A when to head back to school but its kids who are course in the middle. Of a show of force drug cartel pfizers display their strengths and defiance ahead of a visit by mexicos president. Syria is holding its 3rd parliamentary elections since the uprising against president Bashar Al Assad began 9 years ago the opposition say the votes lacks legitimacy as the candidates are either members or allies of assads posse zeros in a hole the reports. Syrians will elect a new parliament its the 3rd such vote since the start of the uprising in 2011 the last time large parts of the country were outside government control president Bashar Al Assads forces have since recaptured nearly 70 percent of territory they lost to the opposition as in previous elections candidates need to be vetted by security and the credibility of the election has been further questioned by the exclusion of millions of syrians who left their country or have been displaced by the conflict. In 1000000 people in the north of the country for example wont have any representation in the next parliament and the deputies who are supposed to represent regime held areas are not real representatives they wont stand by the people they are beholden to the regime which has absolute power and control. But president bashar assad is facing challenges results of previous elections were not recognized by the International Community the syrian leader will need to agree to political reforms in order to receive western aid to rescue the economy devastated by hears of war and corruption. And the election. Process. After much delay the u. N. Announced the creation of a committee to rewrite the constitution ahead of internationally monitored elections there hasnt been any progress elections contradict the political transition agreed on by the International Community but assad seems to have different objectives many say syrias president is ensuring the Incoming Parliament whose job is to ratify a new constitution will reject any changes to the president s powers and tenure in office. Old war lords. Or it might be laundry people people who fought with his horses on the ground so he knows in the core why this people who would be voting on cortical situation amendments they know they would be accountable on the same changing the constitution when you talk about. Transitional justice the syrian president showed little willingness to agree to political concessions even when he was losing the war he now believes hes won largely thanks to the help of his russian and iranian allies for many this latest election shows how little has changed in assad syria Senate Leader beirut runs iata is senior fellow at the arab center in washington d. C. He joins us now live via skype from there good to have you with us just how credible are these fundamentally elections given the so many people are unable or perhaps unwilling to participate it should just like a commie dish or. I mean before or since actually and 1970 and now its this is this account by lamenting election since the starting of their war in 2911 and its a clear that that is insist is doing their election every 4 years despite of all their. Going to me nation from the International Community and no show from this year and before. Its it too remarkable how that set is trying to go to the final to assisting the International Community area 16 the syrian desire to change to what extent is a sad rigging the future his future by proceeding with these elections. No one is taking this election seriously not the syrians back to Nursing Community everyone knows that this is just as i said its a comedy show. But the problem that it sure is definitely that there will of the scent regime to compromise and maybe next year or next month he will be invited as he did a geisha and to participate in beijing eva talks if he heard the election which are actually being contradictory of the Security Council resolution 2254. 00 down showed the minimum interest in making any change in that sensation and to also confirm what weve been seeing for years that said has seen any kind of political race for as a threat. To the solution what role to play in governing syria. It must own those city and that regimes there is no secretion between our roads i mean they cheat of bevere has extended and over that is a state of power and this is why this you dont own them and its no carrot even they they should do that. Can you just lay it in times of 4 for the absence of the problem and. This is why as if she had no one take it seriously enough course in n n n n n in a familiar geometric this unity and not of the 2 to borrow rather than any state of power has any impact on the natural of this syrians with all the power has been centralized in the hands of that a said family and his Security Services what if anything should the International Community be doing can the International Community to do a bit about the fact that that it is being constantly ignored by the assad regime and else called the International Community will ignore that is arms of the election but the International Community has to in case he in the political reform now they see it and they have enough suffering they have enough than. Enough to fijis any enough displaced people and now 90 percent of this unions and the r 49 up call to do that you and i think they said that and for the International Community think here seriously trying to send a clear message that there is a serious close acquaintances off is continuous ignoring of the Security Council