and oman. this week on world stories. italy once again open to tourists ukraine surrogate mothers babies are waiting for their parents but we begin in india since lockdown restrictions have been eased the number of corona virus infections has risen sharply hospitals are strained beyond capacity all temporary morgues are reaching their limits and the situation is bound to worsen apoc from pockets of containment centers the deed to the lives of people in india seemed to be returning to normal as love gun restrictions east. but these sites hardly reflect the real situation india is fighting a tough battle with coronavirus and for the capital city delhi which has a big surge in the number of 1000 cases the fight just caught up. with a number of infections spiraling there's great concern about the health care systems capacity to. family is one of many who lost a loved one in the pandemic his father in law saying who was asked to magic death to positive for the virus after hours of waiting in line the hospital where the test wa

the company is considering reducing stakes in oil and gas fields in oman.ng in the area could be valid at more than a billion dollars. the company is also open to divesting other assets in the region. france is earmarking 15 billion euro to help it struggling airspace sector. it includes expansion of payroll subsidies and funds for developing greener options. loan guarantees are also extended to the likes of air france klm. cathay pacific has announced a $5 billion u.s. recapitalization plan, including a rights issue to battle the unprecedented difficulty brought on by the coronavirus. even before the pandemic, cathay pacific was under in norma's pressure -- under enormous pressure. his response is to criticism from all sides. francine: let's take a look at what you should be watching out for later today. in a few minutes from now we will get your area gdp. nato secretary-general again stoltenberg will deliver an address. to leave rates above zero and committed to reusing their full range of tools to support the u.s. economy. coming up, we speak to eric col

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the port is on the gulf of oman near the mouth of the strait of hormuz where flash points between the u.s. and iran are common the revolutionary guards routinely make public displays of military strength. and in june 29000 iran shot down a u.s. global hawk surveillance drone over what it says was iranian waters the 2 sides may have converging interests in afghanistan both want stability and to see u.s. troops out but there are still tensions that have been simmering for years and a lot to work past. the old american embassy in tehran was renamed the den of espionage museum it's an ever present reminder of the broken relationship between the united states and the islamic republic of iran but despite decades of animosity and no direct diplomatic representation in each other's countries there are still a few examples of quiet cooperation recent prisoner exchanges between the 2 were a significant step in the same direction. after $911.00 iran was instrumental in helping the u.s. topple the afghan taliban and set up a new government and in charge america and iran are cooperating on reconst

the recently deployed this destroyer to the gulf of oman. when interviewed, he says it is a completely harmless mission. >> would japan like to play a more active military rule on the world stage? >> we believe sending our destroyer to the region to get enough information to secure safe passage of japanese or japan-related ships are important for us. that is why we are sending it. we are not powered by american initiative, nor european nor iranian initiative. it is strictly on our own. >> isn't that risky? there could be some kind of conflict and you are arriving. >> why should we be in it? we need to get information to secure the safe passage of our tankers or other ships, so we are sending them for information gathering. what's wrong with that? >> just a reconnaissance misissn ? some people see it differently. u.s.-asian relations expert glenn fukushima, for example, finds the idea amusing. >> i think as defense minister, that's what he had to say. just as when asked if it is not dangerous for self-defense forces to be in combat zones, he

how there has been and may yet be flooding in oman is just a bunch of thunderstorms here more or less consistent where the monsoon trough going north through india is throwing off something on its western end how this specifically in the forecast for sunday and monday does nothing really the cable shows possibly still blowing out of iraq security dancer doha one towards u.a.e. and curling back into society has become dusty not quite as strong as it was a couple days ago but it's still blowing doesn't affect the temps as much was to talk the middle forty's for the most part but does come down to 41 or 42 and you may well be that coolish trend not things back on monday to below 40 in doha it's still like to be a dusty windows say otherwise is cool hot and sunny as is throughout north africa algeria funnily enough has had haria temperatures and yesterday was the hottest place in the world central algeria to the low forty's now it's come down little bit and the north coast being breezy isn't particularly hot about such degrees. to the big 3 in the highlands then running as a big mass thro

