Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

A transmission risk. For violent protests and by the loose against president on the. Day after he meets political opponents in. Nigeria dissolves a Controversial Police squad accuse of brutality after days of angry protests. Libyas Largest Oil Field reduce production after nearly a year long blockade by warlords. Thanks for joining us a fragile cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan is under threat following attacks from both sides in the conflict over nagornokarabakh new fighting has killed at least 8 people and there is a search for survivors birds beneath the rubble as are Officials Say the 2nd city of ganja that city right there was struck by missiles in the early hours of sunday morning military officials and nagornokarabakh have denied attacking the city saying theyre observing the cease fire. Meanwhile armenia is accusing as are a force of shelling the regions largest cities step on a kurds both sides accuse each other of violating the humanitarian ceasefire which came into force on saturday the deal allows them to Exchange Prisoners and recover bodies hundreds of people have been killed since fighting flared up 2 weeks ago said of course the world who isnt just a fear in azerbaijan and she says the government is calling the ceasefire violation a crime the top officials called it as a minute military crime and the International Community should respond this thats what they said and when i asked the other day how consulted with russia about this violation of the cease fire to the assistant of the president to mentally have. His assistant take meds. Told me that they have already contacted and theyre waiting for to hear from the russian side as well the cease fire was mediated by russia actually it was expected to kick off properly but it didnt yesterday after the cease fire was in force just a couple of minutes later maybe 15 minutes later we heard from both sides that the cease fire was violated this side on the survey john sides along with again jemaine get over it was also targeted by several misfires and they told us in the area both the officials and the civilians told us that it was targeted by 9 rockets last night but on the other side we are hearing that as the pony carriage was also under fire over the night so the both sides accuse each other for violating the cease fire however they dont stop attacking each other either bernard smoove fizzing gura so armenia he says officials are evading any questions about violating the cease fire. The accusation about the shelling of ganja was port to being a go on a car dock president s in a press conference earlier today and he didnt specifically answer the question but. He did say that if in the next one or 2 do days we do not feel as a very readiness to resolve these issues peacefully i will 1st apply to his area thora teased to International Authorities and armenian authorities to recognize the independence of the golan oconnor a box that is an extremely unlikely prospect it is recognized as a azerbaijani territory also today the armenians have released an updated list of the soldiers killed now 429 soldiers killed and when they release the list they release their names and their dates of birth and you see that the dates of birth of nearly all of them are between 2001 to 2002 so a very young man being killed in these last 2 weeks does not release details of the numbers of his soldiers killed but you can be assured that there are casualties on the side and ill be of a similar age when you see these lists of casualties you perhaps get a greater appreciation of the enormous pressure the leaderships of both countries are under not to be seen to making concessions that will cost them to the other side. Tsar to me is the spokeswoman for the International Committee of the red cross delegation in the armenian capital youre iran she says the terms of the ceasefire can only be accomplished if it serves the needs of both sides and can be maintained. Where are actually in regular discussions that the size of the nature of our involvement however far now the date for the operation to begin is in the hands of the size and the our International Committee of the right to cross stands ready to facilitate. And support the sides in their obligation to manage terrible occasion to release that the detainees in one hand or the other to return the human remains that the fatherland can. Bury and often when for now however we have been hearing reports about shelling continued on both sides of the line of contact and fortunately which does not allow us. All in any kind of humanitarian matted hair and operation the nature of our interaction weve started this is actually confidential sold bilaterally were discussing both our concerns and also the possibility is to. Move swiftly to the process actually however what we can confirm now is the decision the political decisions are in the hands of the sides not the i. C. R. C. So just so for a week after the u. S. President announced his tested positive for cope with 19 donald trump has now told fox news that he no longer has the coronavirus in that same interview he says he believes hes now immune to it lets bring in our business so the rain in new york so hes saying he no longer has coronavirus christen but what he hasnt said is whether he has tested negative. Yeah absolutely and a lot of people are pointing out that theres a difference there. The president. Has been very eager to get back out on the campaign trail he says that he doesnt have coded that he is not going to transmit the disease and in fact his doctor Sean Connelly be. A physician taking care of him issued a statement on saturday saying that hes not a transmission risk he meets the c. D. C. Guidelines but people have been waiting to hear this phrase that hes tested negative and you know in this interview with fox news he talked about having the lowest possible raids