Surged in several states plus. Russia stages ground of world war 2 parade staring at traffic further ahead of a vote that could extend that of their persons presidency. A plan by israel to annex parts of the occupied west bank has been condemned by the United Nations secretarygeneral as a most serious violation of International Law attorney has appealed to israel to change its mind while the arab league is warning that if it doesnt it could be a religious war a diplomatic editor james bays reports from the u. N. Headquarters in new york. With the clock ticking towards the deadline for an extension of the u. N. Secretary general made his position to the Security Council extremely clear if you meant this and excision the most serious violation of International Law. Grievously harmed the prospect of a 2 state solution and the cut the possibilities of a new will of negotiations i call on the Israeli Government will ban its an exception class Palestinian Foreign minister riad el maliki says the israel of Benjamin Netanyahu doesnt believe its bound by International Norms or laws israel things as has been its experience so far that it will not be fined or passed in its millions that Security Council resolutions are binding for Others International course have jurisdiction over others sanctions are full others israels ambassador danny de known went back in history to justify an accession. Everything more that led the people of israel out of egypt. Into the land of israel we dont live in the land yeah that one of. The jews here believe and exit the road sovereignty in their land but the vast majority 14 out of 15 members of the Security Council are following more recent history the councils own resolutions when israel took East Jerusalem the west bank and gaza in the 1967 war the Security Council declared in numerous subsequent resolutions that these were occupied territories since then large parts of this Palestinian Land has been taken over by Israeli Settlers but this is the 1st time in 52 years that israel has come close to declaring sovereignty and taking permanent political control it its never been our internet to impose a solution the only country that could stop it is close ally the Us Ambassador kelly craft said little on the issue of annexation but speaking at the same time as her in washington d. C. Her boss the u. S. Secretary of state was clearer this isnt about its really extend its sovereignty the questions are decisions you really make some might see that as a green light for israel certainly israel is now in the driving seat its not clear if it will actually carry out an exception and if it does when it will take place and how much of the west bank will be annexed james bays al jazeera of the United Nations. Its not yet clear which parts or how much of the west bank would be absorbed into israel there are currently about 250. 00 israeli settlements all of which violate International Law and the Jordan Valley which is the most fertile land in the west bank its home to around 60000 palestinians most of it is controlled by israel with many palestinians unable to access land that they own but a moment well hear from needed to bring him in the Jordan Valley whos been speaking to one of the palestinian Prime Ministers advisers but 1st herefore sits in western explains how the initial stages of the x. Ation what look. A lot of the scrutiny here will be on exactly what is happening in the United States among senior u. S. Officials in washington d. C. They are meeting this week to discuss exactly how much and what will be greenlighted if its all in terms of the annexation the signals certainly have been pretty positive but there was talk from the u. S. Ambassador kelly craft during this meeting she said that it took courageous israeli leadership to make of the hard choices required so does that mean that they will require something of Benjamin Netanyahu in terms of acknowledging publicly that this is part of a trump plan which also as part of it contains a palestinian state something that might be harder for him to sell to his right wing supporters here in israel and also talking about holding the palestinian leadership accountable is that another attempt to try and get the palestinians to hold talks and potentially stave off an accession talks based on the trump plan which theyve utterly rejected because of the annexation it also includes in the huge loss of territory within the occupied west bank that would result i think its very late in the day to try and make those sorts of appeals over there are reports that they have been made through various channels to the palestinian leadership what is much more likely seems to be a coalescing of opinion around a limited potentially to start with at least a phased annexation. Pretext. That to me was a bit like their poor the palestinian Prime Minister 3 times osama bin laden. You. Actually missed the pentagon on mentioned if youre at the National Reserve you chains. By the. United nations that mentioning that an israeli state should. Start but he didnt mention hundreds of the future of the United Nations about that and give a shit about establishing a palestinian state also about that if you could get a good message we didnt reject any opportunity we were able and we are motivated to start negotiations at this i mean moment if this is according to the International Law and united dissenters the us is on to that a good deed and signed agreements between us on the us a list signed agreements was that. Security economy of the ballistics and as a leech only on line agreements its a dish only what i have decided i was able to. Hamas organized a protest in gaza city hundreds raised flags and banners denouncing israel for confiscating Palestinian Lands in the west bank earlier this month hamas leaders called for unity among palestinian factions in order to stop the annexation plan. Near it coronavirus cases in the u. S. Have risen to their highest level in 2 months its now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 deaths and researches from the university of washington are predicting that nearly 180000. 