he is rob mcbride with more on that. i think what's really worried the oh, sorry to hear just the speed all that this surge, the pretty much over night. we've seen almost a doubling of new cases being recorded in the last few days received over 1300 new cases per day. a lot of this seems to be have to do with people. premise show the it seems to letting down that god in part it's partly due to the delta variance, but only a small number of those cases. largely, it seems to be people going out more not taking the kind of restrictions that they should do in that in parties. because as we roll out, the vaccination campaign around 30 percent of the population have now had at least one job. and as we are getting people vaccinated, the government has been putting got messages saying that if i really try to incentivize people, that when that number comes up they will get the vaccination. so for example, if you've had one job than ever now you need to be where we go mosque in public. if you're completely vaccinated, you can be m

all right, a rob mcbride lie for stay from the south korean capital. so rob, thank you. well, time personal break here and i'll just hear when we come back. cuba is reporting an average of 6000 corona virus cases. a day will get an update on the situation there and around the region and huge wildfires. i'm burning across the western united states, but their impact is heading east now to learn that ah ah hello, nice to see you. here's your weather forecast for north america. the canadian province of british columbia has declared a state of emergency nearly 300 wildfires. bernie, we know we also have wildfires toward western areas of the us and look what's now starting to happen. all that smoke pushing toward the east drifting into new york really hazy conditions along the empire state building there in manhattan. ok, i think we're, we'll see the most intense rain on thursday will be along the gulf coast of the us, pretty much texas rate through to georgia. and that's really where we're going to see the stronger pulses of rain. if we give you a temperature story now with w

but it's a request that set up a fair amount of controversy as rob mcbride reports from so it's been described as the donation of the century. a treasure trove of art. that includes works by some of the worlds most renowned and sought after masters combined with the most famous of korean artists, both model and classical. in addition, a vast, well, the quality fact charting, korea, cultural heritage spanning hundreds of years have dinner, stick room thing. and this is an unprecedented lot skilled donation. it is meaningful, enriching the cultural after to this museum. the can he not only devoted his life to making samsung, the global brand, but also to building one of the world's largest private collections following his death last october. it was announced, his family would pay a record inheritance tax bill of $10000000000.00. at the same time, 1018 to the nation, a sizable part of the private art collection totaling 23000 pieces. you know, i've seen a leak on his collection, can be called a miracle of the world. it will invigorate our national culture, rewrite the history of modern

rob mcbride, al jazeera, so for the 2nd year in a row, only a limited number of people have been allowed to visit islamic holiest site in mecca to mark the beginning of a lot to her. it is usually one of the world's largest religious gatherings that attract more than 2000000 from any 60000 and vaccinated saudi resident, they're actually taking part in this is had pilgrimage because of corona virus restrictions. return to our top story. that is the blue origin flight today by amazon found the jeff phases which went to the edge of space, of course, in a 10 minute flight. returning to it safely, the beginning of a news conference now with well, they've been called astronauts, i guess when you go to the edge of space, you more of an astronaut than most ah, and they are about will they look like they're receiving some sort of metals or pins at the moment. let's have a little listen. i had received a special gift of the astronaut perspective. i know that you will do good things with it and make the world a better place. congratulations. yeah. did you join me please? so excited for you guys. pa

rob mcbride al jazeera, as promised dandy richardson now sports correspondent, live in tokyo. now exactly what the organizes of these games and what the, the people of japan didn't want. corona virus basically becoming the story of the games they really is and such strong words from the japanese prime minister talking not only about the unprecedented speed of this particular outbreak, but also warning of a surge and younger generations as well. in terms of the state of emergency being expanded in terms of geography and duration, that's quite significant for the paralympic games is now being extended until at least august the 31st. the had been hope for the start of the parliament games on august the 24th. that would be some fans inside the venue start. now it looks very unlikely about the games. do go on until september. the 5th is still a chance that the latter stages of those events could see the turnaround in that policy. in some spectators may be allowed in the state of emergency. it is an interesting one. it sounds very dramatic, but it's not a law or an order. it's a req

