street well over half of the country's cocoa produces live below the poverty line. on al-jazeera. after months of lockdown chile cautiously lifts restrictions while its neighbors across latin america struggle to get a grip on coronavirus. the robin you want yours is their allies my headquarters here in doha are also coming up in a move to bring a possible end to the conflict in u.a.e. back southern separatists in yemen say they're abandoning demands for self rule also land mr businessman to manage that it really matters sorry the be cleared and it was done and you said get it done grilled by politicians the u.s.

attorney general defends the white house's heavy handed response to months of anti racism protests and. my way in haiti in bangkok where i will tell you about the link between the energy drink company red ball and the death of a policeman and why the attorney general in chief of police have been summoned to parliament. welcome to the program the battle to contain the coronavirus pandemic is putting pressure on nations as they seek to find a balance between public health and saving economies after months of lockdown in chile the country has begun lifting restrictions in parts of the capital but some medical experts say the government is not following recommendations from the world health organization or latin america editor lucien newman has more. free at last from monday to friday residents of 7 affluent neighborhoods are finally

free to leave their homes to take their children out and to get exercise and nobody is happier than the elderly after 4 months they are now allowed out for an hour 3 times a week i mean for me this is wonderful why because if i don't then i will forget. how to walk forget how to have a conversation forget places that i would frequent to go shopping. footpaths have been marked to encourage social distancing a traffic light and 2 lanes marked so pedestrians will walk on the right side of the street but many ignore them and medical experts say the government is also ignoring the w.h.o. guidelines for deep confinement that he claims to be following them they aren't even following the recommendations of their own advisory committee which was created in order to make decisions based on science we see that they're ignoring science and the need to strengthen the ability to test trace and isolate infections

relaxing the confinement measures means that some shops can now open in this area but the problem is that those who work here come from other parts of town that are still under lockdown and where the infection rate is still too high and that's the sort of recipe that could lead to disaster exactly the sort of thing that's happening in neighboring peru. in lima 25 percent of the population is said to have been infected. has the highest death rate per 1000000 inhabitants in all of the americas with no enforcement of social distancing even funerals pose a threat. as they say farewell to their loved ones dozens of people sing and drink many of them infected themselves genet how to eat pieces nervously outside a hospital emergency room entrance where her father is being treated for cold 19. from the moment he went in the doctor said he couldn't believe i'm very worried

about him in year. but at least he's receiving chair unlike in other areas where hospitals can no longer cope. confinement measures were relaxed too soon to try to save the economy. and just like in chile it's a decision that many applaud even though it can have deadly consequences if taken too early. you see in human al-jazeera sente out of all that the u.s. is reporting is higher single day increase a nationwide covert 19 deaths since may more than 1200 people lost their lives to the virus on tuesday the death toll is now fast approaching 150000 the state of florida there is one of the worst hit it saw a record number of deaths in the last 24 hours michaela has the latest from washington d.c. . the rate of infection says continuing to surge as indeed is the death rate but the state's governor under center says insisting that things are getting better he

maintains that there is a lag in terms of the reporting which is resulting in the spike in mortality you said he says that within days the and its mortality rate will begin to drop but this may be optimism according to the figures that we are seeing florida is now the most infected state after california which still lead to the way in which the infection is still running strong as in other western states such as texas and arkansas but remarkably president trump held a briefing in the course of the day and he contends that there is a downward shift in states like california and arkansas all this is simply not borne out by the figures that we are seeing texas for example has just reported a massive increase in its mortality figures now this may be because they changed the method of reporting however it is still a significant spike in the number of deaths recorded over 24 hour period so the

position looking exceedingly bleak continues to look so not only in states like florida but in a number of other states across this country more than half of the states continuing to show increases in the rate of infection china has reported its highest number of new crew and virus cases and more than 3 months it's recorded 101 new infections most of them in the western region of jaring this is the same area we're up to a 1000000 people from the we go muslim minority and other groups have been put in internment camps china has where the virus was 1st detected in late december. the world health organization officials describe the pandemic as one big wave she says the virus doesn't appear to follow influenza seasonal pattern and warn to the northern hemisphere not to get complacent during the warmer months so it is a problem it's virus like all with it but at what typically likes is jumping from

