A new high tech car in occupied East Jerusalem. Welcome to the Program Saturday saw the highest number of krona virus cases worldwide since the start of the pandemic and the majority of those new infections were recorded in latin america the region has now surpassed europe in the number of covert 1000 cases some 2 and a half 1000000 and growing rapidly the figures are being driven up by brazil which has reported more than one and a half 1000000 infections while more than 64000 people have died peru and chile are quickly approaching the 300000 cases mexico has also been reporting record new infections it now has the 2nd highest death toll in latin america behind brazil and is under a p. M. T. Here is monitoring developments in the region from bogota in colombia the situation is getting worse there and other countries that have been successful at least at the beginning and trying to slow down the spread of contagion for example here in. Longer that is seen quite unimportant the increase in daily cases since as been reopening parts of its economy with the return of its Large Population of informal people who work out and about on the streets they work hand to mouth they can stay home a day being allowed to return to work and in the last couple of weeks we have seen quite a big increase here the same is true in she left here to even argentina who were that was probably the most successful country in containing the virus together with wires seen an increase and the last days and that week so very problematic pictures some officials here are calling for a return to a strict strict measures in countries like where we are in colombia and the government the National Government here though is saying thats not possible because of how weak the economy is overall how big is the need for people to go out and work which means you will probably continue to see these numbers a growing gap joe the goal is a senior associate of the Americas Program at the center for strategic and International Studies he says peoples attitude to the virus is part of the problem. A lockdown requirement team is a collective effort if you have part of the population respecting the law respecting the robinson and social isolation while the other half are part of the population smart the efforts of those that are dedicated themselves to the problem team is inventing new clothes its either a proactive effort or it doesnt work at all latin american countries they lack the discipline in several topics throughout the history of latin america but this particular situation is becoming more evident for everyone that. If the problem is not something that they can actually see or feel they disregarded they are hit with the crew in a fight and the the balance between economy and social health is being presented in iran us way in latin america as a false equivalence in which by imagining. The problem d and seeing as things are just normal these will bring back to normality well a family of a cave in 1000 victim in bolivia left his coffin in the street to protest against difficulties in getting a timely burial the mans body has spent 6 days at home in the region of culture obama with being collected by funeral workers now the body it was funny transported to a cemetery after the coffin spent 4 hours on the streets due to a recent increase of virus related deaths burials and cremations are being delayed and accumulating. In the u. S. The states of florida and texas saw a record rise in daily infections other parts of the country also saw a big jumps in the number of new cases and despite appeals by medical Health Experts to avoid large gatherings President Donald Trump host an event at the white house to mark Independence Day hundreds later turned down in washington d. C. To watch a fireworks display as rob reynolds reports. Vintage warplanes filled the skies over the National Mall in washington d. C. Bombers and fighters from every war the u. S. Has been in since the 1940 s. The 1st our President Trump who avoided service in vietnam by claiming medical draft deferments for bone spurs presided over the spectacle at the white house. Despite pleas from public Health Experts and the mayor of washington d. C. Over the risks of people getting covert 19 a crowd gathered many ignoring social distancing. Thanks to the. Courage of those patriots on july 4th 1776 the American Republic stands today is the greatest most exceptional and most virtuous nation in the history of the world trump praised american exceptionalism and the u. S. Military attacked the media and china and praised his own performance in the fight against covert 19 appealing to his base trump invoked images of rampaging radicals intent on destroying the nations heritage we are now in the process of. Defeating the radical left the marxists the anarch is the agitators the looters and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing. Around the country people protested peacefully against Racial Injustice and police brutality. In pittsburgh protesters and Trump Supporters chanted rival slogans injured at one another. In washington black lives matter protesters marched for the 6th weekend in a row following the killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis we as a community especially in in our capital city. Of our country need to come together and protest unjust killings and get these murders to justice i just did what could be more american than