lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri august on al-jazeera. al jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. vaccines and treatments in development but no quick fix the world health organization warns that for now other methods are our best defense against the coronavirus very small silver bullet at the moment that might never be. coronavirus infection spike in the philippines millions of people would turn to lockdown but medical workers say more must be done. hundreds of prisoners remain at large after

attackers affiliated with i saw it stormed a prison in eastern afghanistan. and world leaders bid farewell to the man who kept hope alive in northern ireland nobel peace prize recipient john hume dies aged 83. and i'm sam how much now have all the sport he's an actor a pro wrestling star and now an american football league owner when johnson buys the excess sell it together with an investment firm for 15000000 dollars. as the race to find a corona virus 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 including masks and social distancing as

a way out of the crisis with an 18000000 covered 19 infections have been reported worldwide but the true number is thought to be much higher of those confirmed will than 680000 people a known to have died from the disease according to the u.n. health body less than 10 percent of those who had the virus have developed antibodies that means they're at risk of a 2nd infection. u.k. government says it's rolling out tests for the virus which can provide a result within 90 minutes millions of these are to be sent to hospitals care homes and laboratories as early as next week it's time to go here has more on that. 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 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 searches in the u.k. and the rest of europe are warning that the pandemic is nowhere near over there is no silver bullet at the moment there might never be for tomorrow stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of probably coal and this is going through. testing. and treating patients and tracy 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 diag of london. one person

is dying from corona virus 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 17000 deaths there are fears that official statistics on the reporting the spread of the virus while many people have been seen flouting restrictions tens of millions of people living in and around the capital of the philippines are preparing to go back under lockdown restrictions are being reimposed in manila with fears the health systems could buckle under the weight of a surgeon infections to return into gun reports manila. at this stress with a clear message our health care workers are only as we take care of patients

thousands of filipino health workers are appealing to the government to impose tighter controls saying the country's losing the fight against the coronavirus. you need to hold the line for a much stronger or health care workers should not burden the burden of the saving lives in today's youth mr understand. it is all they really are or the most going to might use 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. because the 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 are exhausted next time you can ask for an argument don't shell and ask for a revolution if you want that evolution the 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 it's a lockdown had slowed down corona virus infections it was also a missed opportunity they see the government be able to conduct widespread are used as the would that 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 so mel allen duggan al jazeera. the financial security of tens of millions of americans is hanging in the balance as politicians debate and all the aid package for the unemployed for about 3 months a $600.00 weekly payment has been a lifeline for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic democrats and republicans have so far failed to agree on whether the program can continue after it expired on friday house speaker nancy pelosi says she will not go along with republican proposals to slash the payments america's most populous state appears to be making progress in slowing the spread of the virus the governor of california says rates of new infections hospitalizations and intensive care admissions

trending down california has recorded more than 514000 cases and around 1400 deaths gavin newsome says the state's central valley agricultural hub is still being hit disproportionately hard by the pandemic let's go live to rob reynolds in los angeles so what is the situation now in california. well as you as you summarize lauren the governor gavin newsom shared what he called some early good signs of the pandemics in the state in california he said that the 7 day average of new cases was down 21 percent from last week hospitalizations are down 10 percent in virus intensive care unit admissions are down 5 percent over the past 2 weeks you mentioned as well the hot spots in agricultural areas and there are many reasons why farm workers are especially hard hit by this the primary

reason is poverty the places like the him like imperial county down near the mexican border are some of the most impoverished places in the state if not the nation people who work on farms don't have the luxury of taking a day off if they feel ill because they were pretty much paycheck to paycheck day to day they also may have crowded conditions going to and from the fields social distancing may not be adequate and in general the health of farm workers is also problematic because many of them have underlying illnesses such as diabetes or long conditions from being exposed year on and to dust and toxic chemicals toxic pesticides out in the farm fields nevertheless they're considered essential workers in the u.s. and how does that how do you think. the country.