resolution 2254 could start to 70 thanks indeed runs out thank you washington. For a 2nd day the World Health Organization has reported a record single day rise in the number of go global corona virus infections in the past 24 hours but a brave new cases has risen by nearly 260000 the biggest increases were in the u. S. Brazil india and south africa and the w. H. O. Reported more than 7300 deaths thats the biggest daily increase since may 10th more than 600000 people have now died since the pandemic began when irans president Hassan Rouhani says that 25000000 people thats more than a quarter of the population there may have been infected with the coronavirus he says a further 35000000 could be at risk of infection iran has officially reported around 271000 cases but ronnies office says that his much higher figures are based on Research Estimates by the Health Ministry for the restrictions are being enforced around the country after a surge in new cases. Has no call to get favorable for him one of the most important matters is that here is to medical recommendations and social distancing to limit the spread of the corona virus according to the ministry of health estimates 20 5000000. 00 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus so far and we have lost about 14000. 00 of them within 150. 00 days it is possible that 30. 00 to 35000000. 00 citizens are at risk to be infected in the coming period this means that the number of patients who would be hospitalized will double it is possible that the virus will continue until march more now from our 0 same bus rafi in tehran. This alarming hard to believe number comes on the 1st day of return to lock down to a lockdown situation here in the capital tehran after weve seen a Record Number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks now in the hours since this meeting took place in the hour since the president made this statement about 25000000 people potentially infected number that he said could turn into 30 or 35000000 in the next few months he was clarification from the secretary of the Science Committee on his taskforce and this gentleman put out a statement saying that the number that mr rouhani was talking about reflects those who were tested and showed signs of having antibodies and those were people that were potentially asymptomatic for the covert 19 virus and were not hospitalized he also made the point of illustrating the actual figures of infection and death that iran compiles that it then sends out to the World Official confirmed figures those come from people who are hospitalized and are tested positive in swab tests for the covert 19 coronavirus now what we see here the figure that mr rouhani is talking about perhaps a better word than infection is its the total number of people that have been exposed in the country to the coronavirus now whether he misspoke or whether this was president Hassan Rouhani trying to fire a warning flare to illustrate iranians that remains a serious problem that they have to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously the point that the president made today either way is that iran has been and remains the worst affected country in the middle east. Large parts of northeastern india have been submerged off to heavy monsoon rains flooding and landslides of killed at least 79. 00 people in states millions have been forced to leave homes the area is also on the coronavirus long measures and thats complicating the delivery of aid as Andrew Chapelle reports. From. Foreign wara and the 6 other members of her family flooding is only the latest disaster to hit 2 hectares of land and the crops they tilt are still under water. But every day she returns to her flooded home to feed the cows and check to see if levels have subsided. Nobody has even come to ask how we are doing a livelihood is gone we cant buy or sell anything we cant go fishing were in so much trouble. The area is also under lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus and war and other residents are unable to sell whatever harvest they managed to salvage unable to travel elsewhere for work the muslim majority area carpet done lower asylum is one of the worst affected most villagers who stayed remain on the river embankment while thousands have moved to government relief camps where its hard to follow help guidelines when 30 people are crammed into a room poke or not whether the government has not given us any mosques weve got our own mosques we are poor people but we all following. Us are full hussein is a resident of goma pilbara village helping villagers get masks he says the government has failed them forcing some to go billets to billets in search of 8 so silverstone single issue social distancing is an issue for us because of corona virus its spreading dangerously when people have no space to live all sleep because of the floods coronavirus is a small issue in comparison the States Disaster Management Authority says its heard the complaints and is working to reach every person in need you brought up and thats what we see that you know we still have all space so that you know i did the good uses to see the distance into amenity and in those gaps accordingly that this takes the fear that and told to people who want to believe im an associate distance number of gas have increased but the residents tell us that elaborate government plans and new Standard Operating Procedures are not helping them as they grapple with the Natural Disaster on top of a pandemic and are schapelle