Sanctions designed to further isolate syrias president and force him to make concessions. Welcome to the program a day after north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border and Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular exercises and wrist obvious gob posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions well robert fried is live in persia thats on the south korean side of the border so talk us through the mood there in south korea after these latest threats from the north. I think generally there is a feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of words will get out but also i think generally in south korea there is a feeling of we have been here before people here are very philosophical about these kind of cycles of crisis and then reconciliation theyve been through this kind of thing before whats different this time possibly is that there was really a feeling of a potentially that this was going to lead to some kind of breakthrough that we havent seen in the past and that will obviously leave many people here disappointed where we are now this is its about as close as you can get in south korea to the d. M. Z. Its another few kilometers further on from here but it is also one of the crossing points for the main rail links between north and south that gives you an idea of the legacy of the conflict and also hopes of future coexistence hopes that until recently at least had been very much alive and well one of the bridges here was destroyed during the war and has been left like that but the other bridge was restored and then in a previous rounds of reconciliation they actually reconnected the rail link between north d and south its connected its ready to roll just trains the feeling was that the negotiations reconciliations were going so well this time that it was going to possibly lead to regular Train Services restarting between north d and south which would have been something quite historic obviously all of that now seems increasingly farfetched especially as we get this developing war of words its really the acrimony of the old we have junk she is the increasingly influential and powerful sister of the north Korean Leader whos become almost the point person when it comes to lobbying insults at the south branding south koreas president moon j. In as brazen and shameless. And then returned we now have the president ial office the blue house the government of new j. M. Which until now has been very conciliatory trying to keep things on track retaliating in kind it seems talking about her comments being rude and senseless and saying that the south korean government will not tolerate unreasonable words and acts in future and rob just briefly so how does this escalation fit into the broader context of north koreas playbook i think this is really north korea showing its frustration at the stalled dialogue with south korea but also with the United States obviously not going anywhere possibly it is being naive overestimating the influence that the South Koreans have with the World Community on getting relaxations of sanctions on getting the United States to move their position but partly it could also be playing to a domestic audience it almost has to create a crisis now to explain to people in north korea why all of this dialogue seem to have been going nowhere. There live for us and presume in south korea rob thank you now indian and chinese officials are blaming each other for a deadly brawl in a disputed region of the himalayas 20 indian soldiers were killed when a standoff over a construction escalated to stone throwing and fist fights to share the worlds longest unmarked border a line in yellow is the socalled blind of actual control but there are several disputed areas on both sides one of the main ones is chin which is claimed by india but its been administered by china since 962 thats when the 2 countries went to war over the border the most recent serious tension was in 2017 of the chinese Road Construction in an area between nepal and bhutan and the katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrinas a both sides of blaming each other for this deadly skirmish but whats been the response there in beijing and houses playing out in the media. Well according to beijing both china and india had been engaging in deescalating dialogues in the lead up to june and on june 6th they say they reached a consensus now about what happened one day a Chinese Military spokesperson released a statement on choosing night saying that indian troops violated this commitment that was signed on june 6th that they crossed the border line and deliberately launched provocative attacks are completely blaming the indian side for what happened in saying that also that this took place what was clearly chinese territory now when it comes to state media weve just had a the national a very nationalistic state media newspaper the global times come out today in the on the front pages heading china just india to restrain and this paper is known for being quite nationalistic and it cures india of our gains and recklessness on the border and it is warning india essentially that not to underestimate chinas willingness to to stand up its sovereignty is is challenge but on the whole. With this newspaper and other newspapers and other state media the line generally is calling for both sides to go back to the table to discuss things to prevent things from spiraling further out of control and to just show restraint so even though there is a quite a lot of blood from some sides of the Chinese State media this seems to be overall no willingness or no desire at least to engage in conflict yeah and thats an important point to make katrina because neither side