of the jordan valley which words are on palestinian controlled territories was proposed by benjamin netanyahu last year he got a boost in january from the trump team's peace plan which recognize the jewish settlements as israeli territory infuriating the palestinians are drawing warnings from a broad but the final layout of the border plans hers never been published israel denies its allocation claims historical and religious rights to the west but it also sees its presence there especially in the jordan valley is strategically vital for its self-defense here so middle east correspondent paula sleep. this is donald trump square in israel are named after one of the biggest fans of benjamin netanyahu swiss bank and excess lands it's also a landmark for demonstrations just a few days ago a group of vandals spalt with paint in its water creating the image of blood and painted the words an extension will cost lives on the ground however the chorus of those against an extension is widening with you are declaring it as the begone. an

israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, seemed intent on annexing a major chunk of the occupied. but palestinians and many beyond the region warned of dire consequences. but it hasn't happened — yet. my guest is the outgoing israeli ambassador at the united nations, danny danon. did mr netanyahu blink in the face of international condemnation? ambassador danny danon in new york, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me. it's a pleasure to have you on the show, ambassador. let's begin with what appears to be a real sense of confusion at the top of your government in israel. the world was expecting a formal declaration from the netanyahu government of annexation of territory in the occupied west bank. they were expecting it days ago, and it never happened — why? i'm sure we will discuss it a little bit more. i don't call it annexation, i call it applying sovereignty overjudea and samaria, not occupied west bank. but we will get to that in a minute. regarding your question, if you read the agreement between our coalition parties, they agreed that the discussion will b

benjamin netanyahu is where the protest be. so-called black flag activists have waged a years long campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the government's failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and journalist roden bergman has investigated that decision making he says the health ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is ill or not you need this that person immediately after he is a good fight is so is the suspect so if if you do not been sharing of infection he goes on and on if you are not they were to cut it the government itself said it needed a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test results even now it's taking $6.00

we begin the program in israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu has warned it is quote playing with fire he's accuse the lebanese armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shed our farms hizbollah denies that its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engage in any confrontation the united nations is origen both sides to show restraint is going out to harry for citizens of west jerusalem for a so harry there are very different accounts are in there coming from israel and hezbollah about will presumably happened or didn't happen. indeed there are in for context we have to remember the fact that israel has been awaiting some kind of response from hezbollah for a week now ever since and airstrike inside syria killed a fighter there's been a long standing promise from hezbollah that any such event would lead to a response from lebanon against israel and so these are the military's been on a heightened state of alert along the israel lebanon border inside the golan heights as well and in the occupied golan heights and sheva farms there was this secu

where around 10000 people are out protesting the new packages put forward by prime minister benjamin netanyahu overcovered 19 recovery lots of people out saturday night protesting in tennessee. now opponents from outside and indeed within donald trump's republican party are expressing outrage after he commuted the prison sentence handed to a long time friend and former adviser basically want to the way roger stone who was convicted of lying to congress during the russian investigation republican senator one time presidential candidate mitt romney tweeted this unprecedented historic corruption in american president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury. of lying to shield that very president's let's talk to mike hanna in washington d.c. about this what's been the reaction to that because mitt romney has become one of very few republican or dissenting republican voices. well actually at this stage the only republican voice to have spoken out in strong protest against president trump's decision romney has a long history with president trampy has opposed him on a number of other is

the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the country is in need of stricter measures to tackle a surge of cases their officials are recording nearly a 1000 new cases every day the government has now reauthorize the use of controversial phone surveillance technology once deployed to prevent attacks harry fox said as in west jerusalem with more and this is the time that the internal security service in his religion that has been sanctioned 2. minutes of people's phones this isn't some absolute you voluntarily download this is the security services monitoring where people are being who they've been associating with and then sending them a text message to tell them to quarantine it it's assessed that they need to do so now this is through out the use of this tactic it has caused some outrage from human rights groups liberty groups but it has been deemed necessary to be put in place again he writes newspaper has reported that some 30000 people have received

actually dol, they not trusust benjamin netanyahu.ee this pandemic will, and they think the parliament has their back, so what they say is putting the government on the spot, saying, why are you closing? where is your evidence for that? why are you closing restaurants? why aren't you closing synagogues? so we have seen that, you know, from friday, when they were told to close by the government, and then they were told to reopen by the parliament. then they are told to close again by the government. now they a are told they can reopen again by the parliament. that kind of thing is having it topple, and i have to say that it is s not just in jerusalem, t is a across ththe country, and s the economy. it is not only a health cririsi, it has become an economic crisis. claire: irris, what are the latest covid-19 infection figures? is theyhe problem here are rising daily. have been 2000 new coronavirus cases a day. they may well have to return to lockdown. today, it is 1900 77, so it is very c close. it is now becoming a situation that will