let's start though rob mcbride in, sol, as i say, restrictions high there. but the even more concerning thing is that numbers are rising in other areas of the country. that's right. they see they hear in the greatest. so metropolitan area, this council, around half of south korea, is population. the highest level of restrictions have been in place since the start of this week. it means, for example, in the evening time after 6 pm, that can be no social gatherings of more than 2 people outside of which to the many parts of the city is virtually curfew. but the reason increasing concerned about areas outside of sol with the numbers of new cases more than doubling recently. so we are seeing the, these new restrictions coming into both tomorrow, thursday, but much of the provinces outside of sold at the 2nd highest level of restrictions that will mean, for example, no gatherings have bold and 8 people. there's a real concern here that as we get into the peak summer season this summer as last summer, south koreans who would normally be vacationing overseas, inste

tony chains live for us in bangkok, rob mcbride isn't so 1st let speak to jessica washington, his life for us in the entities and capital jakarta. jessica hi there. is there a sense where you are that the authorities simply cannot contain corona virus at the moment? well at this stage, as you mentioned, those alarming numbers in individual is dealing with, asians was covet 19 outbreak. and despite those concerning numbers, if more than a 1000 deaths each day, there was a sense. but that does not capture the reality on the ground. some independent data groups say that by their calculations, the actual dest hole is 3 to 5 times higher than what the authorities are saying. we have had restrictions in place for some weeks now. and yet we are not seeing any evidence that cases have started to drop. just a few days ago, we heard from the division president who said that he is positive, that there is a downward trajectory that he can see. and that if that continues, by monday he would consider easing restriction. however, what we're hearing from me all the just and experts on the ground is th

and it's mostly because of the delta vary and has rob mcbride with cases spiking tokyo, it seems, has no choice but to extended state of emergency through to the end of august. because then you're going to deal with unprecedented speed infection is spreading in the capital and can cy area the delta variant of spreading with strength. and if this doesn't slow down, it will potentially lead to a medical health system crisis. japan is struggling with competing trends. the increasing spread of the more transmissible delta variant accounting. now, for nearly 3 quarters of all new cases in tokyo versus growing pandemic fatigue. with noticeably more people failing to stay off the streets than they did off the state of emergency announcements. in the past with the seat of emergency being enforced so many times i think people are starting not to take it so seriously. and because of that there have been more cases at this point. i think there's not much you can do, even if you get the corona virus, i don't want to get infected, but there are a lot of people who can't avoid it. states of emergen

rob mcbride, al jazeera, so ah the news day on out of the real estate you through the headlines amazon found a 1000000000 at jeff phase on has returned from his maiden space voyage. the new shepherd cross blasted off with its crew including bathing his brother and the youngest and oldest people to have now ever made it into space. the capital reached a height of about 100 kilometers about the earth before touching down around 10 minutes. later. the most profound piece of it for me was looking out at the earth and looking at the earth atmosphere. every astronaut ever who's been up into space, they say this that it changes them and look at it and they're kind of amazed and off struck by the earth and its beauty. but also by its fragility. and i can vouch for that. when i look up, you know, who were sitting in this room were driving our cars were moving around the planet in our normal was the atmosphere so gigantic. were these tiny little things in the planet, the atmosphere so big. but when you get up above it, what you see is it's actually incredibly thin. it's this tiny little fragile

rob mcbride has more from so i think what's really worried here is just the speed all that this search the pretty much over night. we've seen almost a doubling of new cases being recorded in the last few days received over 1300 new cases per day. a lot of this seems to be have to do with people premier surely it seems letting down at that god, in part it's partly due to the delta variance, but only small number of those cases, largely it seems to be people going out more not taking the kind of restrictions that they should do it in just a few hours, u. k. billionaire richard branson will blast off to the ed just phase in his company's rocket ship. the trademarks the official start of the race descend, paying passengers into orbit for an astronomical price. the remains of 19 victims of the 1995 to renew the massacre are being laid to rest on the anniversary of the genocide. the burial in bosnia and herzegovina marks 26 years since tribune forces kills more than 8000. mostly mostly men and boys, and he's 12 people have been killed after them. many bus crashed in eastern turkey, the vehic

so now at the highest level so far, where rob mcbride joins us live now from so i rob. so south korea is now facing even tougher restrictions nationwide. what is all of this mean on the ground? that's right here in the greatest sol metropolitan area. this is home to around half of south korea population. we've been under the most stringent measures since the start of this week. but this is where most of the new cases are occurring. but there is increasing concern about what's going on out in the provinces with reports of new daily infections, more than doubling recently. and there's a real concern that as we get further into the summer holiday season, south koreans this summer, as they did last summer by and large, can't be taking that vacations overseas. so they tend to head for all of the coastal resorts on the east coast. the south coast, the island of gedge you, all of these a tourism destination is become very busy and there's a real concern that unless the government puts these greater restrictions in place across south korea, we're going to see more clusters in t

rob mcbride has more from sol.