currently seems willing to compromise so how is this like for them to be deescalated to prevent an all out conflict on the border. Well thats right i mean both sides have nationalistic governments led by strongman leaders but its difficult to imagine that both sides would benefit from an all out conflict we do know both sides at the moment are engaging in high level diplomatic talks including some that took place in beijing this week to deescalate the situation and we know from chinas side now there have been reports that china also suffered casualties but the Chinese Government has not released any numbers and this seems to be the biggest indication that they dont want to domestically storch any confrontational sentiment from china specific to this is not something they want or need at the mormon chinas got its hands full between to contain the carvin 1000 outbreak but the really trying to rev up its economy all sectors of government have been told recently to tighten their belts so its hard to see how they can even afford an all out confrontation and when you think about it geo politically china has been investing a lot of time and effort into actually getting closer to india over the past few years president xi and president where he met twice in 2019 and in the 2nd meeting president xi jinping acknowledge the difficulties with disagreements over the border but he said that the only solution is for a dragon to continue dancing with the elephant showing that they really he really wants these 2 countries to Work Together as partners as to age of asian dions because the last thing that china wants is to create any false move or any event that would see india be pushed further into the arms of the u. S. And i to continue you there live for us from beijing catrina thank you turkey has launched another military offensive against the thirtys armed group the p. K. K. Northern iraq troops were deployed to the hudson in region near the Turkish Border and jets targeted p k k positions its the 2nd offensive against the p. K. K. This week turkey considers it the terms group. The trumpet ministration is suing former National Security adviser john bolton in an attempt to stop him publishing a book about his time working at the white house the government says the book contains classified information and must be edited before its released the book is said to accuse trump of committing several impeachable offenses bolton was fired last year after serving 17 months in the role somebody said he wanted to write a book and he wrote a book i cant imagine that he can because thats highly classified information even conversations with me theyre highly classified i told that to the attorney general before i would consider every conversation with me as president highly classified so that would mean that if you wrote a book and if it if the book its out hes broken the law. Meanwhile the us president has signed an executive order to reform policing following the death of george floyd in custody it aims to stop bad officers being able to move jobs and to restrict the use of nicoles the president rejected calls to defund the police and fisher reports in the white house. After 2 weeks of being accused of not doing enough on the protests sweeping the country President Donald Trump gave his blueprint for the way ahead peace and dignity and equality for all americans in the rose garden of the white house with senior Law Enforcement figures looking on he signed an executive order which falls far short of the changes demanded by protesters the president wants to ban chokeholds unless the life of an officer is a threat set up a National Database to stop but officers balancing your own Police Departments provide funding for better training including deescalation and provide social work support in Certain Police cases but he rejected the idea of defunding Police Departments which many are calling for or strongly oppose the radical and dangerous efforts to defend dismantle them dissolve our Police Departments especially now when weve achieved the lowest recorded crime rates in recent history. Americans know the truth without police there is chaos without law there is an arche and without safety there is catastrophe. Protests erupted across america after the killing of george floyd a Police Officer knelt on his neck for it minutes and 46 seconds 3 officers were also on the scene but did nothing to help all no Police Murder charges. But the president insists good course wont but cops go on were tiny its a very small percentage what we are seeing here is basically tiny steps by President Donald Trump to address the issue but what were seeing from the president also is the president is waiting for and looking to congress that is now working on legislation both in the house and the senate to address wholesale systemic changes what was missing from the executive order was any suggestion of Sweeping Police Reform there was no notion that racism may be a systemic problem or that black people receive different treatment from the police new legislation is come clean be considered by congress campaigners will be hoping that it goes much farther than the president s executive order alan fischer aljazeera at the white house. Time for a short break here aljazeera when we come back a coronavirus breakthrough the simple steroids treatment that slashing the rate of cope with 19 related deaths. And how a high profile football of course the u. K. Government to reverse its decision of a Free School Meals on a stimulus. Hello there day one picture throughout much of the United States particularly across the southwest meanwhile across the carolinas still some very heavy amounts of rain a very stubborn overpressure which just really refuses