The program its out millions in zimbabwe pay their bills well tell you why the government has put mobile banking on hold. Facebook announces warning tags to some content as more Big Companies pull advertising because of hate speech concerns. So then the enormity of the Coronavirus Crisis is triggering fears about the ability to treat patients in some parts of the world india now has more than half a 1000000 infections driven by another recall daily increase announced just a few hours ago the Capital Region of new delhi alone expects 500000 cases by the end of july and thats led of course to worries about a shortage of medical equipment and a scramble to build a temporary facilities on friday the United States reported its highest increase in cases since a pandemic bigger. And florida and texas among the states delaying efforts to reopen increasing restrictions all the while europe is for jihad with reopening but it struggling to reach consensus on how to do it e. U. Leaders have not yet agreed on which countries will be allowed quarantine free access from wednesday along singing about the is a doctor working on covert 1000 cases also president of the progressive medicos and Sciences Forum in india and he says that the easier frustrations need to be managed more carefully. I think personally as a physician i dont see any achievement for the law because. You know why didnt you do anything be the have rules and there have been no number of cases well the best and the as it was. Just. Be out there that i was expecting. It to all the isolated more bishops all then did the chain of transmission but doing that. To break the chain of prosecution and all of their just walking in a lot if youre going to be very sure of the way this but it doesnt happen and also acts. And i says situation will be unlike. We have seen that make it raises many of the needs of our almost being here also those who were not able to get at the end of the ages of you just because of you just giving them still so there is thats because there are also and because you still look down on the management not management of bishops we have seen that sort of i didnt want you to see that. Their fish thoughtful well the u. K. s had to cancel the 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries it considers to be a risk for covert 19 little to vibrations into green into amber and into red categories those from the 1st 2 groups will no longer have to go into isolation of the rule changes theyre due to be announced next week u. K. Is also expected to establish socalled produce with france some of it in the spain germany and with greece and that would mean koren 200. 00 free holidays for travelers to and from those countries but the United States sports google and south america theyre expected to be among those in the red u. K. Self isolation policy came to effect on june the 8th its been criticized by Airlines Airports and the hospitality sector lets speak to paul brennan who joins us now from my kingston in sorry and so paul whats possible this summer is now becoming clearer. Yes ive still some details to announce which is exactly such as which exact countries are going to be included on this list and i understand that discussions are still ongoing with that so is going to be kind of a rolling list of countries with individual nations added all potentially even taken away depending on where the corona virus infection rates go that said what seems to be happening at the moment is that discussions are being had with several European Countries it looks like there will be notable exclusions such as the usa for example whose spike in corona virus infections on friday means that its unlikely to be among the list of those whose travelers will not be required to quarantine once they arrive in the u. K. That said the measures which are going to come into force will be announced formally monday perhaps tuesday of next week have been broadly welcomed by the travel agencies by the i absented the association of British Travel agencies theyve said its encouraging because dont forget the idea that anybody coming into the u. K. Whether theyre british or from overseas having to then self isolate for 14 days essentially not the final nail in the coffin of the prospect of any foreign travel by by people from the u. K. Over this this summer and ive been speaking to people here in kingston on thames i detect a huge appetite frankly for foreign travel for the rest of this year people saying that its come too late weve decided its much safer to stay at home and so frankly i think even now with big discounts being offered by the travel agencies its going theyre going to struggle to persuade people that its safe enough to travel despite the fact that this quarantine is going by the by right say things are easing more and more despite peoples reservations but in some cultures relief and release from the easy restrictions that creating problems for the police. Indeed Londons Metropolitan Police force has raised grave concerns about the number of parties which are now going on and i mean not just house parties large block parties involving hundreds and sometimes thousands of people though there were 3 separate incidents in the past 24 hours in west london one in east london where the police had to essentially intervene because the numbers were so large and were not just talking about made those gathering together were talking about people coming in from outside those areas sort of outlaws d. J. Sound systems being set up and people milling total ignorance of the social distancing guidelines that were there was also gathering up in liverpool for the for the 2nd consecutive night with football supporters there celebrating their teams winning the premier league title this year and great concerns about the numbers in close proximity up that