al jazeera. global tally puts coronavirus infections beyond 16000000 led by the us which has recorded more than 70000 cases in the past day. and again i'm peter wu watching all to 0 live from doha also coming up tension in the u.s. city of portland where protests continue against police brutality in the presence of federal agents sent in by donald trump. britain suddenly reimpose is a quarantine on anyone coming in from spain catching travelers of god. also ahead

we'll look at how malaria related deaths in africa could more than double this year . just 4 days after a global tally showed $15000000.00 coronavirus infections the world has now surpassed $16000000.00 that's according to the u.s. based johns hopkins university it shows the united states brazil and india are leading a surge in new cases globally almost 650000 people are known to have died the u.s. has recorded 73000 new infections in the past 24 hours the country's top infectious disease expert anthony is again urging state governments to hit pause on reopening . the states of florida texas and california remain some of the worst affected and florida's governor is being accused of easing lock down measures too soon how did you castrate reports from maryland the death toll in florida is rising as well

about one person in florida is dying a covert every 10 minutes and florida certainly is not alone 18 states in the united states have broken totals and as far as cases or deaths in this past week in florida it's governor rick des santos is a heavy strong as strong supporter and he has been praised by the president even now for his response to the pandemic florida was one of the 1st states to reopen and now critics are seeing what's happening with these numbers resurging and saying that that move was prioritizing the economy over people's lives and this similar story repeated across the country much of the south now including the state of texas where and along its border with mexico we're seeing dire situation with what hospitals begging for more supplies the military responding there with their resources and refrigerated morgues parked behind those hospitals the same scenes we

have seen in new york not so long ago unfortunately repeated now in new hot spots across the u.s. british tourists in spain are being good by a last minute decision to make them quarantined for 2 weeks on their return the announcement by the u.k. government late on saturday took effect as of midnight leaving many travelers no time to avoid it spain was originally on the list of countries declared safe by london but it's you know searching case he's been reimposed in some areas. we cry. because it fails to feel safe in spain with the u.k. . before we left the u.k. it wasn't monday where places. but nearly everybody is wearing them so. north korea has put the border city of k. song into lockdown and seeing its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in

from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce the measures state media says the suspected case is a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea says it's investigating sarah clarke is following that story from hong kong she says it's unclear whether the patient was tested for corona virus. well this person who defected 3 years ago to south korea the return date back to north korea was on july 19th and he suspected or he or she is suspected of having covert 19 other reports don't indicate if he or she has had the official coronavirus test and said that the suggestion is that there's been several medical checkups showing respect symptoms that are linked to ward a similar to those that you have with the crowd a virus that if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea and i can join on has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city of case one has been put into

a lockdown as it was got as a result he's described it as a critical situation a report released by the state run media says it's a dangerous situation in case some that may lead to a deadly and destructive disaster now north korea has received thousands of testing kits from russia and other countries it's also had some pretty strict border closures in recent months but believe restrictions have eased of late another case of this particular defector the state run media saying he illegally he or she illegally crossed the demarcation line on july 19th and the politburo meeting described it in a dialogue as aloof guard performance on the frontline on that particular day and obviously an investigation into the military unit responsible will happen. when seen as a success story australia has just seen in science daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic 10 people died in 24 hours in the southeastern state of victoria the epicenter of a resurging outbreak case numbers there have been growing by several 100 per day

for the past 3 weeks australia had largely brought coronavirus under control in april. you have to say that these numbers are far too hard was there is some relative and i stress the term relative stability we're not saying a doubling a doubling again we're not dealing with thousands of cases a day which is what the modeling tells us we would have had to deal with if we're not going to the starts to restart high mortise we've got to drive those numbers down protests against racism and police brutality of being held for another night in the us city of portland there's anger over the presence of a federal agent sent by president trump the demonstrations were sparked by the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis and been going on for more than 8 weeks brian dundon is a contributing editor at the economic hardship reporting project he's also a native of portland who's been covering the protests over the past 2 months he explained earlier why there is growing concern over the federal agents on the

