in a city as diverse and populous as jakarta it seems there's no easy solution. one measure that comes into place from today is the enforcement of quarantine measures so what that means is that anyone who test positive for the virus in jakarta will no longer be allowed to isolate at home they will be taken to a government facility until they recover but of course what that actually looks like in practice remains to be seen all right to just go washington live for us there in the in the nation's capital jakarta jessica thank you israel's government has announced a 3 week nationwide lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus making it the 1st country to reimpose restrictions on a national scale prime minister binyamin netanyahu says the restrictions will come into force on friday it means israelis will have to stay within 500 meters of their homes schools and places of worship will be closed as will all but essential shops the government's handling of the pandemic has been a key issue during weeks of protests against netanyahu. 2 former british prime

jakarta just coming online here. could be still seeing some pressure here about 1% low for the jakarta here. the nasdaq mini futures as well, a little touch lower with brent slipping. overnight there are concerns that u.s. stockpiles are swelling up again. chinese equities still in focus after declines from yesterday. we're up by more than 1% from the csi 300. the chinex as. we small cap tech stocks doing well despite the fact that we speculative trading should be curved up, we'll see how yum china is doing but a muted debut so far here in the city. we are expecting a bank decision highly expected to stay on hold here today. also with the ecb as well. watching the euro very closely. did gain yesterday on the back of a report that some ecb officials having a little more confidence in the recovery from this pandemic ahead of its policy meeting. they're likely to hold. we'll see what they say about the strength of the currency. 118 for the zero dollar. pound still under pressure here. things like the -- seems like the e

in jakarta predict give us a sense of what it feels like to be in jakarta right now are people scared are they masked up. yet there aren't there i mean if you look in the streets and other places you can see some people are quite a bit is it wearing masks still not everyone's very them and being the authorities so ruled out of mass patrol as they have recorded more than 22000 housebroken calls violators and they've given you know verbal warnings to progressive finds and i'm sure you've heard about this does social work on a trend from digging great is for those who have died of cooking 1000 to live in the ground but yet now we're back under martial law doubt less strict than before and mean that curves are more relaxed than when they were 1st implemented bacon roll and yet in recent weeks we've seen any increase in positive cases at another record in your eyes. people have confidence in their government to contain the pandemic well i mean and he continues to claim more lives are as a country end flowing as by in. corona virus infection rate in a capital the recent days i guess i think

higher as decanters grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta no work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10. it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of covert tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day and. it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others who didn't comply with prevention protocols to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lock down people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income and. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restrictions but he s

jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income is. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restrictions but he says it's necessary to help hospitals cope and keep people alive it's not enough for us to see they're doing good because that. is good compared to other places. but for now the grim task of burying the dead continues without a vaccine stain apart is the only way to stop the viruses spread and slow down the loss of life. no italy was one of the 1st countries to impose a coronavirus lockdown back in march the international community watched on as the country's hospitals overflowed and struggle

covert 19 in all of asia and there's no sign of a slowdown any time soon even though the capital jakarta has reinstated a partial lockdown on friday indonesia hit a record daily high of nearly 5000 new infections health officials say the real number is probably much higher as to count as grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers and jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day and can remove them wholly and it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others and guns and who didn't comply with prevention protocols and when you go to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak. the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for busin

jakarta. the mayor of colombia's capital is calling for reconciliation after days of violent protests 13 people have been killed and hundreds injured in demonstrations against police brutality the riots followed the killing of ordonez who was repeatedly shot with a stun gun by officers. residents lit up candles and. pains to remember the victims of one of the most violent weeks in the . star wars. i fear will get to the point that the state is going to shut every news of free expression we're already seeing this in the way the security forces are acting against people. 13 people died in 2 days of protests against police brutality the demonstrations were sparked by the killing of an unarmed man by 2 officers most of the victims were young people allegedly shot by the police. during a commemorative event broadcast on television the mayor begged for forgiveness and reconciliation. but also reiterated the need for police reform insisting that there was clear evidence of indiscriminate use of firea

