> this is al jazeera. >> you're watching the newshour live from london. coming up in the next 0 minutes, the u.s. unemployment rate falls unexpectedly, adding 2.5 million jobs in may as states ease their coronavirus lockdowns. president trump: hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing happening for our country. >> president trump is don condemned for invoking george floyd's name as he celebrated the new job numbers. as peaceful probstors --

protestors come under the ease ght, police try to tronk restrictions. lus, the task to take tripopol. hello, the u.s. president donald trump has been criticized for invoking george floyd's name while taking a victory lap over lower than expected job numbers. his likely rival joe biden called his remarks despicable. floyd was killed after a police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. the death has led to 10 days of protests right across the u.s. >> hopefully george is looking down right now a saying it's a great day for our country. it's a great day for

everybody. this is a great, great day in terms of equality. >> so the new figures for may suggests the american economy is already starting to recover from the pandemic but it's not great news for everyone. in march, 1.3 million people lost their jobs due to the lockdown measures. taking the unemployment rate to 4.3%. a further 20.6 million jobs were lost in april when unemployment hit a record high of 14.%. inway may that rate depropped to 13.3% as 2.5 million jobs were created in leash your, hospitality and education. but it rose to 16% for african-americans and 17.6% for la tennis. president trump: when we had a problem, we were able to cut it off, stop it just like this. stop it. keep everyone inside. keep them away, keep them

together, away, uninfected and we saved millions of lives and now we're opening and we're opening with a bang and we've been talking about the v. this is better than a v. in is a rocket ship. >> let's bring in our white house correspondent. clearly it's election season in the u.s. and we hear what trump says about the numbers but what about his opponent, joe biden? what more has he sid have -- said? >> joe biden has pushed back, not just on the employment numbers but also on the invoking of george floyd's name, the victim in that painful video with the officer's knee on his neck, ultimately dying and leading to these now global protests. joe biden for his part pushed back on the notion by donald trump that there is fairly and equitable treatment in policing and in the united states and he also thought that donald's trump claim that he has done

more for black beam than any other president but clearly it was invoking george floyd's name that seemed to upset biden the most. george floyd's last words, i can't breathe, i can't breathe have echoed all across this nation and quite frankly, around the world. for the president to try to put any other words in the mouths -- mouth of george floyd i frankly think is destick rble and the fact that he did so on the day when black unemployment rose, hispanic unemployment rose. black youth unemployment skyrocketed, tells you everything you need to know about this man and what he really cares about. >> what more reaction is there specificically on the unemployment numbers? they were better than what had been forecast. >> well, house speaker nancy pelosi has said this is not the work of the president's policies, this is the work of

congress and nose enormous coronavirus relief bills to help inject cash into the u.s. economy, help americans out of work and also help them get back to work. and joe biden went on to criticize the claims that this suspect great american comeback. he said the perspective is prematurely essentially hanging a mission accomplished sign, and for still millions out of work and struggling to put food on the table. still the u.s. president saying not only are things getting better in month but saying it will continue to improve but also saying if you re-elect him, things will get better after november. in 2021, he says that if you elect biden the policies will stop. if you put wrong people in the white house. in other words, pricting economic gloom. >> thank you for that yum date from the white house. let's speak about this with a

labor economist and associate professor at the university of minnesota and senior economist for the u.s. president's counsel of economic advisors. thanks for your time with us. the expectation was that the unemployment figures would hover around 20% for may. they've come in at 13.3%. is in a sign of recovery in the u.s. after the coronavirus pandemic? >> no. there's no way -- we're not after the pandemic. the pandemic remains. it is a sign that maybe we've hit the bottom of in wave of the pandemic and the reaction that we have taken to save lives and we're starting to reopen and caution -- cautiously and we're safely trying to rule economic activity and that's what we're seeing. we had, as you set up, just unprecedented contraction of economic activity to preserve life and health and, you know,

we're getting back to work one small step forward. we still have a huge, long road to walk before we get back to where we were. >> so these numbers should be treated with a little bit of caution then? >> well, i think they are real. think they do reflect that economic activity picked up between mid april and mid may and, you know, when you fall down so far, it's easy to bounce back up a bit and the first step back is easy and the next step back is a little harder. you know, maybe halfway back is not too bad. i think that's not the question. that's going to happen on its own almost. the question is what are we going to do to close the last part of the journaly and to get all the way back to where we started and we have real challenges to do that.

