The freeman foundation. Um judy and peter ovler foundation; pursuing solutions forne americas neglectes. And by contributions to this station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ros hello. I am ross atkins. Welcome to outside source. The coronavirus death has passed half a million we all want to get on with our lives, but the hd realit is this is not even close to ros report from texas, california, and florida, all seeing a surge inew cases. And in the u. , the Supreme Court has dismissed a law which restricted abortn in louisiana. We will play you a report on how the Islamic State group is seeking to tak advantage of the pandemic. I want to begin with two stark statistics. The global death to from covid19 is now past half a million. Erthe nuf infections is past 10 million. And i am afraid we areold this only the start. Here is more from the world health organization. Ar thereality is this is not even close to being over. Although many countries he made some progress globally, t e pandem actually speeding up. Ros there are many ways to illustrate the severity of the pandemic. Here is one from reuters, showing that in june, more than 4700 people died every 24 hours from covid19linked illness, one death every 18 seconds are 00nearlyeaths every hour. America remains the worst affected country, by far. The most deaths, mt infections paired 125,000 125,000 in 2. 5 million respectively. The graph shows outbreaks in the west and south othe u. S. South carolina and nevadas other highlights highest daily infection figure over the weekend. Because of these kind of gures, some states are tightening restrictions here is the governor of texas speaking on sunday. We need to understand that covid19 has taken a very swift and very dgerous turn in texas over just the past few weeks. Ros this isith the governor ngis refero, the number of daily cases in texas has jumped from 2000 to over 5000. Texas has recorded over 150,000 cases in total. Go back two months when the state began reopening, that figure was around 30,000. No restrictions are coming back. Bars were told t close on friday. Restaurants told to cut dining capacity. Public gatherings not limited to under 100 people. As you may have seen there, Vice President mike pence was in texas over the weekend, dallas to be precise he promised more teing kits, and he hadhis advice. Vp pence worry mask wereery it is indicated wherever it is indicated or wherever you are not ableo practice a social distancing that would prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And we would stronger h strong reiterate that today. I know that roughly half the state is under local ordinances, strongly recommend if your local officials in consultation with the state i direc ang you to we mask, we encourage everyone to wear a mask. Ros remember, while u. S. Auorities advise mask wearing, President Trump fuses to wear one. Now switching to california. It, too, has had to bring back some restrictions. The announcement came via a tweet from the governor sandbars closing in seven counties inse bars outside t areas have been advised to shut your it he released a stateme as well, saying covid19 is circulating in california. In som parts of the state, growing stronger. Certainl t case for los angeles. A big surge in infections. Ngthe l. A. Times repor nearly 100,000 reported infections in total, far more than anywhere else in california. Some similar stories on the opposite coast. Florida statistics, saturday brought a new f record daily number of infections. And a surge ines crings the total to over 140,000. Of course, there are many questions about why this is happening now. 130 one theory for florida is there was a rush to socialize, many people feeling trapped and scared. As feard, subsi coronavirus group. And this is a port, too, Florida State offlsay the average age of people being infected is now 36. Compare th t with two moo, th same figure was 65. It is certainly true that when rfloridapened, people rushed to the beaches. This was miami a couple weeks ago. These beaches have not been ordered to close for the july 4 celebratio, and statewide alcohol cells are already banned. Wathat will continue s the holiday weekend. Onrgument made by floridas governor is that the high number of cases we are seeing in the state are connected to the high ratef testing. Mobile clinics are certainly in demand. This is jacksonville, florida. Bear in mind, the argument that testing is the cause of the surging numbers was widely criticized when President Trump made it last weekend. Lets bring in our bbc monitor live in miami. Louise, tell us more about how many rtrictions will be returned in florida. Louise there hasnt been a change in the tone from authorities. There has certainly been a authorities paired the governor has suspended plans to reopen the economy. But controversially has not ordered a statewide requirement to wear masks. He has left that to individual cities, individual counties. Many of them have, for example, miamidade where i am, there is in order to wear masks. Also controversially, in jacksonville, which is going to be the site of the Republican NationalConvention Final night later on in the so it is clearly a situation thate. Changes across the st still, i would say that most authorities in florida have realized the seriousness of the situation. And although only aew weeks ago they were scribing the situation as improving, now they of cautioing