and be unclear but the language seemed a bit vague. Given that either you have it or you dont and that is concerning to people in fact the president tweeted recently pretty much what he said during the interview that he had a total and complete sign off from white House Doctors that he cant get it hes immune and he cant give it and twitter has flagged that as. Potentially misleading information on the coronavirus and that is again because of this. Concern about the test itself whether it was negative and also theres questions about immunity its not clear yet according to experts when you get immunity how long you have immunity its believed that after you recover you have immunity for some months but thats still being discussed so all of this is not allaying the concerns of people who say you know hes going back out on the campaign trail less than 2 weeks before getting announcing this diagnosis how safe is this now that we know other people tested positive at a recent white house event yeah all right chris and thank you very much for giving us that update from new york. Well russia has reported a new daily record in corona virus infections more than 13000. 00 nationwide in the past 24 hours pushes the total close to a quarter 1000000 and thats the 4th highest worldwide 22000 russians have died of covert related illnesses but russia did lift most restrictions back in june after imposing one of the most severe lock downs but president Vladimir Putin has remained in an isolated controlled bubble so hes worked from his residence outside moscow there he conducts most of his meetings with senior officials through a video link and one to putin does attend big events like the victory day parade in june those around him were reportedly required to quarantine for 2 weeks in august putin announced russia had approved the worlds 1st corona virus vaccine but moscow skipped the critical trial stage the 3 human testing phase and it prompted the World Health Organization to caution that safety should not be compromised in the search of a vaccine nicholai petrova is a Senior Research fellow at the u. K. Based think tank Chatham House he says the kremlin strategy of playing down the coronavirus has worked in putins favor. What we see in the recently is well more direct increase since approval rating. It can be explained by the fact that the majority of russians thought of the crisis is over and they hit their knickers over thats why the kremlin is not that much good to continue or to make managers against the epidemic more restrictive in order not to have those in freezing peculiarity and thats very important they have to fly russians to still feel like they are in the war thats why they should somehow consolidate around the leader around the government of the government and unfortunately when we call on them it doesnt look thats cool. When the understanding. How serious are become a big losses at the scale of d ordinary citizens their response can be much more they have to defend the ones weve seen that. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including polls have closed for Turkish Cypriots in the Divided Island is north we have more on the fragile peace deal thats at stake. Leader one of the worlds longest serving as hoping to extend his 28 year rule rafael nadal wins a 13th title and the french open joe have more on the history making sunday in sports. But 1st police have detained dozens of government protesters. Police fired tear gas and water cannon and they used to disperse crowds protesting for the 9th consecutive day military vehicles were seen entering the capital minsk ahead of the rally testers are calling for president Alexander Lukashenko to quit and reverse constitutional changes that increase his powers. And the violence comes a day after a look at shankar held an unexpected meeting with opposition activists who are in prison state media says he discussed constitutional reform with his political rivals on saturday they were jailed for a challenging look at shanker israel action which triggered weeks of mass protests thousands of people were detained in the violent crackdown that followed the disputed poll in august. Demanding dialogue i thought based on the criticism of your followers and the most radical proposals we shouldnt only focus on the constitution and i know half of you here are louise and perfectly understand that the constitution cant be written in the streets and im trying to convince both your supporters and society at large that we must have a broader view towards these problems so lets discuss all of this with alex culture of whos a leader of the country Risk Consultancy i asked mark out hes joining us from london thanks very much for your time so it was an unexpected move by the president to hold a meeting with opposition activists who are in prison whats behind the move do you think. You know i think it was totally unexpected but it shows that the fact that the protests are now in the 9th week theyve been happening since early august so over 60 days now they are having an impact i think also what has been having an impact on position of the by the recent leadership is the fact that the European Union and other western countries the western bloc are showing solidarity in not recognizing the legitimacy of ministration following this disputed election so its forced by pressures from within his country abut the protests but also the pressure from outside of his country the lack of legitimacy to actually Start Talking to the opposition right so hes spoken to the opposition but what makes you think that he will do anything about it. I dont know my honest answer and of course you know the preferred scenario would be to offer very cosmetic changes to the constitution which would keep most of his power still very much intact and which would leads to him keeping his power he clearly doesnt want to step down he has demonstrated its multiple times in the