>> let me and you about specific communities, particularly the unemployment rates amongst the african-american community. because it ticked up to 16.8% and that, in fact, is the highest number in more than a decade. latinos as well facing 17.6% unemployment. so where do you see these figures heading and will we see the gaps theiro between communities of color and whites in the months ahead? >> that's a great question. -- i think we will see progress pretty drodly. -- broadly. i don't necessarily think we'll see the disparities decline. he most hard hit areas are the ones that employ predominantly people of color. so it will be slower to get back to normal. i think the challenges we're facing in our economy and our

society are very real and they're fund mentally public health challenges right now and we need to address that. so yeah, the african-american unemployment rate ticked up. to 16.8%, which is the same as at the peek of -- peak to have great resection -- recession. part of it is that people came back into the labor force and are looking for work but we have such a long way back to where we startled, it's very premature to declare mission accomplished. >> thank you very much for speaking towles from minneapolis. new york's governor says police filmed pushing over an elderly man should be fired. scrutiny has been growing over the tactics used by police at anti-racism demonstrations across the country. >> at a time when police misconduct is in the spotlight -- this video has gone viral.

a 75-year-old man left on the ground after officers appeared to shove him. police in buffalo initially said he'd tripped and fallen then changed their statement, adding that two officers had been suspended. >> the use of rubber bullets, in gas, pepper spray and some cases live ammunition in violation of international standards of the use of force. but this is continuing and escalating. >> over the past 40 years, government funding to the police have tripped to more than $100 billion. police departments have also been reinforced with excess equipment from the u.s. military, all the as crime rates have dropped. the depth of george floyd sparked outrage and condemnation in the u.s. and many other countries. protestors say they've had enough of decades of racism and

oppression and brutality by those who are supposed to protect and serve. >> we're sorry. we grieve and this is an injustice that should never happen again. reporter: but despite the mostly peaceful protests, critics say there's plenty of evidence the injustice is continuing, with several confrontations since floyd's death now under investigation. peaceful protestors have been tear gased in iowa. in los angeles, national guard who look like they're dressed for the battlefield have patroled a stretch of hollywood boulevard normally frequented by tourists and celebrities and police with batons on people who witnesses say were simply standing with their hands up. protestors were arrested in new york city on wednesday as police tried to enforce the

curfew. the next day, the city's mayor, bill deglass -- de blasio was booed at a memorial service for floyd as he tried to defend the police action. president donald trump, too, accused of weaponize his response to the protests by threatening to sends inspect military if demonstrations aren't brought under control. the streets outside the white house were forcefully controlled before trump's photo op. >> the vast majority of police officers do their job bravely and righteously, it is undeniable that many african-americans lack confidence in our american criminal justice system. this must change. [chanting] reporter: protestors hope that change will come. perhaps in this little girl's lifetime.

>> minneapolis has agreed to ban chokeholds by police and to require officers to intervene anytime they see unauthorized use of force by a colleague. these changes are part of the agreement between the city and minneapolis's department of civil rights which launchinged an investigation this week in response. elsewhere, mayor -- governor gavin newsom says he will ban techniques similar to the one used on floyd. let's speak to our guest from the naacp joining us from washington. thanks for joining us. can i get your initial reaction to the news out of minnesota as well as california? >> it's a step in the right direction. first, thank you for having me. it's a step in the right direction and it's what we've been calling for so long. now we need it at a central

level to where we're banning chokeholds and taking into account the reeg-life experiences of african-americans in this country. i'm excitemented to heafer that but we have a long way to go. it's a step in the right direction. >> in a new pop coming out of the u.s., nearly 3 40's of americans use the -- -- 3 quarters of americans view the death of george floyd as a problem in the u.s. a similar question was asked just six years ago. has this shame and would changed the way americans view race in their country? >> i think it's something that african-americans and black people in this country have been living with for decades. now that we have video and camera footage of it, people are starting to wake up and take note but this is a very real experience for so many in in this country, especially fredges, of police brutality and racism.