jakarta. time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back as campaigning gets underway in zanzibar we take a look at the issues facing the semi autonomous islands. and the new depths of discovery a lost world in mexico where humans haven't ventured for more than 10000 years stay with us. however there's very little change in the weather across the middle east at the moment so lots of sunshine like warm sunshine still just around the levant by the roots and jerusalem getting up around the 30 degree mark all sunshine in baghdad and kuwait around the 46 degree mark over the next couple of days little cooler than the late here in doha temperatures at around 39 celsius just a gentle braised if anything at temperatures just dropping off a touch as we go through tuesday quite brisk winds coming in through the red say some showers there around the southern end of the red seems that western side of yemen is still saying those showers just drifting off the ethiopian highlands and poly way fu

grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day. it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others who didn't comply with prevention protocols when go to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak. the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income and. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restrictions but he says it's nec

in a city as diverse and populous as jakarta it seems there's no easy solution. to this that locked down this partial lockdown in indonesia's capital city is set to last for at least 2 weeks but that of course depends on the trajectory of the virus here if cases continue to rise if that death toll remains troublingly high then of course the restrictions will be extended jessica washington with that update from jakarta thank you the veteran u.s. journalist bob woodward has revealed u.s. president donald trump knew of the severity of the coronavirus in february but downplayed it to the american people that admission made in a series of recorded interviews with trump but now woodward has spoken to c.b.s. about his new book on the trump presidency. this is the tragedy a president of the united states has a duty to warn the public will understand but if they get the feeling that they're not getting the truth then you're going down the path of deceit in cover did the president ever disclose to you why he wasn't telling the public what the stakes were with the coronavir

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jakarta. still ahead on al-jazeera i say the president is the. made for the job. veteran journalist bob woodward gives his 1st televised interview about revelations in his new book on trump's presidency . revealing the secrets of a flooded lost world the fast humans and thousands of lives a visit at prehistoric mine in mexico. however we've got another area of wet weather just moving across northern parts of japan now the worst of the rain is in the process of pulling why there's a role tropical depression that's easing out into the open waters but another circulation just coming in behind that will introduce some blustery showers longer spells right into more than parts of honshu and on into hokkaido some showers to the south of that tokyo generally dry warm and humid 31 celsius try and find there across the korean peninsula then we got this long line of cloud and rain which will bring some wet weather. beijing that will head to wards the yellow sea as we go on through the next day or so cent

covert 19 in all of asia and there's no sign of a slowdown any time soon even though the capital jakarta has reinstated a partial lockdown on friday indonesia hit a record daily high of nearly 5000 new infections health officials say the real number is probably much higher as to cause as grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers and jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of covance tragic toll. but. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day and. it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others who didn't comply with prevention protocols to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak. the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just mana

this is the manifestation of how the pandemic became a crisis in the city cemetery in jakarta is only for patients who died from covert 19 or was suspected of having it. the grave diggers are exhausted but the bodies keep coming. indonesia has more confirmed covered 19 deaths than anywhere else in the region or than $8000.00 people are reported to have died due to low testing rates the actual death toll could be much higher. we are taught we've been working like this to 6 months we have buried so many people still we have to do our job and it's not just these workers who are under strain this cemetery is a tragic representation of the impact of the pandemic here in indonesia and it's not just a car to cemeteries that a fost filling up at hospitals as well as watch a cut as governess says the city must once again go into lockdown before the situation spirals out of control in june jakarta began to ease restrictions to boost the economy reopening many businesses and offices at the time the government told al-jazeera he was confident the city's health care system could handle the pandemi