past 2 months and what he wants is to offer something some concessions which would be sufficient in order to reduce the protest movement which has been damaging to domestic political stability and ultimately also economic stability because at the face of the events in the country a lot of private sector firms started reconsidering whether they want to stay in the country or to move actually their operations somewhere else and weve seen that the number of private sector firms is specially in the i. C. Sector which has been growing very fast in the recent days recent yez have decided to actually move operations elsewhere and let you were mentioning just a moment ago the pressure that look at sankoh is feeling from European Countries of course we know that a number of them have recalled their ambassadors to the country but russia is a key player here and russia has thrown its weight behind looking sankoh if the crisis continues if the protests continue will russia shift its position. I think the calculation. Is to offer certain concessions which would be sufficient to reduce that pro to stick to the state and to refuse the activity of the opposition but it may not necessarily work they sway because we see that the numbers of people who could be mobilized to take part in this process still quite significant russia is in a difficult position because on that one hand 8. Finds problematic its likely to find problematic to support a government in ministration which is at odds with significant section of its population but on the other hand russia doesnt want to see. A change in the political system in belarus which is driven from the grassroots movements from the process russia russia wants to be in control of that so russia is in a quite tricky position might agree to the departure of look at arrival of somebody else but it wants to probably play a certain role in this process and the protests currently going on i mean there is a crackdown on protesters but despite this you think that the momentum will keep going. Protests are now in the 3rd month and we see that the turnout during protests is still very high today it was quite rainy in a way to minsk and still dozens of thousands of protesters turned up which indicates that mobilization is still there and people want change and yes of course of the weather that might change things you know as we approach the winter but at the moment i see still a lot of mobilization and the fans thats a lot of opposition figures have been even detained oh pushed out of the country hasnt significantly impacted the mobilization of the ground people are still coming out to protest just by the fact that these protests in fact to believe that this all right well leave it there we thank you very much for joining us from london thank you the head of nigerias bill these says that an elite anti robbery you know will be dissolved immediately this comes after several days of protests across the country demanding the complete abolition of these special anti robbery squad demonstrators have accused the group of murder extortion and disappearances of mother theresas in a bush era where he says the police force has been accused of multiple atrocities. Nigerians have been calling for the dissolution of this unit which has been accused of so many atrocities some caught on video and on put on social media that went viral but the Nigerian Government has been dragging its feet about it twice the government promised to dissolve or the form of the special interest court but again they managed to resurface and they managed to continue their operations without hindrance and that did not deter them from slowing down on atrocities or abuses on the civilian population and this is the last push was. Some nearly a week ago when one individual was killed in the south of the country and that sparked a nationwide protest. In the final dissolution of this Notorious Police unit of the activists in nigeria call it the Inspector General of police and also in the desert lucian of the unit said there will be transferred to various Police Formations across the country and then a new outfit will now be set up to deal with crimes like kidnapping and other Violent Crimes happening across the country. Rafsanjani is the executive director of the Civil Society and legislative Advocacy Center he says protesters want a complete overhaul of nigerias security sector. This is. Really really meant but i think its fundamental issue for all of this petition of nigerians because its an edge against ones they really want accountability on those. Who have more data or have distorted brutalized nigerians because this band in the needs without. Tickin you know sanction against those who perpetrated this act it to mean that when the. Another unit they could get this atrocity so. For of course entities brutal brutality that units of the police had been cutting out against nigerians but most of the mentally nigerians are looking for fundamental reform in the police understood it is generally because of the different duration of this quality in the country these 2 morts. In security in the country criminality could not in bended tree and also talk of criminal activities both within and outside the school just have to actually take tin deprogrammed of this country and therefore nigeria for skill to reform what we can see now is an attempt by the government to try to collate detention that is already growing in green on in the country so that it will not have. Into arab spring. Production is restarting at libyas Largest Oil Field charter ata has been closed for most of this year because of a blockade imposed by the warlords Khalifa Haftar out of libya used to produce more than a 1000000 barrels of crude a day generating an important stream of income malik traina has more from tripoli. Now that sound youre hearing is the Power Generator Power Generators have become a common theme across libya and thats due to the long power cuts of the 42. 