prime minister benjamin netanyahu protesters say makes a lot. promises now it's time for him to deliver. we will declare an immediate advance to the self-employed and controlling shareholders this support this grant is not dependent on legislation and we have instructed that it be put into effect today today already the budget will be pressed and the money will reach accounts in the coming days. demonstrators are not ready to trust the prime minister tusk that's recent fire surges have forced him to tighten restrictions again this week shutting down a slew of businesses. tougher sports news now in formula one it was a great day for the mercedes team in the syrian grand prix in austria world champion lewis hamilton started in pole position and picked up his 1st victory this year he was followed by teammate valtteri bottas and 2nd red bulls max 1st stop and alexander album finished 3rd and 4th the next step for formula one is the hunger and grand prix next sunday. mongolia has staged a festival of traditional sports without spectators for the 1st

a double status and now we are it's around a 1000 a day the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been talking about a the height of a new battle being waged in a state of emergency and over in the occupied west bank as well there are being more than 500 cases in the space of the last day of the nearly 4000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic you know off of those have been. downed in the last 2 weeks so steepening spike there as well they are day 3 of a 5 day p.a. lockdown in the occupied west bank more measures are under consideration as is police enforcement thousands of police officers were told me to be going out onto the streets on the buses into crowded areas to make sure enforcement is fully. so martian we are at the height of a new corona offense and this is a very strong outbreak that's growing and spreading in the world and also here w.h.o. has mentioned the middle east as a global outbreak epicenter and it does not pass over israel it's here. one means

prime minister benjamin netanyahu protesters say makes a lot of promises now it's time for him to deliver. we will declare an immediate advance the self-employed and controlling shareholders to support this grant is not dependent on legislation and we have instructed that it be put into effect today today already the budget will be pressed and the money will reach accounts in. coming days. demonstrators are not ready to trust the prime minister that sense recent fire surges have forced him to tighten restrictions again this week shutting down a slew of businesses. over 1800000 people have tested positive for covert 19 in brazil that's the 2nd highest number in the world after the united states more than 70000 have died and it's the poor who are most at risk among them residents of the slums and the country's indigenous people. it's one of the most remote parts of south america if not the world the enemy people live in the depths of the amazon in brazil's north. this is one of the country's largest indigenous reserves. but even here the fear of the coronavirus is growing mama shot a woman

one in 5 israelis is unemployed because of the virus prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised a stimulus package weeks ago now he's offering emergency aid of 200 euro payment to every citizen whether the crisis affected them or not. people will start consuming again once they have the money and as soon as people start spending businesses will thrive. hush money is what shalom isenberg called it his restaurant did not survive the pandemic he says like many others he did not get any help he's on hunger strike hoping to put pressure on the government. give us what we were promised. we can have a different plan for the coronavirus crisis every wish to greet the group. in may it looked as if israel has the virus under control the government was quick to ease restrictions now every day sees a record number of new infections the economy could not survive another full lockdown netanyahu is trying to lock down light instead as of next week restaurants will have to close shop swimming pools museums and beaches will be shut it weakens but scientists say it won't be enough there is no strategic. the

the corruption trial of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is set to resume later on sunday amid growing anger of his government's handling of the pandemic but he's used water cannon in west jerusalem to disperse crowds outside netanyahu residence israel reimposed restrictions after coronavirus cases surged last week protests have continued for several weeks over the worsening it worsening economy and lockdown issues of calls for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to resign by force that has more from west. there are 2 simultaneous sizable protests going on one here in west jerusalem close to the prime minister's residence where we hearing reports of water cannon being used again of a large number of streets around the residence being sealed off in order to keep protesters away and as you say this other major protest in television there been small protests throughout the country there are those who are protesting as part of a long term campaign against benjamin netanyahu on the grounds of wanting to get rid of a prime minister who's also facing trial under trial in 3 corruption ca

cognac sculpted it-i is a lot explains what's behind us we have the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu. he is the only one was eating the whole food and i was in the end of the meal of the skins 1st. and he's not beating the kerry grabbing center of the cake with his hands and ripping off the heart out. and he's like he's in the place of jesus. symbolizes the. special. place we have in israeli society people that treat him seem is a king someone who is beyond everyone else is like the savior. but in the same time we have more than a 1000000 unemployed unemployed people that. having difficulty bringing food to their there is why he's having these things 1st it's been a tough year for netanyahu of wavy israelis are increasingly furious over his handling of the coverage $900.00 pandemic on top of that there are corruption charges regarding ford breach of trust and bribery there are now who insists he's done nothing wrong but while there's an ebbing of public support this artwork has touched a raw nerve among people i think it's a much show off and it's not necessary i'm for a freedom of s