suit so the message from police is that they going to start getting tough with people who are ignoring social distancing of the message from governments his fleas dont ignore those social distancing guidelines because the reality is the freedoms that being enjoyed at the moment will have to be taken away if the infection rate spikes up once again indeed thanks very much reporting the. Crew has launched a nationwide Vaccination Program to ward off preventable diseases as it deals with the pandemic hundreds have been queuing in the capital lima to be immunized against measles and illnesses months of lockdown have prevented many children and elderly people from getting routine vaccinations. Well the pandemic has been making it difficult for crews on merchant ships to return home some of been at sea for more than 6 months the same time crew hoping to resume work had been struggling to get on to their ships reports from the greek port oppress. Merchant seaman your hasnt worked in 7 months coke at 19 has prevented his ship from sailing he still has a mortgage to pay and 3. 00 daughters to support and the latest blow he says comes on top of years of austerity following the 2008 Global Financial crisis or that i think when i 1st chose this law if things were good we had a family we had dreams in the past 11 years as salaries have fallen by more than a half and taxes are gone up. Other seafarers are having the opposite problem theyre only able to get home after many months at sea because of travel restrictions due to covert 19 speedily not a vocalist has been on a very large crude carrier for 7 months he spoke to us by Satellite Phone from the philippines. The fatigue is psychological we tell it even 6 months is a long time and we havent stepped on a shelf a 7 months we havent seen a single new person its a kind of imprisonment about 400000 merchant seamen thought to be stranded at home or at sea due to coronavirus related travel restrictions and that could eventually have an impact on global trade 80 percent of which is carried by ship the supply of goods across the world is what keeps factories working shop shelves stocked and even fuel pumps full ship. Whereas things are slowly starting to loosen up its still difficult and expensive to rotate crews out of port where there was a device that they have started to allow crew rotation we inquired as to how this can be done and the list of requirements were such that it made it impossible. So the vessel had to be there 2 days before doctors had to go on board and the job and cost had to be done by vessel had to wait and then the cash would come back and the crew would go would get off and the 2 would be quarantined then the group that would come in would be part of the men the vessel that the wait for that would it was quite easy and it goes on and on fatigue and Poor Mental Health a dangerous at sea they create conditions in which accidents can happen and lives are lost the crews stranded around the world of finding it difficult to understand why theyre considered potential sources of infection they spend weeks between ports and theyre among the most isolated people in the world jumpstart openoffice aljazeera. But in part 2 of our series on people stranded by the pandemic will meet migrant stuck in kenya theyre among tens of thousands in limbo right across the continent of africa thats from 10 g. M. T. On sunday right here of course on. Ok zimbabwes government has ordered the suspension of all. Saying its undermining the economy millions of people use mobile payments which is the most common way to send and receive money from pay bills the system is pretty valuable for those who dont have access to formal Financial Systems the country is critically short of cash and many people dont. And this announcement coincides with the end of the month when most people get paid the president. Promised to revive the economy when he came to power in 2017 he now blames unnamed political to try to for the economic woes all right lets get more on that with Herman Thompson whos standing by for us in harare and harry what about this. Whats been the reaction. Pullets confusion shock and anger the country with serious cash shortages and actual cash dollars most people here they dont really feel it all of the news they dont feel the so thats going around that even though he does the bobby and donna because its just not on the street most people pay using their mobile phones the government is the reason why they stopped us from being used for now is because they say some individuals some companies are using this at home to fuel the black market and so devalued the zimbabwean dollar the biggest Telecoms Company it can it has had that a spot of they know they dont take orders from the Information Ministry of the government theres a. Batch and theyre told they subscribers of 10000000. 00 of them across the country continue using the patch and as of now people are still able to pay the bills using their phones those such as it to citi and to buy groceries as well the Stock Exchange which is also be next to a suspended this doesnt operate over the weekend so people only know how that has been affected come monday. We talked about the economy worsening what is life like at the moment for ordinary zimbabweans. Well the economy is different he was psni inflation is now 800 the state you go into a suit got in a shop yes most of the basic commodities of a by the just too expensive for most people to afford right now the main pressing issue of people right now is the issue of fuel you go to most service stations long lines of fuel people waiting to buy fuel for the cost of a trucks whatever they need but it just isnt that precious commodity also Civil Servants also time the government that they just consul vive on the salaries they want to be paid in us dollars because the zimbabwe 1. 