A reduced sentence to south koreas former president will now spend 22 years in prison over corruption india prepares to long down its biggest state again as more than 26000 coronavirus cases are altered in one day. An aljazeera investigation delves into facebooks handling of racist hate speech on. Aljazeera Programme Makers are being questioned by police in malaysia about their documentary on Migrant Workers being locked up during the 19 lock down police say theyre investigating the program for sedition defamation and violation of the communications in the media act aljazeera has responded with a statement calling on the lation authorities to respect Media Freedom and desist from treating its journalists as criminals. Says it has serious concerns about developments that have occurred in malaysia since the broadcast of its one o one east investigative documentary locked out malaysias lockdown on july the 3rd the documentary investigated why the covert 19 pandemic is forcing Migrant Work
Safe for terrorists as the u. K. s new quarantine ruins Holiday Plans and efforts to restart the spanish economy. And greece steps up its campaign to get the u. K. To return the parthenon marbles and seeks to undo the damage done by the british aristocrat took them. Hello thanks for joining us he marched alongside Martin Luther king jr and campaigned for a social justice right up until his death 2 weeks ago and now john lewis one of the most influential figures in the American Civil Rights movement has made a symbolic final journey his coffin was driven across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma alabama on the way to his mom oriel service its 55 years since lewis led hundreds of black demonstrators across that very same bridge and was beaten unconscious state police violently broke up the march the violence was condemned across the United States the world through a National Spotlight on the struggle for racial equality lets bring in Andy Gallagher who is joining us from miami to talk us
A warning the disruption caused by the coded 19 pandemic could lead to double the number of malaria related deaths in africa this year. And the painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens says the greek government renews its call for britain to return to its ancient traditions. And sport the west indies are fighting to avoid defeat in the deciding task match against england stuart broad taking 8 wickets in the match so far and closing in on a series victory. A powerful politician who stood alongside Martin Luther king jr as a civil rights pioneer in the u. S. Has made a symbolic final judie 55 years ago john lewis was knocked down and beaten unconscious on a bridge in alabama for demanding that black people be given the right to vote his. Bodies been taken across that bridge in selma one last time its part of 6 days of ceremonies to remember the 80 year old who died after battling pancreatic cancer lewis was one of the socalled big 6 of the Civil Rights Movement led by Lut
A warning the disruption caused by the covert 19 pandemic could lead to double the number of malaria related deaths in africa this year. And in support the west indies are fighting to avoid defeat in the deciding task match against england stuart broad taking 6 wickets for england as his team took control of the contest. The British Government has reimposed 2 weeks of self quarantine on people returning from spain following new outbreaks of the corona virus that aljazeera is caught here Lopez Holloway on reports. An unexpected change of plans hours before boarding a flight from spain back to the u. K. These tourists have learned theyll have to quarantine for 14 days on arrival the country was taken off britain say travel list on saturday and the measure took effect at midnight we had a wedding to go to help plans to visit friends and family that we havent seen in about a long time and not looking have to cancel all those plans so its quite upsetting the sudden reversal follows a surge
A landmark in the fight for racial justice. This after a day of tense antiracism brownlees fueled by clashes in portland between protesters and federal agents deployed by President Trump. And in Sports Events are ahead in the game that could feed down when the italian title picture on all those gold has put you say why no law against some doria. Welcome to the news hour from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne coronavirus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil or they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global numbers of cases to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including me. Since once praised for its taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europ