prime minister benjamin netanyahu has tried to bring this under control. he has appointed a coronavirus czar. that after a number of candidates refused the job because they feared they'd be given none of the responsibility and all of the blame. kim? >> thanks so much. oren lieberman in jerusalem. appreciate it. >>> well, it's play ball again for the boys of summer. major league baseball opened its covid shortened 60-game season on thursday with two games. >> now one of the more well-known washington national fa fans. i laugh every time i see that. that was top u.s. disease expert dr. anthony fauci. he's never going to make it to the show with a throw like that. the ceremonial first pitch. his favorite team, washington nationals, went on to lose in the rain shortened game. fauci luckily does better in the lab than on the mound. far more seriously, sport wasn't the only focus on opening day. demands for racial justice also took the field. and that game between the new york yankees and the watching top nationals was a moment of solidarity as both teams took a

hello welcome to the program we begin in israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu has warned hezbollah it is quote playing with fire he's accuse the lebanese armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of show about farms hezbollah denies that its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the united nations is urging both sides to show restraint al-jazeera is harry force it has more. smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the israeli military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory israeli soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery fire in tel aviv where they'd rushed for security assessments israel's julian prime minister and defense minister put on a rare show of unity gone. a cell of hezbollah terrorists crossed into israel in an attempt to harm israeli soldiers i.d.f. soldiers and officers acted professionally and accurately and prevented a severe incident that could have cost human lives. israel's prime min

announced it's immediately closing all bars and nightclubs gyms and event halls prime minister benjamin netanyahu. says it's necessary to avoid a white a lockdown latin america now accounts for about half of all new infections cases there have tripled in just a month with brazil mexico and venezuela the worst affected nations but some countries are pushing ahead with reopening kenya's president has announced international flights will resume and organize the 1st is under pressure to restart the struggling economy after nearly 4 months of restrictions more now on israel sorry force that is in west jerusalem and he says the new restrictions on to surprise. we knew that the coronavirus cabinet so-called was meeting on monday there's been a lot of talk about the way the numbers have been spiking in recent days and weeks hovering at around 1000 a day though 817 on sunday not 107 overnight and there is real fear in the government that despite what was seen as a relatively successful early lockdown you remember israel shut its borders and went into a pretty extreme set of measures very early in the pand

thousands protest across israel furious about prime minister benjamin netanyahu is handling of the pandemic. just 4 days after a global tally showed $15000000.00 coronavirus infections the world has now surpassed $16000000.00 that's according to the u.s. based johns hopkins university it shows the united states brazil and india are leading a surge in new cases globally almost 650000 people on the known to have died the u.s. has recorded 73000 new infections in the past 24 hours the country's top infectious diseases expert dr anthony felt she is again urging state governments to hit pause on reopening the states of florida texas and california remain some of the worst affected and florida's governor is being accused of easing lockdown measures too soon heidi joe castro reports now from maryland. the death toll in florida is rising as well and one person in florida is dying a covert every 10 minutes and florida certainly is not alone 18 states in the united states have broken totals and as far as cases or deaths in this past week in florida it's governor rick to santa is a heavy strong suppor

in new infections that prime minister benjamin netanyahu says re imposing restrictions if necessary to avoid a wider lockdown. and china has arrested a professor who published essays criticizing president xi jinping handling of the pandemic choose young ones friends say he was taken from his home in beijing by more than a dozen offices on monday. now 3 high profile hong kong activists have appeared in court charged with organizing an illegal protest last year the trio included pro-democracy leader joshua wong who denies the charges his political party was disbanded last week after china imposed a controversial national security law on the hong kong he said activists would be prime targets of the new north which bans any activity that beijing considers subversive outside because he said protesters should not give up. with the risk of our personal safety with the fresh off life sentence that we might be worried also . by beijing but we also encourage the. local community to let all voice be heard in the world once we still have every possibility we still have to let the world to know tha

tear gas to disperse people protesting against racial injustice and fire a protest against benjamin netanyahu as calls for israel's prime minister to resign get louder. and i would friday morning it was madrid saturday morning and it was our go well these wandering thunderstorms produce flash floods to think sunday morning well possibly somewhere in serbia maybe remaining a maybe hungry is most significant and steady rain running up through denmark and then something parts of norway and maybe sweden all slaves for cross bit disappointing they went there on sunday 60 degrees you have she's 22 don't even achieve that when the rain goes away now much of europe is enjoying typical summer with an eye wonderings on the storms increasing warmth of course it's windy north and west in the british isles and scandinavia is not quite what we want in july the real he's been down spain and portugal might even turn out to be record breaking madrid if you get to 40 while the beach the record which sits 39.6 is above no one anyway for most of spain and portugal for the next few days for africa as a bit of dus