80 valuing right now some nurses are on strike some doctors are threatening to go on strike them Civil Servants also threatening to defame a lot of people saying that they are really struggling in zimbabwe and their stated latest move by the government to spend the fact of it at the top to try to spin the fact that the current play on the path from day to day is not the nail in the coffin when theyre already struggling for hours thanks very much for that to her reporting from harare. Still ahead here on aljazeera. Tree with an Unprecedented Coalition government. No taxation without representation why americas capital wants to become the nations 51st. And though the more heavy rain in the for central and eastern areas of china plenty of activity a real bungle there across the Central Region some heavy downpours in the meanwhile across eastern china in particular look at these images coming out of this particular province we have 37000000 people that are being evacuated to the last few days from 38 counties and the taking about across the south in the east as many as 11000000 people have been affected by. These floodwaters morena say throughout sunday work its way towards shanghai also heavy rain but generally to the east of japan sunny but heavy downpours over the next couple of days and its through monday that the rain will care off the east coast of china push across the elysee and begin to push these heavy downpours across into the Korean Peninsula carol skies across southern areas of china but still those rains very much and the forecasts and see the northeast of india some states in particular have had some very heavy downpours for the last 2 or 3 days the slightly more in the forecast across much of the northeast so fed waters like this of course will just be added to you can see where the rain will be across into each operator but also be whole state west bengal again up into assam and as we go through sunday and monday the rains very heavy out tools west to the north weve got scattered showers and thunderstorms. But. A Global Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical 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. When you see big groups of people walking through europe the rule individuals the children the long life you have to rule them and to treat them with something that in respects. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour corona virus infections have surged in indias biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals are under pressure and cities such as new delhi scrambling to build temporary facilities. The United Kingdom is set to waive it set 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries it considers to be low risk if it 19 its expected to establish socalled bridges with countries such as France Italy Spain and greece. As about ways government has ordered the suspension of all mobile banking saying it is undermining the economy millions of people use mobile payments which is the most common way to send and receive money shot and pay bills. Facebook says it will start flagging up more posts that break its rules ahead of the u. S. Election in november critics have accused of failing to act on hate speech by some of the worlds biggest advertisers. When the us president suggested protesters against racism and Police Brutality without and said that when the losing starts the shooting starts to as a put a warning on it saying it glorifies violence facebook did nothing its c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg has often argued that the platform should take a hands off approach but now thats changing and it will tag posts that break its rules if we determine the content maybe we need to follow once or deprive people of their right to vote to take their content out no matter who says. Social media platforms have been under the spotlight as global outrage grows against racism and discrimination sparked by the Police Killing of george floyd and may but theyre not focusing on the importance of truth and evidence and verifiability the sort of contributing to a whole lot of these sorts of very underhanded and very dangerous information campaigns on friday 2 of the worlds biggest advertisers cocacola and unilever pulled their promotions from the platform. Unilevers also removing content from twitter and instagram until the end of the year well the 100. 00 companies have joined a campaign called stop hate for profit which accuses facebook of not doing enough to combat hate speech the Campaign Said in a statement faced with this tidal wave Mark Zuckerberg responded today with the small number of small changes weve been down this road before theyve made apologies in the past one of those apologies wasnt 2018 when zack a bit was called to testify in congress over his companys handling of use the data and how it was exploited to meddle in the 2016 u. S. Election we didnt take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake while facebooks shares dropped 8 percent on friday analysts believe this controversy wont hurt the social media giant in the long run they are the total power in the me last year even amid criticism which is very similar to what youre saying. Their advertising revenues last year 2927 percent and nearly 70000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars so no hes the king and hes the gatekeeper with the november president ial vote just 4 months away facebook has already taken down a video posted by Donald TrumpsReelection Campaign and the president s lashed out at social media platforms efforts accusing them of censoring conservative views brian aljazeera. Political parties in ireland have formed an Unprecedented Coalition government ending months of deadlock because martin is the new Prime Minister for the 1st time is if you know a failed