country recorded a big jump in coronavirus deaths this week putting hospitals under strain jimmy fallon duggan joins a patrol in the light to see how ensuring people follow the rules. images like these are often seen in conflict zones but it's of a chopper that in part of the philippines capital and seat of its government metro manila. for the past few months seems like these have become common using shock and awe to wage a war or what it describes as an unseen enemy the coronavirus. more than 300 security personnel have been deployed to implement another 2 week locked out of people in the city of the vote us hoping it will be enough to keep number of infections down we joined the police as they conducted patrols they found this boy

the pandemic her critics say the president's report may not actually reflect reality general allen duggan reports now from the law the president of the republic of the philippine president's state of the nation speech is this annual report card and the way to bring his government closer to the public but this year's session is different the coronavirus pandemic us for stratego deterred his administration to limit those allowed to get close to him or to spoke of the achievements of his government over the last few years but admits there are areas where he feels powerless so he's claiming. we claiming it unless we are prepared to go to work. and said we'll be diplomatic. in due course. but i cannot afford it maybe the president. you know. the turtle also spoke about the economy and the benefits of improving the agricultural industry but he kept going back to the issue of security but he porn's his drug war is not over. outside the halls of congress protesters say they remain defiant against his government. police warn anyone raising plaque parts in the streets will face arrest so hundreds o

we demand his resignation because he's also a part of the whole machinery what happened on duggan's beach is why i'm here the scandal is that public property has become suddenly products. of this little child . the protests started on july 9th after police and prosecutors righted the offices of the president's top aides. 2 days earlier of the minority democratic both carry a party and 2 other men had landed a small boy on a beach close to the private residence of an ex politician a dog and they were ordered to leave despite the law guaranteeing public access to the beach incident on least a wave of outrage when she's day the government survived a 5th vote of no confidence to spot the protests borisov has vowed to complete his 3rd 4 year term in office which ends in march 2021. sky watches the world over have been out in force for some weeks to catch a glimpse of the new wife comment it's currently about as bright as the north star and can be seen with the naked eye you know why is this expected to make its closest approach to planet earth on wednesday night before returning to deep space

we demand his resignation because he's also a part of the whole machinery what happened on duggan's beach is why i'm here the scandal is that public property has become suddenly private. just over time but we have. the protests started on july 9th after police and prosecutors write at the offices of the president's top aides. 2 days earlier of the minority democratic both carry a party and 2 other men had landed a small boy on a beach close to the private residence of an ex politician a dog and they were ordered to leave despite the law guaranteeing public access to the beach the incident unleashed a wave of outrage when she's day the government survived a 5th a vote of no confidence to spot the protests borisov has vowed to complete his 3rd 4 year term in office which ends in march 2021. and we turn now to japan where the one year countdown to the next year's summer olympics has begun again you can say because tokyo 2020 is now scheduled to begin in july of 2021 but before that japan will have to tackle accusations of abuse of child athletes by sports coaches the rights group human right

counterparts and its response has been heavy handed and focused on using fear to fight a pandemic jim duggan al jazeera manila the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has outlined his plan for england to return to normality saying employers will have more discretion to bring stuff back to workplaces from next month that's the spyder advice from his trial chief scientific adviser saying there's absolutely no reason to change the work from home guidance so go has more from london. friday in the middle of july in central london and you usually see this place thronging with people not just the people working in offices nearby but also with visitors tourists from of the country but of course these are anything but normal times the prime minister boris johnson is under the gun to try and provide some kind of roadmap to normality of course a lot of that rests on how people can go back to working they can stay working from home or where they can work from their offices or other workplaces and the prime minister has made it clear that he's leaving that decision up to the employers. from the 1st of all

daily jump in corona virus deaths this week also putting the hospitals on the strain jamila island duggan has joined the police forces as they conduct their patrols in manila. images like these are often seen in conflict zones but it's of a chopper that in part of the philippines capital and seat of its government metro manila. for the past few months seems like these have become common using shock and awe to wage a war or what it describes as an unseen enemy the coronavirus. more than 300 security personnel have been deployed to implement another 2 week lockdown to people in the city of the booked us hoping it will be enough to keep number of infections down we joined the police as they conducted patrols they found this boy outside his home his mother says he just went out to buy sweets but children aren't allowed to leave their homes and she was taken to a nearby center to be cautioned along with other residents. and they have been appealing for residents to simply stay at home to keep everybody safe some of them refused to leave or must there are still later in the streets the philippi