a lot from citizens. I would say that citizens are starting to move in that direction. Ros presumably, touri is a huge factorlo forda. Understandably, lots of people in the state need the tourists to kp their jobs afloat. Louise certainly, that is one of the things that the governor argued when he was calling for reopening of the state only a few weeks ago. Something like 113 million tourists visit every year. In florida, they are responsible for more tn one million jobs. So it is a huge industry, of course, and a lot of people were making the argument that it was indispensable for floridas economic stability to reopen as soon as possible. Of course, the governor was also promoting the state of florida as a site to for many events that we going not going to be able to occur somewhere else in the country, for example, professional basketball tournament, the nba, do to happen later on in orlando. So i great deal of Economic Issues around tourism in florida which, for some critics explain whether governor was so eager to open the state. Ros as ever, thank you very much for your help. Lets move away from the u. S. And look at countries which have control the virus to a large degree but continue to face localized outbreaks. For example, in midjune, china had a new spike of cases in beijing ter almost two months without any peer between of tme gove is willing to reintroduce local lockdowns to deal with these kind of outbreaks. We t have seent again on sunday with reinstatement of a lockdown in one county south of beijing. It will affect around 400 thousand people. Officials said the council will be fully enclosed and in control. Bear in mind, this county only has 18 d from cases from the last two weeks. But because it is close to beijing, authorities a taking no chances. Next, we switch from china to germany. Authorities there have extended lockdown in and around a city, and it is connected to an outbreak we have talked about before that affecd thousands of people, linked to a Meat Processing factory. Thise is thrst example of a lockdown, a local lockdown, since germanys nationwide lockdown lifted in early may. The Daily Telegraph suggesting that lots of people are looking to germanys reaction as a possible template for how we shape what is called the new normal. Our health correspisdent puts it ay, we shoul get used to these local flareups. They are going to become a way of lif the coming months. It brings us to the u. K. E new infectionatis not as low as chinas or germanys, and localr lockdowns aredy being considered. For example, pubs and restaurants in leicester make stay closed for two more weeks due to a surge in cases there. Heres the Prime Minister on this speaking earlier. Pm johnson e e not out of e woods yet. It is very important. We are making these cautious, calibrated steps, opening as much of hospitality as we can on july 4, as much of ee economy as can. Some things sll c remainsed until they can become covidsecure. But to make all that possible, we he to be we have to remain vigilant, he to continue to do the basics, washing our hands and all that. Plus, we nee thave local lockdowns and local whack amo strategies as necessary. Ros the Health Secretary has en talking to officials this afternoon, and wexpect an update in the next hour. Despite local flareups, countries all over the world are feeling their way to something at least a low bit closer to normal life. In many cases, that includes being able to travel again. The u. K for example, plans to create what is called airid s or travel corridors with a number of countries. Expecting more details on which countries later this week. This would mean people traveling to and from the u. K. To these countries without having to quarantine forwo weeks. Our transport correspondent the government plans to have a traffic light system so countries wied be rither green, amber, or red. Green will anhe infection rate of device is significantly lower than here in the u. K. Aamber will mean there i similar dynamic of the virus in that country to the u. K. , but it wi mean that you will not have toelfisolate for 14 days after you return from an amber country, but people traveling delay from a red country will be subject to. The quarantine rul in terms of exactly which countrs, we willind out on wednesday. If you look at this list of countries, a lot of European Countries will ben that list. We are expecting most of these countries to be on the list must certainly countries like spain, cefr italy, big holiday destinations almost certain to be on the list. Ros on the listt we will have to s if that holds because earlier on it was announced by the greek government that theres gointo be a ban on all flights to the u. K. E and sweden, which would extended to july 15 because of the sevety of the outbreaks in those two countries. It will not be a consistent reopening across europe in the travel industry, but for many destinations, it is time to prepare for visitors in the next few weeks. One is a spanish resort town. They will find, at the airport, no t needo do quarantine here. Spain lifted that a week ago. All you will have to go is do is go through a Temperature Check and fill out your travel details of the past fe days and the coming few days. When you get here then, you will find on there beaches, they open and ready. The sun lounges have been spaced apart. Wardens are on the beach keeping social distancing. Many of the hotels are