party will be partners in governments with a rival to finagle along with the green party rotating leadership deal means that the outgoing Prime Minister leverett will return to the role halfway through the coalitions 5 year term. Do not go back on is the director of research at the school of law and government to Dublin City University and he explains why the new coalition is so significant and who stands to benefit. Surprisingly perhaps considering the history all 3 parties overwhelmingly endorsed the programme for government and again i think its because there were advantages for all 3 parties being a fall hasnt been in power for 9 years in a gale came 3rd in this election and thought they were going into opposition and the green party saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to exert great leverage for what is a relatively small party with only 12 seats so they all had a reason to support this so i think it does have the ability to be sure about but it is again account under under state how historic it is it would be like if the the British Labor party and the conservative party unite us against a 3rd party or the republicans in america and the democrats unite against a 3rd party thats the level of change were talking about here but there will be many people who will be on happy and ardent of course because you know the electorate voted in unprecedented numbers for sion fein in february and thats not reflected of course in the composition of this government so i think in the longer term this will be a beneficial outcome for shin fame because now they are the leaders of the opposition and and they will be organizing in that capacity over the next 5 years ethiopias Prime Minister says an agreement on his make a done project should be finalized in 2 to 3 weeks grander in a sense them has been at the center of a dispute with the egyptians who done talks stalled over the speed at which she should fill the reservoir sudan and egypt to both raise the issue with the Un Security Council and if you have built the ground renee since them on the blue nile which is a source of most of the niles forces egypt and sudan downstream they depend heavily on it and fear that their Water Supplies could be at risk if he says the hydro power the dam will produce is essential for its Economic Growth make dello its mess a is an independent Water Sciences research she says mediation by the African Union has made a huge difference. I dont think that it was it was just. Right and i think its just the only 3 countries to come to an agreement that im. Im pretty confident that they can come to an agreement. And the fact that we finally meeting this. Issue has come back. The fact that a meeting happened. And then the vision that because he actually wants us there with that one difference one is. Expected. Even stress. Testing. I think. The World Health Organization says break a nice and democratic republic of congo is no longer an International PublicHealth Emergency in 2200 people have died since it was detected 2 years ago the focus shifts to another outbreak in the Northwest Region as well as containing current of our. Pakistan has announced a record increase in fuel prices only days before the end of the Financial Year of our says that the economy which is strong for the 1st time in 7 decades most drivers will have to pay a 174 percent more to fill up that varies depending on the type of fuel the move has prompted a wave of outrage on social media that has more. Well the reaction will be. Strong where they have a right where there is the electricity traffic. Over their fuel prices but discovered at a time when the government had earlier announced a considerable reduction in the oil price because of the crash of oil prices on the International Market and now we are told that because the prices have hiked up they want to pass that on to the public and also the fact that they say that data. With the supply chain now because the price. There were reports of hording and excessive exports 2 of honest people found the prices very attractive that of course had led to a crisis situation with. The petrol stations and obviously coming at the time when the government is not very popular because of the hard Economic Times and the opposition of gods will be dry. I die munition but this will have a knock on effect across the economy because everything is dependent on the price of fuel and progress on it a major import. Evacuations in rescues are underway in Southern China following heavy rain and flooding more than 40000 people have been forced out of province alone since tuesday the rescues used the road to bring 6 people to safety after they were stranded in a flooded river the heavy rains expected to continue until choose day. Israels alternate Prime Minister benny gantz has weighed in on a controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank and the Facebook Post on friday he suggested that any palestinians in future and experience may be granted equal rights israel is set to start rolling out its plans on july 1st. The u. S. House of representatives has approved a bill to make the capital washington d. C. The nations 51st state if it passes in the Republican Controlled Senate more than 700000 people in the district will finally get the representation other states already have but as my kind of reports the bill faces stiff opposition. The last votes on statehood were more than 6 decades ago when alaska and hawaii became the 49 states. Fridays historic decision was taken on party lines there being 232. 00 votes in the affirmative 180. 00 votes in the negative the district of columbia state heard bill h r 51. 