations between the 2 countries the white house is loosening restrictions to allow u.s. defense contractors to sell more drones to countries it considers to be its allies

is doing this by reinterpreting a cold war era arms treaty signed by 34 nations previously these drones were classified as cruise missiles subject to strict export restrictions. an order has gone out for urgent safety checks on one of the world's most popular passenger jets there are fears in the u.s. of an issue with the boeing 737 next generation and classic models that could potentially lead to engine failure they've had 4 ports of sudden shutdowns and want inspections of planes that haven't flown for more than 7 days. thousands of protesters in the capital of march on the prime minister's office accusing him of a crackdown on press freedom there is widespread anger after the chief editor of a leading news website was sacked he was fired after warning that the independence of dr h. you was at risk of political. headlines got more news here not deserve right after

this. the latest news information government says it's working with local authorities and community volunteers to meet the needs of the remaining a refugee with detailed coverage locked on measures of the president many countries hunger to job losses for migrants and consequently every duck should do remittances from around the world it isn't the 1st time that the media network was forced off the air in 1972 it was also shot down. she'd laugh at least for way but. the beast.