for you. everyone. the race to beat the virus russia's health minister says the country could begin mass vaccinations as soon as october. the whole romany watching out is there alive my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes thousands rally in berlin with some calling for an easing of pandemic restrictions donald trump's threats to burn popular video sharing app tick-tock following security concerns over its chinese parent company. and iran announces the arrest of a u.s. based dissident whom it accuses of masterminding

a terrorist campaign. welcome to the program we begin with the latest developments on the current virus pandemic as the global number of infections continues to accelerate and so does the global race to find a vaccine russia has announced that mass vaccinations could begin as early as october the health minister gave no details about the vaccine to be used and it's not clear if the treatment produces an immune response japan is facing a resurgence in cases tokyo confirmed a record 472 corona virus infections on saturday and the capital's governor says a citywide state of emergency may have to be imposed is a step that's already been taken in okinawa where an outbreak is suspected to originated at a u.s. military base over in berlin thousands of people are taking part

a different rally sparked by coronavirus restrictions there are rallies for and against the measures germany has been easing its lockdown since late april but social distancing still remains in place. derek gatherer is a very. good state of the state of the u.k. he says the rush to produce the vaccine means an affective result is still far from certain. to take a long time to develop and if you go back to the last pandemic that made the news in a big which was either via spiking 2016 and we still don't have a supervised baxi that's ready for probably used to the some some of the early promising results and then complications of rules should be saying that if i assist which is your vita storms are a difficult subject to develop vaccines against and we have a problems with other flu viruses flu virus vaccines and passed with corona virus accedes we've never tried to develop a vaccine to immunise humans against coronaviruses there are some and move axioms

that have been developed but vaccines against humans for criminal acts is this this is the 1st one so this presents a lot of problems and under normal circumstances a beauty several years for this to get regulatory approval but because of the international law to see lots of these processes which would normally run sequentially and over and running in panel osu prince we've heard that governments are already placing orders for 4 or 4 vaccines and on the off chance that one of them will pass regulatory approval and then you know immediately be able to begin production of a large scale. now on the situation in japan. is the traditional japanese art form hundreds of years old it's the 1st time it's ever been performed like this. the number of the film is a limited. chest and stick to social distancing rules on stage.

took years kabuki theater has opened for the 1st time in 5 months with strict guidelines as the capsule reported a record rise including a virus cases for the 3rd consecutive day as tokyo's governor considered ordering a new state of emergency the theatre is at risk of closing once. so stop if there are any requests from the japanese or tokyo government we need to respond appropriately and think of a way to adapt the performance depending on the situation this may unfortunately include having to stop partway through the run the so the island of okinawa has declared a culvert 19 state of emergency some japanese suspect u.s. personnel based on the island of importing the disease there is concern that perhaps the reason why it's hitting that island particularly strongly is because u.s. forces particularly u.s.

marines have been able to come in and out of japan without going through immigration controls until very recently without any covert 900 tests under the status of forces agreement a record $71.00 daily inspections were reported in okinawa on friday and hospitals are being overwhelmed the majority of cases a u.s. troops. in order for us to put every effort into combat in the coronavirus okinawa will issue a state of emergency but the commander of u.s. forces says it has nothing to do with that basis there has been absolutely no connection and has been proven to show that. there has been any spread from a coster's on the bases to the local community there are many elements the major power to the virus the government launched a travel campaign last week to revive the tourism industry that prompted the world health organization to call the campaign ill timed with fears the government was

choosing business over health cover 19 is also the disease the primary kills elderly people japan has the world's oldest population. in tokyo the kabuki theater fell for doing what they can to ensure safety. with an elaborate costumes the make up as well as a pop warm hearted drama many see the dance of as a chance to forget at least for a while about the boring. outside nor about the manly. debate is continuing in the u.s. over what financial assistance should be given to people who've lost their jobs politicians are holding further talks on saturday after a $600.00 recurring virus unemployment benefit expired a letter the very latest from our correspondent was in jordan he said in northern virginia what we what are the chances of a deal being reached this weekend. the

chances are very low the senate is expected to go on a recess. on friday aug 7th and typically when there are high stakes negotiations underway they tend to go down to the very last day and that is as much for trying to yield political advantage as it is to try to resolve a difficult negotiation now of course that prospect is not good news for the estimated $30000000.00 people who had been receiving $600.00 a week in supplemental unemployment benefits sent earlier this spring money which they say is desperately needed in order to pay their rent or their mortgage to buy food to pay for health care and to basically not have to declare bankruptcy so-called this must have a b. plan b. what is the best or the next best solution.

