i'm as good as a parish because built on the backs of slaves how much does britain know about for ancient album pandemic could wipe out latin america's god and social and economic gains plus wild cards missing billions counting the cost of al-jazeera. backhander along down millions in the philippines ordered to stay indoors a day after the highest number of corona virus infections in a single day. the 6 week period is absolutely critical victoria's premier announces more restrictions of the strayer 2nd most populous state grapples with the surge in cases.

hello i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. another attack by eisel in afghanistan over 20 killed in a prison gun battle we take a look at the armed groups rowing right. back in business zimbabwe's stock exchange reopens giving some hope for the economy's revival. lashed out. and the end of an historic mission to nasa astronauts heralds a new era in commercial space travel. people around the world are facing strict new crowded virus rules and restrictions governments are trying to stamp out rising in faction rates one avoiding the full

economic shutdowns they imposed earlier this year a global tally by johns hopkins university shows the number of reported cases is now more than 18000010600000 have recovered and about 690000 people have died. the philippines has reported more than $3200.00 new corona virus infections pushing it close to overtaking in the nisha is the worst hit country in southeast asia tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around miller after infections jumped to more than 110-0000 rather from tuesday business isn't public transport are expected to close people will need special passes to leave home. i have heard do call up different groups from the medical community for it to. community quarantine

issue q. in manila a fully understand where you. would like to ask for such a timeout period they have been in the front lines for the miners are exhausted general allen dugan is in manila she says the government will decide in mid august whether to lift or extend the lockdown. health workers were asking for is a return to what they call an enhanced community quarantine or in fact a total lockdown of metro manila and nearby provinces that's something that the president did not give to them in his address sunday night what he basically said is that they will implement a stricter lockdown policy in megaman the and many other areas which means that the mystic rights will be postponed there will be no public transport which is already limited in the 1st place international flights coming in and getting out of the philippines will also be limited the philippines already implemented one of the

world the strongest and most strictest lockdowns and that started in early march and ended a few months ago when the cases where around 18000 the government decided to ease restrictions hoping basically to allow people to go out to to help buffer the economy basically it's really feeling the impact of this crisis however the call that was made by health doctors was a distress call the message was very very clear they say hospitals are at full capacity and frontline medical workers really do need breathing space they're asking for a lockdown in order to slow down and special as they see hoping that they will allow some of them basically to have a break to handle the growing number of covert cases given that there is no massive testing or tracing at the moment here this training instance of victoria has ordered large parts of its economy to close as it battles the 2nd wave of covert 19 in functions it follows the introduction of

a nightly co few more restrictions on people's movements in melbourne we're going to gauge reports from sydney. the heart of no been eerily empty and quiet as a 6 week citywide overnight curfew begins its new a 5000000 residents work to a new normal and further restrictions the victorian state government has ordered more parts of the economy to shut down including in retail manufacturing and construction most are never thought that i would be telling people not to go to work that is what we have to do in order to stop the spread of this wadley infectious virus on sunday the movement of people with further touch and with residents not allowed to move further than 5 kilometers away from their homes say this is a little set up with schools again closed and 1000000 stuck indoors many people including kate moulton are again juggling work on a fallacious and homeschooling. but

definitely. this time around we feel like it's really looked down on regional victoria is also facing partial lockdown though not as strict as melbourne some say the new measures will trigger thousands of job losses and stand downs statewide it is hard to businesses now that it got through 6 weeks and then work out how they ran. out some businesses. financial grants will be available for businesses forced to close as well as workers who have exhausted sick leave what we're dealing with here is i disaster. and we need to respond on the basis of the why we provide support in the midst of disaster while border closures have largely kept the virus within the state of victoria there are clusters in urging within new south wales in particular sydney and the federal government has warned the economic fallout will

be nationwide victoria makes up about a quarter of the national economy and with quoted $9000.00 cases remaining in the triple digits daily many are wondering if it's realistic that numbers can be driven down in 6 weeks nicola gage al-jazeera sydney let's bring in dr bharat is a senior clinical lecturer at university of exeter medical school in the u.k. good to have you with us so 1st of all why this it seems like some countries have managed to escape a 2nd wave and others haven't well it all depends on how many cases they had to begin with so if you start from a high level it is almost impossible to regain control and if you act fast ackerley hard like new zealand did you can then reduce your number of cases and regain control so this is the game of chess that we have to play and we have to

play it with the science which is act fast act early act hard and you regain control act slowly act reluctantly and you find it very difficult to maintain and regain control over hang on doctor does that mean those countries which did not act fast their log downs have failed even if they put in a very stringent lockdown later on the fact that they're seeing a 2nd wave and talk about another lockdown does that mean the 1st lockdown is useless if you haven't come in early enough. the 2nd lockdown will have to be very prolonged and and and that makes it difficult because we cannot have a very prolonged lockdown and this is why i'm very concerned that if you have a lockdown and then you have a premature lifting of the lockdown you undo the pain the cost and the expenses