00 the national or corporation that power cuts are because of the lack of oil and diesel feeding into the power station in a result of the oil closure now if you look if you look to the side youll see this pharmacy here is closed and thats because the shop owner couldnt afford to maintain his generator so the really the residents the shop owners Business Owners are the ones suffering from this lack of oil of the oil according to the central bank the oil holders from 2013 to 2020 have resulted in a loss of revenue of over 180000000000. 00 now thats money the government uses to pay government salaries to pay for Government Services including electricity and water so theres really been a deterioration of the Living Conditions here in the good due to the way it will now hopefully over the opening of 00 will lead to their oil fields in all of the oil for opening and this way the government can help to rebuild the infrastructure. To the residents here. Wolfgang put size a security and policy analyst on austrias former Defense Attache to libya he says getting the oil flowing again will be good for the economy but it wont have a real impact on the ongoing conflict. Opening of a shout out has no direct impact on the political process which is unfortunately stuck again. Some some positive signs off of the negotiations in morocco which came to an agreement evolved with propositions between the h. R. N. T. S. C. But unfortunately there is no approval of the outcome of these negotiations made up by the 2 are nor by the Supreme State concert agreement for an opening of the oil exports was for the kind being purchased one month which means until october 17th and this is pending if the recent agreement that these 2 fusion of the oil revenues for the time being all their payments end up in a bank account of the leap in foreign pank and are not why of central bank of libya and the agreement could be terminated off the october 17th if there is no such agreement my guess is that the flow of oil be continued for 2 reasons one if you have seen if i shut out a half that use probably not going to position not in a position to or the stop all over libya it could well be that in the east the people will stick to his office but its quite unlikely that the guys and i shout out to and in the other vest the noise hes the fall of these so i guess their production and the exports he continue are also off the october 17th if least as long as the funds remain in the Libyan Foreign bank and im not transferred to the central bank of libya. The Election Council of Northern Cyprus says incumbent president who supports the reunification of cyprus will face his rival nationalist and a runoff the island of cyprus has been divided since 1974 into the turkish speaking north and Greek Cypriot south and in baba reports. Hes the leader of a country that nobody but turkey recognizes and now turkeys leaders have turned against him to. Most of his hoping to be reelected as president of the self declared republic of Northern Cyprus with a population of no more than half a 1000000 people i can choose supports a federal solution for the Divided Island and is keen for stalled talks involving the government in the south of cyprus as well as greece turkey and britain to resume. But many people here in the north favor a 2 state solution including the Prime Minister s. In touch hes backed by turkey. This week alongside turkish president are due on the tower announced the partial reopening of virus. Its a Holiday Resort abandoned by its Greek Cypriot inhabitants during the turkish invasion in 1984 the move to allow visitors back on to the beach was criticised by tatas rivals who saw it as turkish interference during kaiju morea teen in unfortunately the or thora g. s of the republic of turkey took a side in this election very openly they did this despite all my warnings all of you have seen this all of society has seen and experienced this successive United Nations resolutions have called for the area to be transferred to u. N. Control un peacekeepers monitor the buffer zone between the 2 parts of the island and the reopening of the beach prompted protests by Greek Cypriots living nearby. But. It also led to a member of the Ruling Coalition in the north to quit in effect bringing down the government the u. N. Plans to call new multilateral talks on the future of cyprus after the election the upcoming. Negotiations will be basically 5 part. They were not just between the 2 sides but also including the 3 got on so whoever is elected needs to work with turkey in order to formulate the best policies in the negotiations the election comes during territorial tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean cyprus and its ally greece have been pushing for International Sanctions against turkey for its exploration of undersea oil and natural gas meaning the vote in Northern Cyprus is being watched more closely than ever. After the break 20 years after being forcibly evicted white zimbabwe and farmers are returning to work for a black landowner its a possible coronavirus mutation why a remote region in chile is reporting 20 percent of the countrys covered 1000 cases and will go down as formula ones best definitely was how the new cause a record set by Michael Schumacher. Hello seen from space is no big surprise to find a little cloud of the middle east this time the year but given that 3 weeks ago it was hot and dry hartland normal fires have broken out in places like lebanon and jordan and syria now the weathers not going to aid them or indeed hinder them itll be up to human action nothing much is changing media future but that a breeze coming down the gulf which picks up next as an attempt is generally speaking are dropping down in places like qatar not everywhere 36 in baghdad is still quite on the high side salad back in the sunshine the hot if has completely gone the rains are going sack this is where youll find them anywhere from south sudan more especially just down towards the equator this is where the rain is really being pepped up at the moment and you see india are congo the dark blue even occasional orange is that is where youre going to find the heaviest of the showers and they stretch off oversea into uganda this is no big surprise this is correct the time of year the rain does stretch that aside through boats was zimbabwe and into south africa often in lines of weaknesses in the atmosphere so youve got blue going through harare and briefly into johannesburg the forecast for johannesburg gives us sundry monday but then on tuesday and wednesday its fine and warming up. 