Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWS LIVE - 30 20240713

Power during the 20 levon revolution. Im. Off for the 1st time since the corona Virus Outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the number within 37 countries have tallied 427 new cases or beijing says its counted 411 earlier the World Health Organization warns immediate action is needed to prevent it becoming a pandemic where its widespread around the world one country seen rising fatalities is iran at least 19 people have died there 130 have contracted the virus including the Deputy Health minister in south korea the number of cases has passed 1200 the largest number of infections outside Mainland China churches have cancelled religious services and. Pand tries to limit the spread Prime Minister shinzo abbe has called for supporting and cultural events to be delayed by 2 weeks or cancelled entirely well the rounds president Hassan Rouhani has announced further measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus inside iran he defended the governments handling of the situation mike and mike and i have only. I emphasized that we dont manipulate the figures we neither increase nor decrease them nor do we exaggerate or downplay them ive told the Health Ministry to announce any figures they have this is a plot we see today in foreign propaganda recently a high ranking u. S. Official made a comment about coronavirus in iran they themselves are dealing with the flow 16000 died because of that this year but they dont talk about it and now they are turning their attention to corona virus in iran. Was saying this ravi isnt around with more of what the got the iranian governments says its doing to combat this break. Effort to address this very very Serious Public Health crisis irans president Hassan Rouhani 3 days ago set up what hes calling the headquarters for fighting coronavirus know what this is the consolidation of several Senior Leaders including ministers of transport Health Representatives from the our forces and other Senior Leaders into one office into iran to try to coordinate efforts on how to combat this Public Health crisis now iran has been criticized since the start of this since the 1st case was announced for not reacting swiftly enough not reacting seriously enough when the outbreak was 1st publicly announced we heard from a member of parliament representing home where the 1st case of corona virus was discovered who said that the numbers are far larger the numbers of dead are far larger than the official government statistics and that created a great deal of discrepancy and disagreement between government officials now with iranians of what the iranian authorities are dealing with is on social media that lack of trust that discord that disagreement really playing out so present Hasan Rouhani also saying that do not believe whats happening on social media this is a form of foreigners trying to effect an influence whats happening inside iran these these discussions should not be trusted trust the government but iran has in recent months over a number of crises over his handling of the public message of a number of crises struggle to maintain public trust in what its saying well this online tracker from the Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Gives us a good picture of where the break has spread see the number of cases that were the worlds total has night claims over 1000. 00. Thats a south korean iraq mcbride reports on how the outbreak is affecting daily life that. I think looking at the latest figures there is an increasing sense of alarm of nearly a spike of nearly 300 new cases in one day alone and it comes of course as the government here repeats its message that the next few days will be critical in whether south korea is able to contain this outbreak down in the southeast of the country or not and when you look at these figures in the way we have spikes like of like we have on this day wednesday then increasingly people will be thinking this is just not going in the right direction in fact its going very much in the wrong direction and you do feel that sense of nervousness on the streets in places like seoul people will be avoiding any crowds the cinemas are quiet restaurants are quiet we have people being told by the companies to work from home schools are suspended and of course down in the epicenter in daegu city itself we have a number of businesses of factories there closing as some of the workers are discovered to be sick and people just dont have confidence in the workplaces and some factories that is going to be clear of the virus and weve also had fairly unprecedented an ounce but by the Catholic Church in south korea that for the time being at least it is taking for the 1st time in its 236 year history the decision to cancel all services and all masses but then we are it seems living through pretty unprecedented times Health Officials in the u. S. Are warning that its only a matter of time before the corona virus spreads to the country there are 57. 00 cases theyre already in some u. S. Politicians want the government to allocate more than 2000000000. 