with an unlikely strategy coexistence 10 years after the chilean mining disaster we revisit the victims of a story that captivated the world $1.00 to $1.00 east and to the violent urbina mixed martial arts in russia and the former u.s.s.r. and the un special tribunal delivers its verdict on the assassination of former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri august on al-jazeera. the world health organization warns that there's no quick fix to the coronavirus pandemic as infection surge across the globe there is no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be. my. non-tariff says out there are live from london also coming up corona virus

infections spike in the philippines millions of people return to lock down medical workers say more must be done. rockets fired as an airport in eastern afghanistan a day after i saw claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a high security prison. and the long wait for financial help talks resume in the u.s. on a rescue package for millions of unemployed americans. and it was the race to find a coronavirus vaccine continues the world health organization has warned there may never be a so-called silver bullet to end the pandemic is urging governments to enforce basic prevention measures rigorously intruding mosques and social distancing as a way out of the crisis all the 18000000 covered 19 infections have been reported worldwide the true number is thought to be much higher of those confirmed more than 680000 people are known to have died from the disease according to the u.n.

health less than 10 percent of those who've had the virus have developed antibodies that means they're at risk of a 2nd infection. well the u.k. government is running out tests for the virus which can provide a result within 90 minutes millions of those are to be sent to hospitals care homes and the burra trees as early as next week so they're going to go has more from london. the technology is fast moving from next week testing for corona virus in the u.k. will be easier than ever less invasive with no need for a health professional to administer them 5800000 on the spot test will be using d.n.a. alongside $450000.00 swap samples and rather than the current $1.00 to $2.00 day wait the results are known within an hour and a half we can expand testing capacity further and into settings where

for instance in schools we have currently we have survey testing so we have some testing that would be able to be expanded but also looking at looking across the community where we want to test people who don't have symptoms to find out where the virus is the testing system itself is complex and reliant on multiple supply chains to source the products but it's hoped that it could open up a new phase in mass testing across the country these tests could signify a game changing moment not only will they be able to be carried out by practically anyone but they can also detect seasonal flu meanwhile those behind the testing say that controls are being put in place so as they can avoid any false negatives britain had come under severe criticism at the start of the pandemic the government was blamed for being too slow to go into lockdown to lax and testing and had failed to get a successful track and trace system up and running and despite promising leads in

its bid to find a vaccine recent regional surges in the u.k. and the rest of europe are warning that the pandemic is nowhere near over the reason or silver bullet at the moment and then might never be for now stopping out bricks comes down to the basics of probably coal and this is going through him. testing. and treating patients and tracey and quarantining their contacts the message more or less the same as it was at the start of the pandemic the basic prevention measures are as crucial as ever as governments try to stamp out rising infection rates to avoid the full lock downs that have crippled economies around the world so the diagonal al-jazeera london. tens of millions of people living in and around the capital of the philippines are prepared to go back on the lockdown restrictions are being reimposed in manila with

fears that the health system could buckle under the weight of a surgeon infections tremolo and gotten reports from an inner. at the stress call with a clear message over health care workers are poorly take care of patients thousands of filipino health workers are appealing to the government to impose tighter controls saying the country is losing the fight against the coronavirus they're going to hold it hold the line for much longer all health care workers should not burden burden of the saving lives in today's. just you just all they really are. to many. more than 5000 new infections were recorded on sunday the largest single day increase since the 1st case was recorded months ago the number of recorded cases is now over 100000 the 2nd highest number

of coronavirus infections in southeast asia after indonesia. the philippines government has already implemented one of the most stringent lockdowns in the world more than 50000000 people were forced to stay at home in the entire region of luzon for more than 2 months it began easing restrictions in march hoping to soften the impact of the country's economy now in one of its worst periods of recession in recent years millions of filipinos have lost their jobs since the pandemic broke out. i fully understand why your health workers would like to ask for such a timeout period they have been in front lines for months and they're exhausted next time you can ask for on the weekends those shelter and ask for a revolution if you want that evolution no let's kill all those with go with that means metro manila and some nearby provinces will face further measures not a lockdown at least for now critics say although the months long so to lock down

had slowed down corona virus infections it was also a missed opportunity they say the government failed to conduct widespread the various tests the would help contain hotspots early on that the government too should also start to reassess its priorities in the coming months the country has long struggled with an adequate resources and health experts are warning that this pandemic may bring the public health system closer to collapse. dogon al-jazeera manila. the financial security of tens of millions of americans is hanging in the balance as politicians debate another aid package for the unemployed for about 3 months 600 dollars payment has been along fine for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic democrats and republicans have so far failed to agree on whether the program can continue. on friday house speaker nancy pelosi says she will not go