the demonstrators have been holding a one month long sit in benjamin netanyahu faces charges of accepting bribes fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases the long serving prime minister denies any wrongdoing in the media of a witch hunt washington d.c.'s n.f.l. team have dropped their redskins nickname and logo after pressure from social justice groups the redskins names caused a lot of controversy over the years for its racial insensitivity towards native americans pressure increased after the death of george floyd in may the sponsors have since asked the team to change its name nike stop selling the team's merchandise on its online platforms a new name hasn't yet been chosen and it will likely take some time because it involves trademarking and other administrative procedures a funeral service has been held for the former mayor of seoul who was found dead last week after being accused of sexual harassment pachmann sunni's body was found on a mountain last week after his former secretary filed a police complaint against him the sole city government has been criticized for organizing

hasrter: benjamin netanyahu suffered protests before.een a years long campaign against his so-called antidemocratic rule, but the protests have grown as they are buckling under a second wave of coronavirus and anger against the government. netanyahu has admitted to reopening the country too quickly, allowing gatherings of too many people, and they have failed to expand the system of tasting and tracing as the first wave -- the system of testing and tracing as the first wave ebbed. it is said he went against advice. >> you need to know as soon as possible if that person is ill or not. you have to test that person immediately after he is identified as suspicious, and if of do not, then the chain infection goes on and on, and you are not able to stop it. reporter: the government itself said it needed a 40-hour turnaround, and even now, it is taking six to eight days. it is hard to catch up with the sheer scale of the second wave. missed opportunity of testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider problem of tackling the pandemic.

this is donald trump square in israel named after one of the biggest fans of benjamin netanyahu swiss bank and exchange plans it's also a landmark for demonstrations just a few days ago a group of vandals spalt with paint in its water creating the image of blood and painted the words an extension will cost lives on the ground however the chorus of those against an extension is widening with you are declaring it as the beagle. an exception would put in jeopardy the progress that israel has made in improving relationships with the arab and muslim world i profoundly hope that annexation does not go ahead. it was not just about the legal assessment of an acceleration that we believe is contrary to international law we still sticks a negotiating the 2 state solution we were checked unilateral border ships and we will not recognize them either. let's not pretend we do not know their plans we are doing everything possible so that this does not happen diplomatically they all join pact thousands of protesters around the world to crying the annexation. humanitarian organizations are also warnin

pumping benjamin netanyahu spike. pumping benjamin neta nyahu to reimpose spike.restrictions. the government says they will get their money this coming week. it's not a minute too soon for those whose livelihoods have been put on hold. rachel stanton, bbc news. in the uk, the number of people reported to have died in the past 24—hour period after testing positive for coronavirus stands at 148. that takes the total number of deaths across the uk to 114,798. it comes as certain lockdown measures were eased in england, with the re—opening of open—air theatres, live music venues and outdoor swimming pools. and in wales, a phased re—opening for holidaymakers has also begun. charlotte gallagher reports. back in the water finally. these swimmers in south—east london are some of the first in england to return to the pool after a wait of almost four months. it is indescribable, really, the feeling ofjust being able to glide through the water. it's just something that i was desperately missing. i was getting jealous of the ducks in the ponds. for those in the industry, it's

events will start with al-jazeera story forces the 1st of july was the 1st date available to benjamin netanyahu under the terms of his coalition deal with his former rival benny gantz to start making real moves on an accession but he gave a pretty clear indication on the way in that he wasn't yet ready to do so saying that there were days at least of talks still required with the united states and some of his own ministers from his own party have been giving interviews to jesting it could be a matter of weeks not days certainly the blue and white party of benny gantz wants to see any annexation put on hold until coronavirus and the fallout economically of the pandemic are dealt with the blue and white foreign minister gabi ashkenazi giving an interview in which he said he wasn't aware of that neo's intentions but he wasn't expecting any imminent announcement saying the united states had yet to sign off on any final deal and indeed the u.s. approval does seem to be the key stumbling block here one israeli t.v. channel reporting that the united states wants to see concessions made to the palestin

this social distancing and there it seemed has been spreading right now the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his cabinet have been criticized for the handling of a pandemic what's being said about these new matches. well i can tell you the criticism comes on various the levers one criticism is the fact that the government has been pushing legislation in israel its parliament in order to overcome the parliament that means all decisions that will be taken on the question of the culture 1000 will become law even before there are schools by the knesset so you are you have those who are concerned with their road being democracy in israel others are saying that some of these regulations are not making sense let's say the restaurants are limited to a number 20 now many restaurant owners are saying that they haven't been outbreaks of the code with 1000 in the restaurants and then in the limiting of the 20 in a restaurant is something that they will not be able to keep so they will have to shut down restaurants at the same time we've also seen a rise in unemployment more than 20 percent are unemp