in south east asia, covid vaccination stall as governments struggle to find a way out of the crisis. and celebrations in rome as italy squeezes past spain to book their place in the final of the euros. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 51 shootings over a single weekend in new york state alone have prompted the governor andrew cuomo to declare a disaster emergency. new york is the first state to take that step, which allows for extra funding to bolster police presence in the worst hit cities, and to establish a variety of other programmes in poorer parts of the state. there has been a surge in gun violence across the us in the last year. governor cuomo explained his decision at a news conference, where he spelled out the scale of the problem they're facing. it is so bad, that when you look at the recent numbers, more people are dying of gun violence than of covid. it is an emergency. and i want the people of the state to understand that! and i want them to respond to the emergency for the way it is. so, today, i the first in the nation is going to declare

our south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports. times we live in that this one is thriving. this jakartan coffin—maker says he's making three times as many these days after the new outbreak of the delta covid variant. indonesians may have thought last year was bad enough. this year, though, is much worse — covid deaths running at more than 500 a day. oxygen is in critically short supply. people have to fill up their own cylinders to ensure that hospitalised family members get it. this man says his best efforts were not enough. his sister died at this hospital on monday morning. here in thailand, these shuttered bars tell the story of how far the government was willing to sacrifice the all—important tourist industry to keep covid out — which last year, it did very successfully. this year, though, despite all of this economic pain, infections have searched so fast, they've overwhelmed the hospitals and completely outstripped the government's faltering vaccination programme. this hotel cleaner, now out of a job, was forced to camp on

in south—east asia, covid vaccinations stall as governments struggle to find a way out of the crisis.taly's footballers reach the final of the euros, after beating spain in a dramatic penalty shootout. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. 51 shootings over a single weekend in new york state alone have prompted the governor, andrew cuomo, to declare a �*disaster emergency�*. new york is the first state to take that step, which allows for extra funding to bolster police presence in the worst hit cities, and to establish a variety of other programmes in poorer parts of the state. there has been a surge in gun violence across the us in the last year. governor cuomo explained his decision at a news conference. it is so bad that when you look at the recent numbers, more people are dying of gun violence than of covid. it is an emergency. and i want the people of the state to understand that! and i want them to respond to the emergency for the way it is. so, today, iam issuing emergency for the way it is. so, today, i am issuing the first in the nation disaster emerg

as violent scripts, the country, not the rest of former leader, jacob zooming countries across south east asia. struggle to deal with rising corona virus case. you will have an update. we had no other option. there was nothing left to give democrat politicians in texas head out to the state to try and derail a republican moved in new voting restrictions. ah, a fire has slipped through. corona, virus, isolation, ward, and southern iraq killing at least 58 people and injuring dozens. it's unclear what started the blaze, which prompted angry protests caught up as a young reports. the lifeless bodies covered the floor of the hospital board in the iraqi city. most of the victims had covered 19, but it was the fire that killed relative or no place with the green pen of i tend to find the one moments before this was the scene. emergency crews fire as it rip through the building, amid payoff family, desperately trying to place a mess up a little of the of the about what happened tonight of the st hospital is the catastrophe, marcus. but the tragedy did slip, let me know. it's as though rock has to suf

many parts of south east asia coped well when covid first hit, in spite of limited resources.ndemic and several lockdowns later, goodwill among the people is wearing thin. vaccination programmes have stalled and governments are struggling to find a way out of the crisis. 0ur south east asia correspondentjonathan head reports. as other businesses flounder, it's a sign of the dismal times we live in that this one is thriving. this jakartan coffin—maker says he's making three times as many these days after the new outbreak of the delta covid variant. indonesians may have thought last year was bad enough. this year, though, is much worse — covid deaths running at more than 500 a day. oxygen is in critically short supply. people have to fill up their own cylinders to ensure that hospitalised family members get it. anwar says his best efforts were not enough. his sister died at this hospital on monday morning. here in thailand, these shuttered bars tell the story of how far the government was willing to sacrifice the all—important tourist industry to keep covid out — which, last yea

