Pandemic the u. S. Begins a process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization accusing it of badly handling the pandemic and an arbitrary killing a u. N. Investigators says a u. S. Drone strike that killed the iranian general cost them so the money was unlawful. Brazils president has tested positive for corona virus after a monstrous missing the illness as a little flu. Has repeatedly downplayed the threat from the virus defying social distancing measures and opposing lockdown even as brazilians deal with the regions worst stop break latin america at its embassy in yemen reports. World leaders have defied a call that 19 like brazils jade bullshit. For months the president tempted fate and turned to dr gish his school and calls to respect social distancing he seemed to relish defying even his own advisors always pressing the flesh and rarely using a face mask many members of his cabinet had become infected even his wifes grandmother some joked hed made a pact with the devil until what was. What will be the inevitable that happened but will thoughts of you acutely my feel the west side. Everybody knew that sooner or later current of our sort of reach an important part of population a lot of people like me for example if i would not have done the test i would not know about a result that was positive yes it was positive. So far bosso not has admitted to having a fever and body aches but continues to brush off the severity of an illness he once described as a little true even taking off his face mask after testing positive. For the bureaucratic of the 3rd book so you can see my face who wants to see my face im fine calm thank god. Thanks that i was there prayed for me whats the porting me im fine thank god. Its not just balsam not his health but his political reputation thats at stake hes waged war against lockdowns saying theyre more harmful than the illness a. Hes clashed with governors who ordered businesses closed and the Supreme Court which recently felt compelled to order the president to wear a face mask or pay a steep fine thank you for taking his cue from donald trump also not or has threatened to withdraw from the w. H. O. And has ordered the Brazils Health system distribute the anti malaria drug drugs at laura quinn despite warnings that its not safe or proven to be effective thing treating coronavirus hes in fact using it now himself. Nevertheless wishes him while im a speedy and full recovery. From this disease or leaders around the world who have have had similar experiences and i think it brings home. The reality of this wires. That will likely depend on how president polson i dont fence on whether hell become seriously ill as was produced Prime MinisterBlair Johnson or whether hell be back at work in a week or 2 telling everyone i told you so. All this despite the more than 65000 positions lost their lives so far to the socalled little china. You see in human aljazeera came michael can call is an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro he says boss now as illness could work in his favor this is not a man of deep insights i think and also it also true its also extraordinary convenient for him in some ways indeed if it stays our late course right hell be able to continue on his narrative that its just a flu and can be cured easily he was also scheduled to be deposed by the federal police on its allegations of of one do influence taking next week so the timing is not as many and one stays late course the times not altogether bad if it stays within these sort of 85 percent that are the life forces and it will likely strengthen those who are. Who are doubting the severity of the oath breaking though it may actually end up lowering the end easy to cutting into it getting to be some distancing measures which isnt likely to begin weve seen this kind of catastrophic responsibly that the country has had has to do with a total lack of leadership from the federal right group brazil had every possibility of having an absolutely model response to this and i think we have a very strong public Health System we have 6 highly trained doctors we have good i. C. U. Density we have what you experience and then makes treatment of the h. I. B. And aids here is actually quite quite advanced so you know its a sign of failure of leadership in the federal level its that this is turned out were in the house thousands of protesters have been out on the streets around said yes parliament after the announcement of a return to tough coronavirus restorations. They have called for the resignation of president alexander vote church his chest but a weekend cafe back in place after said yes place de yet on the pandemic with 13 deaths. To address tractions in the weeks before his win in june 21st including allowing crowds back to sporting events the. In the u. S. Hospitals in several states say their intensive care units are reaching Maximum Capacity as coronavirus cases continue to jump the number of people who have died have now passed has now passed 130000 infections have been surging in states which push to reopen early including texas and florida but President Trump want schools to reopen after the summer break. Well we want to do is we want to get our schools open we want to get them open quickly beautifully in the fall and the you know this is a disease its a horrible disease but young people do extraordinarily well in the next 2 weeks were probably going to end up being what new york was 2 months ago i think thats whats going to happen and that is going to happen particularly because we have the 4th of july. Holiday and a lot of