demings,oman val senator kamala harris, ambassador susan rice, stacey abrams' name has not been in those stories, but there might be other people who are being aren't beingo talked about. my question to you, have you fromcontacted by anyone the biden campaign to talk about vp? to be clear, you. chairwoman bass: let me just tell you that i have been really honored that i've heard my name come up in the last few days, but the answer is no. jonathan: it is not an unreasonable question. you are the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus. is this your fifth term now? chairwoman bass: 10 years. jonathan: but also, you were the speaker of the california assembly when arnold schwarzenegger was governor. it is understandable that people would think, what about karen bass? if they were to call you, would you be interested? chairwoman bass: of course i would take the call and i would be extremely honored. ask,han: i've got to congresswoman karen bass, california chair of the congressional black caucus, thank you very much for being here today. chairwoman bass: thank you very much. >> presiden

down through wednesday we could have a few more showers later the dates that same sort of area of oman it's mostly dry but again one of the shells likely in the southwest of assadi down across into western areas of yemen and also if you will working their way through eastern areas of turkey now through thursday it becomes a little bit more cloudy and showery across much of amman this quite a strong on shore flow away from those hot and dry 46 celsius in baghdad and also the same across into kuwait now down into southern africa to much as a cools not that high it's been fairly cool slightly just south africa over the last few days was still to see the end of the winds entirely across eastern sections of south africa but also quite a strong will flow through much of mozambique so quite a few widespread as we go through wednesday and also wednesday on thursday eastern areas of madagascar say you fuchsias and the winds and showers back across into cape town as well. all right breaking in because the u.n. security council is holding a virtual session on nuclear nonproliferation focuses on i

and out in the gulf of oman iran has test fired cruise missiles there according to officials this happened during a naval exercise in the missiles reportedly shot as far as 170 miles the missile test comes after a tense naval encounter earlier this year between iranian and u.s. forces along the persian gulf. and over to india where some major companies are calling for a boycott of chinese products this comes following monday's border clashes that resulted in the deaths of some 20 indian troops the companies want to target chinese toys and textiles which could result in an estimated $13000000000.00 of losses for china. and back you're stateside you're looking at aerial footage of firefighters battling large wildfires across the state of arizona that state's current really hot dry weather along with high winds are causing the fires to spread quickly on rugged terrain so far about half a dozen rural communities remain under evacuation notices thankfully up until now there are no reports of any casualties or structure damage. and dr recipients can finally have some peace of mind after the supr

kuwait and oman.endbia said it these voluntary cuts this month, because they have served their purpose and they are moving on. so although the deep output cuts will continue for another month of july, the end of voluntary cuts indicate some production can be coming back to the market in the months ahead. so there are some bearishness in the market today. sharon, oil has had a pretty good rally leading up to this opec plus meeting. now they announced the output curbs. what are you hearing from the analysts now? is the market near a rebalancing or has the rallying been to excessive? >> you are right. brett has been up 60% since late april. it went to $41 from $20 per barrel. many analysts including goldman sachs a great the rally has been and goldman says it sees brent crude slipping back down in the short-term at ubs says the rally may prove self-defeating. they agree global consumption is recovering, but it is still doing so very gradually, and they're still uncertainty with the coronavirus pandemic s

the port is on the gulf of oman you're the mouth of the strait of hormuz were flashpoints between the u.s. and iran are common. the old american embassy in tehran was renamed the den of espionage museum it's an ever present reminder of the broken relationship between the united states and the islamic republic of iran but despite decades of animosity and no direct diplomatic representation in each other's countries there are still a few examples of quiet cooperation recent prisoner exchanges between the 2 were a significant step in the same direction. after $911.00 iran was instrumental in helping the u.s. fight the afghan taliban. and in charge america and iran are indirectly cooperating on afghan reconstruction trouble her port is a kind of open door that experts say could be opened a little wider and perhaps bring both sides back to the negotiating table zain bus ravi old easier to run. this is ounces there and these the top stories for sale has become the 2nd country to cross more than a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases the world health organization is warning of a new phase in