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Probably going to top stories on the news hour at least 8 people have been killed in the latest fighting over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh Officials Say the city of ganja was struck by missiles overnight as a base and armenia are accusing each other of leading a cease fire deal. Just over a week after the u. S. President tested positive for covert 19 donald trump has told fox news that he no longer has the corner virus in that same interview he said he believes hes now in to it. The Liberation Police are detained dozens of government Protesters Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds protesting for the 9th consecutive day they want president Alexander Lukashenko to quit following the disputed poll in august. Kurdistans opposition is blaming russia for what they described as last weeks rigged election and the violence that followed on saturday kurdistans parliament named a new Prime Minister strengthening the president s grip on power troll stratford has more from bush. Only general from just small bakery on the outskirts of the cutest caption skank. He says hes never really been interested in politics but the chaos of last week following the reaked parliamentary election has changed everything. But i didnt vote in the elections because i could see they were not going to be fair but ill definitely vote in the next election we cannot give up hope for our future we owe it to our children to. Japan are seen here being greeted by supporters after they freed from jail during postelection protests were serving 11 year jail term kidnapping. And now hes Prime Minister so many lawyers and some members of Parliament Say they were not enough n. P. s present during the emergencies parliamentary session to make voting shapovalov into power legal a state of emergency came into effect on saturday night which showed the president soren by jim bekoff says is necessary to prevent armed confrontation between rival opposition groups. But a new Prime Minister supporters who had the day before charged a peaceful demonstration and vowed to support him with their lives ignored the 9 pm curfew and celebrated with fireworks into the night. Already opposition and some progovernment parties and political analysts say the events of the last few days represent a significant step backwards along the path towards democracy for this country. They say power for criminal networks some that may even stretches far as moscow may have been involved in the election rigging the postelection violence and will be happy with the result. Of and his supporters vehemently reject the allegation that he is involved with criminals. He said he wants to arrest this man powerful clan leader one time deputy head of customs running back my train more in opposition parties accused of a vote pouring for progovernment parties and supporting japan over the postelection calles that eventually saw him become the new Prime Minister analysts say kyrgyzstans Journey Towards democracy was a nightmare for russia has so much political influence here their criminal elements had been spoken of by its widely even before the elections in the run up to the elections there i think russia is very much likely to have had some hand some participation. But at the bakery no matter the doubts about free and Fair Elections in the promised rerun of the parliamentary poll crim hopes his vote will count chance traffic aljazeera. Polls have closed in tajiks don where the incumbent president one has been in power since 1902 while the white house for rivals is widely expected to win another 7 year term european monitors say theres a lack of genuine political competition its very great be reports. President in a mali ragman arrives at a polling station in the capital december hes hoping to win a 5th term in office after voters induced changes to the constitution 4 years ago which scrapped the limits on president ial terms but the economy is struggling and voters are worried about the future. Im not sure rove is trying hard to keep his coffee shop open International Airports being closed for the last 6 months because of karena virus restrictions and that means ahmed hasnt been able to import his regular supply of coffee he says the next president must help Small Businesses meet. The needs. We order a lot of stuff for our business from other countries due to covert air traffic is blocked it would be great if our government appreciated our problems and gave us some help it would benefit us tremendously. President ial candidates are promising to grow the economy and create jobs to take a stand is the poorest of the place save the state a lack of work opportunity at home is more than a 1000000 to kick men and women to find jobs a brute. A longish. We want to see job growth especially for those who are unemployed and if there are enough jobs here men will not look for opportunities in other countries theyll stay here with their kids. Human Rights Groups say political reform is vital if the country is to avoid the instability and violence its experienced in the past this election as the significant because its the 1st one since the Main Opposition Party a moderate Islamist Party was bombed in 2015 