coming up in the next 30 minutes, locked down in full again and part of south east asia. it's corona, virus infections increase or the more contagious variant. cuba sees the largest anti government protest in decades with protest as angry over the handling of the pandemic, and shortage in italy, european football champions up to be england in london where police are now investigating racist abuse against black players. ah, welcome to the we we breaking news coming out of jordan. we're a court has sentence to former officials for a plot against the millnicky, former royal court chief and finance minister bus. and our dollar was given 15 years hard labor and sharif hudson bins. i eat a member of the royal family, also got 15 years. the verdict center on the ledge plot against the kingdom involving a full man to the throne prince honda. he's king abdullah half brother of the former crown prince was a woman when this bitter moody miller regarding the 1st criminal bass and ibrahim, the court has sentenced him to temporary imprisonment for a period of 15 years for the 1st charg

our south—east asia correspondent, jonathan head, reports.coffin—maker says he�*s making three times as many these days after the new outbreak of the delta covid variant. indonesians may have thought last year was bad enough. this year, though, is much worse — covid deaths running at more than 500 a day. oxygen is in critically short supply. people have to fill up their own cylinders to ensure that hospitalised family members get it. anwar says his best efforts were not enough. his sister died at this hospital on monday morning. here in thailand, these shuttered bars tell the story of how far the government was willing to sacrifice the all—important tourist industry to keep covid out — which, last year, it did very successfully. this year, though, despite all of this economic pain, infections have surged so fast, they�*ve overwhelmed the hospitals and completely outstripped the government�*s faltering vaccination programme. this hotel cleaner, now out of a job, was forced to camp on the street after testing positive for covid, but unable to s

many parts of south east asia coped well when covid first hit, in spite of limited resources. several lockdowns later, goodwill among the people is wearing thin. vaccination programmes have stalled and governments are struggling to find a way out of the crisis. in indonesia, the government has appealed for international help to secure supplies of oxygen, a day after recording its highest numbers of daily covid infections and deaths. 0ur south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports. as other businesses flounder, it's a sign of the dismal times we live in that this one is thriving. this coffin—maker says he's making three times as many these days after the new outbreak of the delta covid variant. indonesians may have thought last year was bad enough. this year, though, is much worse — covid deaths running at more than 500 a day. oxygen is in critically short supply. people have to fill up their own cylinders to ensure that hospitalised family members get it. this man says his best efforts were not enough. his sister died at this hospital on monday morning. here in thailan

stories from al jazeera, indonesia is not the epicenter of the latest wave of corona virus in south east asia. it's reported more than 1400 deaths and 35000 cases. and just one day, as jessica washington, with the latest from jakarta, indonesia has now passed more than $3000000.00 cases in total. what we have seen on the positive side is that the government has been able to ramp up testing, and they were able to test 200000 individuals in one day, which is a market improvement. however, still way of the target of trying to test 400000 people each day. and you can imagine that in a country like, and these are, there are people who would struggle when there is a strict lockdown and many all doing it tough, particularly across your carter a java and many parts of the country. but epidemiologist say that the government must strongly because the situation is continuing to worsen intensive care unit in hospitals. but only in jakarta, not only in java, but across the country on stretch them. we're seeing concerning signs of health care system across the country and more regional provinces, including

this tells you, hey, this is al jazeera life and also coming up locked downs returns about the south east asia as a more contagious, very, and triggers a rise in corona virus infection.

also in its asia pacific strategy. secretary austin is the most senior cabinet member to visit south east asia, hoping to increase you as influence in the region aggressively courted by beijing shamella in dog. and i'll do 0. manila lebanon's president says he's ready to answer questions about law says by report explosion. michelle own was quoted saying, no one is above the law. many have been angry that almost a year own no senior officials have been held to account. the blast was caused by a large quantity of chemicals that had been stored unsafely at the port for years. or 200 people were killed. iraq is facing a water and potentially a humanitarian crisis because supplies from iran and drawing off a rock usually relies on its neighbor for a 3rd of it. supplies that you dam projects have cut that back. of the head reports from the eastern province of the la this is not a field, it's a leak, except there is no water. so grass is growing and feeding the sheep like other water streams in eastern iraq. henry lake has been drying up since iran started diverting with the river flow near its borde

