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To former King Juan Carlos left the country while under investigation for corruption. We begin with the surge of corona virus cases around the walls the u. S. Remains an epi center of the pandemic with at least one 155000 dead and over 4700000 people who are infected despite that President Donald Trump is insisting that schools reopen the call he made once again on twitter on tuesday that push has attracted a lot of criticism teaches marched through new york on monday they are angry at a plan from their bill de blasio to open schools with restrictions. Well democratic president ial hopeful joe biden has tweeted attacking trumps handling of the pandemic he said that at the beginning of july dont know trump predicted the virus was going to disappear but it hasnt spied and also pointed out that more than 25000. 00 americans died last month alone he finished by asking the president to step up and do his job. Correspondent kimberly hawker joins us now live from washington with more kimberly just remind us of how divisive an issue the reopening of schools is in the u. S. Its particularly divison of and the reason is because this is a divided country politically and this is yet another example of where people seem to favor opening schools or not having the students in Person Learning but instead online it really falls in many cases along the political spectrum republicans tend to be in favor of reopening the schools they see it as a driver of an economy that would allow president truck to be reelected and thats why we see the president once again tweeting to reopen the schools but there are others and they tend to be more in the liberal side that favor science over the economy and as a result the number of infections as weve been reporting continuing to rise in the United States and so many feeling that this is just not the time to reopen the schools that any reopening decision needs to be based on facts and numbers and data and so the argument has really been a davis of one but its also been an emotional one because you have to remember in the midst of all of this regardless of where you fall on the spectrum many students with special needs get those services at schools as well as School Lunches so its a complicated issue but in many cases it has once again been divided along political lines and committee if we turn to talk about joe biden and what hes been putting out criticizing Donald Trumps well the administrations Coronavirus Response saying that trump once said that that he thinks or thought the virus would disappear something he said many times are we likely to see more of this criticizing criticism of of the administrations Coronavirus Response in the lead up to the election. There has been a so much that the president has taken personally with regard to the criticisms that have been made not just the response but also anytime theres sort of a discussion about infection rates and the fact that were seeing them not just in the urban areas but also in the rural areas something that dr Deborah Burke said that this is been extraordinarily widespread the person the president seemed to take this is almost a personal attack and so notable he is now lashing out at her publicly something that he had not done up to this point even though shes a member of his current a virus taskforce we had seen him criticizing and having public differences with dr anthony found she top Infectious Disease specialist but not Deborah Burkes now were seeing that as well its clear that the u. S. President is really feeling that any sort of rising infection rate is a reflection on his presidency something that his opponent joe biden in the upcoming president ial election has found is a bit of an opening in order to try and win the white house himself now in the midst of all of this you have to remember that there is also discussion to try and help ordinary americans with that Coronavirus Relief that is under way those discussions continue here on capitol hill we know those are set to begin around 700 g. M. T. Members of the white house will be meeting with Top Democrats try and bring relief to americans in the form of 600. 00 a week payments which expired last friday but we understand the talks are not going well so the president not ruling out a potential executive action so were also watching at the white house to see what he might say about that that will be coming up at 1430. 00 g. M. T. And we will be staying across those developments thank you for that kimberly how could live from washington. Hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help in forced coronavirus isolation orders anyone found to be breaching the rules will be fined 3 and a half 1000. 00 melbourne has introduced a night curfew and nonessential businesses have been ordered to close they gauge has been monitoring developments and has this report from sydney. He cowered in astronomy a 2nd largest city public transport normally filled with workers is now near empty tough measures including an overnight curfew are in place to slow the spread of coded 19 as the number of new delhi cases remains in the triple digits and the government is doing everything in its power to make sure people stay in their homes unless its absolutely necessary tough fines have been introduced for anyone breaching isolation apart from a Major Medical care there is literally no reason for you to leave your home and if you were to leave your home and not be found you will have a very difficult time convincing Victoria Place that you had a reason the government says nearly a 3rd of people with coded 19 who were visited by authorities were tore him which has been leading to Community Transmission now rules have