protesting our president today you know its not really helping. An enormous fireworks display capped off the extravaganza in washington the glitter and perhaps a momentary distraction at least for some as tens of thousands of new cases of cold and 19 were confirmed. And also al jazeera. Now the World Health Organization is ending its trial of a drug time to buy President Trump once again change interim results show hydroxy chloroquine and produce little or no effect on the death rates of people hospitalized with covert 19 President Trump said that he was taking the drug south korea is going ahead with its annual opening of its beaches for the summer but with special arrangements in place because of the pandemic problem brought a pulls from the 2nd city of busan which is a favorite Tourist Destination. The beaches of buson are officially open and people love flocking to them South Koreans are among the worlds top spenders all overseas travel but most of this summer are looking to vacation a lot closer to home and still following strict rules to prevent the spread of covert 19 beach umbrellas are individually numbered so people hiring them can be traced in case they were close to someone found later to be infected for the leaf family this summer break is a new experience. We often go abroad in summer but we cant do that this time so we decided on booth. Theyve also decided to come earlier than normal a majority of people in south korea take their summer vacations in a narrow window from late july into early august but companies are now being encouraged to spread holidays out to avoid overcrowding in the most popular Tourist Destinations. Relies heavily on its Summer Season and local people are compensating for the lack of International Visitors especially from neighboring china and japan. With only a handful of new cases of infections being reported to san can also host festivals again. At the opening of this annual food and film event. Frontline medical staff are honored for making it possible. The theme this year food as a source of healing unity between cultural life has suffered in this pandemic if we dont revitalize it and people will face more alienation and oppression we want to heal our audiences through culture. Life is still far from normal but many here see this for the careful reopening as a reward for south koreas steady progress against the virus. Bride aljazeera and south korea. Well still ahead here on aljazeera people flock to bars as part of a relaxation of restrictions in the United Kingdom but its being called risky business. And we report on how residents in the philippine capital are coping after nearly 3 months of lockdown. The weather remains extremely hot across central and southern parts of north america at the moment weve also seen some severe storms you can see the thunderheads in the central canada southeastern parts of the sketch one pushing down into north dakota were seeing some very very heavy rain in the shallows never really too far from here as we go on through sunday a lot of the show is what across the great plains think the wettest weather is likely to be just around louisiana pushing across towards alabama mississippi easing over towards georgia as we go on through the next day or so quite a rash of showers having say temperatures typically up into the thirtys for many hearts are still there for fane exit around 44. 00 celsius the extreme heat the fire risk remaining very much in place largely dry over towards the west coast of the u. S. But a few showers there into that western side of canada a few showers too into the caribbean but the wettest weather is going to be across the western side of the region some heavy downpours around nicaragua costa rica maybe also into panama and a scattering of showers across the main islands as we go on into monday we will see it turning increasingly wet there just around the Leeward Islands addle so into the wind words we want to showers for to make the cuba at hispania. On counting the cost of pandemic decimates jobs pushing variance with stream publishing could have green recoveries save the Global Economy senegal flagpoles the chinese crews accused of overfishing us Meat Processing products make course of next pandemic trials and the cost on aljazeera. Revealing Eco Friendly Solutions to comeback threats to our planet on aljazeera. What about you watching on with me the whole run a reminder of our top stories latin america has overtaken europe in the number of coronavirus cases the region has more than 2 and a half 1000000 infections a new cases are rapidly rising brazil is a hotspot with almost 64000. 