aljazeera. Were going to weather on tape thanks to an outsider and then european leaders fail to agree or coronavirus rescue plan will tell you why. Damage is another famous french shots this time its thought to be deliberate. And though theyre very hostile and also fairly dusty across areas of the middle east now to the south you can see quite a different story a lot of cloud has been spilling in of the last year as is a little of low pressure tied to the monsoon rains and theyre working their way towards oman this is going to produce some pretty heavy downpours at times in fact we could see into southern iran as much as 65 millimeters of rain that could well produce some flash floods and then as you can see it will work its way across towards yemen same story where the rain is not as heavy but even so it could cause some flash floods basin pieces of cloud time which is a cause of very high 50 celsius in baghdad a similar sort of temperature into kuwait on a monday the winds picking up so well see it a bit more in the way of sound and that temperature wise doha at the temperature coming down to 37 celsius but itll probably feel fairly humid with 37 then down into Southern Africa fine and dry throughout much of south africa and again quite a bit of cloud to do those monsoon rains really impacting these eastern coastal areas so plenty of showers always fall south as mozambique and then through tanzania kenya and somalia very heavy through the Central Regions the tropics particularly gathering around the gulf of guinea and then on monday some very heavy rain particularly in tibet and on towards getting but its fine and dry on the south and warm importantly. Growing up in a harsh and unforgiving circumstances children learn to play dangerous games they exist without studies that destroy the house and take worn down by frustration and broken promises young men living under the constant threat of imprisonment they took me to the cheap and blindfolded me the time for them to regain control of their lives is when the boys returned prison life inside and out. On aljazeera. Org. Hello again this is al jazeera lets remind you of the made news this hour syria is holding its Parliament Elections since the uprising against president Bashar Al Assad began 9 years ago the opposition says the vote lacks legitimacy as the candidates on either members or allies of assads party theyre expected to boycott. For a 2nd day the World Health Organization has reported a record single day rise in the number of global corona virus infections nearly 260000 people contract over my team the total number of deaths since the pandemic began has now passed 600000. Large parts of northeastern india been submerged up to heavy monsoon rains flooding and landslides of killed at least 79 people in assam States Coronavirus locked down is delaying aid shipments. European Union Leaders will go back to the negotiating table for a 3rd day after failing to agree on a coronavirus bailout plan that debating an 858000000000. 00 economic rescue package but theyve struggled to agree on issues like how much should be made that should be made available as grants aljazeera is not in barbara reports now from the. Well we have seen concessions on saturday to the socalled frugal for the netherlands sweden denmark and austria whod been calling for less of this recovery fun to be in terms of grants and more in terms of loans shall michel the e. U. Council president suggesting that the grants section could be reduced from 560000000000. 00 to 500000000000. 00 another call from particularly from the netherlands was any country could effectively have a veto over the particular Member States covered recovery Spending Plans something that is very worrying really for the likes of spain and italy who are likely to be the big recipients of these funds michel there suggested that there could be what hes calling an emergency break a 3 day window where any member state could trigger a review by the e. U. 27 of the nations plans and we heard from italy Prime Minister content who put out a video saying that things approved more complex than was 1st thought and that theyd reached an am pass and the e. U. The u. S commissioner for the budget commissioner you had his heart on tweeting a solemn reminder as he put it to Member States that the coronavirus was still around saying that its high time to Reach Agreement which allows us to provide urgently needed support for us citizens in economies well not just vats but theres the matter of the 7 year budgets to agree on and thats really crucial because it will commit funds to things like the new Green Economy some countries have objected to an idea of allocating 30 percent of the total budget to meeting the Carbon Neutral target of 2050 poland who didnt sign up to that target wanted no reference to talk it just shows how many complex issues there are and why its no surprise that this whole process is due. Going on in israel live in protests in tel aviv western against the governments handling of a Coronavirus Pandemic Police used water cannon in west jerusalem to try to disperse the crowds israel we imposed restrictions after a surge in cases last week something that angered demonstrators have been protests for weeks over the Economic Situation and lockdown measures there were also chance to mounting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign mexicos government is analyzing a video showing dozens of gunmen an Armored Vehicles apparently belonging to the powerful to this code drug