well economists from across the political spectrum have been suggesting that if there is a time for the federal government to spend lots of money in order to keep the u.s. economy growing this is the situation in which you would want to do what the democrats have been engineered the passage of a 3 trillion dollars supplemental package the 5th such package of financial aid for americans who are struggling with the economic impact of the covert 19 pandemic however senate republicans finally put together a package this week that is only about one trillion dollars and would essentially cut the weekly unemployment benefit by 2 thirds that is a nonstarter according to congressional democrats they are now back on capitol hill meeting in the house speaker's office and nancy pelosi told reporters on her way in that this work needs to get done but that there are going to be any concessions and

of course i'm paraphrasing what she said just there. thank you. well as we mentioned those the people have been protesting in the german capital both for and against krone virus restrictions police say around 17000 took part in the. demonstration suddenly cain has more from berlin they've been the suggestion that 83 different groups over the course of today would be on the streets of berlin and it's not just people who are opposed to the safety measures brought in by the government here in germany to combat coronavirus there are others who are opposed to the demonstrations by the coronavirus protesters taking place so the police have about 1100 officers on the streets of berlin trying to keep these rival groups of demonstrators apart but there are certain groups clusters of people who are wearing the sorts of right wing paraphernalia associated with the extreme

right in germany i must say it's a minority who are doing that one of the things that ministerial circles are really worried about not just here in berlin at a federal level but right across the country and all the states that make up this federal republic are really worried about the 2nd wave of corona which they're trying to stop generally speaking most people have been understanding of the need to have these precautions social distancing and that sort of thing and one final thought also so many of the measures that were brought in at the start of the pandemic which were perceived as being really long gone generally speaking you don't have to wear masks in many places right now so when you see the people on the streets demonstrating against coronavirus precautions many people wonder what exactly are they demonstrating against. trump is going to use his presidential powers to bar the chinese own social media platform to talk from the u.s.

he signaled he didn't support an american takeover of the company amid reports that microsoft is in talks to buy tech talk and really serial ports it's still latest rift in the escalating tech war between the u.s. and china for weeks u.s. officials have raised security concerns over the chinese owned video app tick-tock saying it can help aging spy on americans and now president donald trump threatened to fan it all together well look here that we may be betting take we may be doing some other things a couple of options but a lot of things are happening so we'll see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to. trump stepped up his rhetoric following reports that he may sign an order forcing chinese parent company might dance to sell the u.s. portion of take talk microsoft was set to be in talks to acquire it but neither start confirmed any deal in

a blog post earlier this week took talks cheap kevin mayer says his company is not being treated fairly he says it's receiving more scrutiny because of its chinese origins and insists it is not the enemy talks estimated to have 800000000 active users worldwide a 10th of them in the u.s. experts say banning it would be challenging i think it's very unclear what a ban would look like and what it would mean you know it's very hard to ban something that's popular among the use it's just you know if your parents tell you not to do something it makes you want to do it more in june a video that went viral on tech talk was seen as one of the reasons behind the poor attendance at trump's campaign rally in tulsa oklahoma. forcing a wildly popular app off the smartphones of millions of americans could prove to be an unpopular move ahead of trump's reelection bid and the su out to 0. 0 still ahead here on al-jazeera going hungry

a bankrupt lebanon could soon struggle to feed and children with the frosty reception chilling the president's state of the nation address is dismissed by citizens. of. hello there is more flooding on the way for the korean peninsula probably this northeastern part of china as well that's where the seasonal rain has got to run but it's most active at this end of it says the yellow river across the sea towards north korea to some degree south korea as well certainly in seoul and then you go across to japan and just a few showers no more that's also true back in china the huge area was nothing really forecasts in the south that's quite different the something of a circulation sas child is falling apart but it leaves an awful lot of potential for rain in hong kong for all the way along the south coast and into taiwan in