ground. i think the general sense among protesters and the public at large is that they're absolutely acting outside the law we see them running around the streets many blocks from the federal courthouse as you've seen in those famous videos of ducting so this is this and also running out in the park public park and snatching people off the streets of portland so i think the. question is not whether it's legal or not it's going to begin to leave pacific northwest seattle portland has a rich history of protest it's in the blood here and. they may have picked the wrong city to test this out on the black lives matter still the absolute thrust of the protest if you are down there right now there's chanting bypass matter there are by people leaving the protests and on the megaphones you ask anyone down there what that force provided by this matter but you know protests

this large. there are a lot of there's a lot of different motivations under that umbrella and. at the moment there has been a. kind of unified i said spending unifying force that these federal agents are in in the city and i don't know what you know but it's. it's had a new focus well big protests too in seattle in neighboring washington state the police there used to send stun grenades to clear weeks old occupied protests and supporters 45 people were arrested 21 police officers were injured. a man is under formal investigation after police said he confessed to setting fire to a cathedral in the french city of known as the 39 year old refugee worked as a. to be in charge of locking up he was initially taken into custody one week

ago the fire destroyed the stained glass windows and the organ inside the cathedral building the world health organization is warning that malaria related deaths in africa could more than double this year because of disruption caused by the virus pandemic the health emergency has shut down many large scale treatment and prevention programs vomited the reports now from nairobi. this hospital in kisumu city. medical workers are treating children sick with malaria. bringing. them is a decision this is their. expose. disease. causing so many of infectious disease but i have to bring i hear that is another one i say. is on my side because i'm going to the number of people who might be infected. so the. medical workers say many people

suffering from malaria staying away from health facilities. during this coverage known to know. most of the way from coming to the hospital putting into consideration that they fear their. fictive are getting affected you know. 19. days in the heart to what's called kenya's malaria belt well outbreaks of the disease are. stagnant toward claimed rise from just like this one. from my lady and myself. 3 months. so. i don't think. it's coming. at my house. like.

according to the world to help of the 19 point the makers of disrupting routine health services likely to increase outbreaks and deaths from treatable diseases such as malaria. the crisis has also affected the will ability of mosquito nets used to prevent the disease. malaria is one of the leading causes of death globally and the 2nd biggest killer enough rekha which accounts for 93 percent of malaria related deaths in the world while that education of malaria remains achievable in the coming decades much will depend on whether these presents a bump in the road or are you talking. the next few months will prove to cause governments on the international community to try to pull a delicate balancing act to keep both 19 and malaria under control. neighbor because. this year's 1st atlantic hurricane hanna has made landfall on the

southern coast of texas strong winds and rains have been lashing the coast with a category one system arriving on saturday just south of corpus christi the governor of texas is a disaster declaration for $32.00 counties saying the coronavirus rate will complicate rescue and recovery efforts. across in the pacific hurricane douglas is heading for hawaii where people are boarding up windows and stocking up on supplies the storm there is expected to reach the u.s. islands on sunday social distancing rules will be enforced in storm shelters. we'll have the weather for you next and also when we come back after spending weeks in quarantine because of qubit 19 brazil's president declares he has recovered. and 6 months on from the 1st coup with 19 infection in rwanda city's residents are now facing a new threat. from

. ally we got more very hot weather across southwestern europe at the moment and further north well we got some very wet weather still very much in place areas of low pressure sweeping across the british isles over towards scandinavia and that's going to the pulse of the heaviest rain that will see making its way through as we go on through the remainder of sunday there's some very heavy rain they just coming into norway through swayed and that might save some raw but while the wet weather along with the low countries the russias showers there you notice over towards western russia belarus down for ukraine down towards remain the and then doubts was a southwest well not as hot as it has been recently but still very hot 39 celsius in mature age and as we go on into monday those temperatures getting back up above the 40 degree mark for many further north you know just maruti heavy rain coming back in the across the british isles through our lens hates us of scotland northern