people did not listen a lot of people went out and more likely than not were going to see those patients come into the hospital to mix 2 weeks meanwhile the u. S. Has begun the formal process of withdrawing from the world have folk in ization the Trump Administration has officially notified the United Nations and congress it will take a year to complete the process President Trump turned on the agency in april excusing it of doing little to inform the world about the corona Virus Outbreak ashley pratt is a political commentator and a board member of republican women for progress she says a w h o faces a huge void without the u. S. For him it will just stand to be a talking point his campaign you know this whole entire time hes blamed the virus on other countries and not taking responsibility for the disastrous effects that his response from his own administration and that here there are states that opened way too early and a lot of those states are states with republican governors who felt political pressure from this president and this administration to reopen and as a result their cases are surging in spiking in those states and now theyre faced with a tough decision to shut down their states again facing future Economic Impacts as a result places a huge void in the whos membership by not having the u. S. At the table and that really is what the problem is here its going to have to Clinical Trials that will affect future vaccines it will affect responses to emerging outbreaks and thats really where americans are now being put at risk because of a reckless decision by the president so i do think who you know is at a situation right now where theyre going to realize that the United States membership was a crucial one weve always been looked to as a leader im not sure that there is leadership right now it seems to be a large vacuum there when it comes to the current officeholder at 1600. 00 pennsylvania avenue but at the same time i do think because this will take up to a year hopefully a responsible decision is made but this again does put americans at risk because of the fact that we wont be information sharing with other countries that are working to develop vaccines and host Clinical Trials to really try to find innovations and solutions to fight these deadly diseases and the World Health Organization has acknowledged evidence is imagining all of our born transmission all the coronavirus a previously said the disease spread mainly through a small droplets on the nose and mouth that quickly fall to the ground. I have been engaged with this group since april when they 1st wrote to us on april 1st and weve had an active engagement with them and with many of the signatories on this through 2 Different Networks and as we have said previously we welcome the interaction from scientists all over the world from many different disciplines many of the signatories are engineers which is a wonderful area of expertise which which adds to growing knowledge about the importance of ventilation which we feel also is very important we have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission an aerosol transmission as one of the modes of transmission of 19 as well as droplet weve looked at phone lines we look at fecal oral we look at mother to child we look at animal to human of course as well and so we are producing a scientific brief on summarizing where we are weve been working on this for several weeks now and weve engaged with a large number of groups epidemiologists and clinicians i. P. C. Specialists engineers mathematical model is to try to consolidate the growing knowledge around around transmission or dr David Friedman is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the university of alabama at birmingham he says a shortage of appropriate masks would leave medical workers especially vulnerable if the virus is able. I think that you know the large droplet transmission within 2 meters is still the most important road of transmission and whats being talked about now is the possibility of airborne transmission in some circumstances especially having to do with ventilation systems and we know that airborne transmission happens in hospitals due to the types of the equipment that they have there but really the implication is in terms of the type of person all opera protective attire and devices that would be needed to our combat or in other words the end 95. 00 respirators are indicated and those are very expensive and hard to come by right now masks that are in use in the hospitals caring for coated patients and we dont even have enough of those in hospitals right now and if everybody in the world had to wear one of these and 95. 00 masks to wipe it out it would have severe of locations because we just dont have enough you know masks even for the doctors right now and still ahead on the program well have the latest from australia away its biggest cities been forced back into lockdown on social media giants respond to hong kongs new security. Hello q she is not out of the woods yet theres more heavy rain on the way i think you go day off i think the heaviest rain is on its way up through honshu for wednesday the orange denotes the heavy rain so thats likely to cause a risk of landslides or flash floods that its a little bit better back so if you shoot the chinese and is waving around just going south of the the young sea which you know foot response level right up to 2 as of yesterday might drop again because the rains going sayas but thats only into the weekend unfortunately the next pulse is taking heavy right to cue she wants more the same