digitas communities those say they've been excluded from the process as jessica washington reports from jakarta in indonesia as west timor people have been left to pick up the pieces of their demolished community you know sadly this is what's left of my home after the local government tore it down i don't have a house anymore now i have to live under a tree. and organise the local government to. firing tear gas and tearing down the health of the name of the development. they offered to relocate us but they immediately tore down our houses before the replacement house is not even ready. since then they've been living in tents the local government says the land has huge potential and needs to be developed for agriculture now and then but that doesn't mean they got the lancets because the state document we told them take the local government to court let the court decide who the rightful owner is disputes like this are common across indonesia corporations local governments and indigenous communities are often at odds over who owns what land it's a problem the government says it wants to resolve it

all over indonesia will never stop fighting to protect their land just the washington al-jazeera jakarta. let's take a look at some of the headlines now fighting between armenian and forces continues in the districts of nagorno-karabakh region armenia says more than 30 of its troops have been killed it's been heavy deployment of artillery from both sides despite international leaders calling for calm problem for us to walk or has more from tbilisi the armenians have confirmed that they have lost more than 30 military personnel that have been.

0k, all right, so because of the areas that are outside jakarta, out right, so because of the areas thatent has been struggling to take care of the coronavirus and when haze hits this year, they will be, i don't know, they were handicapped with dealing with that. now the government has been taken a setback, looking at real argument —— relocating the budget from combating to the fire to instead combat the coronavirus. so there is a limited resource issue on the ground to combat the haze, the fire now. so government now has been struggling, coronavirus is definitely putting a strain on the public health system and in indonesia hospitals are overca pacity and in indonesia hospitals are overcapacity and now the focus in jakarta. so the other island has been overlooked and there is a disparity of testing capacity in the region across the other islands. 0k, thank you very much for giving us that update. talking to us from singapore, thank you. authorities in california say more than 150 people have been airlifted to safety after a fast—moving wildfire blocked the only way out of their campsite

they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted to school washington al-jazeera jakarta. still had an al-jazeera. supporters of the ricky diggs founder gather in london as julian assange as finds another round of his legal battle against extradition to the u.s. . and the u.s. open is thrown wide open after world number one novak djokovic she is disqualified from the tournament. but. the remnants of typhoon high sand continue to make their way further north was it has now been downgraded to a tropical storm it did actually pick up a little bit of intensity as you just drifted out into the waters just to the east of north korea but we are still looking at some very strong winds winds of around 80 clumsiest gusting to 100 kilometers per hour thankfully it is in the process of weakening and will continue to do so as we go through the next 12 hours or so is probably going to be downgraded somewhat further still it's moving really quickly 40 kilometers per hour sweeping across the area and frankly it means that the heavy rain not lasting as long as it may well have done all th

shelter but it's not clear if they'll be allowed to stay in indonesia just a washington reports from jakarta. after 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and traumatized they survived a dangerous journey to safety in the news and province of answering nearly $300.00 or hindu refugees disembarked in indonesia but at least those who died on the long trip from bangladesh. still fortunately we came to indonesia and indonesian people are really helpful towards us local authorities are working with the un's refugee agency to provide support including medical care. that. i couldn't stretch my legs when i slept we were just sitting so it affected our legs so much that we almost got paralyzed. some of the group told al jazeera they were trying to get to malaysia knows him to move out of one of the i have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia to earn money to support them i have come here from the camps of bangladesh they came ashore at beaches along a chinese coast overnight huddled together in darkness not knowing what would happen minutes hours later they were moved to a temp

they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted to school washington down to 0 jakarta. military leaders who carried out a coup in mali have a week to pick a transitional president and prime minister west african leaders set that deadline just a short while ago the 15 nations nation regional bloc ecowas is pressuring the military leaders to hand over power to civilian rule the block has imposed sanctions on mali and closed its borders the military rulers who overthrew president abraham book arcades say they will step down after a transition period of history says joining us in the nigerian capital so any response from the military on bad deadline that has now been set by echo us. well they haven't responded yet to the course directive or the core statement because for the last 3 days the military has been trying to reach out to so many factions so many opposition groups and stakeholders as they call them in mali money in politics to agree on a transition timetable to agree on a transitional government already a course or spelt out its own conditions about how the transi