probably 10 years behind western europe and maybe 5 to 7 years behind south east asia. so there is a lot to come. there's a lot to come. a lot of cats are going to be but fascinating, early, diverse and changing landscape. great to get your thoughts on this. how doing the, the managing director of the, i mean a group. thank you so much talking to us on counting the cost and thank you for having me. hello. amber is our show for this week, but there's more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash c t c. that will take you straight to our page, which has some of your episodes for catch up on i'm how am i in from the whole counting the call. steve, thank you for joining us. reduce on, i'll just 0. it's next. ah. the world's lungs being seized, the amazon rain forest is diminishing a rate of football pitcher a minute to meet the market insatiable appetite for logging mining. i'm farming as both scenarios. government seek to relax, conservation load and increase production. indigenous communities on the brink of extinction. no, it's the bite of their life. people empower br

the south east asia often is expected to rally for a joint efforts against what he's described as regional chinese aggression is deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman. let's just visited china relations between the 2 largest economies that an all time low and cases of corona virus. a surge to record daily high in the city of the lympics with been almost 3000 you infections in japan's capital. tokyo protests have been held against the games concerns. it could become a super spreader event. i'm not few up to date, keep it here and i'll just 0 inside story is next me. ah, ah, the birthplace of the r spring is in crisis and he is president, stuck the prime minister and put a freeze on parliament the 30 days. the biggest political parties calling it a qu, what triggered the turmoil and his democracy. now at risk, this is inside story. ah, ah, ah, hello there, i'm kim all santa maria, when a president dismisses the prime minister and effectively suspends parliament. well, that's a pretty messy political situation, some call it a qu, whatever it is though to nuclear, is facing one of its bigge

invest in that, and that's a privilege as a journalist, lose lockdown or enforce again in parts of south east asia, kind of virus infections increased or more contagious variance. ah, so rahman watching, they were like my headquarters here in the whole. so coming up cuba sees the largest anti government protests in decades that protest is angry over the handling of the pandemic.

the delta variances fueling a new wave of infections across south east asia. malaysia's government has sped up its vaccine rollout and a strict lockdown is in place. is a really, really an alarming number to, to be taken lightly off because we have seen must have been the united states. yes . in neighboring country. i seen so many countries who took the fall. and right now, when i see malaysians that you do at the very relax case, because the 19 delta variant is spreading rapidly through the asia pacific region. the philippines is banding travelers from malaysia and thailand. people in manila have been queueing up for vaccines restrictions have been re imposed to the air and in other provinces until the end of the month. elsewhere in the region, even remote island, nations that had remained isolated from much of last year as being infections. rise 20 cheng has moved grieving relatives, watch as the body of their mothers remove from the hospital in fiji. the cause cove at 19 the pacific nation has seen a significant rise in daily cases in the past week to more than a 1000 a day and a ri

you will be able to deliver on his promises, ah, locked downs are in full again and parts of south east asia as credit virus infections increased from a more contagious variance. ah rahman you're watching on just they were like my headquarters here in the coming up in the next 30 minutes.

, the united states has donated 4 and a half 1000000 vaccine doses to indonesia as it battled south east asia, west corona virus outbreak. and denisia reported a record 1025 virus related deaths on friday alone. while those are the headlines, they'll be more news here off the inside story. news news, news. news . the u. k. prime minister has promised to ban from stadiums. people who abuse football is on line. that's after 3 block england phase where race me target those after the last that the euro final. why is the abuse happening and what can be done to stop it? this is inside story. ah, ah, ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully back of all last sunday's euro championship final was meant to be a unifying moment for england to reach that stage for the 1st time in 55 years. instead, 3 blank players who helped achieve that accomplishment face a barrage of racial abuse from fans on line after missing penalties. u. k prime minister boys johnson has stretched by those who racially abuse football is from stadiums or up to 10 years. he's also threatening to fine tech companies if they fail