00 in funds and towards financing the illness thats cost life nights you can barely hold in washington d. C. Cant the just how is this playing out in the u. S. Well interestingly there is bipartisan backlash against the response 5 the trumpet ministrations so far there seems to be concern not only that there is in Adequate Funding being requested to deal with the outbreak that we are hearing is an eval now in the United States but also the contradictory statements coming from the president himself that the risk of mortality is low that things are under control even that the United States is close to a vaccine the problem is is that while the president is saying one thing his own Public Health officials are saying just the other and again a Public Health official now sounding the alarm saying the u. S. Be prepared that this will disrupt daily lives take a listen. Its not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected and how many of those will develop severe or more difficult more complicated disease so the problem for the white house is well the president tries to downplay the risk of the headline seem to be overwhelming that messaging take for example the stock market which has for 2 days now been plunging over fears as well there is the concern that the white house simply doesnt have a good plan in place they point to many point to the evacuation of infected americans over the weekend put on the same plane as those that were healthy only separated by flimsy plastic sheeting it provides very little confidence that this government knows what its doing now in the midst of all this the u. S. President has been tweeting almost taking this personally saying that the media is trying to make him look bad and as a result he has called for a press conference here in washington at the white house at 23 g. M. T. Where he says he is going to try and reassure americans along with Public Health officials ok but well wait to hear what the u. S. President has to say in the meantime Kimberly Hall kits thanks very much indeed for keeping across all the details for us lets turn to other news now indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence kills at least 22 people you know these 200 have been injured as hindu crowds moving on bars targeted muslims on the streets of delhi some of the worst rioting for decades buildings were satellites and mosques ransacks there has been a new wave of protests over the past few days against a controversial law to deny citizenship to muslim immigrants want to see this Tony Berkeley is there and says when process against the sisters in law 1st began they worry about civil rights but now that has anger has turned sectarian. The major violent scenes are stopped at least for now and now theyre assessing the damage as you can see quite extensive in this part but also the human cost the death casualty figures are going up by the hour almost Something Like 250 people have been injured and killed and now theres a mop up operation that has been a piece really because of women who were decided to stop their protest in just for a bad at a station. After intense provocation by hindu nationalists now that violence is spin some of the worst that delhi has seen in decades and the casualties show that so theres a big deep rooted problem that has now overshadow what this whole matter was about this was about civil rights over the citizens Amendment Act but its being come in northeast delhi something about religion between ms muslims and hindus and thats not how it was this whole protest Movement Began because of across the board all religious denominations all minorities protesting about this new law which they say was racist now the problem is now this is being used as a kind of victory now by some of the hindu nationalists they said they wanted these women to be moved they were moved and now it sets a dangerous precedent what will happen in future if theres another protests will they do the same thing violence seems to work now weve had nothing from the Prime Minister mr modi until today 3 days arter this whole thing started and he calling for calm hes calling for peace and harmony with be no peace and harmony here quite the reverse the problem is how can they rebuild now from this how can they regain the trust if you look at this damage its superficial compared to the deep rooted scars weve spoken spoken to people whove lost their loved ones hindus and muslims they have suffered their ones have been killed we dont know exactly who was responsible for the killings most of the people seem to be killed by gunshot wounds but some are. Also have been stoned and beaten to the point where their injuries me meant they died so we dont know what the situation is there needs to be an inquiry human rights activists are calling for the government to actually take deeper stronger measures to find out the root causes of this and find the people who were responsible and bring them to justice that we may be one of the 1st steps needed to bring these communities together again. Still to come on aljazeera report some noise some fighters backing libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar are being accused of sharing an ideology but i assume the sporting events in japan become the mesas to be affected by the coronavirus now the pressures on to decide what city the upcoming olympics. Clearer but dry weather pushing into japan at the moment this area cloud that is in the process of pulling out into the open waters a little area of low pressure tucked in behind weve got the northerly winds thats why its going to cool off so temperatures struggling to get into double figures still a few wintry flowers coming in across northern parts of honshu through hook. So wintry flurries too into Northern Areas of china beijing struggling to get to around 4 or 5 degrees central areas system cloud and rain which will become a little more expansive as we go on through friday pushing over towards the Korean Peninsula south of that not bad in hong kong temperatures here at around 23. 