well the situation in the rest of the country is not not showing very many good signs many places in the midwest and in rural areas that previously had seen little groan of virus infection are now spiking the head of the head position on the white house coronavirus task force dr deborah burke's in a television interview said that the pandemic is extraordinarily widespread in the u.s. that remark earned her a rebuke or an attack from president donald trump who called her interview pathetic and said that she is out to hit us a sign that he's as concerned at least as concerned about the political impact of the pandemic as on the scientific impact most states are seeing a week over week rise in the test positivity rate that is a strong indicator for continued virus spread and lauren the centers for disease

control forecasts that by august 22nd less than 20 days from now there will be 20000 more coded 19 deaths in the united states reynolds thank you very much. estrogen state of victoria has imposed strict to knock down measures as it steps up desperate efforts to contain the spread of arizona trying to virus industries including most retail and construction will be shut down for 6 weeks and a gauge reports from sydney. the heart of mill 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 was further tightened 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 millions stuck indoors many people including kate moulton are again juggling work on a fallacious and homeschooling. but it definitely this time around we feel like it's really looked down 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 at a wrap up. of 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 bice's of the why we provide support in the midst of design while border closures have largely kept the virus within the state of victoria there are clusters emerging 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 coated 19 cases remaining in the triple digits direly many are wondering if it's realistic that numbers can be driven down in 6 weeks nicola gage al-jazeera sydney coming up on our 0 this news hour opposition protesters return to the streets in mali after a 2 week hiatus throwing regional mediation efforts into doubt. a u.s. drugmaker prepares to test an experimental coronavirus antibody treatment on staff

and residents at care homes. and sport has a new name at the top of golf's world rankings. hundreds of prisoners remain at large after attackers affiliated with eisel still in the prison and the afghan city of jalalabad or thirty's have regained control but only after at least 30 people were killed including several of the assailants under schapelle rickles. afghan security forces spent much of monday waiting for the right opportunity to assault eisel gunmen who taken over the prison in jalalabad and accord needed attack it was taken over on sunday and hundreds of myself fighters set free. in the battle to retake the facility more than 30 were killed including prisoners and prison guards soldiers and civilians one of the 10 attackers died their bodies were laid out for the media by the provincial police i

saw remains dangerous in these parts and most of its captured fighters in the east of afghanistan or in this facility territorially it is in retreat it was never up to it never held. huge tracks of land but it did hold significant districts in the east of the country and a combined fight between afghan government forces including civilian. forces raced from the civilians in the local area u.s. air strikes us on the ground and the taliban basically cleared it out of much of eastern afghanistan and elsewhere it only ever held pockets bodies of 2 taliban prisoners were also found apparently killed by ice or fighters. these scenes are in stark contrast to the rest of the country as a rare truce was observed between the taliban enough cunt government for the eve holiday to heaven expect to return to talks by the 2 sides enter shikari.

fighters linked to i saw in 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 mourners during a funeral for a police commander united nations estimates are still has around $2200.00 fighters in afghanistan it was 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 eisele during the 1st half of this year we're going to have team is the lead research on afghanistan at chatham house he joins us live from cambridge thanks very much for being with us there's been a rocket attack when i stand on jalalabad airport do you know whether who's behind that attack. i've seen reports of that but i'm afraid i don't have much information to comment on that beyond the fact that we also know at one point the american

troops were based near or within the airport in charlotte but this is actually an airstrip just not a fully developed functioning. airport so it's really used by the military very heavily before the current faced by the american electorate in the past so i wouldn't be surprised if that is the case of a small city the airport is not too far but it is essentially and a military facility and what about these various attacks that has claimed to be behind for instance the attack on the prison how likely is it to be them and how much of a force are they in afghanistan these days. i think from what i understand and the research that has carried out the theme but i still or i escaped here or there i'm dying fighters in afghanistan is that there they've been able to seem like the taliban to mobilize at very short notice and that's the assumption that's been made so the level of. you know sleeper cells facilities that they probably have within

their disposal across them centers that that helps them and also prevent that that it happened the last day of the truce between the taliban and the afghan government the last day of eat eat a lot of her celebrations could imagine that the personnel and most of these facilities were probably home or at least some of them home slot for 8 holidays so the timing you know is quite taxable but i think in going forward what this presents us. as a glimpse is to imagine that even with that truce with the taliban it's highly likely that the violence unfortunately will not fully seed in afghanistan and that the violence will continue because you get these very you know lethal attacks by arguably a smaller group of militants and the urban centers in afghanistan are sprawling

spaces so if the attacks are happening in urban centers it's highly difficult for the afghan government with all its limitations to just to potentially prevent them all or at least all the attacks and i salute what actually wasn't part of the cease fire deal to tell us about the progress of the peace talks between now they have government and the taliban and in time. so after what's been called the longest u.s. war in in order that the inmate and in february this year they trumpet ministration the taliban office and. signed a truce it was more of a political deal that they signed and it had a 3 tier approach and so the next phase of that agreement should lead end to an entry afghan dialogue with the afghan government which the taliban refused to recognize as a legitimate entity and they have always insisted to speak to americans 1st pushed their house so the ideal situation is that now the afghan government would start