also in its asia pacific strategy. secretary austin, is the most senior cabinet member to visit south east asia, hoping to increase you as influence in the region aggressively courted by beijing. shamella in dog, and i'll just 0. manila. israel is the world's 1st country to offer a 3rd shelter the coven. 19 vaccine. president isaac has all gone his wife for the 1st to receive the booster. the extra shots will be for people above the age of 60, who got the 2nd dose more than 5 months ago. if an attempt to curve infections caused by the delta variance, or the dummy reports from western to them. for the past few days, there been more than 2000 new cases per day and there is a pose of worry for the government, even though the number of people who are seriously remained quite low. now days really have been saying for quite a while now that they had noticed that the effectiveness of the pfizer by and take the vaccine, which is the only one that has been ruled out in this country has gone down to about 64 percent. when it came to the delta various, even though they kept and always insisting that the n

our south east asia correspondentjonathan head looks back at five eventful years under the man they usedf leader, and millions of filipinos loved him for it. unscripted, informal, his speeches peppered with vulgar jokes and threats of violence. do not destroy my city, i will kill you. try to analyse that — what is wrong when i say i will kill you because you are destroying my country? rodrigo duterte promised to be a tough law—and—order president, and he meant it. within weeks of taking office, the killing of alleged drug users and dealers began — thousands of them shot by the police or by unnamed vigilantes. the war on drugs is really bloody and messy, and we all know that. it shocked the rest of the world, but five years on, president duterte's popularity at home has held up not despite, but because of his brutal drug campaign. for the rich who are supporting duterte, that's very powerful because, you know, the rich are wary of crimes. they want security. for the poor that is in neighbourhoods, drug addicts are stigmatized. that can probably explain why duterte has so much support righ

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probably 10 years behind western europe and maybe 5 to 7 years behind south east asia. so there is a lot to come. there's a lot to come, a lot of catching up for the but a fascinating the diverse and changing landscape. great to get your thoughts on this. how doing the the managing director of the i mean a group. thank you so much talking to us on counting recalls. and thank you for having me. hello. amber is our show for this week, but there's more for you online at our just a dot com slash c t. c. that will take you straight to our page, which has in some of your episodes for catch up on i'm how am i in from the whole county that call steve, thank you for joining us. the dude on, i'll just wait for this next. ah news news. frank assessments and arguments to suggestions and the by no ministrations a long game. it's very much of a warm embrace. the iran nuclear deal, the course of us domestic politics informed opinions, schools and chelsea have been reduced to rubble. how do you think this shapes a generation and they have politics? then their life has been shaped by vi

we start to see that rain sweep through storms really come in and go in across areas of south east asia . but i want to take you to the philippines because it has been intense rain here as of late, but we're seeing it back off a bit. still getting into the rounds of range, it's not as heavy as what we have felt over the last few days unsettled across the korean peninsula on sunday, and some heavier pulses of rain for central areas of hunt you on sunday. the weather bag. energy and change to every part of our universe. more small to continue. the change is all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. ah, the me. i was thinking through the headlines here now just here and now firefighters and turkey are trying to control 14 far as far as off the managing to put out more than 70 in the past few days. at least 6 people have been killed in his, his president has again rejected accusations of a coo and says he will not turn into a dictator. 2 opposition. politicians were detained on friday after president ice. i. e revoke solomon for i

let's begin in south east asia and that tropical depression has now cleared the north of the philippines. it's moved south of taiwan and it's bringing a lot of the wet weather to southern areas of china. we've also got a swirling weather system developing in the south china sea. and that's bringing wet and windy weather to high 9 island as well as to northern parts of cambodia and vietnam. we are going to see a lot more wet weather across indo china. as the monsoon, rain intensifies particularly over thursday, northern areas of thailand, seeing a lot of heavy rain, but for malaysia and indonesia, it is looking slightly dryer. the silhouette, he is expecting to see some heavy showers on thursday. we could see more flooding here. and as we move down under, it's still a wet picture for west in australia, but the wind has died down in perth. we are expecting that rain to continue through to the weekend. elsewhere looking rather fine and why we've got high pressure keeping things, rather sunny. but we do have a few showers across north eastern areas of queensland and a week cold front keeping