00 degrees with some sunshine in that sunshine stretches down across indochina through the philippines usual russia showers there across malaysia heaviest of which looking likely to cling on just around about indonesia some more big downpours coming in here to go on through the next couple of days now when they was wet as it was on monday but still what nevertheless a little bit of wet weather making its way across northeastern parts of india through bangladesh for much of india now it is dry and sunny that sunshine extending down into sri lanka want to see showers and notice just around the kerala want to see showers some more wintry nature up to the far north the region. Americans live side by side. Into parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing theyre on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong on the bottom line on us politics and policies and theyre affecting the world. The us is always of interest to people all right the world people Pay Attention to what you have now does it is very good to bring the news to the world from here. The. This is out as they are a reminder of the headlines this hour for the 1st time since the corona Virus Outbreak began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the number within south korea has the highest number of confirmed cases at 1200. The indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence in delhi killed at least 22 people in the 200 others were injured after hindus for missile and before with more protests against a contentious citizenship flow. Of turkish president richard typer to one says uncorrupt plans to push back Syrian Forces in italy province turkey has a number of military observation posts there and some have been surrounded steering in advance by the syrian governments one has also called all damascus and its all i must go to stop their attacks and let civilians leave the border safely. We are doing and will continue to do all that we can to address a humanitarian catastrophe taking place in it lead we demand the regime pulls back to where we agreed in sochi unfortunately russia is not concerned with this humanitarian issue the assad regime is killing his own people we will push their forces back from the border and make sure the refugees can go home meanwhile the United Nations says nearly 950000 people have been displaced since the government began its offensive in december and it says more than half of the People Living in places like this are children so its the biggest displacement of people in such a short time in the nearly 9 year long war has been described as a horrifying new level of crisis many people had come to know at the Northwest Region after fleeing other areas be widespread reports of babies and small children dying over exposure. Will this is what theyre fleeing at least 26 civilians including schoolchildren have been killed and more than 100 enjoyed in the past day alone russian and syrian air strikes and shelling look at a number of times and villages across atlanta and the remaining rebel held areas in hama and aleppo on the grounds Government Forces have taken a cost of locations in the southwest of the province. A sense the libyan warlord hell if i have to began his offensive to take back the capital tripoli hes courted the west by saying hes trying to rid the country over in his words terrorists but elements within have to his forces have been accused of sharing an ideology similar to al qaida and eisel mischance stratford reports from tripoli the fighters have also been accused of war crimes. These are fighters loyal to walter Khalifa Haftar battling un backed Government Forces in eastern libya. I have to says the world should support him because hes a secular force the west can trust to fight terrorism. But many of the most powerful militias fighting for after a considered by western governments to be a threat to the future stability of libya and the security of their own countries because of the ideology they embrace. The big contradiction is in what have to tries to promote about himself and the evidence which is clear that his forces are comprised of so if you had these their ideology scares many people we have seen them storming mosques and forcing others to follow their version of islam they are in an open war against the moderates in libya. These are monthly fighters saying that huffed is gods chosen one the market is follow what some analysts describe as an ultra conservative 6 with a jihadist ideology based in saudi arabia this is a saudi based shaikh telling mudhoney fighters loyal to have to that their fight against the un backed government in tripoli is a religious one the government in tripoli in western libya says it wants to dissolve all militias fighting on its behalf and integrate them into a National Army have to has far more solid hes fighting with him by thousands than the western government so what he says and whats actually happening on the ground is quite different the backbone of his libyan troops the Strongest Force arent highly salafist to follow an obscure saudi sheik and know him and have what some claim is a quietist philosophy although this is an anomaly to you for all the analysts because what kind of quiet is silent this should sit people every day this is general haftar with one of his top commanders mahmoud were fully. And this is a lawfully killing prisoners in benghazi he is wanted by the International Criminal court to face war crimes after reportedly detaining a wolf for leave for a few days after release him and promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel in the near 6 years since warlord Khalifa Haftar launched his military operation to try and seize power in libya Rights Groups such as Amnesty International have accused both sides