one to another when we come in close contact so let's not get unity. let's say the 2nd wave idea we're in the 1st wave it's going to be one big way it's going to go up on the beaches now the best thing is to let chris smith is a consultant for all adjust he says if the virus is given the chance it will search through most of the world's population if you look at the figures for antibodies in the population the best estimates we have and it has been tricky to measure how immune everybody is is that about 95 percent of the world's population remain vulnerable to corona virus infection in other words they have been infected yet i know on one of them i tested my antibodies i haven't got any and that means that we're like a john wood pile which is just waiting to go up in smoke if given the opportunity in other words give the virus a chance it will come surging back we remain vulnerable the virus hasn't gone away we're rather like a parked car sort of parked on

a hill with the brake on and if we take the brake off because going to start rolling downhill again. the u.s. southern separatists in yemen say they're abandoning demands for self rule they say it's to give an opportunity to end a rift amongst their allies against the who feeds follow society arabia's announcement that it will present ways to implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in south let's take a closer look at the southern transitional council who've been waging what's been described as a war within yemen's complex civil war that in all this the s.t.c. sees the southern port city of aden the interim seat of yemen's internationally recognized government in april its forces declared a state of emergency under the pretext of combating the break and proclaimed itself rule in aden and other southern provinces they accuse the yemeni government of corruption and failing to provide basic services the 2 forces allies against the who feeds in the north since 2015 but have been battling each other for control of

the ultimate secession of the south georgia her hero from the gulf state and now and now a tick and a lot analytics says that he thinks there are several obstacles that could get in the way of the alliance. this resolution is the basis of some hope for officials in riyadh as well as washington who wanted to see the riyadh agreement successfully implemented but simply just declaring in a resolution that efforts will be accelerated to implement the riyadh agreements. doesn't mean it's going to be easy to do so the reason why it's been so difficult to implement it. since it was signed last year has to do with the fact that there are so many obstacles that make implementation very difficult the party those have very different interpretations of the riyadh agreement there are sensitive issues

that the parties do not see eye to eye on i think the future of this relationship will be a very difficult one there are numerous reasons why that's the case one of them that i think is very important to keep in mind pertains to all is slaw which is the muslim brotherhoods yemeni franchise of islam has played an important role as an ally of the hardy government but the s.t.c. views the muslim brotherhood linked group in yemen as a very dangerous group and is a big threat to the s.t.c. and if hadi is government in the s.t.c. will ever be able to see eye to eye on this question of what role is sly's to play in the future of yemen we don't know. u.s. attorney general william barr has defended the trumpet ministrations response to the black clothes months of protests he testified at

a congressional committee and faced heavy criticism for sending federal agents into cities to quash protests he also faced accusations of politicizing the justice department has more from capitol hill. this is a time of turmoil in the united states. protests and riots and questions about the future of policing. and you're about to give is true and correct against that backdrop the country's top officer facing questions from members of the house of representatives with a lot of growing to cover the democratic chair of the judiciary committee made it clear he wasn't to fire me. this is ministration has twisted the department of justice into a shadow of its former self capable of serving most americans only after it is 1st served those in power. protests erupted across the country after the killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis and me this year from the attorney general

a defense of the police in the wake of george floyd's dash while violent rioters an anarchist have hijacked a legitimate protest to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims that demonization of the police is not only unfair and inconsistent with principles all people should be treated as individuals but gravely injury to me or city communities william bar has had to deal with court cases of people linked to the president former national security adviser michael flynn an official campaign advisor roger stone but the attorney general insists he has never politicized his department i agree the president's friends don't deserve special breaks but they also don't deserve to be treated more harshly than other people and sometimes that's a difficult decision to make the attorney general was asked if he believed the upcoming presidential election would be rigged to claim the president has repeatedly made you know plight i have no reason to think it will be. william

barton i protesters were cleared from a park near the white house in june to give donald trump a photo opportunity not something readily accepted by one congressman so it was actually necessary the park be cleared for his for his that's had nothing to do with that the plan to move mr mr atlanta mineral that really matters very this the park be cleared and it was done and you said get it done this was william bart's 1st appearance before the oversight committee since democrats took control of the house it covered a lot of ground a sign of home port and many of these issues will be in the election in november alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. iran fires missiles at a more u.s. and craft carrier it's just a drill but the reaction has been very real. and killed for defending their land a new report details a record rise in the number of environmentalists who have been murdered around the