the little bundle of clouds here and in fact there if you have it down pulls into northern areas of oman you can see this head of the wind blowing with that rain as it came in but more generally it is scenes like this of course it is hot this is across into iran people doing their best to stay cool as the temperatures continue to rise meanwhile in toronto on sunday 34 degrees celsius notice the hottest as you can see 41 in baghdad the temperatures actually have come down the winds have picked up on that coming in from the east and the bad and so there's a slight cooling effect here but the winds are going to be traveling all the way down across much of the arabian peninsula but again the temperature is a coming down the winds out she only increase on monday but look at this $38.00 and hole 13 on in riyadh that will fail a whole lot better than literally a week ago is how much is in the high forty's which is even a little bit lower across into south africa the multi-byte as we go through sunday we're going to show maybe a down day into cape town plenty of rain showers along the coast as t

negotiations or whatever talks this these happened in the last year in the last year of medina's shut the oman talks started between the administration and the iranian the us administration and the u.s. and the iranian government and later on with the new government in iran the deal was struck in vienna in 2015 so this might be a kind of laying the foundation for the new situation just in case there are there is a red for a deal and it will for a consensus because at the end both countries reached to the brink as we said after the assassination of often soleimani iranians also retaliated by hitting the american bases yet everything stopped that and both seemed that they did not want to go to war. several protesters in hong kong have been arrested also they defied a ban on attending a vigil to commemorate victims of the 989 tiananmen square massacre officers used pepper spray spray to dispose thousands of demonstrators who tried to set up roadblocks with metal barriers and i agree the pleas to ban the annual event for the 1st time in 3 decades citing concerns over coronavirus organizers claim i

unknown surprisingly hot throughout levant the arabian peninsula was a cloud along the coast from oman back towards yemen somalia is just trying to get into the heart if that 3 months of onshore breeze and drizzle is not quite got the air temperature wise elsewhere there really is quite high hovering around the 50 mark in parts of western iran in kuwait 47 dohan that's despite a fairly strong breeze but that breeze coming out of iraq in iraq is hot itself and stop in particular just yet but i think it will turn into a dusty breeze so hot dusty and windy for some would be the story and that's not exactly unusual the emanation of this monsoon weather was down here so the clouds going north into the indian ocean what's left just an every day again brushes the coast of somalia or kenya there's not much there at the moment and then further west into africa you get these daily big show is now the sunderbans funnels is going to go to take in the rain is funnels is going to go showers for when the ethiopian highlands and they go back through sudan and south sudan the central african republic t

we are sailing between the persian gulf and asia, saudi arabia, qatar, oman, and asia, china, hong konge and malaysia and korea. captain singh, yu and hannah are among thousands of seafarers who are among thousands of seafarers who are now not able to go on shore at all. no, because of the covert lockdown, we are locked up here and cannot leave. whenever the immigration comes on board, if they do, they do not issue us a permit to go out. it is that we are carrying coronavirus, but in this current situation, we stayed locked up on the ship, we are the safest people in the world. he feels lockdown, we feel pressurised, but the way things are moving, the way we are being told to stay on ship, there is no place for us to go, so we feel that it is not justified. place for us to go, so we feel that it is notjustified. it should be standard procedure where people can do things normally. i understand that coronavirus, its effects are scary, but there should be some standards, approaches where our issue should be addressed. what do you think world leaders could do to help seafarers like you? sho

let's go to the capital of oman to christine fernandez. far away, what do you want to ask?ly tackle confirmation bias? rasmus, a lot of people have preconceived notions and they seek similar views just to validate their own opinions. they seek similar views just to validate their own opinionslj they seek similar views just to validate their own opinions. i think it's true and it's a fundamental fa ct of it's true and it's a fundamental fact of human nature and the way in which we navigate our societies often we seek affirmation of who we are what we think we know. i think we just need to recognise that because for everyone including people who watch the bbc like i do, i too see confirmation in different ways. where it gets problematic as if people are doing it in ways that leave the misinformed or drives them to political extremes that they would not otherwise embrace, and i think in the area it is worth remembering that we do see some tendencies for strong confirmation bias, but it's still a minority phenomenon, and most people what they seek out information to confirm the