a system that has put in place barriers for black people to move mobily upward in this country. >> so how can the system then be changed? we know it won't happen overnight but what needs to be done? >> it starts on the ground. you have, like the naacp, we have branches and units across the country where they can get engaged in their local neighborhoods, where they can demand change, reform. in so many places across the country in the past several we say district attorneys these to be -- need to be replaced because they've not brought charges against police officers who have harmed or used excessive force issuing citation or trying to reprimand citizens across the country. we just have to do it at a local level and if each

individual in their neighborhoods and local communities start to demand change, we can see real change happen. >> where do you think the protest movement heads to next? how do you keep the momentum going? >> yeah, i think this is going to keep going. there's a large march that's going to happen in august on august 28 that coincides with the march on washington. we're going to do that and it's going to be a big march. people from all over the woverpled are going to join and we're going to demand police accountability and police brutality be stopped, that we no longer have that happening in our country. so this is going to keep going and we have a long way to go but it's not going to happen overnight but if we have the support of people of other communities, we can definitely see change. >> thank you very much for speaking to us on the news hours and apologies for the poor audio connection with our

guest out of washington. but we'll move on and arrested for not wearing a mask. the depth of a man in mexican police custody triggers violence protests. the u.n. warms that more than 1,300 people have been killed n fighting in the diplomatic re-- democratic republic of congresso in the past eight months. ♪ but first, the mayor of washington, d.c. has sent a big message to president trump. muriel bowser has renamed the street in front of the white house black lives plaza and had a huge blan banner painted on the road. it comes days after donald trump ordered the forceful removal of peaceful demonstrators who were gathered outside the white house.

shehad is out with protestors outside of washington. tell us what you're seeing around you. >> it's quite the assertion of municipal authority. the stretch -- church of st. john where donald trump brandish had in bible and now right in front in has been named black lives matter place and as you said, we have these enormous letters spelling that out up the street in front of the white house. it is a symbolic assertion of authorities, as we discovered so clearly this week. in the end, d.c. isn't a statement. we have a mayor but not moo a november, no meaningful representation in congress and that means basically the president can do pretty much what he wants around here. the mayor, however, can do things like this. the symbolic prozest is going down terribly well. however, he's the reaction for black lives letter d.c.

this is a distraction from here, mayor bowser's active counter organizing to our demands to increase in the police budgets. black lives matter means defund the police. what black lives matter are fighting isn't donald trump necessarily, isn't the federal forces. it's municipal police forces. it's municipal power who then shields police forces and prosecutions and transparency while giving them ever more money. mayor bowser of d.c. in her latest budget approach is asking for 18.5 impact for the local police force while taking money out of social housing and social programs and the argument from local activistst is in is the wrong way around. if you invest in your communities, you don't need the police for the enquality that results. in the last couple of hours we

got another black lives matter tweet which said we've gotten me mails about being mean to mayor bowser but none asking about the murders the police formed and their families. #da'quan young. #jeffrey price. #rafael briscoe, #alonzo smith, lash lash terrance sterling. young black people who have been kimmed by the police who mayor bowser has done nothing about, who have been shielding the police from. as far as the activists, as welcome a sight as this may be, this is a small virture. before the officers knocked down that man to the ground were taking a knee with the protestors. they're saying this is all very well. let's see some action. >> thank you for that update

from washington. a court in australia has banned a black lives matter protest planned for saturday at the request of police who fear it could help spread the coronavirus. that's after 2,000 people marched in the capital in solidarity with the u.s. but also high. ing racial inequality at home. a much larger rally was planned in sydney on saturday with about 10,000 people expected. while protestors in the united states mourn george floyd, police brutality is also a concern south of the boarder in mexico. demonstrators there are accusing arresting officers of beating a construction working -- worker to death. reporter: absolutely fury. against police brutality in guadalajara. the depth of lopez a month ago

has caused controversy and conflicting also -- accounts in mexico's seconds largest city. police say the 30-year-old was detained for disturbing the peace but this video shared wildly on social media provoked protests. not far from the city. bystanders each the man being shoved into a vehicle as lopez. they say police were using excessive force and that he was arrested for not wearing a mask. they're mandatory to prevent the coronavirus spread. police say he was taken out of his cell for medical treatment and died hours later. but police deny brutality but protestors are demanding accountability. while some smashed police vehicles, police pick up whatever they can to fend off protestors. one policeman had petrol pourled overwhelm him and set on fire. [sirens] >> the governor of jalisco