ok, rob mcbride, that brings us the very latest form. so rob, thank you. there's lots more still ahead fear on al jazeera, including sure lank and narrowly avoid default on a serious financial problems remain. we'll have the details from colombo, cuba remembers fidel castro's revolution celebrations are quieter than usual. ah, ah. hello nessa, serious and severe thunderstorms gave us a deluge in london in some spots of london reported about a 100 millimeters of rain and just a single hour. so you see water log streets like that. it's track where this energy is right now and where it's going. we see it hanging out toward the british shells . western france, the boat countries, southern portions of scandinavia, the baltic states rate down into the elves. and particularly for the northern outs, i think that's where you're going to see some intense weather. same goes for lithuania into areas of bella. ruth on tuesday. now it is smooth sailing. as we look towards spain, we've got some high temperatures here as well. cordova, 38 degrees, you know, where else hea

all right, rob mcbride life us there in. so rob, thank you. i look down in australia's biggest city that was due to end on friday has been extended by at least 2 weeks. sydney struggling to contain that outbreak of the highly contagious delta variant. 97 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours under restrictions imposed last month. residents are only allowed to leave home for exercise, essential, shopping, or work. after months of declining infections cases on the rise in the united states, the surge is being driven by the delta strain on fleming vaccination rates. my county has moved from washington dc. the infection rate has now doubled within the last 3 weeks today. there was some 23000 new cases reported as opposed to roughly 11000 on june the 23rd. there are a few reasons for this. firstly, delta barian has created a massive problem within the united states as it has in other countries. but what you've also had in between 2 is the july, the full holiday weekend, where there were large numbers of gatherings. so these are coming togeth

but 1st, let's bring in rob mcbride. he's in south korea's capital, sol, rob, so this is south korea's highest ever daily increase in case if it is clearly struggling to get this under control. that's right, it is an alarming rise. this figure has been inflated by the crew from this ill fated war ship, that it became completely had an outbreak of coby 19 on board. just over a week ago, it was on anti piracy patrol of the east coast of africa became completely overwhelmed and that crew has now had to be flown back at 2 south career out of 301 crew members. 270 won't have now tested positive. that's a staggering 90 percent. but even if you strip out that number, this is still a very significant rise. we've been seeing for the best part of 2 weeks more than 1000 new cases per day as this 4th wave has really taken a hold here with some predictions that will soon be think well over 2000 new cases . the day before the authorities get on top of it, we are already in the capital area around sol, the highest level of the social di

rob mcbride al jazeera, so i leave the norwegian women's beach handle team has been defined for wearing costumes that were not skimpy enough. and a widget is in red hair will short instead of the prescribed bikini bottoms in the european championship match against spain and european handball federation, find them $1700.00. this team photo shows the contrast between the norwegian, men's and women's attire, and always federation and sports minister says it's completely ridiculous. ah, top stories are allowed to 0. the world's richest man has flown to space on a private rocket. jeff is off his brother and 2 others may be nearly 11 minute journey. is the 1st commercial flight for the typhoons blue origin space tourism company is all says his goal is to help save the we're going to build a road to space.

rob mcbride al jazeera, so ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, amazon founda and billionaire jeff pathos has returned from his maiden space voyage . the new shepherd croft blasted off with his crew including basis his brother and the youngest and oldest people to have ever been into space capsule reached a height of around 100 kilometers above us before touching down at t plus 10 minutes. rob reynolds has more now from near the lawn sites in van horn in texas. sure, it was in part ego driven by the world's richest man in part, an attempt to launch a lucrative space tourism enterprise. but the lasting impact of this may be to get some people a little more excited about the idea of journeying beyond earth and seeing what possibilities there might be for mankind. in doing so. not simply as a stunt, but as perhaps some way of finding lasting scientific discoveries and contributions for the people of earth that have been 3 rocket attacks in the afghan capital cobble they could be heard as president ref ghani was leading the ead prayers of the presidential palace, molly's interim p