the delta virus variant gives south east asia the fastest growing death rate. >> japan, south korea, coming online. let's get straight to the market action. we are seeing u.s. futures extending declines to 0.2% on growth concerns. how are we setting up? >> there are growth concerns and a potential peeking of earnings momentum has been weighing on markets. we have the nikkei losing more than 1%. the yen is holding steady below 110. we could see a push towards the 109 spot on the real yield. jgb is picking up ahead of the boj decision. you have pimco overweight equities for japan and emerging asia as they seek global midcycle. on the back of cutting employer operating keeping an eye on that spot. the open in south korea, we are seeing downside moves for korean stocks. the korean won holding steady. this is on the announcement from the finance minister regarding its monthly economic session report due out later this morning. we will keep and i on st by center. switching out the board to check out the antipodes. the new zealand very much in focus after that big jump in inflation, over 3%

conflict in the sun as peace told continue in. doha was grief and heartbreak in indonesia and south east asia was cave at 90, not break the hospitals and funeral workers over while i'm rob reynolds in south dakota where native americans are dealing with the legacy of the u. s. government boarding school program and varying the remains of children who died long ago and far away. peter, similar to the sports news and with 5 days to go 10 more cove at 19 cases, reported inside the olympic village in tokyo. and this time to athletes. we live in the hosts that he later this hour. ah, welcome to the news, our a flooding crisis in western europe is getting worse. it spreads further heavy rains at parts of eastern germany of street and the czech republic. at least 183 people are confirmed that but that number is expected to rise. people in the austrian alpine town of highline were warned not to go to the sellers. flash floods swept through the area. there were no reports of any casualties there, but german chance anglo michael called the floods a catastrophe and is due to visit the worst hit region.

i'm are in the forecast on tuesday, south east asia. it's looking good across most of indonesia and also malaysia. but if i take you into the philippines, it has been particularly white. all of this influenced by the southwest spawn soon for manila, and we know the mera kena river has swell to dangerous levels. about 3000 families of force from their homes. asia pacific were tracking out were info's going toward the west along the yangtze river valley. but also throwing a lot of rain toward the north and were looking for an apartment to make landfall toward northern areas of horseshoe on tuesday. tokyo will get some rain and went sponsored cattle airways. now, when a french soldier was murdered in a so called terrorist attack, his mother retaliated with love. speaking out against intolerance and alienation, she travels the world with the result of a grieving mother who loved her son, but adopted a generation latifah. witness documentary on al jazeera. ah, ah ah, you want to know, does it remind him i tell stories, this is his prime mini

if you will be able to deliver on his promises ah, locked downs or insults again in parts of south east asia as credit virus infections increase from a more contagious variance. ah rahman you're watching on. they were like my headquarters here in dow coming up in the next 30 minutes. cuban sees the largest anti government protests in decades with protested angry over the handling of the pandemic and shortages italy all european football champions. after beating england in london, where police are investigating racist abuse against black players believe richard branson's rocket pilot plain reaches the edge of space and takes a step towards commercial space tourism. ah, welcome to the bug on the highly contagious dealt of area to being blamed for a rapid rise in crow virus infections. in se asia, indonesia has been recording more than 35000 cases a day. and a new survey has found almost half of jakarta as population has had coded 19 at some stage 7 times higher than official figures. meanwhile, thailand has gone into locked down for 2 weeks with a night curfew in place in bangkok, a slow vacci

her power and her bigness, as it were, to militarily make inroads in the balance of power in south east asiad taiwan because obviously, after hong kong has so shamefully virtually lost its freedom to china in the to the liberty and libertarian system, the next appetising victim is likely to be taiwan for china, who have never recognised taiwan as a independent country and consider it part of their mainland. so they have to be very careful. one last thought — a brief talk, justin. presumably, all this involvement around the world has potential, doesn't it? president xijinping has recognised the danger of climate change. it might be possible to get him to harness that to reduce some of the damaging projects that are happening internationally. there's a really interesting ledger— there's a really interesting ledger on _ there's a really interesting ledger on china's- there's a really interesting ledger on china's table. i they talk about building more coal—fired power stations - but at the same time, i they have invested really heavily— in renewable energy. in fact, it is thanks - a china that