been tightened people cant step out of their homes the only exemption Health Reasons hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to help Victorian Police in force the isolation order is some of the toughest restrictions on the movement of people the stray leah has ever seen weve had to smash the windows of people in cars and pull them out of there so i could provide the data because i went telling us where they were going they werent it hearing to the chief Health Officer guidelines with more businesses closing in construction retail and other industries the states economy has stalled and thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs will be stood down victoria makes up nearly a quarter of the National Economy and with prescriptions to remain in place for at least 6 weeks some experts are warning that israeli is recession could now last. Laving little chance of an economic recovery any time. In the philippines lockdowns of being real. Imposed in and around the capital manila public transport has been halted in some businesses shot and they will now need special passes to leave their homes more than 3200. 00 new infections were confirmed across the country on monday the philippines is the 2nd worst affected nation in Southeast Asia after indonesia. Subways president emma synagogue is defending his government against allegations of renewed crackdown on dissent a local Human Rights Group says more than 60 people have been arrested since last week the government forced a coronavirus lockdown just days before planned protests last friday the opposition says it was aimed at stopping its rally calling for him and god and the ruling party to resign. Following developments in that she says the president has been forced to address the crisis. After weeks of tension a race and alleged human rights abuses president m s m one guard was called for calm he said that his government is trying to find a balance between maintaining peace and security in the country was the same time allowing people to express themselves when it comes to the economy turning around the economy he said that it has been easy since he came into power in 2017 he said his administration has been dealing with successive droughts with sanctions and now the cause of 19 pandemic and then he said dark forces inside and outside the country are working to destabilize the economy but he didnt say who these dark forces are last week some senior officials of the rulings on with your party said western embassies who are in the country are working with offer the should move as an activist to try and undermine the authority of the government they singled out the American Ambassador Brian Nichols and basically warned them to behave accusing him of funding protests of encouraging people to take to the streets now zimbabwe has been a hot topic on social media critic in the last few days with the hash tag the body and size matter trending on social media these are people who are mainly antigovernment who are upset and angry with the high rate of corruption in the country whos saying that the Public Health care system is in shambles they want the economy prove theyre tired of a raise they tired of these alleged human rights abuses and some of been calling for president al gore and the ruling party has to step aside and allow someone else to lead. Malaysian police have raided aljazeera as Kuala Lumpur Office and seized 2 computers comes off to a group of al jazeera journalists were questioned by police in malaysia in july documentary on a legal Migrant Workers elation Authorities Say the episode of one i want east which focused on people being locked up during the pandemic could have broken sedition laws just their rejects those allegations. Trying to as the managing director of aljazeera english and a statement he said aljazeera calls upon the malaysian authorities to cease this criminal investigation into journalists conducting a raid on our office and seizing computers is a troubling escalation in the authorities crackdown on Media Freedom and shows the lengths that prepared to take to try and intimidate journalists stands by journalists and we stand by our reporting. Well next song is a noir for aljazeera and the jorge explains what might have prompted the raid i can see there were to be part and parcel of the kitchen to complete what he called it that people probably. Get it from the police or eat it money. Earlier around the issue of people and it worked with it. But at the reagan it came both. Actually instructed them to be good and that they could be believed and why they came out at the of the people having to be among others the c. P. U. And the feet which are. Used for the protection of. The program which are 80 feet to the. Subject of the often often that what we have are maybe. Foreign equipment or little feet are going to check with. What i call the. Teach me be kept in the or not and it yes or no even we know then he had reportedly been getting a bit then he gave a kid with. The instruction to how to put it it all may be to make it people should read the chart or not charge hurricane has weakened to a Tropical Storm shortly after making landfall in North Carolina 300000 of lost power and flooding in every Child Community caused several house fires and south boston through eastern parts of the state the storm is headed up north toward new york state j. Gray is in wilmington North Carolina with more on the evacuation efforts. Sunshine and clouds breaking here hard to believe that a storm moved through overnight here but let me tell you you could have been standing where i am right now overnight intense winds driving rains weve still got water in places its not supposed to be here floodings an issue some