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But where our 1st mission was to save lives once we came out of the 45. 00 days to slow the spread of what our task force has been focused on over the course of the past 2 months is to partner with states to save lives and safely reopen lets bring in rob run all of his joining us from los angeles so as were saying its the 1st Task Force Briefing and months rob what was the major take away. Well as you heard there Vice President mike pence said that the there is concern about the rising number of cases in the south and in the west when he referred in that quote that we heard just a moment ago about partnering with the states thats a little misleading because the federal government the white house the Trump Administration has really left almost everything up to the individual states other than issuing some guidelines which the president has ignored repeatedly in holding rallies so there was a divide between the political aspect with the Vice President pence at want that one point saying that the. The curve has been flattened and that the administration is doing a great job versus anthony found a familiar figure that from the National Institutes of health who has been sort of sidelined for the past several weeks issuing a plea saying. People should wear masks do their social distancing and said if you get infected you will then if in fact somebody else and eventually that chain of infection will reach extremely Vulnerable People we are entering into a weekend where so often its a case of people let their guard down do not be one of those individuals continue to practice physical distancing social distancing if you are going to break with tradition common sense and youre going to invite your neighbors or friends or extended family members over against the advice and counsel of local Health Directives where a mask practice physical distancing. Now that was governor gavin newsom of california and here in california things are not going particularly well there has been an increase of 32 percent in hospitalizations over the past 14 days with just 4 just today in the past 4024 hours excuse me 4890 new positive cases and 79 deaths its a similar situation in arizona where there are worth 3400 new covert cases on friday the alarming thing in arizona is that hospital space is running out 86 percent of all hospital beds and 88 percent of intensive care units are now full in the state of arizona looking beyond that to texas the state there is talking back on its reopening the Governor Greg Abbott said that establishment like barber shops hair salons beauty parlors in restaurant dining and. Things of that nature as well as public pools and. River rafting into being which is very popular in texas will be suspended forbidden and that bars will have to close at noon which is certain to make very many texans unhappy but abbott said that it is clear that activities like congregating in bars is driving the rise in cases so again were seeing this steady rise in cases across states like california arizona texas and others 16 states all together showing increased. Increases in positive cases all right so that is all part of the doctor doctors say of the 1st wave of coronavirus. All right rob appreciate it thank you for that update from california and now we can cross over to arizona i will speak to dr purnima my divine and she is an Infectious Disease epidemiologist at the university of arizona shes joining us from tucson thanks for your time so the news coming out of arizona doesnt sound pretty good with arizona reporting a record single day increase this week and now the states is prompted this is prompted a pause in the reopening of the states is that the solution here 1st of all thank you for having me prayer in terms of putting up cause its going to be very interesting to see what politicians are going to do from what we had heard from the past that was not not even on the table in terms of discussions just yesterday in the News Conference what our governor did was he at least said come on Everybody Needs to their mouths so i would be curious to see if they would even consider it and having said that we cant generalize arizona as one single unit be have these hot spots hyper concentrated epidemics one of the pleasance is phoenix and also phoenix has 62 percent of the population from arizona living there so if you had to ask me should we be thinking about it yes absolutely for phoenix but i dont know if i would say the same for other you know other communities and there isnt a right or if you look at phoenix for civically since youre saying that its an epicenter what needs to be done right now to control the number of cases that seem to be going up. Well then lots of things happening in phoenix right now just a few days ago we had a super spreader event we had the president come and have had one of those meetings and close setting with no masks and also show distance saying so we are having these hypers spreading super spreading humans right there in phoenix we have high temperatures so people are going to stay inside triple digit temperatures we have forest fires that are leading to people having to kind of more out of their homes and find other places to stay so there are all of these dynamic things that are happening in phoenix and we have a young population getting out we dont have a methodical and though opening of the state so all of these things are adding up and we are not really surprised with the numbers going up but the question is how much further is this going to go right so that is the trumpet ministration says that the numbers are increasing because of increased testing or and your opinion is the virus making a comeback in not only arizona where you are but in the other states that weve been reporting on 16 states so far as an epidemiologist i would not agree even that for the simple reason we had a testing blitz that ended may 17th our weekly case comes have increased faster than the testing 284 percent increase in the case counts as compared to 67 percent increase in the testing which means that differential that you are seeing is attributed to Community Transmission we are seeing a lot more a symptomatic its being out in the community theyre shutting the white is the transmission is happening within the communities and absolutely not i would not agree that it was testing if it was testing our Positivity Rate as a 20 percent rate now and that should have cordoned off it should have flattened out. But that kind of differential of 20 percent and the rates continue to go up that means were not testing enough people so we are prepared to go to behind in terms of our testing were not doing adequate amount of testing be an artist doing the right people so all of these things are going to come into. Our rights i will leave it there thats our program thank you for speaking to us from arizona thank you indias government has opened what it says will be the Worlds LargestCoronavirus Treatment Center it comes as the country recorded its largest spike in daily infections for the 3rd day in a row on friday the country has more than 500000 cases and more than 15000 deaths are pressure to get businesses back open remain strong elizabeth purana has more. The chefs at this restaurant in the indian capital used to cook for up to 1200 people a day that was before the lockdown began in march but despite restaurants being allowed to open for the past 2 weeks its among the 80 percent of eateries which have chosen to keep their doors close to died as or only do deliveries there is no business of them in the market we dont see people Walking Around so we were doing deliveries since we had never stopped our deliveries weve recently started to become syndicalist and dining will take i think about those couple of months. Industry experts here say 30 percent of all restaurants and hotels could shut down permanently because of a lack of customers as the number of coronavirus cases rise. As restaurants keep their doors closed banquet halls hotels and train carriages are being converted to code that 19 Treatment Centers. Delis government has opened what it says will be the Worlds Largest temporary Health Facility which will have 10000. 