so much the dust and sand to watch out for a little bit of the weather just around the far south of oman a think it will be largely dry having said that when it's not quite as intense here on cots die hard around 4142 degrees over the next couple of days and as you can see pretty much wall to wall sunshine few showers between the black sea and the caspian sea as we go on through the next day i'll say but other than that not too much to speak of but his showers meanwhile just spilling out of the highlands right across south sudan into the central african republic heaviest rain i suspect will be around the gulf of guinea just around that western side of cameroon southern areas of nigeria seeing more big downpours over the next day or 2 and we see the showers of course just around a good part of the democratic republic of congo you might see want to see showers just along the coastal fringes of kenya maybe into tanzania and also into somalia for a time somewhat of weather for a time to just heading towards south africa just around the western cape around the southern cape pagan temperatures

coming from this little disturbance samples the same system that brought the flooding rains across into oman to the north as well one to 2 shots through areas of turkey but really by and large it is fine it is dry and it is extremely hot the winds are fairly light there is a northerly winds of 48 celsius in kuwait on thursday even warmer again by friday 49 degrees is 120 degrees fahrenheit the wind should pick up there on a friday so it may feel a little bit better with that increase in the breeze 40 celsius in doha 44 in riyadh but by far the best weather is going to do the eastern end of the med 28 in jerusalem and a very nice 24 in beirut a fairly quiet conditions not much of a southern africa we've seen the bulk of the rains out towards the west around the gulf of guinea we will see on thursday some scattered showers and thunderstorms really across many of the central areas the tail see out towards the west of becoming havea late in the day on and off into cameroon and then into south africa it's mostly fine and dry some heavy of the rain into northern areas of madagascar they will tend

sky this as you see here but not really enough to build any significant share has been the case in oman of the last few days so i think we'll probably call it dry an increasing likelihood of the cloud sitting over salada i'm not sure how it is quite in yet but he's trying to establish itself and i will see the wind is still blowing down from iraq south with the law as strong as it was but certainly dusty full of dust from dancers saudi keeping the temperatures in the forty's maybe not the high forty's but the forty's or the siren baghdad's above 46 the cool air stream still keeping you rather more present at under 30 degrees running sas if you follow the line of the monsoon winds you pick up clouds here coming off the coast of tanzania and kenya before they turn off and take the monsoon of course into india but you get a pulse of write every now and again in his the latest one really it is on the coast of tanzania not so much inland in somalia other mogadishu market share too and there are bigger showers but when the ethiopian hardens where you might expect to be and in south sudan jeep

throughout the middle east now the has died down i'm watching for clouds along the coast of oman there is some most of the time. for example where the heavy will come in is cloud is not yet showing drizzle so a lightish a mile now blowing out of iraq not quite as dusty as it could be but there is some dust in eastern saudi temperatures in the middle forty's would be typical obviously cooler on the coast so bethlehem and jerusalem around about the high to mid twenty's fairly nice that's right north africa is much the same obviously hotter in the middle doesn't the coastal areas where most people live are affected by the onshore breeze so it's cooler about it's a 27 degrees there isn't that much of a breeze for most than that but coming on shore not affecting cars temperature much is that breeze which will be a good dusty in egypt now the sherry bit where you tend to raise some pretty big showers if you in holland and further west that's showing up some big tops in south and chance for example nothing much as far west as the ivory coast is very seeing recent flooding but there are still

remains unknown surprisingly hot throughout levant the arabian peninsula is a cloud along the coast from oman back towards yemen somalia is just trying to get in so hard if that 3 months of on shore breeze and drizzle is not quite got their attention was elsewhere there really is quite high hovering around the 50 mark in parts of western iran in kuwait 47 dohan that's despite a fairly strong breeze but that breeze coming out of iraq in iraq is hot itself and stop in particular just yet but i think it will turn into a dusty breeze so hot dusty and windy for some would be the story and that's not exactly unusual the emanation of this monsoon weather was down here so the clouds going north into the indian ocean what's left just every day again brushes the coast of somalia or kenya there's not much there at the moment and then further west into africa you get these daily big show is now the sunderbans funnels is going to go take in the rain is funnels is going to go showers for when the ethiopian highlands and they go back through south sudan the central african republic this is the went time of