particular taipei could be particularly wet so although reflects where the seasonal rain is 3 days of it sunday monday tuesday fairly humid days now given what's happening up here that would suggest maybe it will be quite so active for the size and that is true for a couple of days at least although we've got showers in the southern philippines dancers of sort of wasting in borneo in sumatra and at least peninsula malaysia it's pretty dry weather right in there up in myanmar central thailand and northern vietnam as well the monsoon rain is concentrating now he kind of concentrated on the western ghats particularly in the south. from. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the

bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. there is no channel that covers world news like we do we revisit cases in the state under 0 really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. but mike you're watching others are with me so whole robin a reminder of our top stories russia has announced that last night's nations against krone virus could begin as soon as october the health minister gave no details about the vaccine to be used and it's not clear if the treatment produces an immune response debate is continuing in the u.s.

of what financial assistance should be given to people who've lost their jobs politicians are holding further talks on saturday after a $600.00 a week coronavirus unemployment benefit expires and donald trump is vowing to use his presidential powers to ban the chinese own social media platform ticked off from the u.s. the president is against microsoft's reported takeover attempt of the firm's us off for a show as. iran says it's arrested the head of what it describes as a u.s. based terrorist group shared and the group known as tunde are accused of leading sabotage operations inside iran iranian authorities hold the tondo responsible for a bombing in 2008 in the city of shiraz in which 14 people were killed and more than 200 injured as a bag has more from the iranian capital. this group were established in the united states by an individual by the name of cherry they have a t.v. station where they protect their views and we check to their father's name and

cheery disappeared mysteriously around 2007 no one really knows where he is but then jump shed took over the leadership of the group and iran says they've captured him they haven't said where and when they've captured him but they said that it was a complicated intelligence operation and he was captured by iranian forces now in the past iran having people to iraq with have been detained one such individual was ruled as the activist and journalist and his death sentence was upheld and then ring in court at the end of june but this capture will be seen by iran possibly yes more significant they reign in media also refer to them as monarchists because the founder my cherry was also part of an organization called the kingdom assembly which wanted to reinstate the monarchy system that was here before the stomach revolution 41 years ago now as far as iran are concerned these individuals are terrorists. iraq's prime minister has announced a general election next june which will be a year earlier than churchill's. promised an early vote when he took office in may

of anti-government demonstrations demanded early elections protesters want a government overhaul are denied to corruption and sectarianism. is the director of the iraq initiative at the u.k. think tank chatham house he says the prime minister's ambition to push through reforms wasn't in line with the protesters key demand for early elections. most of them to me as you know have not even been prime minister 400 days yet he came in promising reform and a whole host if you look at his government have a whole host of different types of reform he didn't really talk as much about elections i mean elections as you would trying to wipe corruption and and those bigger demands when i think it's been a very rocky sort of premiership to him so far in his time he has seen assassinations increase with for example a sham of caution his assassination a few weeks ago then last monday down here square in protest of you know his forces

shot up or testers and killed people at tester's so very clearly his bigger ambition for reform was bigger ambition to try and within that the 2 years that he had to try to do something different was not working and i think this kind of was his hope that option to some extent ok i need the public you need he's trying to gather public support by going to what has been there may demand from the beginning and you like seems. international aid agencies say a rising number of lebanese families are losing their income and sinking into poverty save the children says half a 1000000 youngsters are going hungry and that's just in beirut. for explains. in this middle class neighborhood in the heart of the lebanese capital stories of poverty are everywhere households have been pushed into desperation i'm a liberal him like so many other families is a victim of the rapidly imploding economy she says it has been hard on her 11 year old son hamza who's had to adapt to

a new lifestyle for them. we're borrowing money to feed our children for 5 months short on house rent my husband isn't working a family will die from hunger if the situation continues. children are already hungry more than half a 1000000 of them in the greater beirut area according to the charity save the children poverty is a real thing some children currently now go to bed hungry the negative coping mechanisms for the time being are able to kind of fill some of these gaps but on the long run if there is no macro level and sustainable solution there will be death. already half the country lives in poverty here in the northern city of tripoli families struggle with soaring food prices due to the local currency losing 80 percent of its value. still children are being deprived from buying what they