00 deaths u. S. President donald trump has been hosting the annual salute to america event at the white house to mark Independence Day celebrations across the country are muted because of coronavirus and the World Health Organization is ending its trial of a drug town to buy President Trump as a game changer interim results show hydroxy chloroquine produced little or no effect on the death rate of people hospitalized with cope with 90. More than 200000 people in spains catalonia region have been put back on the lockdown after the number of infections that almost doubled in a week in contrast pubs restaurants and cinemas have reopened across england following a relaxation of lockdown rules the latest from london in a moment but 1st this report from dean barber. Opening up for the 1st time in months the archbishop of barcelona joining a group of Health Workers on a visit to the segro definitely a cathedral soon it will welcome residents and eventually tourists spanish and foreign but nobody here is under any illusions that the coronavirus has disappeared. In the middle of the conflict yet i think that we have to raise awareness in society and perhaps we havent done it well enough and should try harder it seems good to me that they had a lockdown i think its the only way to stop these outbreaks just so elsewhere in the catalonia region theyve imposed a mini lockdown in the rural district surrounding the city of later its after the number of covered 1000 cases nearly doubled in a week to 325 on friday and. Some cases have been linked to fruit picking operations now the areas 200000 residents are banned from meeting in groups of more than 10 and they cant travel outside the zone. The new measures come a day after the United Kingdom announced its socalled safe travel list those heading to dozens of countries including spain wont have to go into quarantine when they return notably absent from the list is portugal which thanks to quick action of voided the exponential rates of infections and deaths that spain has suffered on friday portugal reported 374. 00 new covered cases mostly in and around the capital lisbon while the citys a Tourist Destination most british holidaymakers head for the Southern Coast of the algarve region and the portuguese government is calling the u. K. Decision census the Prime Minister tweeted comparing covered 1000 cases per 100000 people and stressing british visitors are still welcome the. New i will say that on the 1st of july the United Kingdom had 176 that of people from covert 19 and globally we are speaking of a country that has a population 6 times bigger than portugal and has until today 44000 deadly cases. For now regions across europe which rely on tourism trying to strike a balance between allowing visitors in and keeping the coronavirus at bay nadine barber aljazeera. The ancient in alienable rights of free born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub is how Boris Johnson described it well here they are enthusiastically enjoying that right again after more than 3 months of lockdown plus going to the cinema getting their hair cut eating in restaurants and staying in hotels for england at least Something Like normal life has returned if youre really feels really its going to go on a bit. Its rather expensive by comparison with. My buying in. Super saturday as the English Press has called it was desperately needed by a struggling Hospitality Industry but Business Owners had to reduce capacity and make other changes to open a safe way as possible. We will take all the motions we can we put screens up which we people you know wash your hands and everyone get way past and stick places till you know we were watching everything you have to be said youre not to worry so were just hoping that there isnt a 2nd wave and that we believe. It is perhaps the most significant step yet in englands exit from lock down given the combustible mix of liberation and alcohol politicians both local and national have been urging responsibility well maybe we should call it sowed the saturday then but i think its a weve been its been 3 or 4 months in which weve not been able to come to restaurants we not been able to come to bars you know been able to come to pumps for an englishman not to be able to go to a pub is a very bad thing so i think people are allowed to let their head end just a little but we want them to do that in a responsible way essentially this is a big experiments that carries with it a big risk if this does result in new flare ups of covert 19 the government is hoping that theyll be localized and could be dealt with with localized restrictions returning to another full national knockdown would finish off even more businesses than are expected to go under anyway. Even if this reopening goes well for business and safety tough times are coming during the lockdown period weve seen many trusted brands such as college cafe rouge sadly fall into administration sad fact is i think were going to see a lot more of this lockdown has simply accelerated the decline of a lot of businesses as of today i think there is maybe 250 branded restaurants which will not reopen and that number is only going to get bigger. This may have some appearances of normal life but its still far from the real thing for retail and how does iraq london. A lot has been extended in refugee camps in greece but the governments been accused of misusing the pandemic to limit the movement of migrants there have been no deaths because it carried 19 confirmed so far among 32000 people in various camps. Though the philippines has imposed a 48 hour lockdowns in parts of the temple to deal with the new krona virus cases that are the most severe restrictions since measures started easing several weeks ago jamila alynda has moved from manila. This is what a total lockdown looks like in one of manilas busy areas more than 7000. 