state says the video of the arrest doesn't show the reality. >> the misleading way in which they made everyone believe that geian -- geovany was arrested for not wearing a mask mass already been exposed bill the public prosecutor and today was the way they allowed a protest for a accuse to be infiltrated and turn violent. reporter: the government minier the is -- minister of human rights accused the police officers of using excessive force and is condemning the events in which police used force for presentive measures. protests have swelled across mexico in sol darmente with george floyd's depth in the united states but many mexicans are dealing with their own issues with the police where they live. human rights groups have collected years of evidence of police brutality and torture. and protestors in guadalajara

said what happened to geovany lopez suspect latest example of that and they're demanding jumps. >> for big celebrations going on in the libyan capital after the sudden clams of the 14-month battle to take the city. earlier, forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government retook the nearby city which he'd been using as a launch pad for his offensive. this after they gained control of triply. we have a reporter. reporter: deliberating on other important things, forces of the u.n.-backed government of national accord in control of the town that was the last major strong hold of the war lord in western libya. >> we were working to achieve the victory without hesitation. this is a big difference who

one who fights with weapons and one doesn't. you will be defeated if you on't have a cause. >> turkey's military support has helped to a number of territorial gains in recent weeks. including near the to you nice border as well as ending the attempt to cap thorough hurry - capture tripoli. the army, which is backed by russia, the united arab emirates and egypt said its troops were being flown from tripoli in order to give the cease-fire a chance. tahuna was the main launch pad for the offensive against the capital but forces finally abandoned it this week.

g.m.a. forces said forces had reached the centers after entering from four sides. the recapture of the city does not mean the end of the fighting as the government forces say they're determined o -- chase them further south. >> this means the end of his military campaign to seize tripoli but he continues to control eastern libya. large parts of the south were the main oil fields are located. -- united nations has recent weapons in north libyan risks more escalation. >> the first was on the air base that was taken not too

long ago and the second was tarhuna. forces knew they could not hold on to the tripoli offensive so they began to withdraw some of their drooms troops. >> a new effort is underway to talks on the lasting cease-fire and ending years of conflict after launching a military campaign known as operation dignity in the east of the country in 2014. tarhuna. >> much more to come on the al jazeera newshour, including turkey's surge in kibe -- cybercrime. how covid-19 is helping scammers catch out consumers. and how the pandemic helped prepare british farmers for the possibilities of a no-deal rexit.

>> hello, there. very unsettled pictures over much of europe and it has been feeling cooler. a bit of a giveaway, of course, bringing in the rain but we have some places enjoying the sunshine is, such as southern portugal but it's a bit more like there for many areas. if you're going through saturday, we have in area of low pressure southward across the u.k. very strong winds from the north. cold winds as well. that rain very wild spread throughout much of sand nava, pushing through western russia and particularly in northern spain, areas of france and across the alps. sunday the rain pushes eastwards and away from the u.k. but temperatures a little bit better. 18 degrees, 19 in paris. but a blankets of clouds around

much of europe and that line of very heavy rain not really moving. this could produce severe thunderstorms at times and also, there is the threat of flooding, particularly in the high elevations. one or two clouds pushing into morocco. by sununday, we'll see a few mo shshowers into t the coast of algeria. ♪ >> hello, again. the top stories on the al jazeera newshour. u.s. president donald trump has been con determinele -- condemned for invoking george floyd's name as he talked about higher than expected jobless numbers. coronavirus lock downes were easinged. two more police officers have been suspended after video of them shoving a 75-year-old to

the ground during anti-racism protests. minneapolis and california have moved to ban the use of chokeholds bill police. forces loyal to libya's u.n.-backed government has been celebrating after celebrating tarhuna. brazil has reported a new record of 1,473 coronavirus deaths in just 24 hours. it now has the third highest number of fatalities in the world, overtaking italy. despite, this green beaches and parks in rio de janiero ha reopened as long as social distancing is carried out by the public. earlier the president called any protestors opposing his agenda terrorists and encouraged security forces to act swiftly against anyone who breaks the law. venezuelan migrants have been

stranded in nearby colombia because of the pandemic. around 500 people are stuck in bad conditions in a make shift example. libya is letting how many return each day to stem the spread of the virus. one camp reporter says things are getting worse by the day. >> most of them were living here in colombia but some coming as far as ecuador and purr rue. they're -- peru. they're trying to make their way back but the enormous have reduced the amount of number they allow in daily from roughly 800 a day now down at times to just 80. that is creating bottle next them along the way and this is one of the consequences of that. people using plastic bags as