we demand his resignation because he's also part of the whole machinery what happened on duggan's beach is why on here he scandalous that public property has become suddenly private. tell them yes. the protests started on july 9th after police and prosecutors righted the offices of the president's top aides. 2 days earlier her of the minority democratic both carry a party and 2 other men had landed a small boat on a beach close to the private residence for the fix politician dog and they were ordered to leave but despite the low guarantee in public access to the beach the incident unleashed a wave of outrage when she's dead the government survived a 5th vote of no confidence to spot the protests borisov has vowed to complete his 3rd 4 year term in office which ends in march 2021. and in other news norway has remembered the victims of the country's worst terror attack the norwegian prime minister joined survivors at the commemoration ceremony on the island of 9 years ago a right wing extremist carried out a mass shooting on the island and 2 coordinated bombings in oslo killing 77 people

of the kind of we saw for example in england in 2011 in the summer following the shooting of mark duggan we have able to watch our interview with morgan's a on our you tube channel but then this is we have big cars dimension here because you're talking about block parties working class people of color and of course some . communities white communities and yet they're relatively well heeled they all crowd in soho in the west end of london can afford to buy drinks on a day in a band that no police at all but go that's that that's certainly a really really powerful example of the way in which perceptions of policing illegitimacy can start to develop that where we get large gatherings of predominantly white people on a sunny day in a beach in bournemouth but we get gatherings of people from from black and working class communities we see very very different and contrasting pools of policing much more like say fair in regard to the former and much more oppressive in regard to the latter but the other thing that needs to be borne in mind here are shifting power relations but one of the things

grateful they say they feel as though their lives really suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. israeli authorities are planning to turn and industrial by a hood in occupied east jerusalem into a technology home but opponents say the project is another attempt to illegally solidify israeli control of the occupied palestinian land force that reports. for decades if you wanted to fix a tire by where all discount groceries in occupied east jerusalem what he jos has been the place to come but a new israeli project would see this neighborhood a short walk from the old city remade as a hub for tourism and high tech. i don't runs the land on which he operates his garage he and dozens of others have recently been issued eviction notices accusing them of breaking zoning laws instructing them to move out before the end of the year in the order i want to say we have been here for the last 60 years. the municipality sent us evacuation orders without negotiating without giving us alternatives or compensation the silicon wadi neighborhood. the west jerusalem in a simple gov

economy has grown especially in the last decade the country was really doing good as economy when duggan overdriven down but during this pandemic things with dollars for example before go vid one in every 5 people in bangladesh was poor and one in every 10 people was extremely poor but during gov it he caught amidst speculate that the number has doubled so if you consider the total population of a $170000000.00 people 40 percent of it is a huge number almost a total population of germany then who is worst affected by the pend i'm pandemic is it is it. the poor largely or is it the middle classes as well or is it the society as a whole well of course the holy go to me has been affected the main 2 pillars of the economy export income and flow of foreign reminiscences have dropped drastically but if you talk about people those who are in the bottom of the pyramid are the worst hit while it's a daily includes the poor it also includes a part of the middle class who were solely dependent on their monthly incomes and they are mostly from the informal sector like recently we were doing reports

grateful they say they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. in hong kong online records appear to suggest books written by prominent pro-democracy office have disappeared from public libraries but follows the introduction of a controversial security bill or imposed by china the true protests last week rights groups fear the law will give authorities greater power to arrest and imprison anybody who expresses dissent against beijing. algeria has marked the 50th anniversary of its independence from france with the burial of $24.00 resistance fighters killed during colonise ation the skulls of the men were returned to the capital algiers on friday to be treated by french colonial officers as want trophies and kept in a museum in paris the final resting place of so many other notable algerians the cemetery. a heat wave in a region usually a famous for cold weather has started fires across 3000000 tons of land in a remote part of siberia planes are being used to tackle the wildfire lightning strikes are thought to be the main cour

grateful they say they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. south korea is going ahead with its annual opening of his speeches for the summer with special arrangements in place because of the pandemic but broad reports from the 2nd city of busan which is a favorite tourist destination. the beaches of blue sun or officially open and people love flocking to the south koreans are among the world's top spenders all overseas travel but most of this summer are looking to vacation a lot closer to home and still following strict rules to prevent the spread of coded 19 beach umbrella's are individually numbered so people hiring them can be traced in case they were close to someone found later to be infected for the leaf family this summer break is a new experience. we often go abroad in summer but we can't do that this time so we decided on booth. they've also decided to come earlier than normal a majority of people in south korea take their summer vacations in a narrow window from late july into early august but companies are now be