damage from those winds as well this storm a fast mover though it moved inland its starting to move up north and carrying that wind and that brain with it were going to see the effects of this storm along this path moving to the north and up the east coast for the next day or day and a half flooding is going to be an issue but youve also got a problem with the potential for tornadoes the system spawning tornadoes in this area overnight so still quite a punch even though its been downgraded to a Tropical Storm its tightly wound still together and still causing problems some of the shelters and close to 300000 have moved in to areas fearful for whats happening in their homes everyone gets checked for covert 19 a Temperature Check or other checks anyone who has the virus or has any symptoms moved into a separate area in a primary shelter youve got to wear a face mask obviously and youve got to social distance now families can obviously Stay Together but youve got to find some space in there and so its going to require a lot more room for people to evacuate been in a traditional hurricane setting and thats something theyre really learning on the fly and continue to learn is the storm moves to the north now. Still ahead on aljazeera. This president tells of an apparent russian plus as he heads to the polls facing unprecedented opposition. On scott heiler in caracas thailand where a mass shooting here earlier in the year has raised concern about this countrys gun culture and the growing number of weapons in civilian hands. Weve got more very heavy rain in the forecast for the Korean Peninsula bands of cloud here another little area a cloud of rain thats a very of low pressure that is Tropical Storm had to put making its way further north and thats going to join up bring some very wet weather across the yellow sea into north korea initially but south korea will also see some intense downpours as we go on through thursday that is likely to lead to more in the way of localized flooding ahead of that not too bad into japan last dry want to shaft particularly over the high ground tokyo will see warm sunshine if temperatures to a humid 33 degrees celsius so very wet weather there too into northern parts of china up towards beijing further south what it is a case of sunshine and showers plenty of showers may mala cross Southeast Asia the heaviest of which will be over towards the south china seas not too bad into the in parts of the philippines sensuous southern areas seeing some heavy downpours as is the case too into thailand and pushing up into myanmar more wet weather there across me and ma pushing up into the northeast of india and on into bangladesh never so very heavy monsoon rains coming right up across the Western Ghats stretching from our russia into good or out. From. The latest news as it breaks there is increasing pressure if a nandan to tun its back on beijing and u. K. Is finding itself caught between 2 superpowers with detailed coverage israels missed opportunities on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the panda from around the world Human Rights Groups say that at least 12 people have been either killed or disappeared by argentina security forces. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour u. S. President donald trump is calling for schools to reopen despite surging coronavirus cases across the country more than 155000 people have delays. Hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help and for school on a virus isolation orders anyone found breaching the rules will be fined 3 and a half 1000. 00. Malaysian police have raided just there as calling them for office and seized 2 computers 7 Staff Members were questioned in july over a documentary on the treatment of Migrant Workers nation Authorities Say it may have broken sedition laws its just there a strong it rejects those allegations. The number of british nationals emigration to the e. U. Has risen by 30 percent since the breaks a referendum. Found that the figure jumped recently to an average of 76000. 00 people per year the biggest increase in migration has been to spain followed by france u. K. Formally left the e. U. In january and is down a transition phase thats due to finish at the end of this year is among the he says the numbers are raising fears of a brain drain of educated citizens. This is very much another unintended consequence of bricks it according to research into data produced by eurostar and the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Since the 2016 referendum has been a 30 percent increase in british nationals deciding look we dont want to be here anymore its time to relocate to another country in the European Union as you mentioned there france spain both popular countries of course the weather in spain a huge appeal but also germany has noted that 2000 percent increase in british nationals already based in germany now deciding that they want to become german citizens difficult numbers of younger people many of them highly educated who despite being offered lower salaries or salary freezes are deciding to make the leap and to relocate to the European Union lets not forget that only a few weeks ago the British Government announced a new points based immigration system that was sold to businesses as a way of encouraging the best and brightest just on the e. U. But internationally to come and live and work here but perhaps what the British Government has failed to take into consideration is the best and brightest already here who are now deciding to take their talents elsewhere. The former king of spain one carlos has left the country weeks after he was linked to an investigation into allegations of corruption and cysts hell be available to prosecute