see the little bundle of clouds here on a father if you have it down pulls into northern areas of oman you can see this head of the wind blowing with that rain as it came in but more generally it is scenes like this of course it is hot this is across into iran people doing their best to stay cool as the temperatures continue to rise meanwhile in toronto on sunday 34 degrees celcius notice the hottest as you can see 41 in baghdad the temperatures actually have come down the winds have picked up and they're coming in from the east and the bad and so there's a slight cooling effect here but the winds are going to be traveling all the way down across much of the arabian peninsula but again the temperatures are coming down the winds out she only increase on monday but look at this $38.00 and hole 13 on in riyadh that will fail a whole lot better than literally a week ago is how much is in the high forty's which is even a little bit lower across into south africa the multi-byte as we go through sunday we're going to show maybe a down day into cape town plenty of rain showers along coastal to

they believe the shooter is an also detainedight after violence following the police shooting oman. captured by multiple cameras. overnight prot wendy's near where it happened. fighting with police while being arrested for a dui, grabbing a police taser and firing it at an officer while running away. he was the father of four. >> i had to let my daughter know her father was not coming. i said, he's not here anymore. >> the chief of police has resigned over the incident. the officer who shot brooks has been fired. >>> a santa cruz sheriffs deputy who survived an ambush last week is out of the hospital tonight. today, as you see here, a line ofeated. he was accompanied to his car and escorted all the way home by fellow deputies. he was hit by scrap nell and struck by a car when responding to a report about a suspicious flag. >>> the u.s. honor flag arrived today for the santa cruz deputy killed in that attack. he was married with one child and a baby on the bay. today united states airlines escorted him. it is a single american flag that travels the country to pay tribute to those kil

sky this as you see here but not really enough to build any significant shot has been the case in oman of the last few days i think we'll probably call it dry an increasing likelihood of the cloud sitting over salada i'm not sure how it is quite in yeah but he's trying to establish itself and obviously the wind is still blowing down from iraq south with a sham or not as strong as it was but certainly dusty full of dust and dancers sadi keeping the temperatures in the forty's maybe not the high forty's but the forty's or the siren baghdad's above 46 the cooler air stream stern keeping you rather more present at 30 degrees running sas if you follow the line of the monsoon winds you pick up clouds here coming off the coast of tanzania and kenya before they turn off and take the monsoon of course into india but you get a pulse of write every now and again in his the latest one really it is on the coast of tanzania not so much inland in somalia other mogadishu market share or 2 and there are bigger showers but when the ethiopian hardens where you might expect to be and in south sudan jeeper

much if the dust and sand to watch out for a little bit of the weather just around the far south of omana think it will be largely dry having said that when it's not quite as intense here on cots die hard around 4142 degrees over the next couple of days and as you can see pretty much wall to wall sunshine few showers between the black sea and the caspian sea as we go on through the next day i'll say but other than that not too much to speak of but his showers meanwhile just spilling out of the highlands right across south sudan into the central african republic heaviest rain i suspect will be around the gulf of guinea just around that western side of cameroon southern areas of nigeria seeing more big downpours over the next day or 2 and we see the showers of course just around a good part of the democratic republic of congo you might see want to see showers just along the coastal fringes of kenya maybe into tanzania and also into somalia for a time somewhat of weather for a time to just heading towards south africa just around the western cape around the southern cape pagan temperatures

the middle east is looking fine and dry be do still have those flooding rains into southern parts of oman pushing across into yemen must see that wetter weather sliding across into western parts of yemen as we go on into the next couple of days drying out as you make their way into the 2nd half of the week ahead of that we can expect to see some flooding here further north the heat is ramping up $45.00 celsius the top temperature here in doha we got showers as we should do across the ethiopian high that is running right across the heart of africa over towards the gulf of guinea more big downpours coming in across cameroon southern parts of nigeria seeing some heavy showers and making the way further north of course so be a few coastal showers into kenya a few showers there into somalia we will see those showers just nudging a little further north which as we go on through the next couple of days but to the south of that it is generally set fair lots of sunshine of course much of southern africa we are course moving into meterological winter will see sparkling sunshine for many 900 in cape

