corona virus and demick, as you say, or it will be inside the olympic bubble bringing you the latest from again, like, no other. ah, this is al jazeera ah, the time is 10100 hours gmc hello, i'm kim all santa maria, welcome to the new dollars from al jazeera trinity. as president says, millions of dollars have been stolen from the country as he sacked the president of the national television station. c also in the news, a battle getting more intense by the de, the rebels district to 40000 people. it's been from bothered by syrian forces and millions of death and many more dealing with the after effects. we're looking into the diagnosis for people battling what's known as long coven. i fight difficulties

focus in my eyes or the time constant kinetic. i get all sorts of rushes leading problems. i'm the richardson at the tokyo olympics. what time will champion polls at some kendricks has tested positive for 19 he is out of the games. ah, 4 days after appending trinity is political landscape and the president is now using politicians of corruption. hi site is demanding the return of billions of dollars. he says was stolen from the public purse and he's also dismissed the head of the national tv station of an update from tennessee in a moment. we're also going to look at the effect. all of this is happening on tuesday is economy. first, this report from gillian. both the streets of denise's,

capital are mostly com. but on wednesday the president again moved to tightened his control of the government. speaking in a televised interview, president k say he'd accuse politicians of corruption, costing the country billions of dollars. the money stolen from the tune is young people must be restored. a decision will be made to take measures against the perpetrators who have taken these public funds. we will deal with these people in a proportionate manner. that accusation is disputed by another. the largest party in the government coalition negation. these have been raised by rival policy many years ago and repeatedly talking to quite the strict inside the funding and, and not the has always complied with the rule. never been any evidence of such florence on the tennessee as young democracy faces at the worst crisis in

a decade offered. the president ousted the government and froze parliament for 30 days. the president says he has acted constitutionally, but opposition leaders accuse him of staging. a qu one analyst says said, moves are popular, at least for now. the question always knows the whether this is a core today or recent ball showing that 87 percent of canadians, they agree with decisions of by size and 76 percent. they totally agree with him. so as we can see here, the decisions are really very popular. of these feasible while let's wait and see further afield. foreign leaders have been calling for cabinet changes to be swift. the takeover comes amid crisis. the corona virus pandemic is ravaging the nation, and the economy is in steep decline with the international monetary fond recently promised to help to nice cope with its growing financial pressure. the president

has been calling on traders to cut the cost of goods, but even that these local shop owner, se won't do, has been there since the revolution life has become very difficult. the people can't make do what we sell, meet with low process. this market is cheaper and even in this market, people can't manage. and so residents wait to see whether the streets, which witness the jasmine revolution a decade ago will remain silent. gillian wolf, al jazeera. right, and update now from tennessee, with sam kimball. and sam, how is all of this being received here? the fact that 4 days ago, they were obviously very significant dismissals. and now they continue plus accusations of corruption because, well, the accusations abrupt and are very serious. they're very significant presidential

statement last night with claiming that close to $5000000000.00 of the nation's wealth have been looted by politicians and businessmen. and many of these, these politicians are the ones targeted in the president's decision to remove parliamentary immunity on sunday evening. among other extraordinary measures, like stacking the prime minister, his embassy and freezing the parliament. and there is, i think you could say there's widespread discontent with the economic situation of the country. and then general impression that that many of the politicians, the elite level and, and who are not trustworthy or corrupt, and are behind a lot of the, the country's economic woes. so it's a very, it's very significant statement. the statement has also said that that the wealth will be recovered and that those who stole from the country will either face will

be held accountable, legally, or go through a legal reconciliation process to recover the wealth for the country that the president has said had been looted and broadly speaking, them, how is life in tunis today? i made countries obviously in a huge political upheaval, but i suspect life has to go on for people there. indeed it's a, it's a huge political upheaval. one of the largest in the last 10 years to needs is jasmine revolution, which many states that off the larger arab spring series revolution. and it is an enormous political upset walking around the most streets in tunisia though one finds life going on business. as usual. there is a sense of id about what could come in the coming days, weeks and months. and if the emergency executive powers invoked by the