hoping they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted just go washington to 0 jakarta . while turning to the current virus pandemic down india is pushing ahead with easing restrictions despite a spike in cases that it now has more than 4000000 confound cases that's the 2nd most in the wilds behind the us elizabeth problem has moved from new delhi. the delhi metro had been transporting millions of people every day until its closure and by march on its 1st day of reopening the few people on board were relieved the service had resumed. because they. are not sure what makes one. so i feel this is being ready to me that it has started well in my toys very comfortable thanks be very. metra train services have reopened in most of india's biggest cities including chennai and hyderabad would limited routes and times to avoid crowding passengers must have their temperatures taken before boarding and wear masks while maintaining social distancing despite india recorded more than 90000 cases a day more lockdown restrictions are being east alcohol can be served again in delhi from

hoping they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted just go washington al-jazeera jakarta. a young girl tackled to the ground by hall call police officers near a pro-democracy protest has told local media she was only buying. supplies the hong kong police force has come under fire over the rough arrest of the 12 year old near sunday's protest it says officers used minimum force on the girl after she ran away in a suspicious manner the girl and her brother were both fined for breaching social distancing rules nearly 300 people were arrested at the unauthorized them straight. the latest stage in julian assange his legal battle against extradition to the united states has begun in london that we can leaks founder is wanted for espionage in the u.s. for leaking secrets related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan there ensley reports now from outside the court in london. he. was go home i am the resumption of the extradition hearing and the many and vocal supporters of jude in the sunshine are out in numbers again sanjay arrived in a prison van from the high security jail on th

for all global ideas theories we headed to indonesia to the city of banda in east of the capital jakarta and there we met a young inventor has found a way to produce leather from mushrooms. here on the outskirts of bandung a city on the internees his main island java something is being cultivated that could be of great value. mushrooms. they rarely draw much attention there are many species with many varied properties. some are now rushing others contain medicinal agents. here where the raw material for an innovative kind of textile mushroom is appearing rian to be sustainable future leather the curious cruel mycelium of edges of the part of the fungus that can mimicking perfectly like a letter without any b. your p.v.c. or any chemical on 10 days or 3 all. comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a start up for gourmet mushrooms but they quickly changed tack to focus on my sili i'm committed to developing a sustainable and animal friendly fashion industry. compared to animal mysel and larry is having a really huge advantage in environmental impact f

they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted to school washington al-jazeera jakarta. one of the players of revenge of muslims in myanmar will soon be under the spotlight again because campaigning for november's general election will begin soon many of them will not be eligible to vote but speak to abraham he is the chairman of global policies were hinge a legal forum and he joins us now from chicago azeem thank you for your time i do see that render candidates have again been barred from running in this year's election let me start by asking you just how free and fair you expect it to be. i'm going to keep force one for allision in 2015 she was a great hope of the world who everybody thought this is going to be the huge democratic weave that was the poor me and mark but after 5 years no we have a very good understanding or par legacy of what she's actually enacted over the last 5 years and seems a. key in the national league of democracy have not used a parliamentary majority that begin to extend myanmar's democracy and in fact be about to districted the franchise of

jakarta is taking a similar approach.d to sit in a coffin in public after being caught not wearing a mask. it isn't clear if these penalties are actually working. indonesia has the second most cases in southeast asia and infections are still on the rise. in jakarta, the health system may be nearing a breaking point. officials said emergency units in all 20 gentlemjakarta hospit approved to treat covid-19 patients are full. reporting from hong kong. >>> our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> brianna, thank you. hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. we begin this hour with more evidence of the federal government's confused and chaotic messaging on the coronavirus pandemic. during congressional testimony on wednesday, you had the cdc director dr. robert redfield saying wearing a mask may be more effective against the virus than any potential vaccine and testified a vaccine would not widely be available until next summer. fa fast-forward to a few hours later, the president saying he