grateful they say they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. about 200 people have protested him in a day after the philippine president to go to target a signed a widely opposed terror law. critics fear the legislation will be used to silence dissent and give the government a new weapon to target opponents the law which congress sent to the president for signing last month allows the detention of suspects for up to $24.00 days without charge. you are. the one you want against it. and against anyone. egypt's plans to hold the 1st election for its recently revived senate next month 2 thirds of senators will be chosen by the public and the president will appoint the rest the $300.00 member chamber was dropped from egypt's constitution and 2014 it was brought back and the amendments approved in a referendum last year there's constitutional changes also allowed the fact that it's easy to stay in power until 2031 is the founder and chairman of the british arab network he says the political situation in egypt doesn't sit with an el

counterparts and its response has been heavy handed and focused on using fear to fight a pandemic similarly duggan al jazeera manila. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. coronavirus infections that hit a record high as the government sends mixed messages of the mosques president trump has ruled out a national mandate and many state governors are refusing to make them compulsory would you consider what you consider a national mandate that people need to know i want people to have a certain freedom and i don't believe in that you know and i don't agree with the statement that if everybody were a mask everything it just appears a doctor felt you should don't wear a mask or surgeon general terrific guy should don't worry mask everybody was saying don't worry mask all of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask and as you know mask cause problems too with that being said i'm a believer in masks i think masks the world health organization says brazil's coronavirus rate appears to have plateaued and it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission the double h o's eme

the tear it is grievances and the position will further damage on the already troubled nation jim duggan al-jazeera monella. well still ahead on al-jazeera a new voice in singapore's politics now small but significant gains by the opposition have cost a shadow on the ruling party's election win. and an economic lifeline for nigeria find out what its $3000000000.00 natural gas project means for its people and those and everything. i once again welcome to look at the international focus we have something of a brief rest by sea in the heavy rain across japan at the moment but what weather in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days a stationary front let continues to drift its way across a similar path out of central areas of china the my front there of course we will see that rain just drifting further east which as we go on through sunday little. q.c. for a time but you see what's waiting in the wings will see the sweater weather pushing across the yellow sea into the korean peninsula and then it'll make its way up across well north america security say the heaviest of the

the tear it is grievances and the position will further damage on the already troubled nation jim duggan i'm just here in manila. as many as 10000 people have protested in eastern russia against the arrest of a regional governor is accused of ordering several murders i. was the alleged crimes are said to have happened 15 years ago before the surgery for go into politics he was elected governor by a landslide in 2018 beating the candidate supported by president. scares me demonstrators chanted antiproton slogans as they demanded his permits. the protests are expected to go on through the weekend against the serbian government's handling of the corona virus pandemic. some in the crowds 3 final words police on friday night who responded with tear gas demonstrators defied a ban on gatherings of more than 10 people to call on president aleksander footage to resign rallies began on tuesday after attempts to reimpose knocked on the streets and on friday serbia saw its highest death toll. corona virus infections rising in florida as well but that isn't stopping one of its most famous attractions

backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st jim duggan al jazeera ballasts province northern philippines at least 70 people have been detained in russia's capital after protesting against reforms that allow putin to remain president for another 16 years about $500.00 demonstrators in moscow to monitor putin's that the president won a referendum earlier this month that amended russia's constitution allowing him to serve 2 more terms after his current one expires opposition activists say the vote was rigged and the pro european social democrats have declared victory in north macedonia's parliamentary elections with 95 percent of votes counted the party was on course for a narrow win over the nationalists rivals but it fell short of gaining an outright majority raise the prospect of tough coalition talks the result has exposed deep divisions over the country's future as it prepares to start e.u. membership negotiations tunisia's prime minister has resigned at the request of president saeed. fact stepped down after the biggest party in his co

backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st jim duggan al-jazeera zambales province northern philippines. taiwan's president has watch on your life fire military exercises to demonstrate its ability to fight invasion sighing when says she wants the world to see the determination to protect the country china considers taiwan as its territory and has been displaying its military strength nearby recently and going. we want the world to see our determination efforts to protect our country national security has never relied on borrowing down or bending the knees to the enemy but relying on the most solid national defense and all our military officers and soldiers are the core of the national defense. there is rob mcbride is following developments from seoul . these exercises are meant to test the readiness of taiwan to defend itself against obviously it's much more powerful neighbor they've been held since the $980.00 s. but also they are intended to send a very strong signal across the straits to the mainland and we have seen in recent months

counterparts and its response has been heavy handed and focused on using fear to fight a pandemic similarly duggan al jazeera manila. time for a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. coronavirus and sections of hit a record high as the government sends mixed messages of the mosques top expert on jimmy fallon aging politicians to do everything they can to get people to wear face coverings i can say is a public health official that i would urge the leaders the local political and other leaders in states and cities and towns to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizen tree to wear masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when you're living your life and trying to open up the country you are going to come into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important in the world health organization says brazil's corona virus infection rate appears to have plateaued and it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission emergencies program head says the country needs a sustaine