not open at the minute because they are waiting for those resume before they will open up. In the hots, too, the ones that are open, have procedures in place, limiting numbe in a swimming pools. Restaurants, many are open, but social distancing there. And if you go outside in spain, you will have to wear a face mask anywhere where there is people within a major and a half. So different rules in different countries. Everyone waiting for the announcement. Roow want to talk about a significant decision by theem u. Sucourt today. It struck down an abortion law in louisiana antiabortion appoints by donald trump of two conservative judges would swing the decision in their favor, but it was not to be. In a statement, the White House Press secretary called the outcome unfortunate and sd that the Supreme Court has devalued both the health of mothers and the lives of onboard children by cutting louisianas policy. Here is more. This was a ruling watched closely because it is f tst major Abortion Case that s been decided by the Supreme Court since President Trump appointed two conservative justices to the bench, which basically shifted it to the rit. So many people were wondering whether it would move agains abortion rights. The test case was this louisiana law, which placed new tiregus on abortion clinics. Essentially it said that an abortion doctor shou have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case something went wrong. But the opponents had argued this was an undu burden on a womans right to abortion this kind of arrangement, theake women did not need it anyway for their health, and it could cause abortion clinics to close. Is interesting because almost an identical law had come up four years ago in texas, and at that time the Supreme Court had struck it down as unconstitutional. But as iou said, the had changed so everyone was wondering what would happen. What happened is that the chief justice, a conservative, decided to go distract on the louisiana law, also becauseene set a prechad been set in texas and he was voting to uphold a legal precedent. Therefore, status quo is but big decisionsabortion have been made. It does not mean that the court will chip away at abortion rights in the future,ut for the moment, it is a big relief for abortion rights advotes. Ros thank you. We will be hring about syrians on the brink of starvation, coming up. A man accused of stabbing three men toeath in a park in redding has appead in court on charges of murder and attempted murder. Khairi saadallah, 25, was remanded in custody. Here is our home affairs correspondent. The chief magistrate was sittineshere atinster Magistrates Court in london where Khairi Saadallah appeared by video link, where he was wearing a Police Issued gray sweatshirt, trousers and a face mask a spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. He is charged wh murders of james furlong, jose ritchie handed, david wells, and the attempt at murders of patrick edwards, stephen young, and otr man. All six men were sitting on the grass in two separate rtes in the gardens in reading on saturday, june 20, when the attack happened just before 7 00 in the evening. D the attack lasss than two minutes. Ros i am russ atkins was outside source in the bbc newsroom. More than half ahaillion people lost their lives in the corovirus pandemic. United states remains the worst affected country. Lets look through some of the other main stories we ar covering. In china, a new report says it is forcing women to be sterilized or fitted with contraceptive devic in an apparent attempt to limit the population of muslim uighurs. A report a china scholar has prompted calls for the u. N. To investigate. Chinaat denies the allegns in the report, calling them baseless. Lerial killer known as the guilty to 13 counts of murd and kidnapping. A former Police Officer terrorized the state of california in the 1970s and 80s and was only identified and arrested 2018 after police made a major dna breakthrough. Dangelo, jr. , admits to 62 canno of rape which he be charged with due to statute of limitations expired. Nigeria says it is saddened by the cell of tw sculptures belonging to a community in the country. They called an auction house ristis to cancel the cells saying that they were loote from shrines during the civil war in the late 1960s. They sold just under 240,000 in paris. Christies rejected the claim that they were stolen. Next to a new bbc report on the islamic ate group, about how is has sought to tak advantage of the worlds preoccupation with the pandemic. I. S. Has even called the virus gods little soldier. One reason is that the outbreaks in iraq and syria have meant fewer western troops othe ground,ad so this group which been on theetreat has reemerged in the Corona Campaign assassinaons and bert murders. While coronavirus brought the world to a hal in iraq and syria a war has reignited. The Islamic State group is resurgent. In the dead of night in syria, a led specialurdis forces are on the move earlier this month. Deinhis house, i. S. Suspects thought to be armed. 