president will, will remain and if power will remain concentrated in his hands, which would be and to fit antithetical some say to the goals of the 2011 revolution . and so there is that anxiety among, among many, and a worry about what's coming. however, life on the street and much of to need to remain business as usual, cafes and businesses open up of up to of course the, the time of the curfew at 7 pm. but most people sitting at cafes talking, life remains on the street for ordinary citizens, largely business as usual. all right, that is sam kimball, with that update from tina. thanks sam. i want to expand on what we've discussed with sam with max gallia now, who's a political scientist specializing in the middle east and north africa. the university of sussex is institute of development studies with us from frankfurt, germany today. max sam was telling us there about how life is carrying on, quote,

unquote, as normal, but the fact is normal was already different for tennessee. and wasn't it all of the covert problems? economic problems, post i, phil attacks in 2015. the economy was already in all sorts of trouble. yes, absolutely. the current political crisis is coming on top of a really, really dire help. crisis with because it demick and it is coming at the end of a long economic crisis that has played the country and made life really hard for a lot of them. and for a long time, this goes back to not just the 2011 revolution but, but also the, have been on the reading before that cost of living up and writing for a long time. inflation is been very serious on employment, very high. so the economy situation is been on people's minds way before the events of the last couple of days. i often hear and read about the tourism sector being obviously adversely affected by all of this. is that absolutely crucial to tune his

ear and is it again adversely affected further by what's happening now? i always, i'm always a little bit hesitant to come here often when, when politically significant things happen. one of the easier things to say as well this will this david i tourism i'm, i often feel like that's, that's not the most important question. not at that time, but given that the tourism sector and the a large that is an important question. all that being said is given the current context on the health crisis, i don't think the politic live in the last couple of days on top of the minds of the, of the tourism sector, or are the main thing that will determine at tours in the next couple of months, i think that is much more affected by the current pandemic already. but how important is it to, to know there's a say off and here it linked to saying that it's a crucial part of the, of the economy. it is, it is a crucial part of the economy. it's particularly providing employment for, for many people. but i think it's important feature of the economy more broadly to

the beyond, you know, the kind of phosphate towards men olive oil, which it sometimes narrow down to it the country. it's facing a wider economic dilemma. one of the challenges that's really continued 102011 is that news is politicians have failed to put forward broad, broader development plan and development model for the country that a wider political consensus can be built around. and that can really improve the lives of people on the ground. and the big question now with science changed with the last couple of days. this will, that will change. and then you get the president now alleging corruption and public money in the billions of dollars being misused. i guess we don't know 100 percent if that's if that's true or not yet, but at the very least it doesn't. it doesn't look good given what you've just said about money not being used properly, not trickling down to the people who need it. it doesn't look good and you know, kind of fight is not the 1st person to mention that corruption been an important topic going back way before the 2011 revolution and a lot of strong civil society organizations mentioned in the i have pointed to that

a lot the issue with corruption then becomes what happens next. so these immediate steps are certainly popular. and corruption certainly is an issue. that being said, the question is to what degree can you strengthen independent institutions that can monitor this going forward, but also corruption and the wider to be any common problems have been historically deeply tied up with the system of her italian and with i think it's still very much struggling economically with the legacy of the been on the machine. so going forward. one of the really interesting questions for the country in the countries economy now is, was the problem one of author italian. this was the problem one of the wrong up there. tam, thanks kelly, and a pleasure to talk to you and good to focus in on the people rather than just the politicians at this time. thanks for your time. economy. let's move on to other news and the intensifying battle for a rebel controlled neighborhood in southern syria. government forces of surrounded

an area in that are which has been besieged for more than a month. that is home to 40000 people have been cut off from food and medicine for weeks. russian banks, government troops want opposition, fight to surrender their weapons. and to allow military checkpoints to be set up. their thought is, in this stumble for us, keeping an eye on it. restless is a good reminder that serious war is still ongoing and people are still very much under threat. that's right. come on. now just early in the morning, we have seen that the student government have initiated a massive military operation on the toner of that, but which is a part of the greater district. and so far, the reports of the casualties are just coming up the one to be an outlet. that is that by the motor shelling from the region was confirmed and 9 of the region,