england i would expect to see too much play in the cricket of the guy last that long that wet weather will push over towards scandinavia still some showers there cross the eastern side of europe for the maid is fine and dry but lots of sunshine also sunshine too across northern africa lost a shower was across west africa from the gulf of guinea all the way over towards severally and liberia. talk to old is there a wee hours is the government will call the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues that we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the road is their own. play an important role protecting it would be. ringback

welcome back welcome if you just joining us you're watching out of syria live from our headquarters here in doha let's update you on the top stories so far 1000000 people have now been infected with corona virus in the last 4 days that brings the global total to more than $16000000.00 the u.s. brazil and india leading the surge in new cases. the u.k. has begun imposing a 2 week quarantine for travelers returning from spain it follows a surge in coronavirus cases there and the reintroduction of lockdowns in some areas the policy began at big nights on sunday leaving many tourists scrambling to get home. protests against racism and police brutality of being held for another

night in the us city of portland oregon the demonstrations which were sparked by the killing of george for you to be going on for more than 8 weeks. he weight has lifted restrictions on for one year that's the last area that was still under lockdown tough rules were put in place in may and have been gradually used in phases depending upon the rates of infection the government hopes to fully reopen the economy by september. hundreds of nicaraguans a stop on the border with costa rica blocked from reentering until they can prove they are negative testing for covert 19 costa rica's government says it's talking to its neighbor to resolve this impasse human rights organizations have criticized nicaragua for demanding a negative test from its people as a requirement to enter their own country. brazil's president says he's tested negative for corona virus after spending weeks in quarantine posted this photograph on twitter showing him with a box of the anti malarial drug. he followed the u.s.

president in touting its use although it has not been proved to be effective at all in any major studies before contracting the virus mr paulson are regularly downplayed its severity and asunder m.p.'s he is following the story from bogota in colombia. you'd expect the president to show some concern by and large he has been doing the opposite throughout this crisis really seems that he will continue to do so now that he has recovered his 1st act on saturday after and seeing he was copied 19 free was to go in a more a cycle ride across the capital brasilia and to mingle with a number of his supporters and also to continue to prove to the use of this unproven and take malaria drugs he has also asked the army there to mass

produce it now while all this is happening and in both scenarios even seeing some benefit from it he's been doing better in polls the last week he had at the start of the pandemic but at the same time there are other people quite concerned in brazil so much so that for example and this is just one example this city of rio de janeiro has already this cited that it will cancel for the 1st time its traditional party on the copacabana beach on december 31st. protests against the israeli prime minister have led to confrontations with the police in west jerusalem officers fired water cannon and disperse crowds near benjamin netanyahu his residence demonstrators are calling for his resignation as anger grows over his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial are a force that has more now from west jerusalem. is a protest which had been going on for some weeks now but especially in the last 2

weeks or so we've seen 8 of these protests just here in west jerusalem there are also been protests across the country on several of these occasions tonight being no different several 100 outside the prime minister's sort of summer home or 2nd home north of tel aviv. a few 100 more in television and then it's various road intersections across the country as well as for what they're demanding world demands diffidence some extent depending on which group you're talking about there are lots of different groups here from the the black flag so-called pro-democracy protesters who say that netanyahu is a threat to israel democracy because of his corruption cases that the trial that he is currently facing which is due to start in earnest in terms of hearing witnesses and evidence in january they're also small business owners and self-employed people out on the streets protesting against the lack of economic assistance as they see it as a result of the or rather the combat the the economic fallout of the pandemic there

also there's lots of people in young israelis here in west jerusalem especially who are out protesting against a government which for many of them hasn't tackled the grown a virus pandemic properly there was a lot of success being celebrated in the 1st wave but now we're deep into the 2nd wave and there has been a pretty chaotic back and forth in terms of decision making in terms of restrictions being imposed then lifted then somewhat tweaked and reimposed and a lot of people are on the street saying that this prime minister this government isn't focusing properly on the coronavirus pandemic. it's been more than 6 months since the world firsts coronavirus infection was reported in the chinese city of its 11000000 residents were largely confined to their homes for 2 months and today as katrina reports from where the city is facing a new threat. there used to be