tents and are sleeping here wute running water, wulet any kind of services. they are -- without any kind of services. they are depending on the good will of local people here, foundations. non-governmental organizations that have been bringing food and so on. some of them even had bus tickets to reach the border city but that's where colombian authorities -- because of the huge towns at the border town and they're trying to stop people around the -- along the way. it's a very complicated situation getting worse by the day. >> british scientists have abandoned the large clinical trial that explored the use of the anti-malaria drug hide hide for the coronavirus. initial results showed no evidence of benefits. the malaria and rheumatoid drug

was previously promoted and even taken by president trump. iran has reported itself highest number of covid-19 infections in a single day. on thursday, there were nearly 3,600 new cases. the president has warned strict measures will be to be reimposed if social distancing isn't respected. reporter: it's been a worrying week for many iranians. the number of daily coronavirus infections is back at record levels, not seen since march. doctors say the threat of a second wave is very wellle with -- real. >> yes, there will be a second wave from personal hygiene is not observed. people are careful to some extent but it's better if they care more. with smaller crowds and more caution, god willing. reporter: globally the coronavirus is spreading faster than ever. last week johns hopkins university recorded the highest

infection rates so far. in iran, where covid-19 infections were wayning after the lockdown, they're again increasing in at least 10 of 31 provinces. control measures on public life were eased last month, something health officials warned might make people come plavenlgts. infection fears seem to be less of a concern and holiday travel is on the rise. iran's president said that people should learn to adapt and bend with the virus, not ignore social distancing rules. people in business must seriously take into consideration warnings ooh from officials. the noble people of iran should know if these measures are not taken seriously anywhere in the country or god forbid the disease rises again, authorities will be forced to bring back some restrictions and that would affect the normal life of citizens and badly harm the economy.

reporter: for people running shops that opened only a few weeks ago and still recovering losses from the first lockdown, the prospect of a second one is unthibbling. some say threatening another lockdown shows the government is out of touch with the people. >> president rue laney is living on -- ruhani is living on easy street. he is not thinking of us. i am 32 and i have nothing of my own. they live on easy street. they give orders and we have to say ok. reporter: others say if the government wants people to stay at home, they should comment state them, as has been done in other countries. >> if they pay the suspensions of people like me, street vendors, for two to three months, then they can say shut down your businesses. shutdown is not difficult. it's easy but where will people find money? ♪ reporter: talking to iranians about a second wave,

the response is always the same -- god forbid. but even as they carry on with their lives, health experts say it's not if a second wave is coming but when >> coronavirus restrictions mean people are living more of their lives online, whether banking, shopping or using government services and scammers are ready to exploit that. in turkey the police cybercrimet unit has seen a match increase in the number of fishing sites designed to steal eullsers' financial information. a report from istanbul. >> we can lock down travel bans, closing businesses and staying calm. these measures across turkey have led to an increase in attempts by cybercriminals to ex torment people. the government says phishing sites imitating government institutions, corporations or

banks have tripped in two manages. he appeared on what appeared to be a sponsored advertisement for his bank on his website. >> i thought i was using my bank's app. i even received a security cold. i'm kind of an obsessive person so i called the bank to check whether my application was on track. to my surprise, it was all fake. the bank said i got wind ised. they froze my accounts, 06 eled my cards but $1,0 were already gone. >> courts have been closed since late march and will not reopen before late june, believed to have encouraged the flishing crlings. >> during the covid crisis, phishing sites have been exploiting the need for government aid and they're imitating the most trusted platform the e-state a.m.,

which people use to apply for state ade but the real a.m. never asks you for your payment details. >> police say they've dealt with 30,000 khyber -- cybercrime cases but in the first few months of this year, the number -- number reached 25,000. digital crimes are rising. authorities say they're doing their best to catch phishing but users neement to be aware. people in turkey spends nearly six hours a day on social media , and it's helping cybercrimes escalate. >> i will continue our look at crime during covid-19 on saturday. we observe why robberies are