is if they need to interview him spanish and swiss investigations are looking into allegations of bribes connected to a rail contract in saudi arabia mater and it was in madrid with the latest. We know so far what we heard from him is that he said that justice is equal for everyone and that he wont interfere this was not the only reaction we also heard from his son king philip the 6 saying he approved appreciated the gesture of its father and the way to to to shield the spanish more nikki and he had lighted the key role of his father during the spanish decision from the teacher she at the end of the end of the seventys too to a democracy he just made this decision after the beginning of the month of june those managed to court began an investigation regarding. Alleged involvement of one carlos in a high speed rail contract which sold your robbia juan carlos. They say that he would have allegedly received 100000000. 00 owed for his mediation during this contract between the spanish firms and the saudi arabia government so this is these were the charges that have been all the information that have been prompting in spanish media during the past weeks so the situation was quite quite critical the president of battles Alexander Lukashenko is accusing russia of trying to destabilize the country as president ial elections begin he says 33. 00 russians arrested last week a massive race a claim russia denies because franco has ruled battles for decades and is vying for his 6th term is facing the largest political challenge of his career with thousands rallying against him in recent weeks. Roman chuck is the president of the Scientific Research miss is center he says look at those accusations against russia are an attempt to drum up support for himself. It is facing the most serious challenge in just 26 years hes facing multiple disruption crises russia economy damage and for the 1st time he has lost public support to housewives it wanted to kind of was nobody and nobody knew knew her 3 months ago now shes a leading force of the opposition and she is uniting everybody who is sick and tired of. You can hold a polish bull russian regime which is quite strongly 33 person mercenaries from russia representing wagner group of course look at countries using that children are frightened people just say that there are about 200 more down and ready to fight theyre ready to use my powers that is aimed to ignite again role of course and to whose people to vote for him and in fact at this moment is making his presentation other like. A report to the parliament and the people and he looks very ill for the 1st time he is not inspiring and i think that he has lost touch with the reality and the people so i think that this sort of our mystery approach to dealing with the people is of the last the time to stay in power and no nobody knows what will be on the 10th of ogres the final date of election is 9th of august so we are in for some changes and changes will be coming after the president ial election. Dutch whistleblower wants the netherlands government investigated accusing it of ignoring his attempts to expose Nuclear Espionage for its very man was punished for turning in his colleague who was selling secret intelligence to pakistan in the early 1970 s. And that colleague ended up building Pakistans Nuclear bomb and selling the technology to other countries. Step vasant reports from the city of. 45 years after the commission fritz fear man lost his job was kidnapped and intimidated for speaking out about a Nuclear Scandal involving Companies Like hanko hes vowing to continue his fight for justice to socalled whistleblowers being supported by a decision of the dutch house of whistleblowers this new Whistleblower Authority says for months treatment was wrong and his warnings about the pakistani spy gun were valid so israel bowling for the show will a very it is very important for society to know what happened in the 1970 s. The dutch state has violated the nonproliferation treaty jeopardize the lives of millions because pakistan sold the information to china north korea and iran this is huge in the early 1970 s. Fear among Work Together with in a laboratory that this signed a new technique to enrich uranium by using ultra centrifuges for a ranko when a famine visited gods house one day he became suspicious and nico in his room i saw drawings of the ultra centrifuge secret drawings for sure thats not allowed but when fear man told his employer storch he believed khan was a spy he was told to keep quiet when he didnt he was sacked and held in detention by Dutch Justice officials his name ended up on a secret Service Watch list and vehemence says agents regularly intercepted him when he was travelling well its very strange a spy travels from pakistan to the netherlands to steal Nuclear Secrets and older equipment the spy is not punished but the man who reports him the whistleblower thats not how democracy works i want to know the Water Service the m. P. Has asked for an investigation by the institution that oversees dutch secret services the former dutch Prime Minister who died said that the cia had asked the metal and still not arrest khan so they could see what he was planning in 1908 and became the socalled father of the nuclear bomb in pakistan and continues to be treated as a hero in his homeland and the list that it will never be known who was responsible or the truth revealed of what happened its a very complicated case with Intelligence Service in. Different countries even you know so much of information is lacking so i wouldnt say we need court cases we need apologies to mr friedman says should be held accountable. Of course i think it. Should be held accountable in response to questions the Dutch