14 members also being killed by the rebel forces. on the other hand, the rebel forces claims that they have to the control of several checkpoints, in the eastern and western side of, of dera, and also at hand to belong to. the regime has been fears. and beside that 25 members of the regime forces also has been kept captured by the by the rebel forces so far. also the rebel forces and the people of there are trying to block. busy the roads and burning the car wheels to stop the regime scene into the city. so the hanging clashes are still going on. but what it seems that the massive attack from the regime has been repaired for now. vessel. this is very reminiscent of so many battles we saw in syria where an area was, was locked down. people couldn't get out, they have limited access to food and medicine and they are bombarded. i mean, what is life like for them there?

well come out, this is, this is a fast story about syria. so syria has bitter memories. of the besieged area is just remember starting from 2013 on the city and government have kept. one of the largest city is to city in syria homes. under the sea is for more than 2 and half years pounds. thousands of people suffered from hunger for almost 30 years and no doubt, but also his experience in the same the same fears, the same tactic, the old tactics of the government besieged boom and force the rebels into submission in 2018 that has been a conciliation agreement led by russia, signed by the gym forces and the rebel forces. but recently regina asked the rebel forces there to handle all of the weapons. and also some of the prominent figures to the regime force of that demand have been rejected by the people of there and

right after that won't, june 24. the regime sees the city and put a siege over the city. 40000 people now have no access to the humanitarian aid, and the creation is being conducted by the 4th division of the governmental forces, which is directly being commanded by the brother of by shuttle of the city president of the theme. it's shows that how important is for the regime to take over the city because that is one of the few places in the south turn part of the company that is not under the control of the regime vessel. so keeping an eye on events in syria for us from its temple. thank you. wrestled it is 15 minutes past the hour. here's what's coming up. doctors in me and mar, accused a middle fusion or making a severe covert 19 outbreak. even worse. i'm james phase and family and normally seen as the safest province. and i've got a son. but in recent weeks it seems tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict.

and in sports, china puts on a world record performance in the olympic cold bath and the rest of the sport coming up a little later. ah, but let's look at and pick sport. now a double world champion has become the highest profile current of virus. casually, just a week into the tokyo olympics, us poll voltage, sam kendrick has been ruled out of the game a positive test because it also threatens to disrupt the prize track and field competition a day before it is due to stars, australia team, when to do isolation, off the one of their poll, both is not trained with kendrick, all have been negative. but the number of positive cases of current of ours is still reaching record levels in the host city. tokyo's reported more than 3800 new infections on thursday. same story across the country as well,

with the highest number of data cases in the pandemic began to seem to still get the good luck with the number of newly infected people is increasing. not only in tokyo metropolitan areas, but also in the cons i area. and many other areas of the country and the number of newly infected people is increasing. we have never experienced a spread of infection like this. movement of people is limited but is not prevented . the spread of infection of the delta variant is spreading rapidly like never seen before. the evaluation analysis is being conducted on more with andy richardson now sports corresponded in tokyo and he lets festival talk about this scary for the trailing team day. our rollout of isolation now, but it just shows that very, very fast domino effect doesn't it it really does, is it, there's a high wire act being performed by just about everyone involved in these olympics. i just drill into some of the detail here, some kendricks, the american po volts. he's not just another athlete, making up the numbers. he's

a 2 time world champion. i want a bronze medal at the real games you have in a strong contender. when a gold medal here in tokyo and the fact that he's tested positive curve at 19, and obviously he was training with other polls, is the same song from other countries. that's what happened with the australian team. 3 members of the australian team immediately identified themselves as having had relatively close contact with kendricks. they then got a follow up p, c r test. in the meantime, the whole track and field seen from australia went into isolation in the rooms. now, thankfully, everybody has so far returned negative tests, but those, those 3 close contacts of kendricks, although they're now allowed out to train, they still have to isolate in between time. so very tight conditions for all of the athletes. and inevitably, going to undermine the integrity of the competition. the poll vote already is missing one of its leading contenders. and then other sports and other competitions . then you test positive in your,