cartel it seems to be a show of force ahead of a visit by president Lopez Obrador to 3 states where the group has a stronghold aljazeera stronghold and reports from mexico city. These are mates can Government Forces instead this video appears to show someone elses army. And men show theyre saying the alias of the mess youll also get us of on this the leader of the holy School New Generation kauto a bit of the little 1 in the morning the video hasnt been authenticated but it showed up online just as the president under his men well Lopez Obrador was touring the groups heartland and it seemed to send a straightforward message this video showed the overwhelming on strength there is going to cartels how how you could call why that law. Why a law being is using violence against the state against Government Forces to push forward their agenda which often means getting the Government Back off from going off to their. Osting their drugs and arrest him a lesson on saturday our phones will do russell mit screw security minister tweeted this. There is no criminal group with the power to successfully challenge federal Security Forces and definitely not with this obviously staged video. This cartels never been scared of attacking authorities about 3 weeks ago amid scree citys police chief was shot up and blamed the group for the attempted hit. Police late to show of force increases pressure on the government struggling to deal with gang wolf and recalled violence john homan aljazeera mexico city. 3 european nations are threatening sanctions against foreign governments interfering in the conflict in libya in a joint statement the leaders of france germany and italy urged what they call foreign actors to respect the uns arms embargo or face sanctions there are multiple players backing different sides in libya turkey supports the un recognized government while the u. A. E. Egypt and russia back toward Khalifa Haftar a team from the International Criminal court is now on the ground in libya to investigate possible war crimes committed by forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar thats expected to include a visit to the mass graves found into last month the 3 person team will also investigate booby traps left behind by half past fighters south of tripoli the i. C. C. Says that its received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing the bodies of men women and children aljazeera snuffled up a warhead reports now from tripoli. The government so far seems to be reluctant in revealing the details about the teams. Details exactly but we know from sources with the government of National Accord nearly 225. 00 bodies have been recovered from the mass graves around the city of horner and also loss of the secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that in the past few weeks about the secret prisons where half the opponents including civilians in women were told and murdered and voted in the mass graves thats according to eyewitnesses government officials and local officials from the city of warner along with medical sources now the team is also due to visit several areas in southern typically to check the areas where a land mines were planted in civilian areas specially those if you like ns are neighborhood insular dean and also in the vicinity of the old inactive International Airport these areas were like 2 or a bettle field during the military campaign civilian areas had. Landmines were planted by helped us forces namely by the russian mercenaries from the bag group and they killed dozens of innocent civilians who were impatient to return home immediately after the end of the fighting. A new battle could be looming in the city of sirte forces of the internationally recognized government pushing further east from misrata closing in on the city the gateway to libyas main Oil Terminals the government of National Code says that its planning to recapture the area from have to us forces g. N. A. S. Forces recently recaptured most of the territory held by hoffa ending his bid to capture the capital tripoli. Kuwaits state news agency is reporting that the amir shaikh but all sabah has been admitted to hospital for a medical checkup the one year old is in good health according to state media crown prince that his designated successor shake no off saga has temporarily taken over some of the medias responsibilities. And investigations underway into the cause of a fire at a cathedral in the french city of long stained glass windows on the ground organ of the almost 600 year old building which destroyed the reports. The cathedral of st peter and st paul and in flames more than 100 firefighters were deployed on saturday Morning Hours later thick plumes of smoke were still rising from the building president emanuel called the church a gothic jewel. You see the fire started in 3 spots i can confirm to you i saw it with my own eyes inside the cathedral prosecutors say in the us an investigation was going to be opened i think its objective lee too soon to come up with conclusions having spoken to the teams who were on site there reporting a certain number of analyses. Just 15 months ago the fire came close to destroying the paris fire reports suggest cathedral wasnt nearly as badly damaged. The fire came as a surprise given concrete beams were used to replace wooden tempers destroyed in a previous fire partly as a precaution against another blaze. In the us is the 1st day of the new school year approaches a nationwide debate is raging should children be sent