to move so that could lead to some more flooding but as i say out across the west it is all about this there are numerous fires burning this is one large fire not far from Oklahoma City and you can just see really the size of this but also the ferocity it is very dry there is very low humidity and the winds a particularly strong so all the way across the Desert Southwest the Southern Plains even into Central Plains theres actually an elevated fine danger level up to critical over the next few days theres rain to the north of there you can see it work its way into the Northern Plains and there is a system through wednesday which just sits really across the eastern seaboard it just doesnt move it does begin to ease on thursday the rain by then pushing up towards d. C. Fine and dry across the southeast of a cloudy picture and then as i say out across the west it will still say dry and those winds are still very strong so again that fire danger a real concern meanwhile the rains are particularly heavy again through Central America the yucatan peninsula one jurors nicaragua and am very heavy amounts of rain across into cuba in by thursday so if you want showers in the forecast at this time it be florida as well but the rains are heavy on across into the northern bahamas. At night in a stalker somaly mam patrolled Streets Police ski and not. For lack of cleaning and being tired of Gang Violence they use the maternal approach to prevent crime. By the stories we dont often hear told by the people who live there mothers of rain could be this is europe on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick about of the top stories here this hour north koreas military says it will redeploy troops near the Demilitarized Zone and resume regular exercises along frontline areas it comes a day after feeling young destroyed in the eightys and all this means to communicate with south korea. Indian and chinese officials are blaming each other for a Deadly Border brawl in a disputed region of the himalayas 20 indian soldiers killed. And turkey has launched another military offensive against the Kurdish Group the p. K. K. In Northern Iraq troops were deployed to a region near the Turkish Border and jets targeted p k k positions as the 2nd offensive against the group this week. Now a cheap and widely available steroids can dramatically cut the death rate from covert 19 a new drug trial in the u. K. Has shown dexamethasone reduced deaths by around a 3rd among those with the most acute cases of infection the World Health Organization is describing the results of the Clinical Trial as a lifesaving scientific breakthrough the virus has killed more than 440000 people worldwide well Martin Landry is one of those leading the trial he says one of the best advantages is that the drug isnt a strain on health budgets. Well its certainly a major step forward or here you could look into a treatment that would reduce the chances of patients with covert from dying and we found what other new found was but it was right under our noses it was a very just covered in every pharmacy and every hospitals pretty much in every country and its called dexamethasone this low dose steroids dampens information that might otherwise be attacking the lungs and that prevents people from dying those particular people are already on ventilators weve still got a problem this is reducing the risk of dying theres a political and then places by a 3rd that means that theres still quite a large numbers of people who are dying which is a significant 1st step if i think about what we do in other areas of medicine we very often use 23. 00 or 4 drugs in combination each time to lower their risk a bit well that starts with having the 1st drug that lowers risk this is the 1st drop that lowers risk its really cheap its really widely available thats a great start if you walk into a board patients on ventilators and you gave them all dexamethasone one of those patients who would otherwise have died will walk out of there alive so having to just spend 1. 00 on each patient so its a big here is a big impact on a major issue and they have particularly important result because this is not some expensive new drug developed by a Big Pharmaceutical Company this is a drug we already have thats fantastic. And the death toll has passed 3300. 00 thats one of the highest death rates in the world one reason is that a month long lockdown in the epicenter of the capital santiago hasnt worked some are saying the city needs to go into hibernation instead the sentiment has its report. These residents wave goodbye to yet another neighbor whos died 19 a scene thats being repeated and what medical experts call a catastrophic great so you dont want it to tear it as 47 year old brother was infected while you work in a pharmacy 3 days after taking a cold 19 test he was rushed to hospital but he was sent back home the next day without a diagnosis. 