of the initial locked down very very quickly therefore speed is always of the essence and early speed allows you to regain control whereas later on it's much harder when you look at the 2nd lockdowns going on right now are they any smarter shall we say any more developed any more targeted than the 1st round of long downs or of will and nothing well what we have learned is that this infection is still generating cases we've got to be careful that morris has not gone away and really the public health messages don't drop your guard you can get infected don't get infected don't in fact others this is very important and if every single person took infection control precautions we would have less drastic restrictions or lock downs as we referred to it what about those countries that didn't go ever for a very stringent lock down them one more for things like tracing and testing south

korea comes to mind i think even sweden hasn't done too badly relatively and they didn't have a very stringent knock down well south korea acted very fast and very efficiently with regards to its testing and tracing and as a result of a super effort they released an army of people a large number of people to test and trace they were able to remove people from circulation so is that more of a solution rather than another long township countries be looking at that. without a doubt because i think lockdowns are a coarse measure there is a more precise measure is to test and contact trace extensively. it's wonderful to get your thoughts on that dr barring one honey of. the u.k. government says it's rolling out tests for the coronavirus that can provide a result within 90 minutes millions of these are to be sent to hospitals care homes

and the ball trees as early as next week some health experts are voiced concern though over how reliable the new tests will be and speak now is sunny gago she's outside st thomas hospital in london so what more can you tell us about these quick tests. well these were announced by the health secretary baptising called saying that it's 90 minute tests will begin to be rolled out by next week about 5800000 of them they are d.n.a. based tests to work in conjunction with the 450000 or so swap tests that take place every week as well in the question of course the main reason for doing this at the maze was a big concern is that in the future towards the winter where there will also be an uptick of flu cases as well is to try and if you will kill 2 birds with one stone

by trying to sort of mitigate that now these tests will not just be done in hospitals or labs or in any of the drive-by centers as well but they can they're going to be starting to be tested out in adult care settings like homes etc and by laboratories as well and hopefully it will go some way to try and stomp out some of the resurging waves that we've seen in other parts of the country example in leicester also over the weekend a state of emergency was announced in the greater manchester area an area of some 5000000 people with an uptick in cases there as well but there are some data scientists that are warning as well that this is just simply the but the the 2nd pillar of testing is of course what was occurring in the start of the wave of the pandemic in the country was that testing was taking place exclusively in hospital

settings told now that more testing is taking place in the community there is an upsurge of cases being encountered there as well what data scientists are warning about is that this could lead to unnecessary lockdowns therefore having a subsequent effect on economies as well. by putting in place these lockdowns but courses as mentioned earlier really the key to actually putting down the search as well is having those efficient tracing and testing back that's as well it would have to really start paolo push down those searches that have being seen in the country here and there and of course as we're seeing throughout europe sami talk about resurgence throughout europe is a big going on in germany isn't there tell us about the changing rules going on there now for those who want to return to the country. well yes there have been quite a few fears that since there have been a few local lock downs that have been put in place as well but the main thing is

now that it's high season for tourism many people going away to other countries in europe with higher rates of carette of the corona virus infections that so what's the german government now wants to do is put in place now man to treat testing for visitors for people coming back to germany as well if they've been to high risk areas like spain for example certain parts of spain is particular among catalonian are all gone regions as well which should show whites price spikes really prompting fears that it could be another result of the scenes that we saw earlier on in the year. testicle so what railway stations as well visit his who have who may have originated the voyage that journeys from those high risk areas as well but course with this being in my bearing in mind that there are tremendous impacts on the

economy for those countries who absolutely rely on the high tourism season talking about countries like spain italy portugal portugal which see the 96 percent hit to its tourism industry tourism in itself accounts for about for about 15 percent of its g.d.p. and now but countries such as germany the u.k. and other countries such as france are also seen a rise in cases as well now of this sort of starting to put the brakes and people much more reluctant going to these southern european countries it really is having a devastating effect on these economies and will last throughout most of the year 71 here thanks so much from london. world health organization is warning people against pinning their hopes on a vaccine saying basic prevention measures remain crucial to finding a way out of the pandemic and we all hope to have

a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection however there is no silver bullet at the moment and then might never be for now stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of public health and disease control testing isolating and treating patients and tracing and quarantining their contacts do it on. still ahead on al-jazeera lebanon's foreign minister accuses the government of poor performance as he resigned his post. q.'s the planting bombs along the border israel's army hit squads terrorists.

