it is. a unique journey into books it means to be human the things we keep a witness documentary on al-jazeera the. the . vietnam on the verge of a major corona virus outbreak the government warns the whole country is at risk of infection. you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go also ahead nearly half of people in india's most populous city of mumbai man have called it 19 casting doubt over the official fake is in a move to bring a possible and to the conflict to a back separatists in southern yemen say they're abandoning demands for south. and

a controversial social media bill passed in turkey spock's concern about freedom of expression. thank you for joining is. the most populous country in the world not to have recorded a single coronavirus related death and after being virus free for months it says it's making preparations for a major wave of infections dozens of cases have been reported in the central city of don where a strict lockdown is now in place infections have also been reported in its 2 lodges cities the capital high noise and hoshi mean city the vietnamese government says the entire country is now at risk of infection as spring in our correspondent scott highway has in bangkok for scott vietnam was seen as a success story in containing coronavirus but is now on high alert.

it absolutely is although you know you we you know you look at the last 3 months there what wasn't one case of locally transmitted coded positive case so obviously when we saw what happened over the weekend and then last weekend there was there was infection rate that's why the the government took the step of evacuating most tourists there about 80000 tourists were evacuated from demand because it was something that they hadn't seen in quite some time so there is great concern about that and now we're seeing in the 2 largest cities this in these infections from they believe in being spread elsewhere in the country that's why there's such an alarm bell being wronged by the prime minister today no what's interesting when you look at that the reason there are so many people there in the reason so many were evacuated is these were local tourist they were tourists vietnamese tourists inside the country this is something a move that vietnam did to try to spur some type of economic recovery by getting people to travel inside the country the borders are still sealed a very large border with china but they seal the border so they wanted to start the

economy by encouraging people to start traveling in country and then they saw this outbreak in denying and that's why you saw about 20000 people go to host city and to one of those the 2 largest cities and that's where this concern is right now i mean a $446.00 total cases right now in vietnam seems to be a relatively low number when you look at the last 3 months that's why there is such a big concern and also this case is going to be a big concern for other countries like thailand who in a similar situation was viewed as a positive case of coded they are in a similar situation lock the borders down and they're encouraging ties to travel within thailand so obviously thai officials are looking at what happened in vietnam very very closely and hong kong also caught another city that had done very well and is now said to be on the verge of a notch scale outbreak. yeah the city's leader kerry lamb has really expressed concern that they're on the verge of a major outbreak of covert 1000 know they too were looked at as

a success story when it comes to containing 1000 spread particularly since its bordering china in the early days there was concern that there would be a massive spike in hong kong that didn't happen but what they've seen over the last several days over $100.00 locally transmitted cases each day that is very concerning to them today wednesday you know they've ratcheted up their their control of the potential spread of the virus one thing they have done is now mandatory face masks in any public area and also no dine in dining in the in hong kong city at all so these are some restrictions they put into place to hopefully curb this kerry lamb also expressing concern if there is a surge of cases there's concern about what will happen with the hospital and the health care in the city because they haven't had that spike so they're really not prepared for it so there's concern with that as well ali thank you very much for that update. health experts in india say there's been a shopping crease in the number of coronavirus infections launched me due to poor

infrastructure nearly 40000 cases were reported on tuesday bringing the total number to more than 1500000 the regions of delhi maharashtra and tamil nadu account for more than half of the new cases india as a 3rd worst affected nation after the u.s. and brazil with more than 34000 deaths and a medical surveys revealing alarming statistics about the spread of the virus in mumbai more than 4000000 people living in the city's slums have had the virus tests on nearly 7000 randomly selected people there found 57 percent of them bodies for the virus about 40 percent of mumbai's population lives in shanties and it's home to asia's largest slum with an estimated $1000000.00 people the survey suggests a high rate of infections without sin tends led speaks to our india correspondent elizabeth cohen in new delhi for is so is this survey done in mumbai only confirms what many people have suspected and that is the number of cases is much higher than