along with republican proposals to stash the payments. white house correspondent committee how could can be where things stand now. well they're talking at least that's what we're told the chief of staff from the white house as well as the treasury secretary speaking with the top democrats chuck schumer and nancy pelosi from the senate the house respectively but it doesn't appear that there is much agreement at least in the words of the president who's also been speaking here at the white house in recent hours his big bone of contention with regard to this is that he believes that the democrats are looking for more than just coded relief and to help ordinary americans but they're also looking for money for state and local governments many that he alleges have been mismanaged it's not the federal government's responsibility to bail out for example portland or chicago we should point out not members of the republican party but run by democrats so this is very much a political fight the u.s. president says that what he is interested in right now is making sure that people

who have not been able to pay their rent do not get evicted so what we're told is that he may even be putting in place an executive order to help people with that problem but again no specifics so far from the white house we should point out the president is due to talk at 21 g.m.t. we believe this is covert related it's possible he could talk more about potential remedies that and what else is with the president in saying. well he was pretty active on twitter monday morning ad a lot of the tweets kind of surprised people including this one where he talked about cases being up because of big testing much of our country is doing very well open the schools tasers are up in the united states and 4600000 americans have tested positive for cope with 19 deaths almost 155000 people as of once again we've seen this president blaming the high number of cases not our in any mismanagement

that may have happened on the part of his government but instead because there's so much testing going on but a lot of people in advance of schools potentially opening in the fall still pushing back on that suggestion so much so that the president's son baron's name was actually trending on twitter for a while as many people suggested hey if you want to open the schools that's fine send your own kid we're not sending ours committee how could thank you very much indeed. afghan security forces a carney engaged in a gun battle with armed men in jalalabad there are reports of rockets being fired towards the cities and quote numerous explosives have been seized from one house but security officials say a group of attackers is now hiding in another location near the airport we know at least one of the gunman has been killed. well siege comes as afghan forces regained

control of a nearby prison eisel claimed responsibility for storming the high security facility on sunday night at least 46 people were killed in the subsequent battle for control including 10 of the attackers trial about officials say more than $300.00 prisoners managed to escape. what is in a link to isolate afghanistan have claimed responsibility for a number of recent attacks one of the deadliest this year was a suicide bombing in may which killed $32.00 mourners during a funeral for a police commander the united nations estimates arsal has around $2200.00 fighters in afghanistan it warms the group remains capable of high profile attacks in various parts of the country despite losing territory at least 17 attacks causing civilian casualties have been attributed to arsenal during the 1st half of this year kate clarke is the co-director of the afghanistan analysts that she says the situation there 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 a great not to attack us forces and not to attack him in major cities in bases now sits in 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 then 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 still to

come around to china experience is a certain street vendors as millions left are employed by the pandemic try to make ends meet. and world leaders be farewell to the man who kept hope alive in northern ireland about peace prize winner john hume dies aged 83. hello there pensive on sunset across more southern areas a year it requires a fine and dry already quite as warm across central areas you can see the clouds and the thunderstorms there last year as that southern italy people enjoying the fine warm sunshine however it comes the downside and this is it this is actually in central italy you can see here obviously the landscape these firefighters have been back in these. that we can take the war and dropping it off the plane where they

can and she's running the full calls through northern and southern areas of italy. as well through the central regions working its way across tools of all construction right there were tools the baltics and in fact also and she's a very heavy rain across the northern u.k. there are some warnings in place here for that heavy rain elsewhere it's not too bad a fair amount of cloud around but sunny ahead of that front coming in behind a warm and sunny dry time which is in the low thirty's but beginning to cool off once his rain pushes across much of the balkans on this could be quite heavy at times we could have some flooding from that rain meanwhile a shabby pattern across much of the u.k. some other wise things have cooled off but i should about to get very warm again look at this the london temperatures should be about 23 this time of year at 29 and thursday once again a week on time it is in the low thirty's on friday and a similar story in prize of the have $34.00 on friday.

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a silver bullet to stop the coronavirus he says government must focus on the wearing of face masks and social distancing. tens of millions of people in manila are preparing to go back under lockdown as case numbers surge in the philippines more than 3200 new infections were recorded on monday. but afghan security forces are engaged in a gun battle with armed men in jalalabad with reports of rockets being fired towards the city's airport comes in a $300.00 prisoners remain on the run after attackers affiliated with ice all stormed a nearby jail. one person is dying from coronavirus every 7 minutes in iran as the country fights a surgeon infections the highest daily number of new cases in nearly a month was reported on monday with 2600 more people falling ill takes the total number of infections 231-2000 with more than 700000 deaths there are fears that official statistics under reporting the spread of the virus are many people have