talking to the taliban and then just what eventually lead to the 3rd phase of their . settlement which would be and eventually agreement on how the taliban could come into power in a political arrangement in afghanistan and that the violence with the taliban will end in reality unfortunately despite the political agreement with it with the u.s. the taliban has only stopped attacking the nato and specially american troops but they have really exacerbated their attacks on the afghan government a huge amount of violence has been inflicted on the civilian populations as a result of the taliban attacks but also as a result of the afghan government's operations across the country so you have an active violent conflict in afghanistan while theoretically you have these talks progressing currently the taliban are waiting for their list of their prisoners to be fully released or the president list that they provided the afghan government

with it wanted those prisoners to be released for the enter afghan dialogue to be started which is their condition the afghan government has released but 4 and a half 1000 of those prisoners and for the remainder 500 or so these prisoners afghan president just saying that he needs a lawyer jurga a grand consultative assembly across the country. for people to come in and say that actually the president can release these remains of prisoners it's seen as a political tactic to delay then travel and dialogue for whatever reason because it doesn't make sense to release 4 and a half 1000 of these fighters and then not the other one remain just what sort of you know less than 15 or 20 percent of them so that the though those talks of the moment seem like they're stalled or at least they've had some callable rocky part i mean but unfortunately while all of those things are happening they the i.r.s. or die a shia affiliated militants in afghanistan are capable of them slept in such really

horrific attacks and it really creates a huge mountains i-t. for the population thank you very much indeed for games the context of those events in afghanistan thank you israel says it has attacked a series of military targets in syria including observation posts and command centers its military says the air strikes were in response to an attempt by enemies to plant explosives along israel's border fence in the occupied golan heights the army released this unverified video of the incident earlier israel confirmed it killed 4 fighters accused of planting the explosives describing them as a squad of terrorists lebanon has a new foreign minister foreign the resignation of knesset hitty 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 it's been replaced by a shadow of a ber who has been

a diplomatic advisor to the president lebanon is close to bankruptcy with prime minister has sandia his government promising wide ranging reforms when it came to power 6 months ago so no harder is in beirut she says the comic situation is only getting worse. the foreign minister's resignation is being seen as a blow to prime minister has given his government that 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. talks over a controversial mega dam on the river nile have resumed with a bad tempered discussion on the future agenda egypt and sue don't want to delay the filming of its $5000000000.00 project over concerns it could harm their water

supply the 1st session of the renewed discussions was ended after an hour and a half with egyptian and d.c. european ministers disagreeing over procedural issues the 2 downriver countries are concerned after recent heavy rains that ethiopia to announce the reservoir had already reached its 1st stage of finning talks will continue on thursday. tess's have returned to the streets of mani's capital to demand the resignation of the country's president in a position accuses ibrahim keita of corruption and failing to protect civilians from armed groups at least 14 people have died during demonstrations that have seen thousands of rallies over the past few weeks the economic community of west african states has given the government and opposition a deadline of thursday to implement a unity government and other proposals because haq is following developments from neighboring senegal he says not as a government or position have committed to the regional blocs proposals what the

president has done is named a few new cabinet ministers 6 of them there's still the same new prime minister who's in charge the judges of the constitutional court refused to resign and so have the $31.00 ruling party members of parliament that when there are seats in contested elections earlier this year well they also refused to resign and that was part of the ecowas recommendation that they that they resign of that new elections are held so they're not meeting their end of the bargain meanwhile the opposition say they don't want any of that they just want president to leave power they say that he's in breach of article 37 of the constitution because he set out commandos trained to fight armed groups in the north of the country against unarmed protesters earlier in july add to that the mix of corruption impunity money and soldiers accused according to u.n. investigation. of extrajudicial killing all maldivians instead of protecting them

and bad governments all of that means that they're still back on the streets right now and they're trying to to slow down traffic in the capital bamako there's trying to close down streets not just in the capital but in other regions of the country. still to come on out there this new. experiences a surgeon street vendors has millions left on employed by the pandemic trying to make ends meet. sport we'll hear from the players competing in the 1st official tennis event in almost 5 months. ahead of the kinds of sunshine across most southern areas of europe requires a fine and dry already quite as warm across the central as you can see the cloud on