so actually the situation is even bleaker now in the last president ial election in 2013 many voters expect wrecked man to win the election the any question for them is whether the 68 year old will serve out the full 7 year term Victoria Gate and be al jazeera. A number of armed groups in iraq have agreed to stop rocket attacks on u. S. Forces a spokesman for qatar which has close links with iran says the ceasefire is conditional on baghdad giving a timetable for the withdrawal of american troops the group is nominally incorporated into Iraq Security apparatus but has been accused of acting outside the formal chain of command its also been blamed for a siege on camp taji in march which killed one british and 2 american soldiers wildfires that were burning in parts of syria and lebanon have been brought under control many families were forced to flee from the flames which were triggered by a heat wave in the middle east firefighters are still cooling down some of the burnt out areas at least 3 people in syria died and dozens were admitted to hospital with breathing problems more than a 1000 refugees have reached Spains Canary islands and 48 hours thats the largest number since 2016 over the weekend the refugees headed to the south coast of gran canaria and 37 boats many were rescued at sea refugees are now taking a dangerous route into the Atlantic Ocean to reach europe since morocco increased security along its borders local politicians say the Canary Islands do not have enough resources for the refugees 20 years after zimbabwes controversial land reform policy when thousands of white farmers were forcibly evicted some are returning to the land as tenants of black owners as heroin reports from the province the governments hopes their return will boost production and had warnings that millions of zimbabweans are facing food shortages. Zimbabwes government calls these collaboration smart partnerships or joint ventures some whites who were forced off commercial farms joining the Land Reform Programme 20 years ago are coming back to work with black landowners allowing other people whove got the money and the resources to partner the land has been just the best thing that has happened to us obviously we know we Work Together well. We also with the partnership the good thing about the partnership is the skills transfer. 2 decades after the government sees thousands of white owned commercial farms land and who it rightfully belongs to is still an emotive and divisive topic in zimbabwe and other parts of Southern Africa followings the land reform controversy when pharmacies from whites the barbarians of all races are now cautious about the land agreements thats why those in these joint partnerships insist on legal documentation stating exactly how profits will be dividers. Some zimbabwean say the late president Robert Mugabes Land Reform Program was a partisan poses that favored a few elites and left the country struggling to feed itself some of the land grabs were chaotic and violent displacing the white farmers and their farm workers the Uns World Food Program warns more than 8000000 zimbabweans would not have enough food by december thats roughly 60 percent of the population others believe land reform was necessary to give back land to blacks the barbarians land that was taken by white settlers join the colonial years. And that it is what we now need is foremost a good bridge to the learned and. That is looking for resources in order to compensate for the humans only learnt. So the states it is going to pay more than 3. 00. 1000000000. 00 in compensation to whites who had been expropriated to resettle black families its difficult for any creditor tool lend you money when you have a feeling well its going to be very difficult for government to reuse unless government probably is going to impose taxes but again that a bit of your daughter or we already i mean takes didnt economy. People keen on running these farms as the businesses again want guarantees from the government there will be no more illegal land seizures and Property Rights will be respected but the country is constantly changing economic policies still make investors nervous president keeps saying is open for business the International Community and the locals are watching waiting to see if that is indeed true. Is there much on the land East Province is a bubbly crowds of buddhists from man maher has staged a protest in neighboring bangladesh there from Rakhine State and say more than 300 civilians have been killed there in recent months during army raids mean mars military has been accused of acting with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims in the states by the uns top court theyve denied the charge. Video of a group of bangladeshi men attacking and stripping a woman has provoked more protests condemning violence against women 100 rallied in the capital dhaka to accuse the government of failing to tackle the alarming rise in gang rape and sexual assaults demonstrators are demanding Capital Punishment for offenders although many attacks arent reported. A bus heading to a buddhist temple has collided with a train in thailand killing at least 18 people around 30 others were injured it happens about 60 kilometers in the capital bangkok dozens of passengers were on the bus as it crossed rail tracks during. Indias reported infections of surpassed 7000000 the Health Ministry confirms more than 74000 positive tests in the past 24 hours new infections had decreased in recent weeks but doctors are warning that gains in containing the virus are being undermined by fatigue with Wearing Masks and social distancing thousands of israelis have protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the extension of emergency measures that allow the government to limit demonstrations this is the 16th straight weekend of protests against israel across israeli excuse me against thats anyone whos facing corruption charges people are also angry about a new law which bans israelis from holding demonstrations more than a kilometer from their homes the government says the measures are aimed at curbing cope with infections. Brazils president has again downplayed the severity of corona virus telling brazilians not to worry about catching its terrible so narrow says he didnt feel a thing when he tested positive in july scientists fear a 2nd wave has on its way with infection surpassing 5000000. 