its franchise expired rights groups say the decision is a major blow to media freedom john allen duggan has moved from manila over the past 12 gresham though hearings almost every possible legal accusation has been thrown against the country's biggest media network from labor violations to tax evasion even the very citizenship qualifications of its owner chairman gabby lopez they question whether he was really filipino whether he had the right to own a media channel which is actually restricted under the philippine constitution but again it all boiled down to congress voting majority against the renewal of its franchise which expired after 25 years so yesterday around 70 lawmakers voted against the renewal while around 11 voted in favor of the renewal of a.b.s. e.b.m. media network to air again now they are given from that this issue and within 24 hours basically to submit an appeal to the very same committee that made and lead this position and the and hearings but the appeal should come from somebody a lawmaker from the majority who initially voted against it so what we're seeing basi

terror just grievances and the position will further damage on the already troubled nation jamila duggan. reporters without borders says the philippines has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists and president for very good to her they came to power in 26 to be publicly warned reporters that were not exempt from assassination as he put it he said that freedom of expression and try and in the constitution cannot help of they've done something wrong union representing journalists reports 13 killings and 2016 news website rappler has angered the president over its criticism of his government its editor marie aris is now facing up to 6 years in prison found guilty of what's called cyber charges but even before deters a journalism was a risky business in 2009 members of a powerful political clan murdered 32 journalists and media workers on the island of mindanao the unborn is the justice reporter for raptor she says the government is sending a message with the closure of the broadcaster. it's really an assault on press freedom because a.b.c. venice the largest te

various reduce in the past i mean i hope we see of lost a lot of reputation especially with the mark duggan issue in 2000 then now come up age and do the right thing and deal with the systemic failures to our streets on a date say basis or we've heard it is his report then that black men are 9 times more likely to be searched how is that justified. but it can't be justified if it's not intelligence based if it's based on assumptions and stereotypes conscious and unconscious bias it can't be justified it's going to be based on intelligence to ensure that this stop in the right people and you know the racial profiling we've seen is not just in london but it's all across the country and we've got to deal with this one some for all because it's creating a lot of anger and frustration on rest and in this new tunnel of black life matters and george floyd you know people want to see changes and not just the black community but the wider community and i hope the eye of the sea will respond to that requirement or relations between the police and ethnic minorities same as another weapon how do we rep

grateful they say they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. 5 police officers in the indian state of. being arrested in connection with the deaths of a father and son in custody the 2 of being detained for leaving their shop open minutes longer than allowed under coronavirus lockdown rules and as elizabeth prada reports it's causing outrage across the country. these 5 men in charge of up hold in the law as police officers in india's state instead they're being investigated for murder. p.j. and arjun hassan bennet's died after being arrested on june 19th sparking protests police had detained the father and son for keeping their mobile phone shop open just minutes beyond what was allowed under lockdown restrictions. they died in hospital 4 days later. the kid has become a model in which one sub-inspector conducting further investigations into the offices in the case. a female police officer who testified that the men were beaten and sexually assaulted has been given witness protection india's central jordan investigation has t

response to the pandemic and criticized over a new antiterrorism law al-jazeera is general allen duggan report style from manila . over the last few years the state of the nation speeches of president through the good that there are to have been overshadowed by protests and they were usually much bigger and much more widespread in the we compared to this year from the very beginning also because of the coronavirus pandemic polices threatened protesters that if anybody appeared in the street with a placard or poster that they will arrest them without a warrant immediately so majority of these protesters over a 1000 of them troop to the university of the philippines nearby about a few kilometers from congress or deterred he spoke and conducted the rally there so they were able to contain the situation on the ground but not the rage you know this was a speech that was about several hours late but it was all over in less than 2 hours and president of the good that there just spoke of bureaucratic gains in government over the last few months he also said that there will be no face to face di

between them and the new the new settlers are coming in secondly the settlers who come in bilby be duggan's by the by the extreme. militants kurd the mere fact that they have been coming in and this belief has completely gotten english british. media the groups that would be ground 0 are we making them desperate and they will attack people and maybe it is that expectation. is that after the 1st shot getting state place they would be reprisals and the place would just go up. and i didn't want to think of what the future would be this is one of the most incendiary and. dangerous things that anyone could have done all of india is separate it is it is we have about something like 30 or 50 or 60000000 languages at least 30 major cities community in there of number of millions tens of millions of them which have known independence and the beat separate indie literature ringback music for the last 2500 years or longer and in media spin to everywhere and just. because you should lead a smaller is beautiful and a bit of coverage that land because that mean that they should they should be single trea