as rob mcbride is in sole, which i've seen another 1300 infections recorded in the past 24 hours. while they're really concerned about one has really alarmed them, is the speed with which this 4th wave has really surge. that virtually a we've seen, a doubling of new case has been reported in the last few days. it's been consistently well over a 1000 new cases per day, which is very high for south korean. now, part of it is being blamed on the war transmissible delta variant, but it also combines, i think, with a general complacency here and from the government and admission that they've got some of them messaging wrong. what's happened is that as we've had the vaccinations rollout, we've got a round, a 30 percent of the population here of now had at least one jap. and there's a way of encouraging more people to get vaccinated as their numbers come up. the government has been announcing the lifting of restrictions as more people get vaccinated. so if you've had one job that the government says, you won't be required to wear a mask in public if you're fully vaccinated, you'll be abl

let's get more on this from rob mcbride, who's life for us in sol? rob, i think that's the 1st time i've ever mentioned pirates and coven 19. but to be serious, korea is struggling a little isn't. that's right, i mean, this outbreak, it really is quite alarming, especially the speed of it. literally, the whole vessel seemed to have been overwhelmed in the space of a matter of a few days. we know, of course, that war ships are incredibly prone to the corona virus. we have when you have a crew of lots of people living in a very confined space in a warship with very little chance to isolate. then we have seen these outbreaks before, very early on in the pan demik in march of last year, which seems like a long time ago now. they really had the case of the theodore roosevelt's the big us aircraft carrier that was stricken by the corona virus. more than a 1000 cases very quickly at the ship, having to divert to guam at the western pacific. this time we're talking about a much smaller vessel, and this is mun move. great. it is called it is a destroyer and it

rob mcbride al jazeera, so ah the news day on out of the real estate you through the headlines amazon founda building at jeff phase on has returned from his maiden space voyage. the new shepherd cross blasted off with its crew including bays off his brother and the youngest and oldest people to have now ever made it into space. the capital reached a height of about 100 kilometers about the earth before touching down around 10 minutes.

rob mcbride, al jazeera, so dozens of european union border patrol officers are being deployed to listed as border with bella. luce, you ascending it's rapid response. scene master lithuania made the request more than a 1000, mostly iraq, a migrants of costumes, of the country this month. the through any, assess bella, ruth is deliberately sending them in reprisals for e u sanctions. billionaire jeff bezos will blast in space in a few hours. his blue origin company will launch the new shepherd. rockets bays off will be accompanied by his brother and a crew that consists of the youngest and oldest people ever been in space. like hannah reports. all this is where the journey began. altitude for the moon landing that inquired. i've been 5 year old to dare to dream. it's no surprise that the launch of the new shepherd is planned for the 52nd anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. so he definitely wants to tie the legacy of his new company to the sort of aura and the mystique of the accomplishments of nasa during the space race . i want to go on this flight because it's the thing i wanted

rob mcbride has the story from sol, the multiple bridges that spanned the han river, passing through, sol, witness many of the cities suicide attempts at a rate of more than one day. a dedicated team working from a control center monitors numerous cameras around the clock, and they are now helped by artificial intelligence. as in this simulation, physical senses trigger and alarm of a possible suicide attempt. but now that will be supported by a data analysis program that quickly detects visual signs of someone who's about to jump home with our point haul through image analysis, we have developed software that is based on deep learning that can detect and predict when a suicide attempt is about to be made. in the past, sol has tried different measures to deter people jumping from its bridges. its experimented with messages of hope such as these and by installing physical devices to make it harder for anyone to climb over the edge. now assisted with this new technology, it's hoped emergency teams will be given extra seconds to intervene. either talking the person out of their action or

