A corona virus vaccine for political gain just. To. Thank you for joining us a prominent opposition activists missing since monday has been detained at the border with ukraine state media says Border Guards removed Maria Colleen escobar from a cottage crossing several hours ago she was seen being snatched off a street in minsk by masked men and taken away in a van meanwhile russian and sebi and military will arrive in minsk for joint drills set to begin on thursday earlier we spoke to journalist andrea vite of a chose in minsk and he had more on what happened to maria cullen escalade. We know mostly from i didnt state media will from other sources because her lawyer still hasnt gotten any information during the last 24 hours weve seen this morning the video with the want to her team member who was explaining then he has chosen to leave the country now we know there are 2 of them there now in ukraine and Maria Kolesnikov i couldnt leave the country because she simply tore off her post s
A Natural Resources in the mediterranean. And illegal secret deals bogus lab data and cheap imports just the investigates corruption at iraqi agriculture. Thousands of mourners a brave long lines intense heat and the pandemic to pay their respects to george floyd in houston the city where he grew up in the past few minutes his coffin is arrived at the fountain of praise church in houston where mourners have gathered to pay their final respects the funeral due to get under way in around 2 hours from now george floyd was killed just over 2 weeks ago when a Police Officer knelt on his neck during an arrest aljazeera is john hendren is in houston. George floyds final journey brought him to his childhood home. This is my way of speaking out just by being present i would like to know how thats going to the top of my lungs because i know so many black like a speaker every black man but for every one that i know someone has a friend a Family Member or a relative someone that from Police Brutal
A little luck and let go. To get down from the numbers not just stabilize requires a redoubling of Public Health at 1st a president in denial rose comments rejecting social distancing of deleted by twitter because of fears they put brazilians at risk. And the race for a vaccine scientists across the world work flat out to find a way to protect us all from covert 19. We begin in the u. S. Now the global epicenter of the corona virus pandemic more than 3000 people have died over a 1000 in new york state alone the worst affected region across the country more than 100 60000. 00 are infected after dismissing the dangers posed by covert 19 in the early stages of the outbreak u. S. President donald trump now says his administration is ramping up testing in the last few hours hes claimed that the u. S. Is testing more people than any other country. Today we reached a historic milestone in our war against the. Coronavirus over 1000000 americans have now been tested more than any other country
Hello im maria this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Egyptian president sisi else is he will run for a second term in office. Is the gulf crisis a pretext to seize castles well thats the claim of a country royal who is seen as a saudi ally. In the poconos native in peru but he conscious control of a sea on his south american told. Turkey has fired artillery into a kurdish controlled on clay the northwest syria across the border bombardment of a free and comes off the days of threats by president want to get syrian kodesh fighters known as the y. P. G. And the establishment of a kodesh corridor along its border and has been deploying troops and tanks there in preparation for a ground assault Stephanie Deca has more from un taqiyya insolvent turkey. The situation around the fifteen is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand Free Syrian Army fighters these are the rebels inside syria suppo
History is laid to rest. An isil suicide bomber killed at least 60 in iraq. Police say a truck packed with explosives was driven into a security checkpoint 90 kilometers south of baghdad. Ninety were killed, many civilians. Another explosion killed several people near rimadi where iraqi soldiers are trying to advance with the help that coalition fighter jets. Lets take you go to the iraqi capital and jane in baghdad. What more do we know about the explosion . You can see from those images how devastating that impact was. Thats because theres always a long line of cars there. Its the major checkpoint which is very closing to the ancient city of babylon that you have to drive to to get to pretty much any point south. Many would have been there and at that major checkpoint staffed by iraqi soldiers and federal police, they would routinely be pulled over and made to wait while cars and other vehicles were checked for explosives. Thats where the blast went off. Thats where the suicide bombe