the thunderstorms the last that saw the nikkei people enjoying the fine wool sunshine however it comes with a downside and this is it this is actually in central italy you can see here obviously the landscape these firefighters to be back in these days it's the weekend they can get the water and dropping it off the plane where they can now that it's not she's already the 4 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 on tuesday 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 it still very warm and sunny dry touches in the low thirty's but beginning to cool off once this rain pushes across much of the balkans and 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. so much 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 hive $34.00 on friday. by a slave rebellion. yet rife with slavery. at the 2010 earthquake forced into domestic one. deprived of an education under a tough childhood. child slaves part of slavery a 21st century evil. on al-jazeera. one half scottish and half lebanese so diversity is really important to me and al-jazeera is the most diverse place i've ever worked we have so many different nationalities and this is in these books together in this one news organization and

this diversity of perspective is reflected in our coverage giving a more accurate representation of the world we report on and that's a key strength of al-jazeera. or. armont of the top stories one of 0 ahead of the world health organization has warned there may never be a silver bullet to stop the grown a virus it says governments 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 all the 3200 new infections were

recorded on monday. afghan security forces are engaged in a gun battle with brain injured on a bad reports of rockets being fired towards the city's airport. comes nearly $300.00 prisoners remain on the run after attackers affiliated with isis stormed in the jail. training 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 and more than a decade now a government which has promised change has been accused of silencing its critics who 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 for 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 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 all remain in detention accused of using social media to incite anti-government protests as workers' salaries continue to be eroded by rising inflation now at nearly 800 percent opposition groups are threatening more demonstrations as a country shows no obvious sign of recovery. al-jazeera had addie. the global banking giant h.s.b.c. has announced 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 of plunged by around 65 percent h.s.b.c. boss merrill quinn says the firm will accelerate an earlier restructuring plan and examine additional actions to strengthen its business china's economy appears to be rebounding after the pandemic shut down the 2 historic downturn that many people are still unemployed now drug seekers a big encouraged to become street vendors to generate income that is katrina new reports from chengdu and not welcome everywhere. food only makes a living selling sunflowers to pedestrians in time to city in china southwest before they covered 1000 outbreak he worked as a security guard. by kompany for a lot of people because of the epidemic 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 streets selling to make ends meet street markets are now putting up across cities and towns with many vendors selling their own handmade goods lee lay decided to organize this market after losing his job as a hairdresser he says street venting is for many the only way to generate income but sales aren't easy to come by than it was on the factories not many sellers can make good money from new sellers even losing money it all depends on the products and 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 aren't welcome everywhere. some local governments have banned unlicensed street vendors calling the stalls backward and unhygenic chinese state media says the burgeoning street economy is only a temporary solution and not suitable for so-called 1st tier cities like shanghai and beijing but food blog says he prefers this work to his old job but which are not going to work as a security guard again there the salary was too low and this job gives me more freedom if you work hard enough you can make more money and very happy. that's one bright spot at least for this new worker katrina al-jazeera. russia will send an antiviral drug it's approved to treat coronavirus to south africa and 7 latin american countries at least 250000 packs of

a drug called every 5 year will be distributed internationally the medication has been used in japan since 2014 to treat severe forms of flu russia's health ministry fast tracked its approval for use against current 19 in may technology will also be sent to bolivia for local production. a u.s. drug maker is set to trial an experimental coronavirus antibody treatment on residents and staff to a number of nursing homes within weeks up to 2400 people will take part in the study using monoclonal antibodies to see if they can be used as a preventative measure against the virus one of the kernel antibodies have been touted as a possible breakthrough against the disease as the world awaits an effective vaccine the lab grown antibodies are exact replicas of naturally occurring proteins which would normally attack the virus and prevent it from spreading throughout the body the drug is already being trials among patients hospitalized by the disease

and similar treatments have been used against cancer and other disorders before this we can speak to lisa america she's the senior director of infection infection prevention at the johns hopkins health system thanks very much indeed for joining us joining us via skype from baltimore tell us more about these monoclonal antibodies how helpful do you think they might be in the in the fight against code 19 well we don't know yet how helpful bell be for covert 91 but we know that they are a proven therapy for her i.v. of other conditions than a final antibodies are manufactured in a laboratory and what this means is that you can have a high concentration of that type of in a body that directed against a protein or in this case a virus and we have other types of monoclonal antibodies that are used to block some of the immune response and are used to treat auto immune diseases and