00 could die by october about half of the 50 states a seeing a surge especially in the self and southwest cases arising in the states same hair and dark orange going down and a lot taller inch the states shaded gray are considered stable new York New Jersey and connecticut teven post quarantine period for travelers from the states with the highest infection rates we worked very hard to get the truck viral truth machine rate damn we dont want to see it go up because a lot of people coming through this region and they could literally bring the infection with them the. Infection rate formula would be 10 per 10000187 day rolling average or 10 percent of the total population positive on a 7 day rolling average so any state that has an infection rate above that would require a 14 day quarantine as of today the states that are above that level are alabama arkansas arizona florida North Carolina South Carolina washington new talk texas thats as of today. Dr marcus a pleasure joins us now live on skype from atlanta ga hes chief medical officer at the association of state and Territorial Health officials or as though thank you time so you and yours website says youve been working with federal agencies and others to ensure that states have the resources and information that they need to effectively respond to this outbreak given the numbers that were seeing now do you think its working and where is the problem well and sort of whats going on now and you know i think the part of the problem is that you know people just or where or has been an Infectious Disease that the minute we sort of look to our arent the more were likely to see our searches and infection you know i think what were starting to see now in some of these states that are seeing the increase is this a lot more attention to the tools that we have now to fight the infection context raising really being aggressive settings combat settings and then really having the public take a lot more seriously some of the school distancing rules trying to keep 6 people are other people and starting to wear masks more often. Where is the problem do you think is it if is it a federal issue a state issued the politics. Of the pandemic you know this is turning into a political issue where is the problem here. Its a state response thats the Public Health system that we have in the United States and so its just set up that were going to see differences in different places different states that adapt to their Current Situation i think that you know the response is not a seamless response from the beginning its theres a lot of adversity and a lot of things to deal with i do think were getting there i think states are starting to put into place assistance that will help us control this better but were a little behind and weve been fortunately been behind from the very beginning. Present on time says where say more cases because more testing is being done is that the case so what are the metrics should we be looking at here i think its becoming increasingly clear that its not just a result of doing more testing were seeing greater percentages of the tests going up as well unfortunately were also starting to see more people going to and being hospitalized in many of our hospitals really getting into a critical capacity thats the thing that were most concerned about here is that important care hole and if we have too many cases we can get to a point where all our medical care system can become a well and that would be very very troubling and chaotic. Why do you think that americans are not taking the Public Health advice seriously Wearing Masks i mean we did just talk about this new research out from Washington University predicting that nearly 180000 people will have died from covered 1000. 00 by october but with the same research more than 30000. 00 lives could be saved if i believe it said 95 percent of people wore masks why is it that people are not taking this sort of this sort of warning seriously do you think. I dont know what were really perplexed why more people are Wearing Masks i mean weve actually been some surveys of the general public about the response and the interventions that we put into place around cope with and most of those that approaches have actually been very well supported 80 to 90 percent of people saying that they support work their Government Hotel agencies have done so im not sure what what the disconnect is was the masks maybe we just need to message it better it was certainly confusion early on about what they hope for now are now doing is pretty clear that they do i think we just need to keep putting that message out there and really pushing more even if it means more requirements to get more more of the public to participate i think that dr mark especially their chief medical officer at the