on an english premier like football. or there's always another game in a couple of weeks in the lympics, that's not the case. you test positive and miss your event that fit. there's no chance of winning an olympic gold medal. and let's talk about the broader curve and situation in japan. as i mentioned, number's very much going up whilst the games are all now. these games. well, they supposed to be effectively in a bubble lamp. they said that it can't spread. but as anyone drawing a line between the 2 while hitting record figures both within tokyo and within japan itself, a message from the the countries to medical adviser says the needs to be a clear, stronger message to remind people just how serious covered nineties covered 19 is and how infectious this new delta varying says, but the taco governor making the point that it's not connected with the olympic games as spike in numbers, not connected. still in big games. obviously that is some think that the olympic

organizer dealing to organize, sorry, are also pushing we heard earlier from the r, c spokesman mcadams. as far as i'm aware, there's not a single case of an infection spreading to tokyo population from, from the athlete. so moving, so i can't really go go beyond that and, and simply say also that as far as i'm aware, also not a single severe case has occurred amongst our stakeholders. mcadams, also saying that as far as he's concerned this elite bunch of sports men and women is the most tested community in the world. but you can understand why the frustration this city is under a state of emergency paper being estimate sacrifices. and yet the games go on regardless. and the richardson reporting from tucker. thank you, wendy. take you through more covert news, cambodia. first of all,

which is imposing locked downs in provinces bordering thailand. as it tries to limit the spread of the more infectious delta vary and tolerance had another daily record counting $17000.00 more infections. half of the new cases are in bangkok and region surrounding the capital. an airport congo warehouse has been converted into a field hospital to manage that search. and then they bring me in my with a health care system, not any overstretched. it's under fire. according to the united nations, more than $600.00 medics are facing arrest warrants, at least $67.00 have been detained and many more attacked. florence louis has more . the names in her report have been changed to protect people's identities. seems like this more common than me and not until when the crowd of people used to wait for hours to get oxygen for loved ones suffering from coven 19 killers on

people are worried and scared. there's also been pressure from the military telling people not to keep the oxygen that didn't tell has now imposed a new rules. people will need a letter from the local administrator to obtain oxygen. like much of southeast asia, myanmar is experiencing its worst wave of grown, a virus infection and health care system. ravaged by decades of military dictatorship is struggling to cope the coo in january and the subsequent cracked down on medical professionals for being one of the 1st groups to go on. strike is turning and already dangerous health crisis more deadly. probably don't know if you're going to like the military or closing down charity clinics and arresting doctors who volunteer there. they pretend to be patients and arrest doctors. that's why the doctors are on the run and in hiding, the june has denied carrying out such operation. this doctor wants to keep his identity secret, says he and his colleagues have had to resort to using their phones to give

consultations. he estimates at least 70 percent of his patients have tested positive for corona virus. not hospitals are not accepting cations and i've heard of soldiers pointing the guns of patients and telling them to go home. they should not be the ones deciding who gets admitted to hospital. some patients are also reluctant to go to government health centers, citing a distrust of military run facilities, many end up self isolating at home. in yang on residents hang out yellow flags to show they need medical supplies, hoping volunteers will help. the number of people dying in their homes is increasing blurry ambulance services normally take patients to hospitals, but these days there are more requests to pick up bodies. funeral services are overloaded. some families have had to wait several days before a body can be transported. as corona, virus infections and death saw the un independent expert on human rights in myanmar

. tom andrews has called for a covert, sees fire urging the international community to pressure the printer to stop. it's a tax on health care workers, so they can do what they are meant to do. deliver medical care, florence louis al jazeera and australia's most popular state. new south wales is calling in the army to help enforce lockdown restrictions. the biggest city sidney posted a record rides and infections on thursday. stay at home orders that now extended until the end of august, but they have failed to reduce new cases. and compliance is patchy. were millions of people in the u. k. indeed, all over the world are living with long cove it which can affect their ability to live in normal life. the symptoms is so wide ranging that its actual diagnosis is proved. difficult. until now, john hall has our board in the u. k alone, almost a 130000 people have lost their lives to cope 19. many more have lost their quality