00 people in this community have been ordered to stay at home for 48 hours more than 30 villages across manila were told days ago that they wouldnt be allowed to leave their homes starting on saturday and unless its an emergency. In smaller alleys like this one residency they are finding different ways to cope but for many look at this 48 hour door to lock down makes no difference to her family she says theyve been under quarantine for months even when we couldnt earn enough so we had to open a small store just to sell to neighbors thankfully we do get to receive some aid like food and sometimes cash from the local gover. Didnt but i hope this situation isnt last long. But many businesses here remain closed which means thousands are unable to earn a living and are dependent on aid the philippines implemented one of the worlds longest and strictest quarantine thats more than 50000000 people forced to say its home and the entire region of luzon for almost 3 months but coronavirus cases been saying its a go up over the last few weeks forcing cities like manila to implement its own Mass Testing Program will fishel say the lockdown is bent not just as a restriction of movement but also to conduct a rapid test and the didley isolate those who are test positive march 5th being the 1st they have done and. Able its hard because of that he said thats the sense of people that people dont have enough money in jobs to sustain the. People slowly and know theyre used to it. More than 300 people were tested on this day the philippines still has one of the highest growing cases in Southeast Asia but the government has been under intense pressure to reopen the economy which is now officially on their recession many other provinces have eased quarantine restrictions but in manila the situation remains uncertain the rabbit says results came back no one tested positive and all the residents here are grateful they say they feel as though their lives remain suspended they prayed for better days ahead duggan aljazeera manila. About 200 people have protested him in a day after the philippine president to go to target a signed a widely opposed terror law. Critics fear the legislation will be used to silence dissent and give the government a new weapon to target opponents the law which congress sent to the president for signing last month allows the detention of suspects for up to 24. 00 days without charge. You are. The one you want against it. And against anyone. Egypts plans to hold the 1st election for its recently revived senate next month 2 thirds of senators will be chosen by the public and the president will appoint the rest the 300. 00 Member Chamber was dropped from egypts constitution and 2014 it was brought back and the amendments approved in a referendum last year theres constitutional changes also allowed the fact that its easy to stay in power until 2031 is the founder and chairman of the British Arab Network he says the political situation in egypt doesnt sit with an election. If youve got 70000 people are locked. Down inside jails a lot of many bloggers as we know. Are locked in tied in prison theres no fair crowds not rows or columns many of them we just had over the last 12 months about 3000 people who were jailed just because. They had the planets trying to diminish the nation in cairo so i yet i dont think the public would be left with such exercise of sham democracy i think is a problem in egypt is there is no clear voice for the public theres no proper democracy in the military control all aspects of life in egypt as we know and really corruption is just right in every aspect in life in egypt egypts top court has upheld a 15 year sentence the one of the leading activists behind the uprising in 2011 and the duma has also been fined 370000. 00 as part of his conviction he was one of 230 people whove been sentenced to life in prison following the process doom appealed his sentence and had a retrial order which led to his reduced time. Iraqs Prime Minister has made changes in the countrys top 2 security posts was the far to me has been chosen as the News National security adviser and appointed a new head of National Security so they me became the head of government. Back in may after months of political deadlock. Syrian said the Euphrates River has fallen to record lows after turkey started operating a 100 dam just north of the border in may residents in rural river levels of fall and drastically resulting in severe Drought Conditions for the last 6 weeks some say they have no electricity or fresh Drinking Water turkey launched the 1st of 6 water 6 power turbines partly on the ceiling in may its expected to be fully operational by the end of the year. The water dropped 50 meters from the site and it is contaminated with the people are affected by the water the sick cannot drink it and it has a stinking smell and its clear that of the grant and his forefathers have been enemies for hundreds of years. Have we will soon rains of large parts of western india including the Financial Capital by the downpours the water logged streets and cause traffic jams people were seen wading through ankle deep Waters Police have advised people not to leave their homes and the Indian Weather Office has issued warnings for people to stay away from the coast heat wave in a region usually famous for cold weather has started fires across 3000000 hectares of land planes are being used to tackle the wildfires in remote parts of siberia officials believe the main cause of the fires is lightning strikes the region is experiencing a severe heat wave and on june the 20th the town that hoya and sc recorded a temperature of 38 degrees celsius setting a record for the arctic circle. To put up us the situation with the fire hazard in the crew screeching