been seen flouting restrictions portugal has gone a day without reporting any coronavirus deaths for the 1st time since mid march it also recorded its lowest daily number infections in almost 3 months the country began relaxing a 6 week lockdown in may had to repose some restrictions after localized outbreaks more than 700 people have died in portugal since the start of the pandemic. despite the downward trend of infections the crisis is continuing to batter portugal's once booming tourism sector it registered another bad month in june as travel restrictions continue to keep visitors away overnight stays by foreign tourists fell by 96 percent compared to this time last year around 45 percent of tourist accommodation was shot or had no guests. china's economy appears to be rebounding after the pandemic shutdown led to an historic downturn but many people are still unemployed now or job seekers are being encouraged to become street vendors to

generate income but as katrina here reports from chengdu and welcome everywhere. food only makes a living selling sunflowers to pedestrians in time to city in china's southwest before they covered 1000 outbreak he worked as a security guard. by kompany for a lot of people because of the epidemic at 1st just to lower my salary but eventually they said they couldn't employ me anymore that's why i'm doing this for . more than 20000000 chinese workers are estimated to have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. like food many have taken up informal street selling to make ends meet street markets are now popping up across cities and towns with many vendors selling their own handmade goods legal a decided to organize this market after losing his job as a hairdresser he says street vending is for many the only way to generate income but sales aren't easy to come by than it was on the factory is not many sellers can

make good money from new sellers even losing money it all depends on the products and the experience. the official data suggests strong recovery for china's economic growth the emergence of legions of street sellers nationwide paints a bleak picture the chinese government says unemployment is at 6 percent but other estimates put it at closer to 20 chinese premier league china last month encourage the development of the so-called street stall economy to help china's economic growth get back on track but these vendors onto welcome everywhere. some local governments have banned unlicensed street vendors calling the stalls backward and unhygenic chinese state media says the street economy is only a temporary solution and one not suitable for so-called 1st tier cities like shanghai and beijing but food on the says he prefers this work to his old job but

you're not going to work as a security guard again there the salary was too low and this job gives me more freedom if you want you can make more money and very happy. that's one bright spot at least for this new worker katrina al-jazeera. noise blocking all cruise ships with more than 100 passengers from docking after the outbreak on borderline and last week at least 36 crew members and 5 passengers on the m s roald amundsen have tested positive for the virus was hundreds who are told to self isolate health officials fear dozens of towns and villages along the western coast could be affected as the ship also acts as a ferry. 1st off i'm sorry really let us for them 1st of all we have very sorry for the situation that has occurred we working intensively with the municipality together with the national infection control of florida keys our main priority is of course to take care of our crew members here on board the ship and the guest

says maybe not believe the ship. spanish media reporting the country's former king juan carlos has fled the country amid allegations of corruption the royal house announced his intention to move to another unnamed country earlier on monday last june spain's supreme court opened an investigation into his alleged involvement with a high speed rail contract in saudi arabia the case began when a swiss newspaper reported one carlos received $100000000.00 from his late saudi counterpart the 82 year old advocated in 2040. lebanon has a new foreign minister following the resignation of nessie 50 who quit saying the country is becoming a failed state he resigned on monday angry at the slow pace of reform as the country battles an ongoing financial crisis he's been replaced by shall by way of it has been a diplomatic advisor to the president lebanon is close to bankruptcy with prime minister her sunday arabs government promising wide ranging reforms when it came to

power 6 months ago and harder as in beirut she says the economic situation is only getting worse. the foreign minister's resignation is being seen as a blow to prime minister has been his government so 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 aid 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 want to maintain power they too will drown if no solution is found. but this is a return to the streets of mali's capital to demand the resignation of the country's president the opposition accuses him. of corruption and failing to protect civilians from groups at least 14 people have died during demonstrations there seen thousands at rallies over the past few weeks economic community of west african

states has given the government and opposition a deadline of thursday to implement a unity government and other professionals. talks over a controversial mega dam on the river nile have resumed with a bad tempered discussion on the future genda egypt and sudan want ethiopia to delay the filling of its $5000000000.00 project over concerns it could harm their water supply the 1st session of the new discussions was ended after an hour and a half with egyptian and with e.o.p. ministers disagreeing over procedural issues the 2 downriver countries are concerned after recent heavy rains led if you are to announce the reservoir had already reached its 1st stage of filling talks will continue on thursday. trading has resumed on zimbabwe's stock market after it was halted in june to help stabilize the nation's currency people there are facing their worst financial crisis in more than a decade now a government which promised change has been accused of silencing its critics. are

reports from harare. after weeks of uncertainty and inconvenience for investors trading on zimbabwe stock exchange resumes stock brokers say the 1st day back went relatively well most people were just watching to see what was going to happen so that's why he said it was a good day there wasn't panic selling other people were thinking it's been happening the government suspended trading at the end of june to try and stabilize the zimbabwe dollar government leaders suspected some individuals and companies were moving money out of the country causing shortages in foreign currency and fueling the black market 3 companies including old mutual which is listed on the london stock exchange aren't allowed to trade until they meet certain requirements when robert mugabe was removed from power in a coup 3 years ago president promised reforms her critics say he's failing to turn around the economy and on human rights arrests and abuses are on the increase last