2 days later he was back unable to breathe. He was worried that we could get infected and he sent us home the next day he was dead we buried him and it wasnt until the day after that that the results of his kovi test came back positive. It did in his family blame the government for gross incompetence theyre angry that it refused to implement drastic measures early enough to prevent widespread contagion. And government was reluctant to declare a full lockdown in the capital until a month ago by then contagion was totally out of control and even that has been ineffective government subsidies have been insufficient and too slow in arriving as for respecting the quarantine we crossed the whole city without being asked for our permits to circulate by soldiers or police were important to the community with the highest rate of contagion in the whole country and its supposed to be under lockdown like the rest of the capital but as you can see there are people absolutely everywhere traffic as well and so now war war voices are demanding that some cat will be put under hibernation which is really just a euphemism for a quarantine that actually works. To the think tank that came up with the term. At the beginning we had a 40 percent reduction in public mobility this is way too little we need at least 70 percent for a lockdown to be effective and now many people are ignoring it altogether so we need to rethink the strategy. That means enforcing the quarantine energetically allowing only essential businesses to keep working and implementing a robust social aid program to allow the unemployed to stay home something the president has finally agreed to do many accuse the government of refusing to listen to warnings from mares and the Scientific Community i think that is their they made. Or the problem. That you have a government that was not able to. West not. Wanted to make it right. This on time and now we are suffering the consequences. As of this week theres a new Health Minister whos more open to advice in criticism but promises of remedies in past mistakes is small consolation for thousands of families who are burying their dead you see in human aljazeera santiago. New u. S. Sanctions are about to go into effect targeting any country individual or entity the provide support to syrias government the sanctions and the legislation called the seas act are designed to force president Bashar Al Assad to make political concessions so now to reports from beirut. Theyre known as caesars photographs named after a military defector who documented torture and killings in Syrian Government jails his testimonies to the u. S. Congress was part of a campaign to hold the regime responsible for what have been described as war crimes it led to the passing and now the implementation of a bill in the u. S. The socalled caesar act. They need country in the world theres a company that will. Be thats providing acknowledged financial support. Military support. All liable for things to. These sanctions go further than existing ones are aimed at preventing International Engagement with Bashar Assads government partnering or fighting on its side will also be punishable by the Syrian Government calls the legislation economic terrorism but proponents of the law point to exemptions that minimize any impact on civilians. The federal government is allowed to buy medicine they want but they dont want to. Be on that they want to fund their war machine they want to pump the militia human Rights Groups have accused the Syrian Government of using aid to fund its atrocities benefit those loyal to it and punish opponents by confiscating their properties plans to move to a postwar phase in syria will now be difficult. Its. This what this. Regime oh its already faced with a collapsing economy and currency there is unprecedented poverty some say a 3rd hasnt been this vulnerable at any time during the 9 year war. It kind of shuts the door fully closed in terms of there being any light at the end of the tunnel for the Syrian Regime so i think politically and diplomatically that will have an impact but it adds to the already terrible effects of the syrian economic crisis assad has faced pressure in the past but has never agreed to making political concessions he since the clear victory in the war in syria and while he may have won militarily winning the peace may prove harder the new legislation means the fight for damascus as the seat of assads power and legitimacy has still to be fought. Who think rebels in yemen not accuse the Saudi Led Coalition of killing several civilians including children and asked trucks that comes off of the u. N. Remove the coalition from a blacklist of countries that kill children in conflict zones of decision and human Rights Groups describe as appalling. Reports. Outside of the United Nations headquarters in yemen protesters are in disbelief theyre condemning the decision to remove the military Coalition Led by saudi arabia from a u. N. Blacklist. You know now its considered a list of shame for attacks like these exposing anyone who kills harms or abuses children in war zones the Saudi Led Coalition was listed for 3 years exposed for his war record in yemen but beyond that its a disgrace that the United Nations removed saudi arabia from the list for killing children everyone in the world including saudi arabia knows its a shame on humanity you know. Hours after the removal announcement who the rebels say 13 people were killed in a saudi little attack in northwest yemen 4 of them children more victims of the emmons 5 year war because the coalition has consistently attacked schools and hospitals to also be listed for that violation knowing that they had attacked in 20202019 all schools and hospitals and yet they are not part of that list of better traitors the u. N. Says the coalition was removed from the list because its taken steps to stop harming children but the u. N. Also says 222. 00 children were killed or injured by saudi led attacks last year. Monetary make every. Month who are sure and under complete a hold and you know. There are young victims on both sides of the conflict the u. N. Says who the fighters are responsible for hurting or killing 313. 00 children and Yemeni Government forces account for 96. 