to overwhelm the jakarta's hospitals. a department of homeland security whiststleblower has accused the agagency's leadershp of instructing analyststs to downplay the violent threat posed by white supremacists and of russia's efforts to interfere in the 2020 election. the explosive allegation comes in a whistleblower complaint filed by brian murphy, the former head of the homeland security department's intelligence branch. murphy says acting dhs secretary chad wolf personally instructed him to stop providing intelligence assessments on the threat of russian interference and instead to focus on actions by china and iran. murphy claims the request originated from trump's national security advisor robert o'brien. in july, murphy said one of his intelligence reports on russia was held because it "made the president look bad." murphy also said he had been ordered to alter the assessments to make the threat of white supremacy "appear less severe." earlier this year, dhs drafted a document stating "white supremacist extremists w

shelter but it's not clear if they'll be allowed to stay in indonesia jessica washington reports from jakarta. after 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and traumatized they survived a dangerous journey to safe in indonesia in provence of onsen nearly $300.00 or hindu refugees disembarked in indonesia but at least those who died on the long trip from bangladesh. fortunately we came to indonesia indonesian people are really hopeful towards us. local authorities a working with the un's refugee agency to provide support including medical care you can't. get that right i couldn't stretch my legs when i slept we were just sitting so it affected our legs so much that we almost got paralyzed some of the group told al jazeera they were trying to get to malaysia nose into i don't want to say that i have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia to earn money to support them i have come here from the camps of bangladesh they came ashore at beaches along a chinese coast overnight huddled together in darkness not knowing what would happen next hours later they were moved to a tempora

this report is from jakarta. reporter: these children are exhausted and traumatized.survived a dangerous journey. refugees itohingya distant -- embarks, but at least 30 died on the long trip from bangladesh. >> fortunately we came to indonesia and the indonesian people are really helpful toward us. >> they are working with the you and refugee agency to provide support, including medical care. legscouldn't stretch my when i slept. we were just sitting. so it affected our legs so much that we almost got paralyzed. >> some told al jazeera they were trying to get to malaysia, not indonesia. >> i have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia with money to support them. i come from the camps in bangladesh. >> they huddled together in darkness, not knowing what would happen next. hours later, they were moved to a temporary shelter. hundreds of thousands of rohingya have fled where they face violence and persecution to bangladesh. from there, many tried to reach southeast asian countries by boat to escape poverty and crowded refugee camam. community groups are tr

they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted to school washington al-jazeera jakarta. west african leaders are holding a summit in his share that will focus on talks to form a civilian government in neighboring mali the 15 nation regional bloc ecowas has imposed sanctions on mali and closed its borders it's pressuring the military leaders who took control of the country last month to hand over power to civilian rule the military leaders who overthrew president to bring him. say they will step down after a transition period so if you take a closer look at what happens in mali after months of protests led by officers and groups soldiers seized power and all. 18th and forced molly's president ibrahim boubacar ikeda to resign he was detained for 10 days before being released to get medical treatment his advisors say he is now in. west african leaders initially called for it to be restore its office but have since dropped that demand and they're now calling for a prompt transition to civilian rule. military leaders have pledged to give up power after a transition period an

authorities in the capital of jakarta have tightened restrictions that had bebeen ead since june.hey require companies to raise the number of teleworking employees to three quarters for most industries. gatherings of five or more people are also banned. in israel where new daily infections have surpassed 5,000 and nationwide lockdown will be imposed again beginning friday afternoon. in brazil's largest city of sao paulo, 18% of children have brn been infected with the virus. local authorities had been planning to reopen public schools next month for the first time since mid may, now that has been pushed back to november or later. >>> a former member of the white house coronavirus task force has acaccused u.s. president drum o placing priority on his re-election rather than containing the outbreak.. olivia troy was an adviser to mike pence untilil this summer. she made the accusation on thursday. >> towards the middle of february we knew it wasn't a matter of the covid would become a big pandemic in the united states, it was a matter of when. the president didn't want to hear that.