00 and fatalities linked to the virus exceed 150000 thats the worlds 2nd highest total. Scientists in chile are investigating a possible mutation of the corona virus questions have arisen after the remote region of my governess which accounts for only one percent of the countrys population reported nearly 20 percent of total cases so far are latin america at its embassy and human reports. Named after the explorer magellan chiles mother younis region and its capital that in us are known as the gateway to antartica a place so cold you need nearly year round scientists at the university of miamis investigating why remote region with only one percent of the population is of it just rain nearly 20 percent of the countrys cases have pulled it 19 have discovered a new strand of corona virus has taken over. That mutation phenomenon happened everywhere in the world at the beginning of the pandemic simultaneously but this time its restricted to a new wave and to a particular geographic location this strand once existed in very small quantities elsewhere but for reasons still unclear it is expanded only in. The viruses and here inch protein is different but what that implies is still unclear. What is clear is that unlike the 1st wave in april since august infections in matt yanis have been steadily increasing despite a Strict Lockdown earlier this week the number of people infected have not yet its was the same as here in the capital except that mother got it has been all this population density in the country 170000 versus 8000000 here in santiago experts say there could be many reasons including the weather but they cant rule out that the new strand of the virus is mainly to blame. The pan american Health Organization is assisting chilean Scientists Say in an effort to know more especially to confirm whether this new version of cold 19 is far more contagious than previous trends. If the hypothesis is validated it would obviously be worrisome because of the degree of the contagion we are seeing in my gut younus were to spread nationwide it would mean 25000. 00 new cases per day and that is a dangerous scenario indeed. And while the Scientific Community attempts to determine the consequences of this mutation air force planes have started mid backing critical patients 3000 kilometers from our janish to the capital to ensure that hospitals will be able to cope with the unrelenting viral outbreak you see in human aljazeera sent out when corona virus spread around the world earlier this year many offices shut their doors and send stuff to work from home and although this new professional landscape suits many it also brings Big Questions around worker privacy were reports. Hidden behind net curtains and frosted front doors now toil the workers of this weird new world but who knows what is really going on in these homes turned workspaces social media time wasting Online Shopping corporate espionage perhaps an increasingly employers are trying to find out lets jump into a brief overview of everything have staff can do for your business pub staff is just one of several Software Services for Remote Working that have seen sales surged and it allows bosses to keep tabs on star you can see their activity percentage which tells you how often the mouse and keyboard are used while tracking time the absolute will show you what tools theyre using and the u. R. L. View shows you what websites theyre visiting our growth rate is about double what it was. Before the pandemic the fall lock down you know what are we going to do in the midst of a pandemic was was the trigger being working from home but this trend has set alarm bells ringing for those who worry about employers encroaching on the previous e of their staff and Congress Needs to be responsible for employees endemic itself would have taken a toll on many of us psychologically. And if you that is coupled with constant surveillance by the employer the psychological effect on employees could be greedy and significant now the work course of the home office is the laptop which is also a very effective spying toll yes you can put tape over the camera try to muffle the microphone and scan it for hidden spyware but in the large majority of cases employers will actually be doing their monitoring in plain sight. That is certainly the view of security expert ben marks but i think that now as a matter of course people taking new jobs are going to have to give away this right that if they working from home and using a work computer they are going to have to give their employer commit permission. To monitor their work product on their work computer but even with employee consent ethical questions remain like whats that consent worth if its a requisite for keeping a job and this academic has more maybe you have 2 or 3 children and a spouse kind of wandering around not to mention the big could his cats that appear and what do you what does that mean for their privacy what does it mean for your the difference between this private space that you typically think of and your workspace. Its not clear if workers will ever fully return to City Center Offices homeworking is now established as a viable model and new battles over trust and privacy are looming rory talents aljazeera london. Coming up on the news hour. Just rolling with it well tell you how one driver got in trouble at the rally ahead in. Cyprus a european island opening offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august