association of state and Territorial Health officials. Coming up after i went to check. The boat carrying nearly 100 for him to return jesus on closing all the indonesians closed. And pushed into poverty by the pandemic and we spent a day with a family struggling to get by in mexico. And the Civil Service to developing 3 will southern regions of the United States you can see that. Plenty over thunderstorms and that is what we will see developing again as we go through thursday quite aligned real life in texas right the way across the southeast and up towards North Carolina to the east of d. C. So its a cloudy day we should be mostly dry high 28 degrees in the United States east and central canada down across into Northern Plains quite a rush of showers and thunderstorms it all becomes a little bit more organized on friday works its way this line of rain showers through Central Eastern canada and pushing down across the midwest and the great lakes but all the while skies are clear out tools of acidic northwest and the high of 27 in seattle is about 6 or 7 degrees above the average for june meanwhile across into the caribbean the showers a back in the 4 coss very widespread but secularly through the Windward Islands strong winds bringing the showers across into cuba multipart across the Central America but some very heavy downpours particularly to coastal areas over mexico again its all tied to that line of thunderstorms in the southern u. S. Youll see more showers as we go through friday very well scott said but certainly by friday more in the way of heavy downpours through central and southern areas of mexico with a high of 24 in mexico city. In a new series al jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how why burmese influence the course of history felt that he did not get enough credit for editing a budget he wants to be the biggest article figure but he was nonetheless the biggest account in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up part time in south Africa Nelson mandela and f. W. De klerk face to face off disease. Georgiadis there are a reminder of our top stories this hour the u. N. Secretary general has urged israel to abandon its annex parts of the occupied west bank calling it a watershed moment at a u. N. Security Council Meeting the arab league warned that the move which could begin as soon as next week could ignite a religious war. U. S. Secretary of state compote has spoken about the annexation he says decisions about extending sovereignty are for israel to make and it says the palestinians should have joint negotiation. New coronavirus cases in the u. S. Of risen to the highest level in 2 months its now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 125000 deaths and researchers at the university of washington are predicting that nearly 180000 could die by on. At least 94. 00 rwanda refugees including 30 children have been rescued in indonesia in waters by fishermen on monday after their boat capsized off the coast of our province the refugees have been stuck on the fishermans boat since then waiting for indonesia to decide whether to accept them well asia and indonesia are favorite destinations for him to flee violence in me and ma and poverty in refugee camps in bangladesh jessica washington is in jakarta jessica what more can you tell us. This is still very much as a fellow situation its Early Morning here. Is at least 90 people. Found on board a sinking vessel before they were rescued by into the fish and according to al sources on the ground it could be even more than 94 also please more than a 100 as as you said earlier at least. Now sources on the ground that some of them appear to be around the age of 3 or 4 weve heard from local military authorities in the north who say that the. Sending. Out to sea at this stage and that they will not be allowed to say lets have a look at what he had to say just a few hours ago. But some of the photos that we have given them just sticks and now we have the Police Watching them taking time to search and rescue teams and also with the military planning to fix the part we will give them. Push them away from territory. Now as is the case with the refugees who have arrived. Its unclear what will happen to this particular group we do understand that they will have to undergo Health Checks today as part of. Protocol we did hear from the foreign minister yesterday who did say that there. Is very much that. Countries across Southeast Asia must work to find. Solutions for these. So they say it is unclear if into the will accept. Thank you for that. U. S. Appeals court has ordered the dismissal of a criminal case against Donald Trumps a former National Security advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. During the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election trump has repeatedly criticized if the prosecution had to call him reports when Michael Flynn had the highly important job of National Security advisor the f. B. I. Came to the white house and he lied to them about contacts with the Russian Ambassador thats a crime he pled guilty to it twice but he later tried to take it back and then under attorney general william barr the Justice Department tried to throw out the case the judge in charge was debating it but now an Appellate Court has intervened ruling the flynn case has to be dismissed the decision written by a trump appointed judge there could be further appeals in the case but the president