world those stories after the break. how hot and sunny sums it up yet again across the middle east we have got some showers in the focus in the black sea and the caspian sea just around the caucasus mountains we are going to see a few showers coming in here and from time to time and it could be on the heavy side but come to the south of that 51 celsius on the cards for baghdad 43 here in doha some of the temperatures as we go on into thursday could also still see some very heavy showers just down towards that western side of yemen the fos out west to saudi arabia and across the other side of the red sea there will be more showers coming in across eritrea well in parts of ethiopia pushing right across the heart of africa through south sudan central african republic some heavy showers yes again

i have it's awards the gulf of guinea to the south of that it is generally fine and dry we have got a few showers coming back into coastal parts of kenya maybe into southern areas of somalia as well further south across southern africa the settled law she try and find we want to see showers in the mozambique chali might just catch right east in parts of mozambique madagascar looking rather unsettled over the next couple of days and heavy showers here particularly across the eastern side of the island. every war leaves a devastating impact of the past earthrise explore some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important southpaws that we have to make sure there are

surviving to the refugees striving to co-exist with nature ok so what's going on there simulating what happens when an elephant comes to life after a conflict on al-jazeera. oh. book about what you are deservedly so wrong the reminder of our top news stories chile is lifting restrictions for part of its couple santiago after months under lockdown but elsewhere in latin america case numbers are rising brazil and group are the worst affected the way backs up and separatists in yemen say they're abandoning demands for self rule follow saudi arabia's announcement that it will present ways to implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in

the south and u.s. attorney general william barr has defended the trumpet ministrations response to the black lives matter protests testified before congress he said it was right to send federal agents into cities to quash protests. lebanon israel opposing a 2 week lockdown from thursday after a sharp rise in krona virus infections and deaths it will be in falls over the eve holiday medics say can't come soon enough and are warning that the health system is close to collapse then a quarter has more from beirut. the number of daily infections in lebanon. is now into 3 digits official say the corona virus has spread across the country there reimposing restrictions less than a months after the country and its only public airport reopened the numbers may be low when compared to other countries but this is a nation of only 6000000 people including

a 1000000 refugees where they health care system is already in crisis private hospitals have started to turn away patients they make up 85 percent of the health sector and they are owed $1300000000.00 by the government a lot that lists the health sector is passing through a critical crisis that has been going on for 2 years we are crying for help the health sector is taking its last breath 10 days ago our hospital stopped receiving non-critical cases. staff are also being fired the country's leading medical facility the american university hospital laid off nearly 900 and administrators citing what it called the disastrous state of the economy since november up to 40 percent of lebanon 9000 nurses have lost their jobs what is happening is very serious and if then i fact that they can they had care system in lebanon if we don't have enough nurses there that the number of patients who are currently at the

hospital will be much higher burden or us hospitals funded by the public and left underfunded and ill equipped by successive governments for 3 decades are not just at the forefront of the battle against coronavirus what we have seen is with the economic crisis more and more patients cannot afford the private sector anymore and they are heading towards the public sector importing equipment and medicine is becoming harder and more expensive because of the sharp devaluation of the local currency and a lack of u.s. dollars in circulation. the surge in coronavirus cases couldn't have come at a more difficult time levanon is close to bankruptcy because of years of corruption and the health sector has long been neglected by successive governments and was collapsing before the pandemic. more than 200 medical staff have now been infected the number of patients hospitalized and admitted to intensive care more

than doubled in the last 2 weeks if that rate continues lebanon's hospitals once among the best in the middle east will run out of the intensive care beds it needs by mid august sent to. beirut. there's been another night of protests in israel calling for the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu demonstrators gathered outside the residence of one of his ministers who was heard telling police to clamp down on and to netanyahu gatherings there's anger over the government's handling of the pandemic many people also want netanyahu to resign as he's on trial for corruption. iran has carried out military exercises in the gulf using a mock u.s. aircraft carrier as target practice to her hands navy and air force are taking part in the coordinated drills the move is gaining attention mainly because of a real american aircraft carrier is also in the region as a bag has more from the iranian capital. from land