want people are under so much oppression of. decades of corruption and mismanagement are blamed for running the economy into the ground and political leaders don't seem to have a solution. non-governmental organizations say $80000.00 people have lost their jobs in recent months bringing the total number of unemployed to $430000.00 or 32 percent of the workforce many warn up to $1000000.00 out of the $5000000.00 lebanese population could be jobless by the end of the year the world food program says 2 thirds of households in lebanon have lost their income and some have started to sell whatever they can to survive about. to buy food and water. many people are in debt and depend on charity but those who were able to help now need help themselves yes there are not all lives being lost

as in typical natural disaster or a typical war but lebanese people that live in lebanon are produced by others they all fall and go off the cliff so you have wives at 1st aid agencies are already calling it a humanitarian crisis as lives continue to be destroyed by lebanon's financial meltdown. beirut. the united arab emirates as it successfully began operations at a nuclear power plant the 1st in the arab world the plant in abu dhabi was originally due to open in 2017 but startup of its 1st reactor was repeatedly delayed the country heavily relies on gas fired power plants and solar fields to meet its energy needs. prosecutors in the u.s. and britain have charged 3 people including a teenage boy with working twitter they're accused of taking over the accounts of

several high profile people including the former u.s. president barack obama and tesla boss musk so what has the latest. this is the alleged ringleader of the 2 it's a hacking 2 weeks ago the 17 year old who can't be named for legal reasons is from term cover in florida he faces the challenges including computer intrusion fraud money laundering and identity theft he's one of 3 young men accused of hacking the accounts of famous people and scamming their followers into sending digital money. and actions to twitter accounts and actually into our controls of twitter through compromising our twitter employee. to those accounts you don't use the identities of prominent people. money in the form it quite promising in return that she would some back twice as much. and then collected of course never give back the coin that you received from the czech police say the highly sophisticated cyber attack

targeted 130 twitter accounts among them u.s. presidential candidate joe biden former u.s. president barack obama is in both jeff bezos to you know mosque and billionaire bill gates the suspects are accused of taking over their accounts and posting terrible messages or scheme for money they received hundreds of cryptocurrency transfers into a big queen account worth around a $100000.00 police say they stopped the scam before more money was stolen the u.s. justice department identified the other $2.00 suspects by accessing their own 9 chats and bitcoin transactions 22 year old name a facility with a known online as rolex from the u.s. state of florida a 19 year old mason shepherd nicknamed child one from the u.k. paper suggests they were lured in by the ringleader with the promise of highly prized short twitter user names known as o.-g. handles they're all facing either federal or state criminal charges including computer intrusion fraud money laundering wire fraud and identity theft twitter

says the hackers were able to access the private messages of $36.00 of $130.00 hacked accounts including one for an elected official in the netherlands but after one of the most high profile online security breaches in recent years to its a says it's fast tracking security improvements prevent further scams targeting both employees and uses sort of played at al-jazeera. protesters in portland are refusing to back down after dol trump said federal agents will remain until local police can remove what it called an a kiss and agitators. rallies against racism and police brutality have been held nightly for more than 2 months the president ordered the controversial deployment last month despite objections in oregon the agents in riot gear are accused of inflaming anger by tear firing tear gas at peaceful protesters. and the killing of a black actor in portugal has triggered anti racism protests a white burned in his eighty's has been charged with murder barbara and park

reports. demanding justice for bruno candy an african portuguese actor and father of 3 the 39 year old was killed in a busy lisbon street on sunday protesters say it was racially motivated so was i guess we're here working paying taxes and we cannot live in peace why are they always killing black people why. police say cam they were shot 4 times in broad daylight a white man in his eighty's has been charged with his murder. can his family say the accused shattered racist slurs and threaten to kill condé 3 days earlier. we really want justice because there is no solution is there you can't kill a person like an animal. anti-racism protests triggered by the police killing of george floyd in the united states have swept. and in portugal there are parallel