the tear it is grievances and the position will further damage and already troubled nation jamila duggan. reporters without borders says the philippines has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists when president ford very good to her they came to power and 2016 he publicly want reporters that were not exempt from assassination as he put it he said the freedom of expression in try and in the constitution cannot help and have done something wrong the union representing journalists reports 13 killings since 26 saying news website rappler has angered the president over its criticism of his government its editor maria ressa is now facing up to 6 years in prison found guilty of what's called cyber libel charges but even before deters a journalism was a risky business 2009 members of a powerful political club murdered 32 journalists and media workers on the island of mindanao. lay on the board is the justice reporter for an investigative news outlet she says the government is sending a message with the closure of the broadcaster. it's really an assault on press free

backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st jim dugganal-jazeera zambales province northern philippines 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and 2 from armenia have been killed in the latest fighting at the border that began on sunday the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s. over the disputed region of mcgovern a quite a box and tension has similar to have a since been forced a walker has our report. was large crowds of protesters in demanding the government declares war on armenia some demonstrators managed to enter parliament early on wednesday and were dispersed the crowds are highly unusual in tightly controlled as it by john an indication of the national mood. an army general was one of 11 as a very servicemen killed in 3 days of fighting on the border with armenia the armenian government reports the deaths of 4 personnel. both sides accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities as ery missile strikes on armenian positions. armenians shooting down as airy drones. civilian areas also being shelled what i think many mean

grateful they see the feel as though their lives really suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. the european union says iran has triggered a dispute mechanism as part of its 2050 nuclear deal to route is accusing european poles of failing to live up to their side of the agreement foreign minister zarif sent a letter to britain france and germany but did not provide specific details on where the countries fell short of their obligations as a babe reports on the friction between the 2 sides. the reef has written to the e.u. foreign policy chief joseph barrow again complaining about the noncompliance in regards to 2015 nuclear deal now this comes after spoke at the united nations condemning the european countries france germany and the u.k. for what he called complacency and not standing up to the united states bullying now this isn't the 1st time that iran has complained to the e.u. back in 2018 when the united states pulled out of that 2015 nuclear deal iran gave the european countries those 3 european countries one year to come up with a way around u.s. sancti

backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st jim duggan al-jazeera province northern philippines if europeans denying state t.v. reports that it started filling the reservoir of africa's largest dam the increase in the water levels be attributed to seasonal heavy rain and a natural part of the construction process and the blue nile river egypt sort o. didn't clarification of the t.v. reports both egypt and sudan fear reduce water supplies downstream and don't want the river down until a binding agreement is reached the $5000000000.00 dam has caused nearly a decade of tension between the 3 countries the hydrologic project is the centerpiece of ethiopia's bid to become africa's biggest power exporter ethiopia is the source of the blue nile which flows through sudan and merges with the white doll flowing through egypt ethiopian government says at full capacity the dam will be able to turn on the lights for 70000000 ethiopians who have no other tricity but egypt's 100000000 people rely on the nile for 90 percent of their water especially for a

grateful they say they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan al-jazeera manila. well south africa has the most number of corona virus cases on the african continent the daily tally from saturday showed more than 10000 new infections that's the highest daily jump so far hospitals across the country have come under increasing pressure as beds quickly fell up there's been a steady increase in cases since restrictions were gradually eased in may health care workers of criticize the government's handling of the pandemic saying their safety has not been prioritized india has also seen another record jump in corona virus cases marking nearly 25000 cases on sunday meanwhile the world health organization has warned against the country's intention to have a vaccine by august medical experts have criticized a recent memo from the chief of india's top clinical research agency saying the target days of august 15th is unrealistic w.h.o. scientists say at this initial testing will be completed then but it will not be ready for widespread release. well iran ha

criticized for his handling of the pandemic and for a new law which gives police sweeping powers duggan is in manila she says that recent government policies have brought the protesters onto the streets. the president's state of the nation speech is a rare event when the president is actually and all of his achievements are made closer to the public but over the past few years specially this year it has been increasingly overshadowed and mired by protests comes at a very precarious time this is one of the last state of the nation address of the president is supposed to step down in 2022 it comes as the biggest media network in the country has been shut down forcibly shut down by congress that did not renew its franchise calling in and according to activists anti terror law has taken into effect and just a few days ago when for example local journalists in the southern philippines received death threats and another independent online use site north of manila has been raided by police so you know here at this point what they're saying basically it remains to be seen what the president is