00 casualties but unlike the Saudi Led Coalition both remain on the blacklist. The coalition is blamed for pushing yemen into a deepening crisis threats of famine and disease the saudis intervened in 2015 to support yemens government against the rebels backed by iran treaties and cease fires have been ignored and the violent struggle for power has continued the u. N. Is warning the coalition it will go back on the list if it fails to reduce the number of childcare will tease but critics argue the u. N. Has compromise the integrity of the list of shame had this other u. N. Aljazeera Iraqi Security forces have fired tear gas at protesters in the Southern City of basra crowds have been calling for the province as leaders to step down using them of corruption. And a high profile footballer has talked the u. K. Government into a u. Turn of the help for School Children from struggling families food vouchers were to stop during the Summer School break until Manchester UnitedsMarcus Rushford convince the Prime Minister to reconsider that in barber reports hes a 22 year old footballer and hes just managed to bring about a major government policy change on tuesday Prime MinisterBoris Johnson reversed his decision to stop providing food vouchers for School Children when the Summer Holidays start theyll now be a covered Summer Food Fund costing around 150000000. 00 with more than a 1000000 children qualifying thats prompted the Manchester United england star to put out this tweet. Since britains lockdown started in march many families have been given either vouchers to spend at supermarkets or food parcels but the scheme was due to end next month in england last weekend rushford wrote an open letter to all members of parliament urging a rethink he used his own experience of growing up relying on Free School Meals and food banks even though his mother worked full time there obviously has a huge importance for me. Probably on a personal level because. You know what from is a calling for now i want to go through the. Same system and its very difficult to find a way out. Now that im in this position and then its very important for me to help the people that are struggling rushford campaign drew widespread support including from some members of johnsons governing conservative party the government stuck to its guns saying it was spending money on summer activities and local authority hardship funds but then shortly before the Prime Minister was due to appear in parliament came the announcement and in the last hour the government has you turned on Free School Meals can i put on record my thanks to Marcus Rushford for the part that he has played on this issue with the victory for the bomb point 3000000 children affected. Marcus rushford has already helped raise around 25000000. 00 for one charity to supply meals to struggling families their chief executive has welcomed the new extension but hes warning about challenges just around the corner the really important sticking plaster after that were going to have large numbers of living come to an end as well increasing large numbers of people who are going to need. Further support and this is where we are actually quite fearful of the future the c. E. O. Of the premier league has also congratulated rushford on his ladys achievements but the real winners will surely be children whom as he said about his younger self the system was not built to help the aljazeera. Time for a quick check of the headlines here on aljazeera north koreas military says it will redeploy troops near the Demilitarized Zone and resume regular military exercises along frontline areas it comes a day after pyongyang destroyed a Liaison Office used to communicate with south korea solver says it will no longer accept a result behavior by the north brian has the latest from on the south korean side of the border of more concern in the south will be this possible plan to set up guard posts one small inside the Demilitarized Zone this strip of no mans land that separates north and south they as part of a 2018 agreement at the height of the reconciliation both sides agreed to dismantle these very confrontational symbolic border posts and bring their troops back so that will be a concern especially as this whole agreement that was agreed back in the heady days of 2018 now seems to be in tatters indian and chinese officials are blaming each other for a Deadly Border brawl in a disputed region of the himalayas 20 indian soldiers were killed the Indian Army Says there were also casualties on the chinese side but fading hasnt confirmed this turkey has launched another military offensive against the Kurdish Group the p. K. K. In Northern Iraq troops were deployed to a region near the Turkish Border and jets hit p k k positions as a 2nd offensive against the group this week. The Trump Administration is suing former National Security adviser john bolton in an attempt to stop him publishing a book about his time working at the white house the government says the book contains classified information and must be edited before its released im trying to sign an executive order to reform policing following the death of george floyd in custody it aims to stop bad officers being able to move jobs and to restrict the use of mc holds but the president rejected calls to defund the police. On the cheap and widely available steroid can dramatically cut the death rate from co but 19 the new drug drug in the u. K. Has shown that some methods reduce deaths by around a 3rd among those with the most severe cases of the infection the World Health Organization is describing the results of the Clinical Trial as a lifesaving scientific breakthrough. Those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after this is erupt statement that subject buffalo. Trade tensions could cause Global Economic growth point 700000000000. 00 we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the United NationsWorld Food Program is warning of multiple families of biblical proportions counting the cost on our just iraq. Some of that was i