00 is classed without objection motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. So its a founding of the Nations Capital over 2 centuries ago it has been a district and not part of a state it has no governor no senator and its aleck to be representative has no boat in the house we stand out as the only democracy which to the highest democracy to the residents of its own capital leadership on capital city in a city where nearly half of the population is African American statehood is a civil rights issue in all some 700000 residents who pay federal taxes but are effectively disenfranchised Eleanor Holmes norton has represented d. C. For nearly 3 decades hes the great granddaughter of a slave who found freedom in the district but not representation i feel and passed as the member who represents my city and of course i feel in my own lineage as a 3rd generation washingtonian his family has never experienced all of it within their own country so for me this is katie and i again its for President Trump has made clear his fear that the district would vote democrats into the house and senate and opposes statehood as do the majority of his fellow republicans like the representative for alabama which is 2 senators and 7 members in the house i will never vote to give washington d. C. Separate statehood status washington d. C. Is a city not a state its population is roughly one 7th that of alabama but those advocating statehood are taking a long term view pointing to polls indicate. New occupant in the white house often under them the election and a strong likelihood that my party the Democratic Party in the United States will take control of the senate as my party the democrats hand taking control of the house. Districts may as celebrates a historic moment but it will take major democratic with the election before her dream up but one stars on the u. S. Flag becomes a reality mike hanna aljazeera washington President Trump has signed an executive order to protect u. S. Monuments thats after protesters targeted statues of confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery during the civil war many have been removed by protesters and city and state officials of the order calls for anyone who vandalizes or destroys statues or monument to be prosecuted. Police in france arrested 6 people for the theft of a work by the street artist banksy commemorating the victims of the paris attacks in 2015 it was stolen last year from the capitals batek land theatre where 90 people were killed in the largest of several coordinated attacks the mere all showing a mournful female figure was recovered from a farmhouse in central italy. Time for a quick check of the headlines here and aljazeera and corona virus infections have surged in indias biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals are under pressure in some cities like new delhi scrambling to build temporary facilities. The United Kingdom is set to waive its 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries it considers to be low risk for covert 19 is expected to establish socalled air bridges with countries such as France Italy Spain and greece paul brennan is in london and he says the British Government is still in discussions over which countries will be allowed to avoid quarantine is going to kind of a lonely list of countries with individual nations added or potentially even taken away depending on where theyre corona virus infection rates that said what seems to be happening at the moment is that discussions are being had with several European Countries looks like there will be notable exclusions such as the usa for example whose spike in corona virus infections on friday means that its unlikely to be among the list of those whose travelers will not be required to quarantine once they arrive in the u. K. Suburbans government has ordered the suspension of all mobile banking saying its undermining the economy mobile payments so the most common way to send and receive money to shop and to pay bills you know is when it coincides with the end of month when most people are paid. Facebook says it will flag all posts that break its rules including those from politicians like the u. S. President told trump chief executive Mark Zuckerberg previously said its not up to internet platforms to police the truth the move comes after more than 100. 00 companies boycotts at the platform. Political parties in ireland to formed an Unprecedented Coalition governments are ending months of deadlock martin is the new a Prime Minister for the 1st time fianna fail parties will be partners in government with rivals funa gael along with the green party. And the World Health Organization says in a better outbreak an eastern democratic republic of congo is no longer an international International PublicHealth Emergency in 2200 people have died since it was detected. Yesterday with headlines more after the bottom line. On counting the cost of europe at a crossroads it deals with a rising china and a u. S. President who riles his allies also how the worlds tech and investment money hasnt reached people of color and Cyber Attacks on facts making the birds trees. Counting the costs on aljazeera hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question what would angela davis do lets get to the bottom line. My guest today is someone who is talking about fighting racism in defunding the police when it was considered way too radical she became a folk hero in the 1970 s. For standing up to the establishment in almost every way you can imagine she got fired from a teaching job at the university of california for being quote unquote too outspoken when she was one thrown in jail a movement of blacks and whites took to the street in protest until she was free musicians like the Rolling Stones and john lennon and yoko ono wrote songs about her and all that was before she was 30 years old this year Time Magazine chose her is one of the women of the century and even nowadays a t. Shirt with her image on it may