coming from this little disturbance samples the same system that brought the flooding rains across into oman to the north as well one to 2 shots through areas of turkey but really by and large it is fine it is dry and it is extremely whole the winds a fairly light there is a northerly winds of $48.00 celsius in kuwait on thursday even woman again by friday 49 degrees is 120 degrees fahrenheit the wind should pick up there on a friday so it may feel a little bit better with that increase in the breeze 40 celsius in doha 44 in riyadh but by far the best weather is going to do the eastern end of the med 28 in jerusalem and a very nice 24 in beirut a fairly quiet conditions not much of a southern africa we've seen the bulk of the rains out towards the west around the gulf of guinea we will see. scattered showers and thunderstorms really across many of the central areas the tail see out towards the west of becoming havea late in the day on and off into cameroon and then into south africa it's mostly fine and dry some heavy rain into northern areas of madagascar they will tend to linger on friday

continued campaign against dash kron a malicious ship mining attacks on commercial vessels in the gulf of oman. as it did in may june of last year nearly all countries have arms richer nations use them for defensive purposes and promote stability but not this love of republic of iran don't just take it from me or from the united states listen to countries in the region from israel the gulf countries in the middle east who are most exposed to iran's british and are speaking with a single horse extend the arms embargo this council has a responsibility to listen to the united states overwhelming preference is to work with this council to extend the arms of armor to protect human life to protect our national security and to protect yours impose our ships on tehran in various forms for 13 years and with good reason and to substantial effect when we unanimously adopted un security council resolution 1747 back in 2007 which among other actions prohibited armstrong 1st from iran united kingdom is represented to the council said quote at the proliferation by iran is not one that the international commu

president has been very strong, as you know, sean, in advancing forward our assets at the department of omanity, we are the largest collection of law enforcement officers in america in the department and we have been supporting state and local officials around the country since this began and particularly here in washington where our own secret service and the federal protective services and we have all our colleagues there, we are out on the streets of the city i'm sitting in come here in washington, hoping to keep the peace. and guess what? it's more peaceful because of it and the president has been very clear that that's the approach is going to take and if he has to go all the way up to using his legal authorities, as geraldo said, noted, and i know you guys don't always agree, but he noted the president has the legal authority to utilize that level of federal resources if it's needed. course, we want to avoid that by achieving peace for that's necessary. >> sean: explained to things to our audience and the limited time we have left in the segment. one is the insurrection act. two, one o

throughout the middle east now the has died down i'm watching for cloud along the coast of oman there is some most of the time. for example where the heavy will come in is cloudy is not showing drizzle so a lightish a mile now blowing out of iraq not quite as dusty as it could be but there is some dust in eastern sorry temperatures in the middle forty's would be typical obviously cooler on the coast so bethlehem and jerusalem around about the high to mid twenty's fairly nice that's right north africa is much the same obviously hotter middle does it the coastal areas where most people live are affected by the onshore breeze so it's cooler about it's a $27.00 degrees there isn't that much of a breeze for most than that but coming on shore not affecting current temperature much is that breeze which would be a good dusty egypt now the sherry bit where you tend to raise some pretty big showers these if you in holland and further west that's showing up some big tops in south and chance for example nothing much as far west as the ivory coast which is very seen recent flooding but there are s

sources told bloomberg the company has been reducing stakes in oil and gas fields in oman.lso open to divesting other assets in the region. that is your bloomberg business flash. anna: let's talk about gold price. gold is wavering ahead of the fed meeting expecting to see the central bank maintain its dovish stance while investors weigh a slump in the dollar and surgeon equities. scott minerd is the cio of guggenheim investment. he thinks investing in gold could help offset any concern about the status of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency but close into gold etf's are showing signs of a halt after holdings hit a record at the end of may. mike bell, jpmorgan global asset strategist stays with us. what the fed does, it is the dollar, inflation expectations. given that, where do you see gold heading? small allocation to gold as a hedge makes sense at the moment because historically, there has been a relatively strong inverse correlation between u.s. 10 year real treasury yields and gold. obviously, real yields are pretty low at the moment, and how could you get re