back to classrooms during the pandemic or stay home and be taught online brunells reports from los angeles. Well sanjay parent brenda dell hero is helping her 10 year old daughter emma with School Lessons online its kind of stressful just because i i see more work i feel like we get more work here than our school emmas mother says Virtual Learning is not ideal but shes against sending her daughter back to class the risk outweigh everything. That of by cat risk my kids getting sick or possibly getting somebody else sick or their teachers or vice versa on friday California Governor Gavin Newsom laid out detailed guidelines for School Reopening including mandatory mask wearing schools in counties with low numbers of coded cases and downward trends may reopen otherwise the school doors must remain closed schools that dont meet this requirement they must begin the school year this fall the Distance Learning School Reopening has become a National Political issue President Donald Trump says democrats are scheming to make him look bad as they think its going to be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed no way so were very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools back in may the House Democrats approved 90000000000 dollars to support schools reopening safely but the Republican Senate has not approved that measure but when you make it about politics than just people trying to. Score points and get elected i mean thats what i really think it is a disservice to how credibly important this issue is the conservative dominated school board in Orange County california recently voted to allow schools to fully reopen without masks or social distancing its time to get these doors open and get these babies but the school board has no power to order schools to reopen thats a decision made by local School Districts and so far the countys largest districts say theyll opt for Virtual Learning los angeles and san diego schools will also use Distance Learning for students brenda del hero has a message for trump my kids are not getting pics i am not going to send my kid to school to see if theyre going to get covert and to see if theyre going to survive an agonizing dilemma for parents teachers and kids. Now weaponized for political purposes robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. Its good to have you with us hello adrian fit here in doha the headlines on aljazeera syria is holding its the parliamentary elections since the uprising against president Bashar Al Assad 9 years ago the opposition says the vote lacks legitimacy as the candidates either members or allies of assads posse are expected to boycott the whole. For the 2nd day the World Health Organization has reported a record single day rise in global corona virus infections really 260000 people contracted covert 19 the total number of deaths since the pandemic began has now passed 600000 irans president Hassan Rouhani says that 25000000 people thats more than a quarter of the population that may have been infected with the coronavirus iran is officially reported around 271000 cases further restrictions are being enforced around the country. In new cases large parts of northeastern india have been submerged off to heavy monsoon rains flooding and landslides have killed at least 79. 00 people in assam states a coronavirus lock down is delaying aid shipments european Union Leaders will go back to the negotiating table for a 3rd day after failing to agree on a coronavirus bailout plan that abasing at 858000000000. 00 economic rescue package of struggle to agree on issues like how much should be made available as grants and israel have been protests in tel aviv and west jerusalem against the governments handling of the coronavirus and demick israel reimposed restrictions ultra surge in cases last week something thats angered demonstrators that been protests for weeks over the Economic Situation and lockdown measures. The leaders of france germany and italy urging an end to foreign interference in libya and the threatening sanctions if necessary they issued a joint statement as the un recognized government push towards us a city thats a gateways in libyas main Oil Terminals the area is controlled by forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar the team from the International Criminal court is on the ground in libya to investigate possible war crimes committed by alfonse troops the i. C. C. Says that its received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing the bodies of men women and children theres the headlines that he is continues after people in power are next. The whole d. N. A. And now there are still even use of people who are subject to the decisions made by the pound who simply no way to put all these people theyre willing to be true to children that would like to get back stories this place has become a complete crap you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something that in respects. 6 years ago an island a secret mass grave for babies was discovered near a home for unmarried pregnant women in an institution run by Roman Catholic nuns to find set off a scandal that has raised deeply disturbing questions about the relationship between the irish state and the Catholic Church and the distressing sight of thousands of children who died in their care in this 2nd part of our investigation correspondent lourdes li reveals shocking new evidence about how and where some of those babies with every
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