invest in that, and that's a privilege as a journalist, lose lockdown or enforce again in parts of south east asia, kind of virus infections increased or more contagious variance. ah, so rather than watching all their life, my headquarters here in the whole, so coming up keep us sees the largest anti government protests in decades. that protest is angry over the handling of the pandemic italy, european football champions, to be england in london where police are now investigating racist abuse against black players. the silver screen goes green, will tell you what this is can build festival is doing to help the environment. ah, well, we begin with some breaking news coming out of jordan and a court. it's sentencing to former officials of plotting a coup against the monarchy form a royal court chief bust them. our dollar has been given a 15 year hard labor sentence, and sharif hudson's a member of the royal family, has also been given 15 years. we'll try and get you more on those stories and the day progresses. but moving on to the other top story that we're covering here on, i'll just say, are on t

but really you look to the philippines, this part of south east asia, where the rains are heavy office, you can see tropical depressions for just at the top of your screen. now that's one off on his way to the southern japanese islands that are daily showers around you, for example, java, but then optically big ones. and the winter settled in properly with some pretty vicious winds and lowest temperature typically at night throttle straightly camera . so it's, i think 1st snow of the winter, it's falling lightly and not centrally, but it's there. mind you get to live degrees in the sunshine. well, some sunshine on sunday is clearly warmer in sydney, even down in melbourne and seller west. well, it's still shower, even it's not particularly bad. it said, isn't the blustery as it was 19 1st and in 9 in cambra. ask the news eland. the warnings is heavy. rain will fade away the, the path and the we can still heavy rain like on this west, inside of south and more particularly, nor thought. and that is for sunday, for monday, the certain improvement the with bank energy and say to every part

wednesday, the philippines announced a ban on travellers from indonesia, which is now about in the south east asia west outbreak while the astray leon stays . victoria has now begun a snap 5 day locked down. this means about 40 percent of the country's population is now on the stage home order. the states confirmed 18 cases of the virus so far. the infection spread from sydney, which was also saying, arise in cases despite now heading into its 4th week of lockdown. he, southwell premier, has warned that she may tightened restrictions even further. while the opening ceremony for their tokyo and pic games is now just a week away, but organizes continue to be widely criticized by the japanese people. the head of the international olympic committee has been in hiroshima visiting the peace memorial. more than 70000 people signed a petition opposing his visit current. various cases arising in japan and tokyo is still under a state of emergency. he was gonna do the damn. it's not that i don't want him to come, but when thinking about the safety of the athlete, it is my opinion that it is not necessary fo

because again, china already has a very strong foothold in all the south east. asia nations are very dependent for a lot of the technology has come out such as ali bob intends on holding this fence significant amounts of money and investment dollars in these countries. and right now you have over half a 1000000000 of these people, migrating their businesses and merchants on line, be 10 cent and alibaba. so it's going to be a very significant challenge for us to kind of win them off of already entrenched chinese technology. and they've been china's president, she has actually spoken out recently about this possible deal making reference to the idea that the u. s. wants to make these deals as a way to protect american power and the profits of american technology companies. something kristie just alluded to. there as well. is there truth to that? i would say, yes. i agree. i think there's a lot of truth to it. i mean, i think at the end of the day, we will have to recognize a couple of the, one of those points is that china obviously is leading the way it in terms of technology. and the

protest seen in decades also further loc downs and creative iris restrictions imposed upon parts of south east asia. to try and contain the rapid spread of the delta vary and italy, european football champions, activating england in london, where police are investigating racist abuse against black players. ah, welcome to the photo. we begin with breaking news, coming out of jordan, where a court, a sentence to former officials for an alleged plot against the monarchy, former royal court chief and finance minister bus them. our de la, was given 15 years, hard labor sharif hassan, been saeed. a member of the royal family also got 15 years. the verdict center on charges of attempting to destabilize the kingdom and involving a former and to the throne. prince hunger. he's king of dollars, half brother, and a full crown prince. when, when this bitter would your email regarding the 1st criminal bass in our dela, the court has sentenced him to temporary imprison mid for a period of 15 years for the 1st charge. and 15 years for the 2nd charge. only one of these 2 rules applies to him, which is temporary wo