that remains complicated weather conditions are extremely unfavorable were having an extraordinary heat wave there is no rain every day 30 to 40 wildfires occur on the territory which we continue to extinguish. An israeli municipal government is planning to turn an industrial neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem into Technology Help but opponents say the project is another attempt to illegally solidify israeli control over occupied Palestinian Land are a force that has the story. For decades if you wanted to fix a tire by where or discount groceries in occupied East Jerusalem what he jos has been the place to come but a new israeli project would see this neighborhood a short walk from the old city remade as a hub for tourism and high tech. Idle rents the land on which he operates his garage he and dozens of others have recently been issued eviction notices accusing them of breaking zoning laws instructing them to move out before the end of the year in the order how is it we have been here for the last 60 years the municipality sent us evacuation orders without negotiating without giving us alternatives or compensation the silicon wadi neighborhood in the west jerusalem in a simple government along with israels interior ministry want to rename what he jos silicon wadi with office space for high tech businesses as well as hotels all part of a more than 600000000. 00 Development Master plan in the occupied east but a project on this scale in occupied East Jerusalem isnt just an issue of business and investment and jobs its also an issue of politics and control throughout 53 years of occupation palestinians have been regularly denied Building Permits had homes demolished while israeli projects have sought to solidify israels claim to unified city the municipality says the intention with silicon wadi is to improve employment and Living Standards we would love it if we had investment from the Arab Community themselves we dont want to take this and own it we want to do it in order for easter some to continue developing the way that it deserves to develop. The municipality says garys units will be compensated but a lawyer acting on their behalf says the eviction notices suggest no such thing and that the entire project fails to meet the needs of residents. If you ask people here theyll tell you they want housing before high take the municipalities unfortunately fantasizing outside the palestinian vision it violates the 4th Geneva Convention to me and see this decision as internationally illegal the occupier has no Long Term Plan and on the plans to manage the daily lives of the people as someone who owns land and businesses here hasnt heard bowie has been in talks about partnering in the project but hed rather have permits to build apartments it was what theyre asking and we dont want. To be invested people and. Its very important thing was we want to make balance that elusive balance is at the heart of the issue in occupied East Jerusalem the dying need for investment in infrastructure set against the cost of accepting increasing israeli control or a force of aljazeera occupied East Jerusalem. Your 00 of me sell romney a reminder of our top news stories latin america has overtaken europe in the number of coronavirus cases the region has more than 2 and a half 1000000 infections a new cases are rapidly rising brazil is a hotspot with almost 64000 deaths aleksandra is monitoring developments in the region from bogota in colombia. Very problematic pictures some officials here are calling for a return to a strict to strict measures in countries like where we are in colombia the government the National Government here though is saying thats not possible because of how weak the economy is overall how big is that for people to go out and work which means were probably continue to see these numbers a growing gap u. S. President all trump has been hosting the annual salute to america event at the white house to mark Independence Day but many states consular festivities due to the pandemic florida and texas saw a record rise in daily inspections on saturday and the World Health Organization is ending its trial of a drug targeted by President Trump as a game changer interim results show 164 acquitted produced little or no effect on the death rate of people hospitalized with cope with 19 President Trump and said that he was taking the drug there have been queues in crowds across england as pubs restaurants hairdressers and cinemas reopened following a relaxation of lockdown rules in london big crowds gathered in big gardens but the atmosphere was different inside numbers are being limited its only Table Service and theres no live music. Spain has put part of its council only a region back into lockdown after sharp increase in cases of covert 19 around 200000 People Living near the town of lee where sectors those are the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on aljazeera next its counting the cost with mall santa maria to stay with us. 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. Hello im Adrian Finnegan this is counting the cost of aljazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week the pandemic decimates millions of jobs and pushes many into extreme poverty could have Green Recovery be the solution to saving the Global Economy. Flag of convenience chinese ships and crews but flying the senegalese flag local fishermen say the waters