a pot where 100 farmer town now works but last week's to wrenshaw rains changed that flooding and pollution has crayfish and crab ponds gotta hold the coronavirus this year already impact my business when the operate was contained i worked really hard to recover the business but just before the harvest time. i've lost so much. almost all of science stock died in just a few days he lost more than a year's worth of income. he says 2020 has so far been a year of disasters the coronavirus crisis forced his farm on the outskirts of ohio to close for much of the 1st half of the year infections have eased but for the city's 11000000 residents flooding poses a new threat 6 months off the was 1st put in lockdown because it was based on the body parts of the city

was the governor was but it wasn't. that suffered more than $1000.00 rivers in the region have breached flood warning levels more heavy rain is expected. well from a worried about the future all they can think about is the past her father died suddenly and without diagnosis and early february despite having symptoms of carbon 19 a fever and breathing difficulties the authorities never formally acknowledge him as a victim. yet. remember what happened to my father that day it was so tough taking him to the hospital there was no car no help he was in the hospital waiting room then a few minutes later he stopped breathing then a doctor came and told my mom he passed away. the government says about 3800 people in han died after contracting corona virus with 50000 infected beijing says it successfully contain the outbreak but its source remains unknown world health

organization officials say they've launched an investigation but the u.n. agency isn't saying what progress is being made while the virus crisis in the hunt is over at least for now for john lay the scars remain. where you so my life has completely changed i don't think we can ever go back to normal. side what tao is grateful his family survived the outbreak he says he's now trying to shift his focus from counting his losses to making do with what's left katrina you al-jazeera who han. now the malaysian opposition leader anwar ibrahim says now is not the time for a general election there had been speculation that the prime minister would get in the us and may call a snap poll in the coming few months and was as the decision to deport a government critic who featured in a recent al-jazeera documentary proves there are issues that need to be addressed 1st environment is certainly

a conduit for elections we have covered 90 weirdly with visions again been we have policies now is that it. was are. they may disagree with our right to question and disagree and come out a statement but harris against journalists is not acceptable. this is what's happening is going to you know. jordanian security forces have arrested leaders of the opposition iran teachers union jordan's teachers syndicate was also shut down for 2 years as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption prosecutors charged his acting head our story with inciting supporters against the government the union took to the streets on weapons day demanding the government honor last year's deal to end. increase salaries. no you can never give up any letter or any figure of the agreement regardless of what pressures and threats. to mrs

president has appointed a new prime minister she has a month to form a new government and he must also win a vote of confidence in parliament or an election is expected to be called the former interior minister replaces years farquaad who resigned after just 5 months in power he's under investigation over conflicts of interests in shares here owns in private companies the son of a cleric imprisoned in saudi arabia is accusing the kingdom of human rights abuses against their family. is a prominent advocate of reforms in saudi arabia his son says the charges against him are quote absurd the cleric was arrested 3 years ago and is facing the death penalty for stirring public discord and inciting saudis against king solomon had had the town hall be we're talking about violations like banning any interaction with the family and even banning any legal framework to communicate with my father in an outside court a secret trial took place in suspicious circumstances security offices abused my

father and searched our house and farm and went after me and the family these violations took place over 3 years. poland's pulling a european treaty aimed at preventing violence against women thousands protested against the planned withdrawal in cities nationwide the justice minister says the free t. violates for intell rights by requiring schools to see children about gender. a prominent human rights activist in kyrgyzstan has died in jail 69 year old son john a scot off was serving life for involvement in ethnic violence his supporters say the charges were fabricated the u.n. said he'd been travelling to taint and tortured and his release prison guards say a scare off died the day after being taken to a clinic with pneumonia. there's no weather at the moment in northern norway the arctic archipelago is having a heat wave with the highest ever temperature 21.7 degrees being recorded on