150 were ars operation alone. Many more are at large. I. S. His back. The caliphate remains, says this graffiti. Terrorizing andpe extorting the le here. Like in its early days, i. Hitmen are murdering loc officials. The people here live in fear. This mans son was murdered by the jihadists. Eyewitnesses say they started foowing him, and then they him. Ht up wh him and kidnapped friends organized a search party the next morning and found there decapitated heads resting on e asphalt. Av the corus and troop withdrawals means there are fewer Coalition Troops on the ground. But in disguise, there in the been busy. Reere plans have aircraft have struck i. S. Again and again in desert sanctuaries paired the Coalition Says it has killed dozens. Where it once commanded cities utd armies, i. S. Is now diminished, it is again emerging from the shadows. It is its reached to the west is curtailed, b in iraq and syria, it is reestablishing its gr. With the world distracted, the Islamic Statestroup has not. Bbc news. Ros next, wturn t the world food program. It has told the bbc that unless more aid money is made available immediately, one Million People in syria face the risk of mass starvation. Thiss the head of the world food program, David Beasley. Of nation of 20 Million People, 9. 3 Million People go to bed huny. Food insecure, every, d every night, in syria. Now what is also bad is one million of those, they dont know where they are going to get their next meal. They literal are on the brink of starvation. Ros syria is already a country that has been devastated by ose to ticket of war. More than 380,000 people have been killed since the uprising against since president assad began i2011. Over 30 million others, have to counts prewar population, have been displaced either inside or outside syria and over 6 million refugees now live around the world. The vast majority of them in turkey, lebanon, iraq, and egypt, all countries which have acted by covid19, both in terms of health but in terms of their economies, which, in turn,eans they are not a in such good position to support refugees. Heres davidey beagain. The whole world is facing a crisis unlike anything we have seen probablin everyones lifetime. Quite frankly, what is happening yrin is unprecedented, the worst of all storms coming together. I mean theres a population of 20 Million People that have been exploited and disturbed at extremes by war now almost 10 years. And just five years ago, he had millions of people migrating. Now 5. 5 Million People have left syioa. Now 6. Mi people internally dplaced. Just when y think it could get worse because you have had economic collapse. The lebanese economyse is in coll the value of the currency is absolutely colpsing completely. In fact, aood basket is now 2 times cost that it was jt 10 yearsgo. Ro David Beasley was speaking b to t ahead of a Donor Conference in brussels which begi on tuesday. Here is the c chi National DutchInternational Correspondent on what we can expect. This will be the fourth conference hosted both by the united aations european union, this time involving the pandemic, held virtually. But the issues on the agenda are ever the same. Growing, as we justrd h humanitarian crisis. But a political crisis which never seems any closer to being solved. The current status obef what wil escribed tomorrow is a search f comprehensive political solution, focusing on the constitution. The yuan and envoy s made some steps, at least before this humanitarian crisis erupted, of getting the two sides to talk about changes to the constitution. So farrom damascus, we have seen no sign that they are willing to make the nd of litical concessions, the kin of transition, which will be acceptable to the opposition and ton the europ powers who would become one of the main donors to syria if they felt solution was insights. Ros t n france were the former Prime Minister and his welsh wifeavbeen sentenced to jail fofraud over a fake job scandal. Heui was foundy of paying penelope more than one Million Euros for work as a parliamentary aide that she never did. He was sentenced to five years, three suspended. Penelope was givenee a tyear suspended term for being complicit. Yo c see them both leaving the courtroom in paris after the verdt. Both have appealed, which puts a block for the moment on their incarceration. There was a time when Francois Fillon had his eye on the president ial election in 2017. This scandal completely stopped that. French center right going back 20 years, a very young parliamentarian in the early 1990 served under cprrac, served ae and are Prime Minister underas sarkozy, and front runner in 2017 to be the next president. Just four years ago, it was looking very much as if the centerright would win after francois hollande. Ancois fillon won the primaries. It looked like he was being written up as the man who would be the next president. In this dramatic, spectacular collapse caused by the revelations in the newspaper. And that is very germane to all of this because part othe defense, what his lawyers have been arguing and will continue in the appeal, is that there is much more to ts than meets the e. And that, in addition to the s about whether or not he is guilty of what he is accused ofoing, there should be another argument about how this came into publicye and the speed with which thes prosecutorffice reacted to it, in a t wayy say wa unwanted and showed it was being directed from above in some way. Ros that is tiding this ad of outside source. Cover online from bbc news, and i will see you soon. Bye bye. Narr presentation of this program is provided by. Langua spanish, french and more. Raymond mes. The eeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Narrator youre watching pbs. 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