friday streets in the capital harare with largely deserted and businesses shut as security forces stop protests against a poor economy and corruption from going ahead human rights lawyers say dozens of people were arrested somewhere abducted and disappeared for a couple of hours some for more than 2 days in them there were little star in to the police one of them who was disappeared for more time was actually just dumped somewhere close to his home and when he was. released or when he reappeared he was severely tortured and opposition leader jacob got evil me and a freelance journalist hope watching one or remain in detention a key. of using social media to incite anti-government protests as workers' salaries continue to be eroded by rising inflation now at the 800 percent opposition groups are threatening more demonstrations as a country shows no obvious sign of recovery how do we toss

a al-jazeera. global banking giant h.s.b.c. is not plans to speed up $35000.00 job cuts because of bad loans linked to the coronavirus the company says the unpaid loans could reach more than $12000000000.00 on top of this the bank's interim profits have plunged by around 65 percent h.s.b.c. boss quinn says the firm will accelerate an earlier restructuring plan and examine additional actions to strengthen its business. well he does a paying tribute to the northern ireland politician john hume who's died at the age of 83 he was seen as pivotal in helping to draft the good friday peace agreement in 1908 bringing an end to decades of sectarian conflict where harding has more born during the great depression in 1937 in london derry or derry as hume in many call their home town he became one of the best known politicians in northern

ireland regarded by many as one of its greatest heroes he joined the civil rights movement in 1968 and fought against discrimination by the protestant majority in the region in areas including housing and education. from the start of his 30 year career he championed peace especially as violence intensified between irish nationalists and pro british forces from the 1960 s. to ninety's and what became known as the troubles in 1970 he co-founded the social democratic and labor party or s d l p and in 1979 humors elected to the european and british parliaments and became leader. in the late 1980 s. he was described as the man who kept hope alive during the fighting between catholic and protestant paramilitary groups world leaders supported his efforts towards a peace agreement. and i think that there has to be strong hard work to fully implementing agreement in all its aspects because once the institutions are in

place then the real healing process will take place as the representatives of all texas where people start working together in 1998 the former teacher gained international attention after receiving the nobel peace prize for spearheading the good friday peace agreement putting an end to the fighting in northern ireland march surely i hope that the future will be dominated by normal politics but violence is definitely a thing of the past that we will have really normal politics he held his post as leader of the s.t.l. p until 2001 when he steps down because of poor health and human died in a nursing home in the same city where he was born he was 83 almost 2 years to the day off to 43 people were killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in genoa italy a city has opened its replacement inauguration ceremony today a tribute to the victims of the 2018 disaster

a new structure is equipped with robots will that will perform safety inspections regularly the company that managed the old bridge is still under investigation but culpable homicide. reminder you can always catch up with all the stories we're covering by checking out our website address what is al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon al jazeera dot com. top stories are now busier ahead of the world health organization has warned there may never be a silver bullet to stop the coronavirus instead he says governments must focus on more basic measures encouraging the wearing of face masks and social distancing comments come as several countries including the us and many latin america continue to see the number of cases climb on 18000000 people across the world have now been

infected a number of vaccines out and now in phase 3 clinical trials and we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that could help prevent people from infection however there is no silver bullet at the moment that might never be for tomorrow stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of probably cold and this is going to rule testing isolating and treating patients and tracy and quarantining their contacts tens of millions of people in the capital of the philippines are preparing to go back on the lockdown restrictions are being reimposed in manila over concerns the health system could not cope if it results in cases continued with 3200 new infections are recorded on monday after the country initially succeeded in contain the spread in the year afghan security forces

are engaged in a gun battle with armed men in jalalabad with reports of rockets being fired towards the city's airport one of the gunmen is reported to have been killed it comes as nearly $300.00 prisoners remain on the run after attackers affiliated with eisel stormed a nearby jail. spain's for my king is reported to have left the country as he becomes modern allegations of financial scandal one carlos told his son the current king that he would move to another unnamed country as investigations of payments for a high speed rail project continue as an edge to have received $100000000.00 from his late saudi counterpart 82 year old abdicated in 2014 is the top stories do stay with us there if you can stream is up next i'll be back with more news from straight after that thanks for watching i found out.

they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for me ok today and we're looking at a country in today's episode where it's one of the few countries in the world where corona virus does not exist at least according to the government now doctors and grave diggers might tell a different story we're talking about turkmenistan and if you're already in the you tube watching this right you probably either have a connection to turkmenistan or you're curious about it because turkmenistan does

not get a lot of coverage and we have a whole half hour to talk about today either way i bet you have a lot of questions and comments so what i want you to do see that.