grievances and the police brutality. at $28.00 a report by the right script council of europe accused portuguese police of multiple cases of racist violence and last year 8 officers were found guilty of kidnapping and beating young people from a predominantly black lace one neighborhood. in the gulf with more serious globally portugal remains from the authorities to day to day a racist country which is to actually resist these demonstrations contribute to make portugal better and more just. campaign was originally from guinea-bissau now parliamentarians there passed a mission condemning what they see as a racially motivated murder and will send a delegation to portugal to see cancers barbara and al-jazeera. president doesn't stay for the half 1000000000 dollar boost for the economy to help

soften the blow of the pandemic sebastian pinera made the announcement during his state of the nation address a lot in america and it's only see in human reports now from santiago. everything about this year's state of the nation address was a normal starting with the fact that it was delivered more than 2 months late because of the pandemic the president's problems began much earlier. these last 9 months have been very difficult and demanding for everyone and have been very extraordinarily difficult for me. but like many chileans not in the past and was taken aback that he barely mentioned one of the most important reasons 9 months ago a nationwide social uprising brought millions of chileans out onto the streets to demand profound reforms protests then and rage fanned by police brutality seemed unstoppable. instead the president focused on efforts to confront the

pandemic and to help the poor and middle class write out a steep economic recession i don't know dana says she hasn't received a cent even though she's been out of work since april when i hear him speak i cannot trust a word he says he has lied to so much and will miss the things he should be talking about it i don't believe what is promising. others weren't listening at all. in this middle class neighborhood resident or even waving the president has already been banging one. showed their discontent but at least it's peaceful here we are hearing reports that another part of town in the low income neighborhoods the demonstrations of just pretend to be having more and more violent. appealed for understanding. i want to tell those families who are still waiting for help to arrive that will do everything in our power to correct our mistakes finally i want

to tell you that a house divided cannot prevail. but bill's had been hoping to hear the presidential more humility even as his leadership is questioned even by some members of his own conservative coalition it will clearly disappointed you seeing human al-jazeera sent. you what you are just there with needs a whole run reminder of our top stories russia has announced that mass vaccinations against krone virus could begin as soon as october the health minister gave no details about the vaccine to be used on this not clear if the treatment produces an immune response japan is facing a resurgence in covert 19 cases confirmed a record 472 infections on saturday the governor's says a citywide state of emergency they have to be imposed it's a step that's already been taken in okinawa where an outbreak is suspected to have

originated at a u.s. military base the bottom line years of our procedures for u.s. forces japan are stringent they are affected and what we have seen a growth in cases in a couple of our basins have been managed they have been contained and there has been absolutely no connection there that has been proven to show that there has been any spread from the costers on the basins to the local community. debate is continuing in the u.s. over what financial assistance should be given to people who've lost their jobs politicians are holding further talks on saturday after a $600.00 a week early virus unemployment benefit expires. thousands of people are marching in berlin against germany's credit iris restrictions demonstrators say the measures are robbing them of their rights and are calling for people to resist the protesters one of several in the capital this weekend and the fascist and pro lockdown organizations are holding counter demonstrations donald trump is going to use his presidential powers to ban the chinese own social media platform to talk

from the u.s. the president is against microsoft's reported takeover attempt of the firm's u.s. operations there and says arrested the head of what it describes as a u.s. based terrorist groups group. and the group known as tonga are accused of leading sabotage operations inside iran iranian authorities hold tondo responsible for bombing in 2008 in the city of shiraz in which 14 people were killed and iraq's prime minister has announced a general election next june which is a year earlier the judge ruled most of al here they may have promised an early vote when he took office in may there's been months of anti-government demonstrations calling for early elections those are the headlines dick clark's here with the news hour in 30 minutes next hour as there is the bottom line to stay with us. 10 years ago a mining disaster in chile dropped 33 men the world watched as the dumont's rescue turned new tragedy into america's al-jazeera revisits the men once celebrated as

national heroes and asks how this ordeal changed their lives chilean miners after the rescue on the jersey. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question are china and the united states headed for a new cold war or is it going to be a hot war let's get to the bottom line. the downward spiral began years ago but in the last few days it has really sunk to new lows following a pattern of knee jerk hit for tat ism washington just shut down china's consulate in texas last week and in response to beijing shut down america's consulate in chengdu thousands of chinese watched as the u.s. flag was lowered from that former diplomatic post as part of america's full court press secretary of state mike pompei a gave a speech asking the world to embark.