00 beds by the end of next week we are. Trying to put in a state to be our infrastructure computer software. The medical equipment and ready Trained Medical professionals who are there we remain able to be a bit different in a proper clinical manner. But Health Officials warn that expanding facilities is not enough everybody keeps talking about the Health Care Facility as being equivalent to the number of beds it is actually the facility of care of the level of care which is available which is more appropriate than collecting a whole lot of beds so we need doctors we need nurses we need we need all monitoring and mentality facilities we need better medical staff. While some regions are building more facilities to deal with the rising cases others shutting down the Northeastern State of asanas decided to go back under a full lockdown from sunday for 2 weeks that means only essential services will be allowed that follows the state of time and now bush did the same thing last week and markets in the Southern City of hyderabad and decided to shut down and making the decision the Central Government wont as it tries to keep the economy open elizabeth primetime aljazeera new delhi a Global Coalition thats fighting the coronavirus pandemic says billions of dollars are needed to defeat the disease the group is led by the World Health Organization and says it needs 31300000000. 00 for tests treatments and vaccines but its only received around a 10th of those funds the Coalition Says it needs to deliver 500000000. 00 tests and 245000000 treatments to low and middle Income Countries by next year and also once 2000000000. 00 vaccines to be available by the end of 2021 irans half of that will go to poorer nations. Well authorities in argentina are expected to extend lockdown restrictions until next month as doctors warn coronavirus cases will peak in the coming weeks there are more than 52000. 00 confirmed cases and the death toll stands at around 1150. 00 argentinas government has eased some restrictions but maintained a Strict Lockdown around the capital one a sirees a new phase of restrictions is set to be announced on friday its alyan soldiers have been deployed to a small town where a new coronavirus cluster has been detected around 49 people in a residential complex northwest of naples have tested positive soldiers have set up barricades and Police Checkpoints are in place where residents are angry theyre being locked inside the complex is home to many bulgarians who work the fruit picking season. Youre the news hour on aljazeera coming up in a moment russian mercenaries storm one of libyas prized oil fields as rival forces battle for control boss. No taxation without representation. By americas capital wants to become the nations 51st state its. In sports news yet another a positive coronavirus case linked in of i talk of it doing tour of the balkans. But 1st the mexican capitals police chief has been injured in an attempted assassination 2 of omar garcia her foods his bodyguards were killed when they came under fire in an upscale mexico city neighborhoods. Is blaming the attack on one of the countrys most powerful drug gangs at least 12 people have been arrested when our upper low. This sound of gunfire and explosions rocked the mexican capital in the early hours of friday morning when gunmen wielding high caliber weapons attacked mexico citys police chief if you will stop the head of Public Security in mexico city was wounded and there are other deaths in this attack all of this has to do without a doubt with the work being carried out to guarantee peace and security. Authorities have confirmed that at least 2 Police Officers were killed in the shootout as well as one bystander as and as such a thing for the man that makes it is Justice Department has confirmed 24 wrists i feel confident in the investigation we didnt research to find those responsible for ordering this act of aggression because. At least 6 criminal groups are known to operate within mexico city in a tweet following the attack the citys police chief placed the blame on the least cool new Generation Cartel the hell is going to jail. Aeration cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in the region it was only recently identified as having a presence within the limits of mexico city. The shootout in the mexican capital is only the latest incident of Mass Violence in the country. On wednesday 16 people were killed in a gunfight between rival drug gangs in the mexican state of sinaloa on monday 15 were killed following an attack on an indigenous village in the state of la haka. Despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak battles over control of drug territory have not lessened and. Mexico city the Israeli Military says 2 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel tensions are high as the government prepares to kickstart its controversial plan to parts of the occupied west bank and now the israeli prime Ministers Coalition partner has also weighed in and a Facebook Post on friday benny gantz suggested that any palestinians in future an experience be granted equal rights israel looks to roll out its an excess in plan from the 1st of july kerry faucet has been following the story from western a celeb. Next week could be a very momentous one with the july the 1st date which is the earliest possible date under the deal between him and netanyahu the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu for this Coalition Government thats the 1st date under which the Movement Towards annexation can be advanced and he sets out what could be read as something of a toughened tone in against netanyahu in terms of saying that that he would be willing to speak to the palestinians at any time even tomorrow if they wanted to seriously that there would be no annexation in a palestinian area or least an area with a large palestinian population or where their movement would be severely curtailed if there were palestinians inside such an area they would be granted equal rights that there would be security and diplomatic groundwork that went in place ahead of any annexation to preempt any petition potential Security Problems and also said that he would advance moves towards bilateral negotiations with the palestinians as part of this as well and all of this he says is part of the American Peace plan the trump plan but really when you look at it it doesnt really reject anything that looks within the bounds of what might well happen in any case the indications that weve been getting from Benjamin Netanyahu and his officials are that he wants 1st to declare israeli sovereignty as they put it on major israeli illegal settlements close to the green line close to here just south of jerusalem and that they would be the 1st phase. The International Criminal court is expanding its investigation into work crimes and crimes against humanity in libya speaking exclusively to aljazeera the isiss top prosecutor Fata Bensouda says the discovery of mass graves in the city of tire is of particular concern one of warlords 24. 00 have to his commanders mahmoud one family is wanted by the i. C. C. And bensouda wants him to be handed over its regrettable that. We just let. Us not facility arrest. Or has. Generally an action that. Account. For his alleged crimes. And this before to. Lead. Time you will concrete and progressive steps that. This is something thats already been found by the. Investigations in. Libyas National Oil Corporations h