and sea it's a show of military strength from iran in the gulf at a time when tensions remain high with the united states just days ago iran said one of its passenger planes was intercepted by u.s. fighter jets as it flew over syria iran's military leaders want to send a strong message human the strategic purpose of exercises is defensive but at the level of operation and tactic we are widely of pensive and there's nothing stronger than firing on and boarding a mock aircraft carrier the country that has the most craft carriers in the world the united states in recent days satellite images have shown the mock vessel being moved from the port city of london or bust it resembles the nimitz class carrier the u.s. routinely sails into the gulf on this day the replica was used to train iranian forces gunships encircled the mock carrier an attempt to show the dominance of iran's navy even with its smaller boats against and large

a target. armed forces of the islamic republic of iran will use all their power elements and potential such as defensive and offensive capabilities to respond to any moves to create instability at the right and appropriate time and place that the u.s. military's bahrain based 5th fleet said we cannot speak to what iran hopes to gain by building this mock up or what tactical value they would hope to gain by using such a mockup in a training or exercise scenario we do not see conflict but remain ready to defend u.s. forces an interest from maritime threats in the region then just 33 kilometers that separates iran and oman and 20 percent of the world's oil passes through that straight up or most of the revenues from the gods here want to send a clear message to the united states iran is prepared for a possible conflict with the us i want to show that its forces would be no pushover . i beg al-jazeera the right. the u.n.

security council's committee on libya has vote to discuss possible sanctions on the countries interfering in the conflict there an arms embargo is in place but the u.a.e. egypt and russia have been accused of violating it germany's deputy ambassador to the u.n. wants the sanctions implemented today's meeting was an opportunity it. is just such cases and to underline he'll likely importance. sanctions against. sanctions related to libya be. implemented this is arrest possibility that all member states is his responsibility in particular are those numbers were in today's meeting a powerful workers union in bolivia has staged a protest against the delay of the upcoming presidential election but thousands

joined a rally in the city of el alto the interim government has pushed back the vote from september to october its blaming depend for the delay the election will be written a rerun of last year's vote which sparked violent protests leading to the downfall of the longtime leader even what are less and colombia's army has been called in to rescue people cut off by flooding the heavy rains hit the central metter region inundating rural areas the army airlifted children and the elderly to safety the region is bracing itself for more rain with downpours forecast to continue for the rest of the week. a large fleet of mostly chinese fishing vessels has been discovered near the galapagos islands the ecuadorian navy has lifted around 260 boats and has stepped up patrols to ensure they don't enter the ecologically sensitive area in 2017 a chinese boat was caught with 300 tonnes of fish the galapagos islands are home to a large variety of species which are threatened with extinction more than 200

people across the world are killed were killed last year for defending their land from being taken away by industry the advocacy group global witness has detailed the highest number of murders since it began compiling records nearly a decade ago more than half of the victims were from latin america many were threatened by huge logging in mining operations in the philippines the majority of the $43.00 murders were linked to large scale agriculture that's an increase of more than 40 percent compared to the year before the report outlines the escalation may be linked to activists becoming more outspoken in fighting climate change illegal mining and deforestation live in newman ponte is executive director of did just isa a colombian advocacy group which promotes human rights and social justice she says the sheer number of deaths in colombia is disturbing. it is really shocking why

does it happen in colombia there it's a multi-factor oh situation 1st i would say that these thirst lack of the presence of a state in rural areas were social leaders that defend their learned but not only their land and territory but also water they defend clean air they defend participation there's a 2nd factor that's the presence of illegal actors that in some places feel the vacuum that was left by the guerrilla members that the mobilized in 2016 with the peace accords that were signed with the government 3rd i would say that there is a busybody sation of social leaders that were not that now we have them on the spot because a before they they they they were not seen because they had the war had them hidden away now they are on the spot and they are also locked down in mali the prime minister has invited a key opposition figure to join a unity government in order to resolve the political crisis the opposition earlier