of committing war crimes after describes himself as being a secular leader fighting terrorism a leader the west can trust but for the un backed government here in tripoli military analysts and many people across this country that simply isnt true strafford aljazeera tripoli. An official from libyas eastern which is loyal to the war not only for have to has reiterated that his sides arent taking part in political talks in geneva at the last cancer james bays is that the latest the un has confirmed that long awaited political talks on libya have got under way here in geneva but they wont confirm exactly whos attending there were supposed to be 13 delegates invited from the house of representatives now most of them are loyal to general haftar and they say theyre not participating there was also supposed to be 13 from the other side the government of National Accord their States Council and they too say theyre not taking part in these talks process that leaves another 14 invited directly by the u. N. Representing Civil Society and others its not clear whether all of those are here either its clear that the u. N. Envoy gets on salami is trying to create some momentum for his process but theres no transparency and if those that actually can end the war and not here you do ask whats the point. A state funeral has been held in cairo for egypts former leader Hosni Mubarak hes i dont choose day at the age of 91 the governments announced 3 days of National Mourning after his death barak was in power for 3 decades until being 4 states during the 2011 revolution well just syrias middle east analyst you hear them is here with me in the studio weve been talking a lot about the impact that Hosni Mubarak had she was in power for 3 decades. Many achievements during that time and also many challenges what do you think his supporters will look back on as the high points of his tenure at its own. I get i guess when i talk about the you could this that could be given to mubarak im not talking about his supporters because his supporters actually fail to see any wrong to stand by their president. But the few criticize that i can remember that could be given to mubarak is the fact that he managed during most of his team year long team to put the distance between the direct army rule of the country and the civilian facade that he represented so that credit could be given to mubarak. Which is totally the opposite nowadays with sisi now we see. Rule. Army is ruling directly the country its not just ruling politically its actually only more so big and when i say own i mean it literally. So that could be given to him also because of this make believe. Invented make believe political life that mubarak had been he has been keen to present to most of you and most of his team here he had to allow a margin of freedom of expression. You know it was part of the decor. And decoration of that make believe political version he presented that could be given to him as well. But the bottom line is now were being or the egyptians are being ruled directly by the army. The economy is controlled and all mostly by the army and this is a keyless heel for the whole country and also for the army in the long term and that is why i wish and i hope that the army leaders would rethink its a must we think this central role in ruling that country in order to get back to where they have been to be accepted by the majority of the people they have to rethink their role this in tragedy of the army in the political arena i believe has to be reconsidered to be reconsidered by the army itself when do you think that is likely to happen i mean that the current ruler of egypt. Ccs a military man himself yes. Is there any indication its all that the army is willing to step back and take an alternative route. That the army i didnt say sisi because i think it would be very difficult for someone like sisi to reconsider this issue i am talking mainly about the army and believe this of the army and lets lets look back at. The situation during the team year of. Course that came from the ranks of the army but he always detached the army from the rule of egypt he always kept that. Civilian 1st saw of the presidency in egypt and i guess this is the 1st step that should be taken otherwise as we have seen you know from mubarak to c. C. That devotion because you know keeping up this system is is is only going to lead to the pollution devolution after devolution now weve devoted to this what we have now which is almost the direct rule military rule so i think it has to be reconsidered for the interest of both the people and the military great scary thought thank you so much and then theres middle east analysts and i malaysias interim Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says you return as leader if he has and of support in Parliament Well 2 days ago he resigned suddenly and his party quits the governing coalition mahathir says he and i want to form a new unity government which he says wouldnt be aligned with any specific party but his former Coalition Partner on where he brahimi says 3 parties have no money to take him as Prime Minister instead. Other being protests in mexico over the killing of 3 students and their driver large crowds of students and teachers gathered to demonstrate their deaths in the central city of wedlock 3 students had gone missing after catching a new perjuring carnival celebrations and reports several people have been arrested over their deaths. My family in the u. S. State of florida has released video of their 6 year old child he arrested at school. Her. Girls heard something in prison as her hands are restrained that is it side before been lifted into a police car theyve been accused of kicking and punching staff since that School Incidents happened back in september. As i mentioned earlier japans leaders calling for some advance to be delayed or canceled david stokes reports this comes just 5 months before the tokyo tokyo and picks gets underway. Japan is set to host the olympics in 149. 