soaring in chile, forcing the government to fly in special sources. a legal challenge against the u.k. government quarantine rules. any and all arriving in the u.k. is required to self-isolate from 14 days from monday or face a hefty mine. they say boris johnson did not consult the industry before introducing the measures. british airways has already cut 20,000 jocks. had homed to operate 40% of flights next month but says the law as or peeled ode those plans. in the u.k. brexit is back on the agenda and things are not going well. a week of talks between british and european officials has ended in dead locks and recriminationings. the u.k. insists it will say goodbye by the end of the year with or without a trade deal

and with or without a pan dem turkey deal with. >> nece to get a move on because in company brules produces a million bags of salad bags a week. for years workers from poland have harvested it. but the air base close and would they couldn't come. they asked british people to do it. . >> i was pretty determined i wasn't going to lose the crotch. yeah, it was on the cards, no doubt. if you don't get the team in and you don't get the staff, the machinery we harvest with can't operate. reporter: this team is made up almost entirely of furloughed british workers. he's a fitness instructsor but with the gym closed and wife and baby at home, he needed the cash. >> yeah, we're outdoors owl day long so we're probably in the best environment. not like those quine con fined spaces with all the p.p.e. and

the west -- rest of it. i'm lucky i have a job. >> the idea of the british land army reminds of world war ii and that is the undercurrent of this tv ad. it's caul parts of a campaign called pick for britain and they even recruited royalty for it. >> i do not doubt the work is nglamorous and challenging but you will be makinging a vital contribution to the national e. reporter: so british workers are helping field the nation. supportsers of brect -- brecks its will say if we can do in we can do anything. >> since the pandemic came here, there's been panic buying, queist for hours to get into a supermarket and yet the od supply chain has remained

very good. it's given the british government on argument of why the new-deal brexit may not be so bad. >> the work -- government wants o reduce it to just 10,000 workers. >> the estimate is we might need 70,000 maybe over the whole season, over the country. we just need to make sure that the arrangements are there so that if we do need people to come in, they can, brexit not withstanding. >> for people on both sides to have english channel quhox it will be madness for the u.k. to continue with brexit at all in the middle of the virus pandemic. awrence lee, al jazeera, southwestern england. >> ahead, calls for mali's

president to step down. and on world environment day the u.n. issuing a rallying cry to protect the planet's living systems. ♪

>> hello again. the u.n. is saying more than 1300 people have been killed in the democrcratic republic of congo during fighting in the past eight months. various conflicts are underway involving a number of armed groups and violence forces. it's forced more than half a million people to flee their

homes in just nine months. some incidents may amount to war crimes. >> i call on the authorities to do their utmost to entrust -- the presence of securities forces in the area of conflicts to ensure they prekt civilians rather than prey on them. when the state leaves the vacuum it puts these communities at great risk. it's been shown this can have catastrophic results. >> we spoke to a guest from the international red cross. thanks for speaking us to. thousands of people are being displaced as a result of the ongoing violence. where are they going to and how are they coping? >> tau. -- thank you. so the democratic republic of the congo is africa's second largest country. it is rich in minerals, however it is still one of the poorest countries in the world. it has been years that people

are seeing conflict and violence. to flee from village to village. according to the global report on internal displacement we do have 5 million displaced people, which makes it the largest i.d.p. population in africa. those people actually moved from the village to flee the conflict in order to go to other villages where the whole communities are usually very help other e do people. however, those communities are already themselves don't have access to water or food. so the new communities getting to the villages and they have to help them. when we talk about displacement, it's important not only to talk about assisting the displaced people but we need to protect them. >> which is what i was going to

and you about. what sort of protection is being given to those displaceed? -- ah, so we do work with state or nonstate to actually prevent displacement. so for them we sensitize them so then they respect and protect civilians so we don't have to actually assist displaced people. but this isn't an ideal world. however, when those displacements happen, it is the responsibility of the enormous to protect but also to -- >> and the d.r.c. is facing a triple threat of coronavirus, a recent outbreak of ebola and measles. how much is this complicating an already tense situation and how much is that hindering your work on the ground as in you're not being able to move around more freely because of the

coronavirus? >> sure. yes, so d.r.c. is having -- so not only the pandemic of covid-19 actually adds up to already a very difficult and worrying humanitarian crisis. so d.r.c. people have been -- so their resilience system is extremely weak because they have measles, coal remarks ebola. now covid. that is still killing hundreds of people, thousands of people every year. so we're talking about a population that is already very weak. how is covid-19 changing this? we are asking for -- i.v.p.'s can't put in place, can't respect the measures that are asked to be protected from from the coronavirus. for example, we're asking them to wash their hands. where do they dealt get this