what's being reported by the government. faulty the results are very much a reflection of what independent health experts have been saying for a long time now which is that because india is still not conducting enough tests it has on the been lowest. testing in the wote that the rail number of infections of india are at least 10 times the reported number and possibly even up to 40 times you mentioned what's known as asia's largest dot of a well that has confirmed it's confirmed cases around 2 and a half 1000 but the syrian article survey shows that nearly 60 percent of people who live in slum slums of shanties have been infected so the real number of cases and thought of it is more likely to be around a 1000000 outside of these densely populated slum areas the percentage of people who have the virus is around 16 percent while the official number for mumbai is

around 110000 again it's a fraction of the millions who the survey shows who the survey says have antibodies and the surveys very much in line with the last one which was done in the capital new delhi with the results last week showed that a quarter of its 20000000 people have antibodies have had coronavirus and here in delhi the cases have been coming down of the last few weeks but yesterday on tuesday daddy's high court tossed the local government to explain why it's conducting hof the number of the most to accurate swap tests known as the 2 p.c. out tests that it's capable off and conducting twice that number of adhesion tests which as accurate so well done these government has been boasting that its numbers are coming down the high court is just to conduct more tests and to conduct more tests all over the country the prime minister promised in that in the more he did launch retesting santa is virtually in mumbai not far from here where we are in new

delhi in a place called noida and also in kolkata to continue with this drive to test more people to have more accurate picture of the situation in the country thank you for that in this with my forests there in new delhi. while governments around the world are feeling the pressure of trying to contain the pandemic while also trying to save their economies after months of lockdown chile has begun lifting restrictions in parts of its capital but some medical experts say the government is not following recommendations from the world health organization a lot america had a tendency in human 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're now allowed out for an hour 3 times

a week i mean assuming 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 it 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. seeing even funerals pose a threat. as they say farewell to their loved ones dozens of people sing and drink many of them infected themselves. jeanette how to eat pieces nervously outside a hospital emergency room entrance where her father is being treated for a pulled 19 nod at a moment of 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 algal the us is reporting its highest single day increase in nationwide calls of 19 deaths since may more than 1200 deaths were recorded on tuesday the death toll is now fast approaching 150008 state of florida is one of the worst hated seen a record number of fatalities in the past 24 hours mike hanna is in washington and reports on the reasons behind the rising rates. the rate of infection says continuing to surge as indeed is the death rate but the state's governor on dissenters is 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 is that 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 leads 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 the annual muslim pilgrimage

to mecca known as the had has began under a very different circumstances. is a life excess or mecca it's been drastically scaled back millions usually travel to saudi arabia but for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from abroad and not allowed to take part and no more than 10000 oprah's are expected to attend to reduce the risk of causing 1000 authorities have also poured out a holy kaaba saying pilgrims were not being able to touch or. still ahead on al-jazeera. when mr mr plan to remember sorry this be cleared and it was done you said get it done. by politicians the u.s. attorney general defends the white house's heavy handed response to months of anti-racism protests and being held to account will have more on why the so-called big 4 tech companies in the u.s.

are about to face questions in congress. hello this a very nice warm sunshine across much of southern europe also across areas to the northwest that is beginning to improve as a head through the next couple of days you would think so at night so cools it is off for all the summer but people are slightly enjoying the weather through the swiss alps a good case skies a nice woman sunshine the same across into southern romania as well cooling off here in the spray from the fountains and taking a diff into the river to cool off in the central czech republic now there is some rain of course in the 4 cars in fact is a very unsettled picture wednesday throughout much of scotland and this line of rain showers which could be heavy at times working its way through ukraine batteries up into western as a russia but this next system here which is trying to push in across the u.k. that will be held by this little ridge of high pressure literally nudging up you

can see the temperatures also not showing up the 5 a very warm day thursday in bordeaux a jump of 10 degrees from wednesday to thursday the winds are coming from the interior and when you look at the heat on the heat you can see why this time which is also very high to the north where we have got those rain showers very nice in london for the next few days finally a real a feel of summer on friday sunny skies a high of 31 degrees it will cool off. back in bordeaux will actually cool down closer to the average and still saying sunny in seville. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and will online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic arliss that people of color have suffered not only now but for

decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he gets human equating it business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on al-jazeera. earth. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera this hour after being virus free for months yet naam is bracing for a wave of profit 19 infections dozens of cases have been reported in the central city of the non meanwhile hong kong's leader kerry now says it's hospital system in the face collapse as it deals with a shop rising called the $1000.00 cases more than half of those living in the slums of the indian city of mumbai have an article on a virus according to

a new survey about 40 percent of the city's population of 20000000 lives in shanty towns and chile is lifting restrictions hope part of its capital santiago after months on the long down but elsewhere and not in america case numbers are rising brazil and peru are among the worst affected. in other news u.s. attorney general william barr has defended the trumpet ministrations response to the black flies matter protests he testified at a congressional committee and face heavy criticism for sending federal agents into cities to quash protests they also face accusations of politicizing the justice department alan fischer reports from capitol hill. this is a time of turmoil in the united states. contests and riots and questions about the future of policing. and you're about to give issue incorrect against that backdrop the country's top law 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 a firm. 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 statue while violent rioters an anarchist have hijacked legitimate protests to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims that demonization of the police is not only unfair and inconsistent principles all people should be treated as individuals but gravely injury to her city community 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 the claim the president has repeatedly made to apply 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 mystery planned a mural that really matters here in this 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 how important many of these issues will be in the election in november alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill. back southern separatists in yemen say they're giving up attempts at self rule and will work on a stalled peace deal the southern transitional council says it's to give an opportunity to end a rift among its allies against the who sees the announcement follows one by saudi arabia saying it will present ways to implement macias power sharing deal between rival factions in the south and let's take a closer look at the 7 transitional council which has been waging what's been described as a war within yemen's complex civil war in august its fighters seize the southern port city of aid in the temporary seat of yemen's internationally recognized government in april its forces declared a state of emergency saying they needed to tackle covert 1000 and proclaimed self rule in aden and other southern provinces the accused many government of corruption

and failing to provide basic services the 2 fought against the who these in the north since 2015 but have been battling each other for control and the ultimate secession of the south. is so from the gulf state analytics risk current tolt and see things 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 parties 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 brotherhood's yemeni franchise 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 hardy's 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. turkey spawn amende has passed

a controversial social media law but human rights groups warn it will give the government even more control over the media landscape sides like facebook and twitter will have will be required to have local representatives in turkey that also need to store uses data inside the country making it easier for prosecutors and authorities to access the companies could face fines only century be blocked under the new law. has more from the sample. basically the turkish government says if something is a crime according to turkish though that it is a crime on social media as well the bill has some positive sides but especially on the possibilities of restricting personal freedom of speech and restricting journalism suppressing journalism many international organizations hooman rights groups and also even the united nations have reacted against the social media bill

saying that it would harm. this freedom of speech in turkey in turkey even the mainstream media is currently under government control so the media it's not wrong to say that media is. not dick and that's why many fear that this could cause more marginal marginalization in media but on the other hand it turkey has been fighting with our old kurdistan workers party and to glenna scrips who the government accuses of trying to overthrow the government in 2016 is so and they are all using fake accounts and brute accounts that might be helpful for the security institutions to find out what kind of people are trying to manipulate or this informed the public now everybody's curious whether the government is going to apply this bill in an appropriate way or whether the government is going to use

its exploited as a means to suppress its power over all media and all its critics the c.e.o.'s of amazon apple facebook and google are expected to testify together before the u.s. congress on wednesday to defend their powerful business practices they run companies worth it all of iran $4.00 trillion dollars the video conference meeting is expected to be one of the most aggressive shows against tech companies in decades while reynolds reports. for small tech companies being featured in apple's i phone app store is essential to getting customers but apple squeezes these companies hard says david hanson chief technology officer for the project management company base camp we were shaken down by our own home showed up and demand to be handled by 30 percent of. our homes taxis.