can control the inflammatory response but sometimes causes more damage than the virus itself and what kind of risks associated with this kind of treatment. well it depends on what the end of body is against some of our established monoclonal antibody therapies are directed against aspects of the immune system and they can be used for as i said auto immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis the risk factors of taking a drug like that is that it can actually make you more susceptible to infection but of course. the risk factors might be as i'm on a kernel that's directed against hope it 19 or sars coby to the virus that causes the disease. and what about the coast cation is this something that might be available for lots of people do you think that generally expensive these kind of treatments these kinds of treatments are very laborious to make in the

laboratory we do have experience making them and there's quite a few that are on the market but they tend to be in limited supplies because there are so many steps involved with creating a monoclonal antibody not just he has said that it is no silver bullet at this stage the virus bits of progress on vaccines and so on where do you see the biggest area of progress at the moment and in terms of the future treatment to prevention for 70. so of course where we are is that the basic infection prevention practices are really our best hope right now so wearing masks and maintaining because the call distancing washing hands and so on but we do have a number of things that are very promising and some that have shown proven results anti-viral therapies like ram does appear in some cases dexamethasone or

a steroids treatment to modulate the immune response and perhaps convalescent serum that is plasma that is obtained from patients who have recovered from the disease is also in clinical trials so these are therapies that are also under investigation at the same time we're trying to discover a way to develop a vaccine he said mikey thank you very much indeed for you expertise thank you thank you for having me. i'm any argentineans i want to see the country's justice system overhauled auguring that has long favored the rich and powerful the government has proposed a number of changes which it says would ensure independence but there are concerns that some politicians are only looking to manipulate the system further tears a bore ports from what is ours. with argentinian flags and a call to respect the republic hundreds protested against the government's initiative to reform the justice system i. am worried because they want to try and

just supreme court 1st it had 9 members then 5 now they want to increase it again it's a pretty court of a country cannot be manipulated by the wishes of one person. for decades in argentina have repeatedly been accused of pro-government biassed reforming the judiciary was one of the 1st pledges of the for a man this when he became president in december. he talked to believe that reforming the justice system is necessary because it's filled with corruption and irregularities but many do not trust in the government essentially because they believe that this is the way turning control over the judiciary during the previous government of president. there were a series of high profile detentions of people close to former president and now vice president cristina fernandez. most are facing corruption trials including

question herself who says the allegations against her are politically motivated was but the precedent says he's main objective is an independent judicial branch. with this we are looking to get beyond having decision making power concentrated in a reduced number of magistrates that as is currently the case have the power to know and decide in nearly all cases with institutional and therefore high profile relevance. the proposed law plans to increase the number of federal courts from $12.00 to $46.00 and create a commission made up of 11 experts to assess additional reforms that include the supreme court kitchener's lawyer is part of the commission we known sociologist and legal expert brought out of the lottery less as the government is making a mistake. here the name of the lawyer of the former president is a very clear message the government has given us we don't have to cover our eyes

there are no excuses on why that lawyer is there in many latin american countries they have been reformers of the judiciary as in colombia in the 1990 s. to allow the access to tribunals the changed history but they are not doing that. reforming the judiciary is likely to increase political tensions here for many doing so in the middle of economic and social problems caused by the covert 1000 pandemic is wrong. when a site is. 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 that 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 on carlos received $100000000.00 from his late saudi

counterpart the 82 year old abdicated in 24 team. was 2 years to the day after 43 people were killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in genoa italian city has opened its replacement the inauguration ceremony included a tribute to the victims of the 2018 disaster the new structure is equipped with robots that will perform regular safety inspections the company that managed the old bridge is still under investigation for culpable homicide. well leaders a pain tribute to the northern ireland politician john hume who has 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 dairy or dairy as hume and many called 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. lp and in 1979 humans elected to the european and british parliaments and became a 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. i think that there has to be strong hard work and fully implemented agreement and all its aspects because once the institutions are in place then the

real healing process will take place as the representatives of all checks and our 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. portugal has gone a day without reporting any corona virus deaths for the 1st time since mid march it also recorded its lowest daily number of infections in almost 3 months the country began relaxing a 6 week lockdown in may but had to reimpose some restrictions after localized