water? they don't have access to water and when they do, we're asking them to wash your hands instead of boiling water to cook or wash the kids or actually drink water. also, about social distancing. most of the people have no shelter or when they do, they are very -- it's -- they are very -- places. i was talking to a colleague yesterday in eastern congo and hehe was actuaually visiting th families and they are using these -- schools that have been closed because of the coronavirus as shelters. but there are hundreds of them inside of there so how are we going to respect social distancing when you have hundreds of people around you? >> sounds like a very difficult situation. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> france says it's killed the leader of al qaeda in north africa. he was killed on wednesday in

northwest mali. french troops were supported by local forces in the operation, which also saw several of his inner circle killed. thousands have been protesting in mali's capital calling on the president to resign. they're talking about allegations of vote rigging and corruption. we've been following developments. reporter: what people are asking is for the government to do their job and to protect the population. that's one of the issues there but there are numbers of groups involved in this protest. we're talking more than 20,000 people gathered in the capital. we haven't seen protests like this since the return of democracy in 1991. last year the organizer of this protest had organized demonstrations where people were chanting out with foreign troops. this year, today, they're asking for the resignation of

keita. the reason is not only the curity situation getting bad but for ordinary maliians, some are teachers who haven't been paid for several months. people struggling to have access to running water and also members of the opposition with their leader who's been in the custody of armed groups for now flee months with the government seemingly doing little to try to secure his release. so all of this combined means that there's a lot of people in mali that are growing impatient with their government. they want to see more action from them. >> u.n.'s nuclear watchdog says iran now has enriched uranium stockpiles almost eight times the limit set by the nuclear deal. the nuclear deal allowed iran up to 300 kilograms of enriched

urine ram but the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the agreement two years ago. kattar is looking for a new first quarter active to the land, air, and sea block cailed. it's been three years since several countries either isolated the gulf state. >> yes, there's a positive atmosphere around the initiatives and we hope it leaves -- leads to positive results. there are negotiations between called rain and qatar which were talked about last year. unfortunately nose negotiations edged bankruptry -- abruptly in the saudi side. from our side, the reasons were not clear because the gork started positively and ended abruptly. >> friday is world vimplete day and the u.n. is calling for otect the orts to pr

world's living systems. the u.n. says recent events such as wiped fiers in the amazon, the u.s. and australia as well as locust enfest tations across australia show how fragile the world's ecosystems have become. he emergence of covid-19 has highlighted the fragile connection between animals and human beings. and one million superb cheese are under threat of extinction. experts warn action must be taken now to prevent an irreversible clams in bio diversity. nick clark reports. reporters: the wonders of the national world are an antidolt to these trying times. especially in our oceans. here in the lakes of palau, a unique f fish speecech cheese o

the mirror idea adversity of relieves. koral but here, too, there's another bio mass which dwarfs everything else combined and it's invifble to the naked eye. 's the may crobe yum life of our see and test seen wherever and these include astronomical amounts of viruses. all part of the web of life in the sea. in fact, every liter of sea water contains for viruses than there are people on the planet. 95% of all life in the ocean by weight is come priced not of fish or of whales but of might be robes and -- microbes and it is these microbes that create 50% of all oxygen on the planet.

every second breath that we breathe. the problem is, from indivisible life forms to some of the biggest beasts on the planet. bio diversity is threatened by environmental instruction. for the -- destruction. for the african elephant, it's more than just the ivory trade. >> of course the biggest impact that is less talked about is the increasing population of africa and therefore the competing land between elephants and people. >> when the frontier between wildlife and humans is breached, diseases like the coronavirus can jump there animals to people. >> about one million species are under threat from ex-tinges and that's a lot because the name is this finely attuned system where each one plays,

each spee committees plays a role in the bigger puzzle. covid-19 is clearly one of these messages that we need to understand and heeled very fast that we can't continues to undermine and encroach on name and expect name to be stable. reporter: it's apparent that we're at a turning point. experts say the era of post covid must be one where we act to save our environmental heritage or we'll continues to pay a heavy price. >> thanks for watching the newshour on al jazeera. back in an hour with more of the day's news. see you then. ♪

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