place where the river cuba best is banks are more danger from. For the sas bit of a gap to stop to clean wet in vietnam or cambodia but there are quite a few showers around west papua the southern philippines borneo and back towards singapore if youre in java its a lofty foreign picture cation thunderstorms occasional showers one to rob the heavy ones are definitely to your north and singapore is in that zone the monsoon as you well know has burst right into pakistan now so the showers could occur anywhere and you can see where theyre trying to build the heaviest rain there is going to be sort of started raining there the 2 more days of snow circulation and heavy rain. Down on france on down with china jr was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton allegation like to see an investigation seductress did the trump police with russia did you at any time a birch a former f. B. I. Director james comey in any way shape or form the closer the bag down the investigation into Michael Flynn and also as you well know. Next question the battlefield washington on aljazeera. The a in the in. The watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories brazils president of positive for corona virus after months of dismissing the severity of the illness j. Able to narrow insists he feels in good health despite having a fever. The Trump Administration has begun the formal process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization the president has been critical of the w. H. O. Over its handling of the corona Virus Outbreak. And thousands have been protesting. The announcement of a return to tougher coronavirus restrictions that called for the resignation of president alexander who change put a weekend curfew back in place after the worst day yet of the pandemic lets get the latest from serbia and speak to our correspondent. Joins us from outside parliament in belgrade it was a tense scene and tense situation earlier this evening bring us up to speed with the latest in. Yes while the protests are not quite finished i can still hear some people in the streets nearby although it seems like its over the city center is totally demolished this is the traffic sign i found it on the street so what happened today is that earlier today the president alexander will teach announced some new measures because of the coronavirus he said that during the weekend belgrade will be locked down and maybe not only belgrade but the entire serbia because the situation with good on a virus is a very bad and the worst is here in belgrade that we have more than 4000 people in the hospitals just to day 13 people died over the coronavirus this is the highest number in one day so what happened today is that people were very angry of this situation and with this kind of measures to why because serbia was already has already been in the state of emergency before and then out already said it took a now things are going better lets have an election so we had the parliamentary elections and the day after numbers started to increase and today the situation is even worse than before so people are angry. They think that the money should be invested in hospitals and not in the election and this is what happened tonight. Where a. Very. Police is on the streets already i have never seen policemen on horses before in this kind of situation you can see police on horses in some peaceful manifestations or ceremonies but nothing like these policemen on horses are. Walking into damascus and the tear gas and the shock bombs. For every few minutes we had to run because of the tear gas and stalled bombs so it seems like the situation is a little bit quieter now but the moral may be well see the same picture again thank you for that update elaine a correspondent in belgrade. Now to australia where Security Forces have been deployed to the border between 2 states so enforce a lockdown in victoria drivers without a travel permit can now be fined or face jail time its all because a recent surge uncovered 1000 cases which has seen the countrys biggest city melbourne ordered back into lockdown for another 6 weeks bars restaurants hairdressers and james have closed down well lets speak to Margaret Simons about this she is a journalist and author based in melbourne and joins us now via skype thank you very much for being with us really is responding to the coronaVirus Outbreak had been until now hailed as one of the most successful in the world whats gone wrong. Well the problems of a large group a case of really control into melbourne which is the capital local state and a victorian and as you say we we had reason to think that we had it under control at least some of the current wave of the infection seem to originated we break out from quarantine or return travelers private Security Companies who are employed to supervise this quarantine some of them contract it and then spread it through shanley groups in now in really the northern suburbs of melbourne initially its still unclear really how much of this current wave is due to that but a substantial part of it since today melbourne where you are is under a 6 week lockdown now what do the Restrictions Mean for people and you know how do they feel about it. Well im a charity and people are now not allowed to go out except for cool reasons to shop for essential items to daily exercise for work or study if that cant be done. And who are the sick care or to give. We were these are the same restrictions that we were on back in march and april. Its more severe for residents of Public Housing towers in the suburbs of flemington in North Melbourne