pandemic now and the delta variance of the current of ours is causing fresh outbreaks across south east asia and australia. indonesia has imposed additional restrictions in the capital jakarta, across the main island of java and the tourist had of bali. the health care systems that have been stretched to the limit with makes have 10 sets up outside pact medical facilities. when they bring malaysia is also tightening cards and quite a long pool and some surrounding areas. most factories have now been shots and residents cannot leave their homes after 8 p. m. and thailand is reporting over 6200 new cases, not setting a record for that straight day. now, the number of patients and i see years on ventilated has risen nationwide. over the past 2 weeks, we've got florida 3 standing by 4th in columbus. but 1st, let's speak to jessica washington. she's in the indonesian capital jakarta, just that covered response that has clearly been struggling. can you talk us through these new restrictions and really what's driving massage? as you can see, i'm in the dakota city center and the city is uncharacter

are you seeing similar patterns of infection across i patterns of infection across south east asia among had their last one in a few months ago. and it looks like a higher infection rate along with those under the age of 20. definitely most of the infection rates.— of 20. definitely most of the infection rates. thank you for “oininu infection rates. thank you for joining us _ infection rates. thank you for joining us on _ infection rates. thank you for joining us on the _ infection rates. thank you for joining us on the programme| joining us on the programme from save the children. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. we meet the japanaese seniors — proving you're never to old to cheerlead — as they prepare for their 25th—anniversary show. the us space agency, nasa, has ordered an investigation after confirmation today that astronauts are cleared to fly while drunk. the last flood control here, once in every part of the soldier's lot, drudgery and danger, now no more after almost four decades. in your own private talcum not doing any harm to anyone come i d

stories from al jazeera, indonesia is not the epicenter of the latest wave of corona virus in south east asia. it's reported more than 1400 deaths and 35000 cases. and just one day, as jessica washington, with the latest from jakarta, indonesia has now passed more than $3000000.00 cases in total. what we have seen on the positive side is that the government has been able to ramp up testing and they were able to test 200000 individual.

our south east asia correspondent jonathan head looks back at five eventful years under the man theylions of filipinos loved him for it. unscripted, informal, his speeches peppered with vulgar jokes and threats of violence. do not destroy my city, i will kill you. try to analyse that — what is wrong when i say i will kill you because you are destroying my country? rodriguo duterte promised to be a tough law—and—order president, and he meant it. within weeks of taking office, the killing of alleged drug users and dealers began — thousands of them shot by the police or by unnamed vigilantes. the war on drugs is really bloody and messy, and we all know that. it shocked the rest of the world, but five years on, president duterte's popularity at home has held up not despite, but because of his brutal drug campaign. for the rich that are supporting duterte, that's very powerful because, you know, the rich are wary of crimes. they want security. for the poor that is in neighbourhoods, drug addicts are stigmatized, that can probably explain why duterte has so much support right now. mr duter

the delta variance is spreading fast across south east asia. moved record infections reported, and more athletes test positive corporate 191 day before the talk you will lympics opening ceremony. ah, the pentagon is expressing alarm about the rapidly deteriorating security situation in afghanistan, the most senior us general says the taliban now controls nearly half of the countries $400.00 plus districts. it coincides with the continued pullouts of us troops fighting between african government forces and the taliban is intensifying. at least 7 people were killed in the southern province of kandahar on wednesday. it happened during shalon between the military and taliban forces is more on what general mark merely had to say, a boats the telephone advance. i would tell you that as of today, more or less, i guess it's about $212.00 to $13.00 in that range. 2 hundreds of the district centers are in taliban control. it's about half of the $419.00 that are out there. you've got 34 provincial capitols in afghanistan. none of them have been seized as of today by the taliban. although the talib