rejected a mediation plan by the regional bloc echo and son called for the president to step down west african leaders have been pushing for a new election after disputed votes the opposition and his supporters accuse president abraham of corruption mismanaging the economy and sailing to contain armed groups with empty. i'd like to take this opportunity to make an appeal a sincere appeal to our sisters and brothers in the in 5 movement and other groups i'd like to say here that they are expected in even strongly desired to be part of the next government that must be put in place soon. type believes of launched an internal investigation over the handling of a high profile him run case there's been a public outcry after charges were dropped against the grandson of the creator of the red bull energy drink 8 years ago he fled thailand after a fatal crash in which it killed or he killed a police officer when he reports. just hours after

a fatal crash in bangkok type police detained a suspect you would say yeah was questioned by police over the death of a policeman in a hit and run incident but he was soon released and 8 years on police have announced the case is closed to me tonight yet as you know we have received a final order from the attorney general to not prosecute were on charges of reckless driving and causing the death of this war yet admitted being behind the wheel of his ferrari when it crashed at high speed into the policeman's motorbike but for years he failed to appear in court after being summoned and was out of the country when arrest warrants were issued he's the grandson of the inventor of red bull the parent company in thailand issued a statement distancing itself from the case saying t.c.p. group would like to clarify that mr worry you would has never assumed any role in the management and daily operations of t.c.p. group was never a shareholder nor has he held any executive position within

a group now several investigations have been launched including one by a parliamentary committee into how the case was handled i hereby. their people are thinking that the law is not fair we want to change that notion we want to make people equal in the eye of the law whether they are rich or poor. but in thailand many believe that's often not the case in communities like this there's always been a broad sense of injustice and double standards and the decision to drop the case against a member of one of thailand's wealthiest families will be viewed by many as just another example of the impunity enjoyed by the rich and powerful. in one of the capital city's poorest suburbs people wondered why the police didn't do more. harm i can see that something is wrong with this case we can't have faith in the law you know i think the outcome of the case is very strange we didn't really see how the investigation went the inquiries are being welcome. but they may fail to change the

sense among many in thailand that justice is not equal when hey al jazeera bangkok and you can follow those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com our top story of course the ongoing current virus pandemic around the world of course china is now the focal point again. we want you all deserve means the whole room to remind us of our top news stories chile is lifting restrictions for parts of its capital santiago after months under lockdown residents in 7 of the $32.00 districts will now be allowed to move more freely but a nightly curfew remains in place across the capital the number of new coronavirus cases in chile continues to fall though elsewhere in latin america cases are rising brazil and through are months the worst affected the us is reporting its highest single day increase in code with 19 deaths and more than 1200 now the death toll is

fast approaching 150000 the state of florida is one of the worst hit it saw a record number of deaths in the last 24 hours by color has more on the situation the rate of infection says continuing to surge as indeed is the death rate but the state's governor under center says insisting that things are getting better he maintains that there is a lag in terms of the reporting which is resulting in the spike in mortality said he said that within days the endless mortality rate will begin to drop but this may be optimism according to the figures that we are seeing florida is now the most infected state after california which still lead to the way in which the infection is stall running strong. china has reported its highest number of new krona virus cases in more than 3 months that recorded 1091 new infections most of them are in the western region of jiang this is the same area where up to

a 1000000 people from the we muslim minority and other groups have been put in terminal camps china is where the virus was 1st detected in late december the u.a.e. backed southern separatists in yemen say they're abandoning demands for self rule they say it's to give an opportunity to end their rift amongst their allies it follows the saudi arabia's announcement that it will present ways to implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in the south and the u.s. attorney general william barr has defended the trumpet ministrations response to the black lives matter protests testifying before congress he said he it was right to send federal agents into cities to quash protests he also said demonstrations have been hijacked by anarchists those with headlines are back with more news in half an hour next is the stream to stay with us as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take

a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote followed the u.s. election on a. pay they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for me ok look if you're watching this live on you tube i need your help do you see that box over there over there it's a live chat there you go we have a producer in there right now waiting to get your questions and your comments to me so i can get into our guests during the show so help me out join in the show be a part of it right there in what issue it is we're talking about the peril response to the protest him portland which just went.