which is where i am at the moment. They have been on at whats called a hard lock down which means they havent been able to leave this lets which in many cases are quite small. At all for any raise and sent up to and all of the residents of those Public Housing towers are being tested the code it and were hoping that they will soon be on the same kind of contain as people in the wider city area and what about the Border Closure between victoria and New South Wales how is that impacting the communities who live on that border well that came into force at night and it will have a very big impact its too early to say and i mean its 1021 in the morning yes. But we the border between the story in New South Wales has many border towns and some quite large towns which are at least spread between the 2 states such as the town of liberty we dont know which is a large Regional Center and people are all one community but some of the ones on the border and some of them on the other there are also towns which rely on tourism. And again likewise which are really spread across the border so its kind of cool its cool already causing a lot of disruption and distress were all hoping that the measures work and that this doesnt go on for too long thank you so much for talking to us margaret Margaret Simons a journalist joining us there from melbourne thank you for your time. Now that i buy in other news a u. S. Drone strike that killed top iranian general cussedness in the money in january was illegal thats the conclusion of the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Agnes Calabar says the assassination in iraqs capital was against a u. N. Charter or a bad man he has more top iranian general custom suliman he was popular among many in iran but was considered a dangerous threat to the u. S. By president dont trump that was the justification for drone attack on some the moneys convoy as he left Baghdad Airport on january the 3rd killing him an iraqi commander. And 100. 00 s. Among others a killing thats been called a new fool by u. N. Investigator actors come on the special rubber to actually deduce the killing said in a report on tuesday in the eyes of the evidence that the u. S. Has provided states the targeting of general money and the deaths of those accompanying him constitution killing which under International Human rights to the us is responsible for this attack is different from all the drone strikes the United States has engaged in because it targeted senior figure in the iranian government so whatever you want to say about solmonese history and his alleged offenses against the United States and other countries he was a senior figure in the Iranian Military and we killed them. At a time when were not at war with iran so it seems like an act of war against iran or under other definitions of assassination. He was the leader of the could fool the arm of the rainy and revolutionary guard corps. He hopes to run through rons ties with the armed group has backed Bashar Al Assad in syria and his forces played a key role in fighting in syria and iraq. Trance accusation the full amount he was planning to attack u. S. Targets. Legally just fine attack based on selfdefense. Those insufficient evidence provided of an ongoing or imminent attack. Says the killing by an envoy violated the u. N. Charter meaning it was breaking International New dont try to pull the u. S. Out of the Human Rights Council in 2018 report to be presented to it on thursday the u. S. May were largely nurit but its calmer points out in her report it may lead to International Pressure for greater regulation of targeted killings but owned. A car bomb in northeast syria scale at least 7 people 3 children were among those who died the explosion happened near the texas border dozens of people have been killed by car bombs in the region since turkey drove up the kurdish wife. In october. The u. K. Government says britain can begin selling weapons to saudi arabia once again after new export licenses were suspended last year it follows a legal challenge by campaign is concerned that you can export violating International Humanitarian law and this comes just one day after the British Government announced economic sanctions against 49. 00 individuals accused of human rights abuses 20 were saudis involved in the murder of chen is jamal. Andrew smith is the director of the campaign against autumn strayed he says the u. K. s government of the Government Small Business graceful. We were shocked by the 1000. 00 we hadnt had any prior warning that was going to be coming today and we believe its an utterly disgraceful decision its a morally bankrupt decision we cant see how your government could possibly have looked at the evidence and concluded that the seals were legal then bombing of yemen has created the worst humanitarian crisis in what it was and yet the u. K. Has continued to arm incident and support this 80 regime but doesnt let it was brutal catastrophe when mr set. That she is referring to the bombing of schools shes referring to the bombing of possible tools she is referring to the bombing of weddings and even funerals which have been turned into the sites of massacres how many hundreds of isolated incidents does it take before the government sees it theres a pattern we are considering all legal you know all Legal Options to challenge this decision and we expect to have an update on that in the days ahead but this is a disgraceful decision and cannot be allowed to stand. Microsoft 10 zoom joining other tech and social Media Companies reviewing their operations in hong kong they fear the