we got some really heavy rain pushing into eastern parts of china over the next 48 hours or so you can see the tropical storm had to put making its way up towards eastern areas of the region before the north is where we say it's a very heavy rain recently just around south korea where we say big down pause dam has been opened allow some of the water to fade out to see just spread the flooding somewhat but there has been extensive damage across a good part of south korea many roads damaged houses also were in trouble here more heavy rain coming in here as we go on through tuesday further south here we go with had to pick making its way up towards shanghai and will continue to educate a further north with tending to rain out as it does to set the winds not say much of a problem but some very heavy rain coming in as we go on through the next couple days and that will gradually run back up towards the korean peninsula to the east of that as well too bad in japan tokyo $32.00 celsius further west still see those seasonal rains there across the impasse of china say the rains continuing to across

a good part of their coast plenty of showers long spells of rain up towards me a mob pushing up in spanglish desh the final faced of india and lots of heavy rain continuing for the west and gas. as a weapon of war leaves the very deep scars. scars some rules. the victims men and women can barely talk about. the only witnesses who can help bring about justice. 0 tolerance schiemann rights campaigners in libya investigating great since the 2011. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera.

you're watching out to syria time to recap our headlines now the philippines has reported more than $3200.00 new coronavirus cases it's close to overtaking indonesia as the worst hit nation in southeast asia tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around the capital manila. all non-essential businesses in australia 2nd largest city in melbourne have been ordered to close because of the surgeon factions 5000000 citizens already under a 6 week stay at home order have just finished the 1st overnight curfew. and unknown number of prisoners have escaped during a suicide bomb attack on a jail in eastern afghanistan. says. isolates

claiming responsibility for the gun battle which killed at least $29.00 people and injured dozens afghan security forces arrived after several explosions outside the prison in the city of jalalabad kate clarke is the co-director of the afghanistan analysts network a policy research think tank she says this year the situation in afghanistan has become more complex. the war is actually becoming more difficult to read and we had the agreement between the united states and the taliban right at the end of february which the on the back of that the u.s. withdrew thousands of its troops it said that the taliban had also agreed to a reduction of violence the taliban said no absolutely not we've only agreed not to attack u.s. forces and not to attack him in major cities in bases now sits and the taliban have

really been probing to see how much violence they can get away with without drawing the us military back into the war and we know that both the taliban and the government have been under claiming attacks whereas before they would probably be exaggerating what they were doing on the battlefield now they're there they're not claimed so many so it's actually quite difficult to read who is responsible for what anymore and we've also had an a surge an unclaimed attacks or attacks that are difficult to pin down lebanon's foreign minister has resigned not so it had to says he couldn't continue because of the government's poor performance lebanon is close to bankruptcy and politicians accused of running the economy and running it into the ground shown no willingness to fight corruption or save a bailout from the international monetary fund so the holder has more from the capital beirut. the foreign minister's resignation is being seen as

a blow to prime minister has given his government he's been trying really to gain credibility and legitimacy at home and abroad since taking office in january but he has largely failed to do so the prime minister made many many promises like to fight corruption to fix the economic situation nothing has changed in fact the situation is only getting worse and now criticism from within his own government the foreign minister saying that lebanon is becoming a failed state he's accusing those in power of not having a vision and saying that they are not carrying out the 4 reforms that are needed to be able to be eligible for much needed international financial assistance in fact talks with the international monetary fund to bailout the economy are now on hold and the statistics really are staggering more and more people are losing jobs businesses are closing in fact an agency recently said that 500000 children are

growing hungry just in the beirut area alone so the situation is worsening the foreign minister saying that the government has done nothing and really raising the alarm saying that the sink the ship is sinking and if it is not saved everyone will drown in a clear reference that the government itself and those who hold power who are starving who want to maintain power they too will drown if no solution is found. hamas has described overnight israeli air strikes in gaza as a dangerous escalation the israeli military says it targeted several sites off to iraq it was initially 5 from gaza this is the 1st such exchange in a mum. the israeli army says it's killed 4 fighters in the occupied golan heights it's released this video accusing them of planting explosives along a border fence the military describes them as a terror squad it says the syrian regime is ultimately responsible the video can't

be verified and no group has claimed the attack hurry forces in west jerusalem he says an investigation is now underway. i mean the bases in the account friendly israeli military they say that what took place was this group of what they call terrorists coming into israeli controlled territory in the southern occupied golan heights they said they were trying to plant explosives at an unmanned israeli military outpost there they were tracked as they did so and they were fired upon by troops on the ground and from the as similar tenuously and all 4 of them were killed what we don't know and what the israeli military says they are investigating as to whether there is any link between this whether it's an isolated incident or is connected to the already heightened security situation in israel's north israel has been reinforcing its troops along the border with lebanon and in the occupied