of life. they've been awful. while i've described this as hell on the best day, i probably feel 30 percent of my pre cove itself on the worst face. it can be, you know, 5 percent or less things like brain folk would feel like i have a constant concussion eyesight. difficulties float is in my eyes all the time constant. tinnitus, like all of rashes, bleeding problems, and purple toes. shanie right, is one of those living with long cove. it, 16 months after catching the virus. i've had a number of scans as in a number of specialists, and none of them can give me any answers when it comes to doctors. i'd say at worst, you know, you get doctors that simply don't levy, they don't believe that long period exists. and at best doctors, they conduct a shrug, their shoulders, and they say, well, case a new, a new illness. we don't know what to do. studies are under way to understand the

damage to the lungs, heart and brain that lead to long cove. it with researches in katara reporting a breakthrough away of diagnosing the condition by looking for nerve damage in the i know piper loss is as a consequence of multiple newer degenerative diseases. but there is a peculiar pattern in here, which is that we are seeing this immune cells, which we don't see in a lot of other new degenerative conditions. so there is something that is additional that we're finding here, which is nerve loss and activation. they mean cells which may be more specific to long coded. as the pandemic goes on, this memorial wall on the banks of the river thames in london, will continue to fill up with the names of those who lost their lives to cove at 19 . what isn't remembered here? of course, other more than 3000000 people in the u. k, who say they're living with the symptoms of long coven, for which they're currently is no cure. but for which there may now be the

important 1st step of diagnosis, filling anything that can be used as some kind of biomarker for long cove. it is massively helpful because not only does it give some insight into what is going on and potentially down the line the, the treatment because that's what we want is effective treatment the in this nightmare. but also it says to those doctors that deny the existence of long code that the thing of course it, we'll look at the science a glimmer of hope in an ordeal so far without end. jona whole al jazeera london, very pleased to welcome dr. dp, good us on the to out of the are now clinical epidemiologist and the scene electric queen mary university of london and scott from cambridge, did they talk to thanks for your time? i o miss. don't know where to start with this. listening to that report, listening to all the symptoms, all these issues which people go through, you can take notes that and i'm getting the feeling, it's almost like cove itself and that it'll affect people differently. and it can

keep changing over time. yes, i mean a lot of people initially compared to stars, could we to call it with flu and it's nothing like the flu. we know now that this is not just an acute disease. it's a chronic disease for many people and it's a disease that doesn't just affect your last 8 effect, almost every organ in your body. and we know that long with a common, we know that one and 5 people who get infected even with mild infection, go on and not just in symptoms for 5 weeks or more. and one in 10 go on and develop them 2 to 12 weeks or more. and this is not trivial among those. in fact, among those affected to in the you keep for example, we currently have 1000000 people living with long and to report problems with day to day activity. and $400000.00 have had just more than a year. so for many, it's just for more than 6 months, more than a year and really impacted each day life. there's more and more evidence that this is a virus that it is able to in read the brain effect the brain,

even in people who are young and how be and are affected by mild infection. as a recent study that looked at imaging of people before and after they developed infection and compared them with controls showing that those who were infected were more likely to have painting of the rain in particular regions associated with taste, mel, memory, and emotion, which are some of the symptoms associated with long impacts. children, sorry to interrupt you, you, you keep saying symptoms, this is absolutely right, but this is the problem. people can only be treated for symptoms at the sides and they can be so different and so varying and affect everyone differently. how can you even start to go off to the quote unquote cause yes, i mean, it's very difficult for me just about being to understand of the causes because a lot of, you know, as be heard in, in the previous discussion. this has been dismissed by politicians and scientists for long periods of time. just think that young people don't get ill and many have

dismissive time to make fatigue or some sort of biological and that's been actually just real biological. and that's what we see in many people is and people, again, multiple tissues in their body that potentially for longer periods of time. and there is more and more data. and i'm suggesting that to some sort of an intimate auto immune disease and also that newer degenerate is component. so we know that even in people with my system, we can experience that 2nd loss and cognitive ability impacts that visible on the brain. and the include badly, even younger people. so this is a disease we need to really take cedar, see, understand that it's a complex biological disease. and unless we are delaying mechanism, we not really going to be able to treat something that affect millions of people strawberry situation. isn't it dr. the but thank you so much for your time. we do appreciate it.