rob mcbride has more from salt. this is the man move the great. it is called it is a destroyer and it is south korea contribution to the anti piracy task force of the east coast, but to no less alarming for the speed of the spread out of a crew of around 30247. have now tested positive the solution to this is the authorities here are scrambling to get to military aircraft out there to bring the whole crew back to south korea at the same time delivering a replacement crew or reduced reduce crew around a $150.00 whose job it will be basically to take over this vessel and bring it back to south korea. thailand has reported its full consecutive day of records, new kind of virus infections on monday and confer more than 11000 new cases. thailand has expanded restrictions that include stay home orders and nighttime care if you in some areas including bangkok, germany, charles says describe the situation areas hardest hit by floods. a thrill and terrifying. i know the merkel has visited the village of shoals as a master, clean up kits under way across we

that's close over to rob mcbride is also in the region in the south korean capital of soul . and rob tougher restrictions being imposed not just in the capital, but it's surrounding areas feels ortiz, they're really concerned about what's going on. i think what's alarmed the most of all it has been the speed with which we have seen this 4th wave surge, especially in this part of south korea, the sol metropolitan area and its neighboring province, which is around half that of the people in south korea. and other countries, presidents has been beating local leaders here, promising to get on top of this, saying that these restrictions, the toughest social distancing restrictions available to the government. falling short of an actual lockdown that will be in place for 2 weeks, may be extended. beyond that, part of the problem has been they said delta barriers, but it also the government has admitted that it has been guilty of sending out mixed messages. what's happened is that as we've had the vaccination campaign, rollouts across the country and around a 3rd of the population ha

rob mcbride's is in sol. connected again after more than a year of silence and with into korean relations at a standstill. north korea cut the line last june in protest against defective launching propaganda balloons from south korea. relations hit such a low, the north destroyed the liaison office which had been set up with the south but its been confirmed the leaders of north and south of state in touch throughout exchanging multiple letters, none the young tenant. the 2 ladies also agreed to work to regain mutual trust and foster progress on relations again. when jed also south korean president, moon j n, has made restoring relations with the north, a cornerstone of his administration. and with less than a year left in office, he's determined to get dialogue back on track a sentiment. the south korean shared with the north. in this 1st phone call, since the inter korean communication liaison lines where restore today, i hope we can continue to deliver good news to the rest of the world. this announcement c

largely been praised for swift and nation wide response, but cases are now rising. alto sir was rob mcbride, has the latest from sol. we've been under the most stringent measures since the start of this week, but this is where most of the new cases are occurring. but there is increasing concern about what's going on out in the provinces with reports of new daily infections and more than doubling recently. and the vaccination program, the government has been accused of being overly cautious, if not planning to get enough people vaccinated quickly enough. and it was always known that because of the supplies of vaccines coming in different batches, that july actually would be a lead time. and that's what we are seeing now. there is a shortage of vaccines around the government believes that from august onwards, the increased number of shipments are going to alleviate that. has more vaccines become available that was also concerned at the start of the program. there was some reticence about side effects that seems to have been replaced now by the more widespread concern about this 4th wave and a

rob mcbride, al jazeera and hundreds of people in syria have demonstrated against civilian deaths in the south. had been protest across the northwest, including an ellipse 50 as well. people government to stop coming campaign in that province. 18 people were killed in the latest on. so on thursday, the u. n has a nice 2 and a half 1000 have been displaced in the last 3 days. series military is trying to crush rebellion by attacking the former positions from home with miss elton authentic shelling. now, tens of thousands of migrants from the caribbean and africa converging in a remote town in columbia to convenient hopping off point to get into central america. but at the final goal, the united states is still thousands of kilometers away. last america added salisia newman has this report. the tiny colombian town before play has few attractions except strategic locations. just to ferry right away from the panamanian border on the other side of the gulf who have exhausted my doings from haiti, cuba, and as far away as the gout, governor and fossil are converging the town by the thousan

rob mcbride has more on the corporate 1900 break in south korea. that crew has now had to be flown back at 2 south career out of 301 crew members. 271 have now tested positive. that's a staggering 90 percent, but even if you strip out that number, this is still a very significant rise. we've been seeing for the best part of 2 weeks more than 1000 new cases per day as this 4th wave has really taken a hold. here with some predictions that will soon be thing well over 2000 new cases the day before the authorities get on top of it. we're already in the capital area around sol, the highest level of the social distancing restrictions. there are some indications that these same level of restrictions will have to be extended to other parts of south korea and with some predictions that the authorities here of just underestimated the virulence of this delta variant. this slightly better news is that of course, because of the vaccinations have been rolled out aimed at the more vulnerable groups such as the elderly care homes that we are seeing significantly.