Interior Ministry Said that the role of the former government needs further investigation but didnt provide details about when that will happen 45 years later the dutch government and the Companies Involved have yet to explain why state secrets could be stolen so easily and why nobody has been held accountable for the major consequences this factors have in this statement that what happened to vehement wont happen again and the whistleblower mechanism is now in place but for its vehement it is not enough he wants compensation and those involved to face justice step elses era. Leader has officially declared her candidacy for a 2nd term in office on sounds and she took the reins of power in 2016 after an electoral so landslide shes been subject to global criticism for denying crimes committed against the rigging of minority the election is set for november. As highland has a gun culture that some have compared to that of the United States but the mass shooting that killed 29 people earlier this year has prompted new questions about the need for reform. Has the story from quota. It was thailands worst mass shooting after killing his Commanding Officer an active duty soldier went on a shooting spree in the northeastern city of caracas in early february it took police over 16 hours to bring the rampage to an end before the soldier was shot and killed in the Shopping Mall 29 people were dead dozens wounded. To take on was riding his motorcycle near the mall when he saw someone injured and bleeding. And once i saw him i just wanted to help him i didnt even think past shooting going on do you got deacon was then shot several times and spent 3 months in intensive care he never like guns before and now has a message for gun enthusiasts committing to know when mistakes happen it can change someones entire life they should not think its cold. But gee about the cons of you have guns is uncommon in thailand according to the Small Arms Survey thailand tops the list for gun ownership in all of asia 15 out of every 100 people here own a firearm thats more than 10000000 weapons but about 4000000 of them are unregistered while the deadly shooting here in karate is viewed by some criminologist as a copycat to previous Mass Shootings it has elevated concern over the gun culture here in thailand where it just in guns is it fueled by the perception of control power and status. Some see thailands gun culture tied to popular hobbies and trends and missionary influenced by u. S. Troops stationed here during the vietnam war but political instability is also a factor. Politics play a big part of gun culture in thailand the political situation here is not stable and people have been living under different regimes so people trying to preserve their power to do that they feel they need firearms especially tiley. With some good is the editor of a gun magazine and a gun range owner he doesnt think theres a correlation between the number of weapons and the amount of gun crime but is worried about illegal weapons in untrained hands. Its about the state of our society the state of our economy or influences from social media that people see mass shooting in america and copy the behavior. Many thais feel that if weapons remain as easy to get as they are now there could very well be more vigils held for those killed by guns scotter al jazeera karate thailand. Youre watching all this there are these on the top stories here as President Donald Trump is calling for schools to reopen despite surging coronavirus cases across the country more than 155000 people have died as a White House Correspondent Kelly Holcomb has more from washington. The number of infections as weve been reporting continuing to rise in the United States and so many feeling that this is just not the time to reopen the schools that any reopening decision needs to be based on facts and numbers and data and so the argument has really been a division of one but its also been an emotional one because you have to remember in the midst of all of this regardless of where you fall on the spectrum many students with special needs get those services at schools as well as School Lunches so its a complicated issue but in many cases it has once again been divided along political lines hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help enforce coronavirus isolation orders anyone from breaching the rules will be fined 3 and a half 1000. 00. Malaysian police are raided aljazeera as Kuala Lumpur Office and seized 2 computers 7 Staff Members were questioned in july or a documentary on the treatment of Migrant Workers malaysian Authorities Say it may have broken sedition laws just their strongly rejects those allegations so bob is president ever synagogue is defending his government against allegations of a renewed crackdown on dissent local Human Rights Group says more than 60 people have been arrested since last week hurricane has weakened to a Tropical Storm shortly after making landfall in North Carolina 300000 people without power the storm is headed north toward new york state. Well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera right after the stream which is coming up next. As a protest or a job for Police Brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the votes follow the u. S. Elections on a. Theyre welcome to the stream home edition im josh rushing sitting in for femi ok today and were looking at a country in todays episode where its one of the few countries in the world where coronavirus does not exist at least according to the government now doctors and grave diggers might tell a different story were talking about turkmenistan and if youre already in the you tube watching this right you probably do have a connection to turkmenistan