is claiming victory im very happy about general flan he was treated horribly he was treated very very heartily by a group of very bad people this all happened on the same day that congress is investigating how the Justice Department is handling cases involving the president s friends like roger stone convicted of lying to congress obstructing justice and witness intimidation the Justice Department overruled its only boyers to ask for a lesser prison sentence i was repeatedly told the Department Actions were not based on the law or the facts but rather on Political Considerations is just political relationships and the acting u. S. Attorney was afraid of the press other witnesses issued a dire warning and i am here because i believe that william barr poses the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law and to public trust in it that is because he does not believe in its core principle that no person is above the law but bar has his defenders so as to achieve justice because what motivates him. And motivates his decisions and thats all that motivates his decisions i think were fortunate to have a person of his temperament talents and convictions you know office during this difficult time in history at least one congressman says barr has to go we should pursue him pietschmann to your bar because he is raining terror on the rule of law that seems unlikely because in this era questions about politics influencing a usually nonpolitical Department Fall along party lines political gain aljazeera. Protests is a return to the streets of lebanons capital having lost patience with the governments promises to repair the economy some protesters forthwith police and i tried to clear them from one of beiruts main roads lebanons currency has lost more than 70 percent of its value since october economic lockdowns during the pandemic have only made matters worse. Kosovos president has been indicted for war crimes along with 9 other form a separatist fighters prosecutors in the hague say they are responsible for almost 100. 00 murders other charges including forced disappearances and torture a special court has been investigating crimes against ethnic serbs during kosovos war of independence in the 1990 s. Just there is the taj is in cost of capital and says many there are shocked. The indictment is certainly very significant because the. Employee was who was pressed. Up to this in the form of her or is a former speaker of the parliament both of them were commanders of a course on the british and on the war and one. Of the war party was the people with a leader you work closely with representatives of nato or United Nations for many years many times it was comparable with questions related to allegations or crimes and he has always been annoyed and he wrong 1st reaction was. Because of all Liberation Army veterans they say because of the Liberation Army did not commit any crimes. That they were defending their families ring the war and the all the all me that committed. War crimes during the war in knowing going to knowing it was serbian or i must say that the news came as a surprise the cost of. The un is warning that covered 19 is spreading rapidly across yemen as aid to try to stop humanitarian affairs chief mark local brief the Security Council saying about 25 percent of yemenis confirmed to have the disease have died thats 5 times the global average but the Health System in collapse we know many cases and deaths theyve gone on record it there is a stark choice before the world today support the humanitarian response and yemen help to create the space for i sustainable political solution or what yemen fall off the cliff. Up to 12000000 mexicans estimated have dropped out of the workforce because of the pandemic many are in danger of falling into extreme poverty John Heilemann reports from mexico city. Government to give voters are exhausted after an all day search for food. If you want to see how cove its affecting the poorest emits code they invite you to the 2 rooms this family of 8 shared than as a dozen prisoners is the last year we start at 10 am and come home at midnight just looking for food where we can get milk nappies enough for all of us. Before the pandemic nicholas had a job as a Security Guard and nancy sold sweets in a market between them they could feed the family were well thats all gone now and she told us when we 1st met her at a soup kitchen that embezzling everywhere since the start of the pandemic from much we havent had work and my 2 little ones my mom and my baby depend on me so i have to deal with it. This donated food is the only reason theyre not starving. Then all along the countrys Development Agency says the pandemic could tip more than 10000000. 