aljazeera made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky passport by Investment Scheme columnist for. The south pacific. Now al jazeera as Investigative Unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriote state aljazeera investigations the cyprus papers on the cover in the deprived villages of northern argentina theres one man with a solution to every problem. For engineer a selfproclaimed inventor for nanda and hes crossed a 94 to 7 ford truck no job and just 2 small village to farm in his latest mission he constructed much needed for generator the drums and 5 board if you find a latin america driving change on i just see it on. The whole in. The. Long. Run again lets get an update on all the sports news with joe. Thanks very much it has been a history making sunday in sport lets start in paris where rafael nadal has won his 13th title at the french open and 20th grand slam overall the spaniard was playing well the one of a joke of it on his favorite surface at Roland Garros and there was plenty at stake with the serb looking for an 18th slam himself but adele raced into a 2 set lead and although he met some resistance from joke of it in the 3rd set the dial wrapped it up 6 love 6275 living up to his king of a nickname that 20th grand slam title also puts him on par with Roger Federer and he was pretty emotional about this his latest win. Office thank. You notes and all i did for a great tournament started for ford today. And i was about yankee killer to me couple of time ago. So there was for me that starts part of the of the game. I want to say to Congress Relations and your team and your family of course. What youre doing on this core design believable not just this court threw out during the entire career youve been a great champion and today you know why you would. Have experienced it on my own skin. Meanwhile the new womens champion says her main goal now is to stay consistent after being polands 1st grand slam singles champion 19 year old take has been showing off a trophy on a roof in paris she beat Australian Open champion syfy at kenyon in saturdays final at 54. 00 in the world shawn tech is the lowest ranked woman to ever win at Roland Garros she was also the youngest since monica seles in 1992. Its still pretty overwhelming for me so im trying to look at the whole tournaments from a different perspective but its really hard but im still here and i have. To be so i think oh well im back home and when were going to rest a little bit im going to enjoy even more than right now but im Pretty Healthy well formula one history was also made in germany as well champion Lewis Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher has all time record of 91 race wins the mercedes driver started from 2nd on the grid behind teammate Valtteri Bottas who was forced to retire with power failure by that point hamilton had already taken the lead and finished well ahead of max the stepan and Daniel Ricardo after the race to mack his son mick presented how mixing with one of his his fathers old helmets in recognition of the achievements. Seen his dominance for so long i dont think anyone especially made him imagine that i would be. Anywhere near michael in terms of records so its an incredible honor and to take some time to get used to anything as i came into the pit lane at the end and when i realised that id put out you did it herself. New zealand and australia have played the 1st rugby test match since the start of the current virus pandemic rugby like most sports was shut down in march and its gradually try to come back in the last few months there was no separating the all blacks in the wallabies in their 1st bledisloe cup match on sunday in wellington the team scored 2 tries each in a 16 all troll but kiwi center rico i own a has been heavily criticised for a show boating after dropping the ball when he was about to score a try hes feeling pretty frustrated with sales but you know thats. Thats one of those little listens the players have to go through and. You know and the reason we strong game apart from that. Youre so into smith thats one of the good teams mentions going to take those big little moments oh i thought we played a lot of courage. In our sales down. From a lot of spice and behind him we had a lot of ball. But call it out and clean up just wasnt good enough from the. Scenario we need to be better next week we you know we go and we have our 14 penalties and a big chunk of those opposed to home Major League Baseballs respective League Championship series start later on sunday is the final match ups before the world series 1st up the Houston Astros play a young Tampa Bay Rays team who had the best regular season record the youth is a year more mature this season has forced us to be a little bit more mature in many ways certainly with the pandemic and being responsible being accountable to each other. The race at all one of the best i mean its so no secret every guy that they have. Can do Different Things they all throw a very hard you know theyre theyre extremely well managed obvious its i mean thats why theyre the number one seed in the American League danny soto has won the rally of italy in saudi arabia for a 2nd year in a row on sunday but its been a tough day in the dry conditions for some to come out so rolled his conscious to konami to from the start line luckily the tennis coach driver escaped on. And that is all useful for now. Thanks for watching the news hour on aljazeera thats it from myself and the team here and i will hand you over to our it seems in london barbara sara will be with you in just a moment with much more of the days news and all the top stories thanks for watching aljazeera by. Corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence by means of should clear up sion is not something to be told that this. Is a friggin. Country his email and lets destroy this wolf. 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