sometimes complaints about monopolistic practices prompted the house judiciary anti trusts of committee to hold a virtual hearing with tech bosses calling on amazon's jeff bezos apple's tim cook facebook's mark zuckerberg and google's sundar pichai it is apparent that the dominant platforms are increasingly using their gatekeeper power in abusive and coercive ways the c.e.o.'s will be questioned by lawmakers who have carefully prepared for months and terry you know i didn't just i don't know where a lot of these numbers and study. is corporations incident me for the better your inner city and kind of prepared very pointed question among the issues likely to be probed are how google uses its control over advertising on its platform to squelch competition how amazon tries to squeeze out rivals by placing its own products more

prominently in its sprawling virtual marketplace apple's role as a gatekeeper for app developers imposing arbitrary conditions on companies trying to reach consumers through its smartphones and how facebook distributes full sinne from asian and hate speech on its platform and what they have said very blatantly and very clearly that they intend to be accomplices for misleading the american people ultimately the hearings could lead to antitrust proceed. things with the companies potentially being broken up into multiple parts that's really what this comes down to an investigation into that kind of fundamental power and if human and perforation and when the government is going to do that that the tech giants plan to argue that they face abundant competition and are therefore not monopolies they have republican allies in congress and big is not necessarily bad and i trust laws

do not exist to punish success a hearing that will be closely watched and may have wide ranging consequences rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles the u.n. security council gets consuls committee on libya has met to discuss possible sanctions on countries interfering in the conflict and arms embargo is in place but the u.a.e. egypt and russia have been accused of violating its gemini's deputy ambassador to the u.n. wants the sanctions implemented at today's meeting at one time or opportunity it. is got some cases and to underline the likely importance the sanctions against sanctions related to libya be. implemented this is a rest possibility that all member states have is

a responsibility in particular are a number states if you were in today's meeting. the u.s. has welcomed a ceasefire between afghanistan's government and the taliban the 3 day truce will begin on friday during the ied holiday it follows a surge in violence in recent weeks the taliban has indicated it's prepared to hold talks with the government after 8 provided a prisoner swap is completed ghani has hinted that the talks could begin as early as next week. now why live conservationists groups in thailand have release rare video and still images of 3 new male indochinese taiga's taking in in the western force region the pictures were captured by camera trops and mostly show the animals roaming at night according to the group says says the 1st sign the species has been seen in the region in 4 years they are only around 3900 wide tigers

in the world with about 160 of them in thailand as always more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of the top stories on their al-jazeera dot com. the arrow again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera after being virus free for months vietnam is bracing for a wave of cold 1000 infections dozens of cases have been reported in the central city of the non hong kong meanwhile while its leader kerry says it's hospital system could face collapse as it deals with a shop rise in cases of a has mall from thailand. city's leader kerry lamb has really expressed concern that they're on the verge of a major outbreak of covert 900 they too were looked at as

a success story when it comes to containing covert 1000 spread particularly since its bordering china in the early days was concerned that there would be a massive spike in hong kong that didn't happen but what they've seen over the last several days over $100.00 locally transmitted cases each day that is very concerning to them today wednesday you know they ratcheted up their their control of the potential spread of the virus more than half of those living in the slums of the indian city of mumbai have had coronavirus according to a new survey about 40 percent of the city's population of 20000000 lives in shanty towns india is a 3rd worst affected nation after the u.s. and brazil with more than 34000 deaths. meanwhile is lifting restrictions for part of its capital santiago after months under lockdown but elsewhere not in america case numbers are rising brazil and peru are among the worst affected the annual muslim pilgrimage known as the house has been drastically scaled back this year

because of coronavirus for the 1st time in modern history worship us from abroad will not be allowed to take its u.s. attorney general william barr has defended the trump administration's response to the black lies matter protests testifying before congress he said it was rights to send federal agents into cities to quash protests he also said the demonstrations had been hijacked by on a case since a gating by its the usa backed 7 separatists in yemen have announced they're abandoning demands for self rule they say is to give opportunity to an end rift among their allies this follow saudi arabia's place or implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in assad. absent would have lines on al-jazeera i have more news for you after the stream. for the 1st time in recent history saudi arabia prohibits overseas visitors from performing the hajj program match. as

cook at 19 continues to disrupt people's lives we look at this decision and big impact on the saudi economy hyde's 2020 on al-jazeera. hey there welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for femi 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 why did you 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 and what a show it is we're talking about the federal response to the protest in portland which just went over there 60 a straight day this weekend.