00 into extreme poverty and its already happening we went to 16 soup kitchens across the capital all of them told us that lines of grown men he said theyre serving 3 or 4 times more meals than before what we found coming to the soup kitchens is that theres a lot of people here from the Informal Sector Street Vendors rubbish collectors market workers people that already for and this is just tip them over the edge. Even as the need has increased the number of soup kitchens and cells has phoolan those turning out to feed people like the benito from racists. And then more because of the pandemic signal kitchens close down and so people said to us please dont close to if you do where are we going to go. Its a salient question politics but told us that the federal government say programs dont really work for those in the Informal Sector like nancy wilson like ids income prove that theyve lost their jobs shes grateful for what she does get from charitable soup kitchens. She cleans toilets he wants to trump a little but you know what. By the end of the day the families eating the battles won tomorrow theyll join the queues again. John homan how does it or mexico city. Hall trying to confirm that some of the u. S. Troops hes pulling out of germany will be moved to poland he made the remarks while hosting polish president andry duda u. S. President is in a dispute with germany of a nato spending. Russia has staged victory day military parades which were delayed by more than a mom because of the pandemic and for president Vladimir Putin they represented much more than a chance to remember path acra feiss sunny gago explained. A show of might designed to commemorate and stir our russian patriotism. The 75th anniversary of the soviet unions victory of a nazi germany pulled out all the stops with 14000 troops from 13 countries and military hardware old and new paraded in moscows red square and a rare appearance in public of the russian president since the lock down. It is impossible to imagine what would have happened to the world if not for the red army its soldiers did not look for war or of the country or glory or honors they sought to finish off the enemy win a victory and return and paid an irreparable price for the freedom of europe. To victory Day Celebrations have been for spain from may 9th because of the coronavirus pandemic despite more than 7000 infections still being registered every day and worries that large Public Events was. Many still willing to take the risk turned up. On one hand you understand somehow that you should follow the restrictions but on the other its such a Great Holiday and its a shame to be hiding somewhere our grandfathers were dying despite everything and what we will be hiding because of the coronavirus. Like other countries during this pandemic russias economy is in crisis as is its Health System proving to be the biggest challenge in Vladimir Putins 20 years of leading the country. His Approval Ratings have slumped to record lows despite efforts to restore. The countrys global influence and russians are about to judge that in a vote on contentious constitutional reforms which could see putins rule extended until 2036 it doesnt have anything positive to show besides these Economic Growth is weak russias cultural influence is decreasing and its by national influences even more so all these promises that he made to the population they dont out to the mall or stamp t. V. And the parade is an unmistakable thing. On a sing a victory from the past to distract from the troubled present maybe patriotic sentiment but the question is whether putin will be able to sustain that in an uncertain future. Al jazeera. This is all just there and these other top stories the u. N. Secretary general has urged israel to abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank calling it a watershed moment at a u. N. Security Council Meeting the arab league warned the move which could begin to soon as next week could ignite a religious war u. S. Secretary of state mark compo has spoken about the annexation plans he says decisions about extending sovereignty of israel to make and insist the palestinians should have joined negotiations new coronavirus cases in the u. S. Have risen to their highest level in 2 months its now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 tics and researches at the university of washington are predicting that nearly 180000. 00 could die by october. 94. Including 30 children have been rescued in indonesian waters they were found by fishermen on monday after their boat capsized off the coast of a province the refugees have been stuck on the fishermans boat since then waiting for indonesia to decide whether to accept them malaysia and indonesia a favorite destination for fleeing violence and mean mob and poverty refugee camps in bangladesh jessica washington has more from jakarta this is still very much a developing situation its Early Morning here. Is at least 94. 00 refugees were found on board seeking or they were rescued by each of these fishermen according to al sources on the ground it could be even more than 94. 00 possibly more than 100 as as you say to earlier we know that at least 30 of them are children now sources on the ground up told us that some of them appear to be around the age of 3 or 4 protest as a return to the streets of lebanons capital having lost patience with the governments promises to repair the economy some force with police when they try to clear them from one of a roads main roads lebanons currency has lost more than 70 percent of its value since october. The headlines more news here on aljazeera after counting the cost go away. A Global Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geo political tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. This is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week economies opening up this by the pandemic as head towards world war 2 levels could be seal staring at the all stimulus when is the right time to pay down debt as economies tank and job losses increase the nast that hits a record high the stock market is divorced from reality or are we seeing a tack
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