south east asia, excluding china, has not vaccinated. they've only started a couple days ago., the economy is not yet back to its normal level. so it may slow down the recovery in europe and in the u.s., but i trust that we will be vaccinating more people and we should exit this. but the economic recovery, i don't see anything happening before the second semester of 2022. anna: that was the ceo of michelin speaking to caroline connan. the top stories we are covering at bloomberg. laura: xi jinping, the german chancellor angela merkel, and france's emmanuel macron are specter to hold a video call this week. the meeting comes as tensions summer between europe and the world's second-largest economy over human rights and democracy issues. boris johnson will urge britain to exercise judgment to protect themselves from covid after the final unlocking of the economy in two weeks time. the u.k. prime minister will set out the last stage of his roadmap out of lockdown for england at a press conference later today. the country is seeing soaring transmission of the delta variant, but so

in south east asia, covid vaccinations stall as governments struggle to find a way out of the crisis.

when it comes to things like japanese you can see it in other countries, south east asia or eastern europe so forth. if you have that capitol, even if you were banned from certain schools or occupations, please groups that have that seem to be on the rise. >> in my understanding, the moment you say values determine behavior, you are no longer on the left. [laughter] >> i think that's a pretty fair statement. >> i know that book's, i didn't realize that was his first big one. when did basic economics come out? >> the first edition of basic economics, i want to say around 2000. >> oh that late? twenty yearsha later. >> i want to say around 2000, don't quote me on that. >> so i was curious, in my brain, basic economics because of the title, basic, i thought that was the first. >> his first book he ever wrote was an economice textbook, it ws a traditional economic textbook. basic economics is an economic textbook the beauty is it has no charts and graphs and it was much more difficult to write than the first one he wrote. >> you about this, when i had him on four basic economics which i think

progression of the pandemic, because we are seeing in tokyo, japan, hong kong and other areas in south east asia china at the moment with regards to that? in china there is an outbreak happening in may and june and currently there is another wave that happened in the border city of yunnan province as well as the western provinces. so far everything is kind of under control and because of the vaccination rate actually surged and we expect that china will be able to achieve 60 —— 50% of vaccination rate by the end of this here. 5096 of vaccination rate by the end of this here.— 5096 of vaccination rate by the end of this here. thank you for 'oinin~ end of this here. thank you for joining us- _ stay with us on bbc news, still to come: back behind the wheel — america's biggest auto show returns. we'll bring you the latest from chicago. after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the euro zone. the immediate prospect of greece going bust in the worst crisis to hit the euro zone has been averted. emergency services across central europe are stepping up thei

okay, and we stab uncle hole in the back and now he's the only friend we got in south east asia, younow, do you call juba vietnam one of your great savory failures, or how about iran when you could a cat or ran and now we have the islamic revolution going out forever, you know and the same thing with it if afghanistan 1979 under carter, you stuck here we stuck our nose in there and i said after they're done with the russians they're coming after us and here they are worldwide. when are you guys ever going to get something right? jordan respond. oh, you know. i think cia does get a lot of things right in implementing the policy the covert policy that constitutes a covert action cia is operating under the desires of the president. the president has to sign a document called a finding that says i find this action necessary and i want cia to do this that finding is then transmitted in a memorandum of notification to the congress. which then can weigh in on it if they so choose so there's a there's a lot of adult supervision. that's not to say that there haven't been mistakes. these are p

our south east asia correspondent jonathan head gave us his analysis, saying three factors are at playe got maybe 40, 50, or 100 cases at most a day, you can use that method. but when you are getting thousands, it is simply doesn't work, there are too many contacts to trace. another is that their health systems are far more limited in their capacity to deal with very seriously ill people than you get in europe and the united states. the numbers of icu beds are much, much smaller. even in a country like thailand, with what is regarded as generally a very good health system, you reach the limits much sooner with the number of cases than you did, for example, in britain. and the third is the lack of vaccines. to be honest, many of these countries, it is fair to say, were complacent. they thought they had beaten covid and so they did not order vaccines early enough. malaysia did and because of that, although malaysia is suffering very badly at the moment, and the government has made blunders, it is on track to vaccinate most of its population by the end of the year, but other countries in