outbreaks more than $7800.00 people have died in portugal since the start of the pandemic despite the downward trend infections the crisis is continuing to batter portugal's once booming tourism sector it registered another bad month in june as travel restrictions continued 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. still to come on al-jazeera feet 1st speaks out about its president being under criminal investigation so now we'll have the details in sport in just a moment. time

for sports news now his santa thank you very much lauren you all on top of being a hollywood superstar and a pro wrestler wayne johnson also known as the rock is now the owner of an american football league. the former a w w e e champion has bought the x f l a full $15000000.00 to gether with investment of redbird capital and his ex-wife danny garcia they swooped in to make the purchase just hours before the bankrupt was about to be auctioned by having made the promising saudi excess to close its doors this year that season because of the global pandemic what was the league's 2nd coming himself featured on its initial unsuccessful run in 2001.

we spoke to say today's n.f.l. editor doug for are and he says the rock and his business partners have what it takes to make the excess fell a success. post wrestling he's learned how to brand everything so you've got a guy in doing johnson and his partner in your cea who know how to bring things to social media to television to movies to streaming they've branded all sorts of things then you bring in red bird capital which is a while but the yes network which is the. television network they have partnered with the n.f.l. to do these you know you paid thousands of dollars to sit in a special box the super bowl or the n.c.a.a. championship and stuff like that. dwayne johnson has a net worth of over 300000000 rehberg capital right now has assets under management

of 4bb with a big so it's not mean business vince mcmahon who tried to start the x f l and then to assess it stated he had enough 2 i think assets under management or enough capital to sort of push it forward the difference with dwayne johnson and redbird capital is you've got organizations and people who not only are able to take an initial loss and look at the long term view which is essential for any sports 'd league that's starting now but you also have companies that are interested in and have a really tacit understanding of how to brand things on multiple platforms and make people interested and have a think of it it's vital. well after his last day almost 5 months tennis is making its official return their more open is the 1st 2 events today since the coroner down and which isn't. the palermo open is normally

a low key event but this year it has global significance it marks the official return of professional tennis after coronavirus forced the suspension of both the men's and women's tools in march so strict health protocols are in place one n one player did test positive for kobe 19 with competitors being tested regularly before and after their arrival in italy and while limited numbers of spectators are being allowed in players can have just one member of the support team with them inside the venue i mean it feels pretty safe we have a mark mask on i'm relieved or told when they leave the hotel room i mean it's pretty safe to to be in the room to see the takeaway food to get some room service but also coaching will be different. but i mean it's up to the players also to figure out. thanks time to kind of just story figure out everything you

need to do on the other hand i think it's necessary i think we all need to do something that makes us makes us feel safe not all players are as keen to travel at this time wimbledon champion simona halep decided not to make the trip to poland and world number one ashley barty made an early decision to pull out of the u.s. open what would be the year's 2nd grand slam tournament is due to start at the end of this month behind closed doors. her compact written it curiosus also withdrawn from the event due to health concerns and even those who are committed to playing in new york except the risks are involved. i was thinking maybe about maybe trying to travel somewhere before i'm to get and some hot weather training but then it's like but then you're increasing your rescue potentially you know catching a virus which then means. essentially can't train or travel for a couple of weeks it doesn't. like playing a grand slam and. the global nature of the tennis calendar and its players has

traditionally been a strength right now it looks to be sweetness and the richardson al-jazeera. football's governing body if you say the criminal investigation into its president jan infantile is unfair and grotesque case there has been opened against infantino in switzerland over secret meetings he had that with the country's attorney general michael over well over had been leading a probe into football corruption both men have to lie there any wrong doing and seeing what the reaction of the world is they're already saying r us this proves it was a criminal investigation there were proofs of which you know legally technically it doesn't the problem is all of that legal technical stuff it doesn't really matter because the it's the reputational which is done to the president and to the

organization and that is why i said it people might disagree but that's what i said there's something going on here which is quite groups s. going on here. america's justin thomas has claimed a title and golf's a walled number one spot thomas one his 13th to a title at the cent dude invitational in memphis helen now be among the favorites to win the opening major of the year at the u.s. p.g.a. championship which tees off on thursday thomas is back on the top rankings for the 1st time since 2018. and that's a loyal sports amanda back to law and taylor in london so i thank you very much and a quick reminder you can always catch up with our website as well as sports the news on that al-jazeera dot com. that's it for me the news out of the bakken member than on the full run of the day's news thanks very much for watching it's a question. frank

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