new National Security law will allow chinas government to gain access to their users personal data has more from hong kong. A week after the introduction of the new National Security law in Hong Kong Kerry lamb was quick to respond to the International Condemnation of the legislation which has already been used to make arrests the National Security law targets crimes of subversion suspicion terrorism and collusion with foreign forces. Of what. This is completely constitutional legal and reasonable i do not understand why certain Foreign Countries a so came to comment on this. The National Security commission which len chairs has unveiled the powers granted to police think through grades without a warrant in special circumstances ordering internet firms and social media to remove content considered a threat to National Security as well as a seizure of their equipment failure to comply with the law risks a 13000. 00 fine and 2 years in jail. Compared with the National Security laws of other countries its a rather mild law its scope is not as broad as that in other countries and even china the tech giants and social Media Companies im not convinced the video sharing app ticktock says it will stop operations in hong kong its owned by chinese internet giant by dance but isnt available on the mainland the company says its app will no longer be available in hong kong and social media platforms including Facebook Twitter linked in zoom and whatsapp have also announced they will suspend processing government and police requests for user data so i i think the work 2 here ok. Here is already is where. The bots decipher the expression. Greed of your controllers and i believe the government will take further actions towards these social media platforms i think i can foresee that we will be able to use these applications in the future the us secretary of state has described chinas new legislation as being an assault on hong kongs freedoms and rights my compiler likened to censorship to the totalitarian state in georgia all these famous noble 984 some fear the Chinese CommunistParty Censorship in face online and is fast coming into effect in the semi autonomous city the government has acknowledged that some people in hong kong are concerned the current says its only been a week since the new law was introduced and an Education Program will reassure the people that the legislation protects not undermines the citys freedoms sara clock aljazeera hong kong. Group of we go or muslims living in exile are accusing china of committing genocide and calling on the International Criminal court to investigate their submitted evidence alleging Rights Violations that implicate more than 30 senior chinese officials including president xi jinping say more than a 1000000 way go muslims are held in prison camps where they have been punished and brainwashed beijing however denies this and doesnt recognize the i. C. C. Has jurisdiction. You know again im fully back to bill with the headlines on aljazeera brazils president has tested positive for corona virus after months dismissing the severity of the illness and showing a boss now says he feels well despite having a fever. Everybody knew that sooner or later a significant part of the population would get it it happened im an example myself if i hadnt taken the test i wouldnt have known the result and it turned out positive i just got a positive result yes its positive so it all began on sunday when i started feeling slightly ill and it worsened on monday i felt tired with muscle pain and had a fever that reached 38 degrees. Thousands have been protesting near said after the announcement of a return to tough coronavirus restrictions. Would have called for the resignation of president alexander vote but a weekend curfew back in place after the worst day yet of the pandemic with 13 deaths. They jump administration has begun the formal process of withdrawing the us from the World Health Organization its officially notified the United Nations and congress but it will take a year to complete the process spies and donald trump has been critical of the w. H. O. Over its handling of the corona Virus Outbreak. Security forces have been deployed to the border between 2 australians say so in force down in victoria it follows a recent surge in cases which has seen the 5000000 people in melbourne ordered back into lockdown for another 6 weeks a new report from the United Nations has found that a u. S. Drone strike that killed top the iranian general cost them so your money in january was illegal miss condom on the un special rapporteur tour an extrajudicial killing says the attack went against the u. N. Charter the u. K. Says it will resume selling weapons to more than a year after it was forced to stop because of alleged war crimes in yemen it comes just a day after the British Government announced economic sanctions against dozens of individuals accused of human rights abuses including 20 saudis involved in the murder of journalist. Those are the headlines coming up next on aljazeera inside story to stay with this. As an effective punishment for human rights abuses the British Government targets suspects and the killing a russian lawyer and a saudi journalist will sanctions change anything this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program on iran come on its a crackdown on despots and dictators persons government has announced its 1st sanctions and leaving the European Union and punishment for the perpetrators of what it calls grave ist human rights offenders the targets include suspects linked to the killing of saudi jail