saturday that's almost half a degree higher than the previous record set 41 years ago temperatures are normally $5.00 to $8.00 degrees at this time of year in these fall bottle islands home to polar bears scientists say global warming is happening twice as fast in the arctic as the average elsewhere. first of asian football is back in mexico shut to be postponed for 24 hours after warnings about the heightened risk of corona virus spreading among the play is. has more now from mexico city. after an uncertain season on and off the pitch footballers in mexico are returning to work. per league football has kicked off a 4 day tournaments with the theme on arena health workers on the front lines of mexico's ongoing struggle against the corona virus pandemic. in recognition and gratitude of those who care for health against the toughest of rivals the tournament name will be changed to guard against 2020 this is

a message of solidarity on behalf of mexico's football industry. this year's league has been highly anticipated though many in mexico see the tournament as a risky mistake as you you may know we have been there were using a government using. a little chris. lawrence we're returning. and there are some other states of the mix every public really turn to read that's the highest level of the freeze so this is not the time to return to stadiums concerns have also been growing over the risk to players and league staff among mexico's 18 1st division teams 16 have reported corona virus infections within their ranks. even so many players say they're just glad to return to doing what they love so you are mine and i simply thought that i could say and

he can going to keep will will continue to connect with our fans that it's not possible to have them in the stadium at the moment until the authorities permit but we want them scenario we'll do want jobs in the field and bring them as much happiness as we can. mexico is one of latin america's worst hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic and 2nd only to brazil in coburg related deaths health policy analysts say continuing mexico's prolific football season is that a sign the corona virus outbreak is improving but rather a decision that was made despite evidence and warnings that contagion is still on the rise. the remaining matches of the guardian's 2020 tournaments will be played in empty stadiums the recent poll found that 3 in 4 mexican football fans would not attend live games even if the stadiums were open out of fear of contracting code 19 . below al jazeera mexico city. a memorial service for the u.s. congressman john lewis is being held in his home states alabama the 8 year old died

last week of the battling comes 6 days of ceremonies are planned to remember his role in politics and as a civil rights leader in state in the u.s. capitol before a burial service in georgia. more news on our web site you know the address by al-jazeera dot com. updating the top stories so far today. $1000000.00 people have now been infected with corona virus in the last 4 days that brings the global total to more than $16000000.00 the united states brazil and india world leading the surge in new cases the u.s. recorded 73000 new infections its top infectious disease expert dr anthony is again urging state governments to hit the pause button on reopening their individual states the united kingdom has started imposing

a 2 week quarantine for travelers returning from spain it follows a surge in coronavirus cases there and the reintroduction of lockdowns in some areas the policy began at midnight on sunday leaving many tourists scrambling to get home. why. because it fails to feel safe in spain what it did. before we left the u.k. it was a threat places. but nearly everybody is wearing them. north korea has locked down the border city of case song saying its 1st case of coronavirus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce the measures state media says the suspected case is a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea says it's investigating protests against racism and police brutality is

being held for another night in the u.s. city of portland the demonstrations which were sparked by the killing of george floyd been going on for more than 8 weeks. large protests in seattle in neighboring washington states the police there used to send stun grenades to clear several weeks old occupied protests 45 people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured. jordanian security forces have arrested leaders of the opposition run teachers union jordan's teachers syndicate was also shut down for 2 years as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption the union took to the streets on weapons day demanding the government honor last year's deal to increase their salaries those are your headlines up next talked to al-jazeera i will see you very soon. the u.s. is always open for the people all right the world this has been going on for a number of hours but you gotta be you have to report 3 for an international

perspective to try to play your mobile audience how this could impact your life this is an important part of the world and our viewers very good at bringing the news to the world from here all. the ability. also known as he is one of brazil's most popular politicians he was sworn in as president in 2003 and remain in office for 8 years. the former labor union leader is known to have lifted millions of people out of poverty a champion of the poor in one of the most unequal countries in the world. he was imprisoned in 2018 accused of corruption and money laundering in the carwash investigation that saw dozens of play.