To the rights. And new arrest warrants are issued for members of mexicos military over the disappearance of dozens of students 6 years ago. And in sports the l. A. Lakers reached the n. B. A. Finals for the 1st time in a decade Le Bron James leads his team to a winner of the Denver Nuggets in game 5 of the western conference finals. So in the past few hours armenia has declared martial law as fighting intensifies with its neighbor azerbaijan this violence flaring over the disputed region of not going to cut about the armenians Defense Ministry has shed these images they say it shows azerbaijan tanks being destroyed and they saying in addition to that 2 helicopters were shot down as well as 3. Drones as about johns army chief on the other hand says he is launching a counter offensive operation weve heard from russia the e. U. And france all calling for an end to hostilities while turkey has condemned what it calls and mean an attack on the as a by john and says it violates International
Consulate in the city of chengdu after it shut down in a worsening diplomatic dispute also ahead. Of the biggest thing has be untold suffering. In tanzania an Opposition Leader almost killed 3 years ago returns from exile hoping to run in the forthcoming elections and im stunned how much with all the sport events crowned the italian again christian or another helps his team came to syria title for a 9th straight season. Before we get into our top stories a developing story coming to us breaking news out of israel where the army says theres been a quote security incident along the northern border with lebanon yet to go into any detail of exactly whats happened but israelis living along the border have been told to stay indoors lets take you live to western islam and al jazeera is correspondent there harry forsett harry what do we know. Well as you say the official information coming from the Israeli Military is pretty limited at the moment they say that there has been a security inciden
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 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
A major blaze of his own p. R. Is all gothic cathedral in the city at dawn. And william welcome to the program eve leaders are meeting for a 2nd day to break a deadlock on a card contentious economic Recovery Plan European Council president michel offered a revised proposal for the package which would help countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic german chancellor Angela Merkel is chairing the summit as germany currently holds the rotating presidency and supports a generous financial response Member States however are divided on how much of the 750000000000 euros earmarked for the recovery package should be given out as grants and how much as loans to be paid back. Joined now by our correspondent in a straw shes in brussels marina a new proposal put forward this morning what we know about it. Shelf plan is ready to break the deadlock been experiencing yesterday on the 1st day of the summit so as it looks like at the moment the overall sound of the recovery package wont chan