golan heights in anticipation of a potential hezbollah attack thought to be likely to come from lebanese territory that's after as bar fighter was killed in an air strike inside syria last month has a long standing promise to retaliate to any of its fighters being killed inside syrian territory and to be there was an incident a week ago on monday when israel fired upon and it says drove back a group of would be infiltrators into its controlled territory in the disputed shebaa farms area as well as and there was no attack carried out in that instance so the israeli military is saying that there is currently no known connection between what took place overnight but it is investigating the situation palestinian villages in the occupied west bank are accusing israeli settlers of poisoning their cian villages in east hamas say it's the 2nd similar attack in the past 10

days the un has recorded 155 sets their attacks on palestinians and their property this here. the latest talks to break the deadlock over africa's largest hydroelectric dam in ethiopia are on the way by video conferencing ethiopians of celebrated the completion of the 1st stage of filling the dams reservoir ethiopian government says the 5 $1000000000.00 project will boost the economy of sudan and egypt downstream on the river nile are worried about reduced water supplies trading has resumed in zimbabwe's stock exchange after a month long suspension to try and stabilize the currency zimbabweans are suffering 800 percent inflation and their worst financial crisis in more than a decade that's being worsened by coronavirus lockdown restrictions police have arrested activists demanding the fall of the ruling zanu p.f.

party in connection with corruption allegations how the metasearch has more from harare. government officials say some companies and some individuals are using more money platforms to buy shares of intel their shares and move their money out of the country which is fueling the black market and causing foreign currency shortages after the investigations companies are now allowed to trade except for 3 old neutral p p 3 and feed co but they're still under investigation they're also saying that the reason why they introduced the weekly auction system is because if you try and make sure that the rate of the us dollar and the barbie dollar is determined on a weekly basis they're saying this one hopes stabilize the economy and also stabilize the black market as a while so a lot of people are now wondering is this going to work ordinaries the barber the thing they re not seeing much different they saying that the salaries and they savings are being eroded by high inflation which is nearly 800 percent they complain when the going to market the products on the shelf from zimbabwe so that

other countries but they're just too expensive to buy the government introduced a cushioning allowance for civil servants and pensioners but because of logistical issues some people say they have been able to access that money and for the vulnerable people in main you rural areas where they are struggling to do to feed themselves because of a prolonged drought for example i think the money the government promised them still hasn't come. back home after nasser's 1st splashdown 47 years the space x. dragon capsule landed in the sea off florida when the 1st ever manned mission by a private u.s. company. has more. it's a commercial success story it's the 1st crew mission to space led by a private company returns to u.s. astronauts about pink in her early. career her 1st few very clearly after their 2

month mission in the international space station the astronauts were slowly helped out of the capsule. as the company space x. plans more ambitious projects we are starting the journey. of bringing people regularly to and from lower earth orbit. and on to the moon and then ultimately on to mars things looking good now the success of a test flight could lead to a new booming industry nasa is no longer the purchaser owner an operator of all the hardware we are going to be a customer one customer of many customers in a very robust commercial marketplace. to save money and redirect resources and 2014 nasa turn to commercial companies like boeing and space x. for space flight programs and now additional missions research and even tourism could follow on musk's space x. is going to be one service boeing is going to come online probably later this year

they're going to complete another crude test flight so they can begin flying astronauts next year virgin galactic is looking at flying astronaut so this is just the beginning it took more than 18 hours to get back home the so-called dragon capsule endure temperatures of more than $1800.00 degrees celsius as it reentered the earth's atmosphere there's something special about having that capability to launch and bring your own astronauts home and we went through a lot of years without that capability and i think we're both super super proud to have been just a small part of the team that's our complex bringing those space flights back to the florida coast and bringing that capability back to america. it's they're technology in a giant leap in the way space travel is financed and run their power to these astronauts into the history books using the 1st u.s. build hardware since the shuttle was retired nearly

a decade ago cadmium civilian al-jazeera. welcome back have a look at the headlines now people around the world are facing strict new coronavirus rules and restrictions governments are trying to stamp out rising in faction rates while avoiding the full economic shutdowns they imposed earlier this year a global tally by johns hopkins university shows the number of reported cases is now more than 18000000 the world health organization is warning people against pinning their hopes on a vaccine saying basic prevention measures remain crucial to finding a way out of the pandemic we all hope to have a number of effective vaccine to start can help prevent people from infection however there is no silver bullet at the moment and then might never be

for now stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of public health and disease control testing isolating and treating patients and tracy and quarantining their contacts do it on the philippines is reported more than 3200 new coronavirus cases it's close to overtaking indonesia as the worst hit nation in southeast asia tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around the capital manila all non-essential business is in australia 2nd largest city in melbourne been ordered to close because of the surge in infections 5000000 citizens have an overnight curfew. afghan officials say at least 29 people have been killed in an isolated hack at a prison in jalalabad the complex is home to 1500 inmates it's not yet known how many have a sky inside story now. the

2nd wave of. the number of new cases is. weighing options to face it. and what will the fallout be this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. just a few weeks ago many governments thought.