it's also expanding to several other regions, rob mcbride reports with cases spiking. tokyo, it seems, has no choice, but to extend a state of emergency through to the end of august. japan is struggling with competing trends. the increasing spread of the more transmissible delta variant accounting. now, for nearly 3 quarters of all new cases in tokyo versus growing pandemic fatigue. with noticeably more people failing to stay off the streets than they did off the state of emergency announcements in the past by the state of emergency being enforced. so many times i think people are start to not to take it so seriously. and because of that, they have been more cases at this point, i think there's not much you can do, even if you get the corona virus, i don't want to get infected. but there are a lot of people who can't avoid it. states of emergency are expected to be extended to 3 more prefecture as neighboring, tokyo, as well as o. sucka, which was badly hit by an earlier wave of the pandemic in the spring when its hospital resources were stretched to the breaking point. the fear is un

will speak to rob mcbride in the south korean capital sol solved the 1st. let's get more on the situation in thailand. with tony chang in bangkok, tony said a 2 week locked down across the country. what does this mean on the ground? well, it means that people being told they have to stay at home unless they work in an essential industry such as food production or, or medical services. there is a night time curfew between 9 pm and 4 am. and i think the government is really trying to put a block on the, on the daily transmissions which arising pretty close to about 10000 a day. that's what the government minister last week was saying, they expected it to go up to the problem. moves thailand's corporate in iraq in a hard place. it's trying also to open up. we've seen in the beginning of this month, the opening of the pocket sandbox, which is an initiative to allow vaccinated tourists to come back into the country. the try and kick stuff the, the, the part of the economy which is so reliant on tourism to accounts for about 20 percent of g d p here in town and p

rob mcbride al jazeera, so ah, hi there. i'm kim vanelle in doha, with the headlines on al jazeera. hey, he has a new prime minister after 2 weeks of uncertainty following the assassination of president arial, only as a 71 year old neurosurgeon and public official. he's calling for unity. and as promising to build consensus, he replaces interim prime minister or joseph, who took charge of the president. and maurice was killed and signed his home. and galico monitoring developments from miami. now what we have as a prime minister, who's already put his cabinet together with one real goal in mind, and that is to take haiti to new elections. remember, hadn't been elections in a t since 2017. that's when you have now, maurice was elected the elections in 2019 was so problematic that they basically fell to pieces. so this is certainly from the international communities point of view, the necessary next step for this impoverish nation. ordinary haitians have been extremely scared over the past couple of weeks, not knowing what will happen next. now the goal is to whole free and fair elect

well, let's now cross over to the south korean capital sol and speech run mcbride, rob, these tougher restrictions now being imposed across the capital. what to authorities their expect to happen. that's right. they are imposed for 2 weeks, but may well be extended. after that, i think the authorities here have been really alarmed by the speed with which this 4th wave has suddenly risen up. it's due in part to the more transmissible delta variance, but it also combines, it seems, with a general sense of complacency, amongst the public. and also from the government's point of view and admission that he did got it's messaging somewhat wrong. and as we've had the rollouts of the vaccination program here around 30 percent of people in south korea now had at least the 1st jap and as a way of trying to encourage people to get vaccinated as that numbers come up, that the government has been announcing the lifting of certain restrictions, for example, if you've had one job, then you won't have to wear a mask in public. if you're completely vaccinated, you'll be able to beat up in large groups

let us bring in raul mcbride various who's not for us in so and rob, i know the older people in south korea are not so vulnerable now because that being vaccinated, but nevertheless the virus is spreading rapidly. i think that's what really concerns officials here is just the speed with which this 4th wave has really taken a grip. the country's presidents as hell, talks with local leaders of the greater sole metropolitan area and also the surrounding providence really promising to get a grip on the surge introducing what are the strictest measures available to the all thirties. they'll be in place for the next 2 weeks. it might be extended beyond that. we've also had for the latest figures of reveal just the increasing impact of this delta barrier today shown that of the cases that were detected in. so last week, the new variant accounts for a little more than a quarter of the new cases. now, bear in mind that's just a few weeks ago, they were finding very few cases of this very into toll. so it does seem as though this growth has come in a very short period of time. it combines with