00 days but right now domestic sporting events are taking a major hit as the Prime Minister shinzo abe and his government try to curb the spread of coronavirus but thats a look at about the money youre not considering that theres a large risk of infection for nationwide sports and cultural events where a large number of people gather we will consider measures such as suspension put spawn meant and reduction of size for the next 2 weeks worrying times for organizers of tokyo 2020 which has been 7 years in the making at a cost of more than 20000000000. 00 the games start in july with 11000 athletes expected to compete and hundreds of thousands of friends set to attend on tuesday dick pound the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee Said the games are under threat and that a call needs to be made within 3 months however the head of tokyo. 2020 has played down those comments the normal basic thought saw that we will go ahead with the olympic and Paralympic Games a shed jeweled that the end of may is the time limits weve never heard of this so when we asked about it the i. O. C. Said its not their official position the games may still be on but coronavirus has already made its mark on the event qualifying tournament safin perspiring across several sports from book sing to badminton but a limpid committees around the world are still preparing to compete come july were taking it very seriously were not going to this walk through the next few months you know avoiding the conversation were dealing with and were taking going to vice and were very mine as have partners out. In the taking down in the organizing committee come for the guys and go ahead theres been talk of possibly moving the games to london which hosted back in 2012 but its unlikely given the logistics involved and the limited Time Available listen youre going to do theres your florida. Bans 2 months is not enough time youll never get it in stock you know or bust. Organizers are considering scaling back the Olympic Torch Relay which starts in march the modern games have only ever been counseled on 3 occasions since they began in 1996 each time because of war and the longer the battle against coronavirus drags on the more tokyo 2020 is at risk of suffering the same fight david stokes aljazeera. This is ounces here and these are the headlines for the 1st time since the coronavirus a break began the number of new infections outside china has exceeded the number within south korea has the highest number of confirmed cases at 12 hundreds meanwhile irans president has announced further measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus in iran defended the governments handling of the situation a total of 19 people have died there the highest number outside of china market bottom of the chair arm to actually i emphasize that we dont manipulate the figures we know either increase nor decreased them nor do we exaggerate or downplay him ive told the Health Ministry to announce any figures they have this is a plot we see today in foreign propaganda recently a high ranking u. S. Official made a comment about coronavirus in iran themselves are dealing with the flu 16000 died because of that this year but they dont talk about it and now they are turning their attention to corona virus in iran. And in Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence and delhi killed at least 22 people nearly 200 others were injured after hindus fought with muslims for more protests against a contentious citizenship law turkish president richard Tayyip Erdogan says ankara will push back moscow backed Syrian Forces in edler province and make it safe for civilians the United Nations estimates nearly 950000 people have been displaced there since the beginning of december the state funeral has been held in cairo for egypts former leader Hosni Mubarak who died on cheese day at the age of 91. Malaysias interim Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he would return as leader if he has enough supports in parliaments t. J. Cicle he resigned suddenly he now wants to form a new unity government that would align any specific policy that is form a Coalition Partner for him since the parties have nominated him as Prime Minister in states that state stay with us on here now to see what the bottom line is next. Its the gene that will define the democratic race for the white house. Team states get to make eventually its challenge. In the president ial election joining us for american super tuesday. Special coverage night on al jazeera. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question well internationalism institutions like the u. N. And global commitments to democracy and human rights survive if america says it just doesnt care anymore lets get to the bottom line. When the west led by the United States played architect to build a vast array of International Institutions to promote justice liberal democracy open markets and prevent another global war thats what the world got we built the United Nations we built nato the i. M. F. And world bank the International Energy agency World Health Organization that are World Trade Organization i could go on and on and on but those days may be over at this years Munich Security Conference the worlds most important convening of national sick