Un is warning of intensified fighting. And president mcconnells party faces a setback but its a good night for the greens after local elections in fronts. Across the world half a 1000000 people have no died from corona virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the United States which is by far the worst hit country but the shop spike in infections recorded in southern and western states the u. S. Health secretary is warning time is running out to contain the virus that sickle hain is the latest. The corona virus is marching through america in Houston Texas hospitals are quickly running out of intensive care beds in florida arizona and texas mobile testing sites are being overrun with people waiting for hours many turned away Health Experts warned this would happen in many of these states mostly republican governors move to reopen businesses stressing the importance of the health of the economy now critics say the Public Health system and a growing number of people are paying the price while the trumpet ministration says there is no connection. All 50 states are opening up again to one degree or another states like florida and like texas actually began to open up in in early may for the better part of 6 weeks john we did not see any Significant Movement but if you look at this tracker showing which states meet the governments criteria to reopen only 4 are safe the ones in red are seen large spikes in cases and now at least one member of the administration is sounding the alarm window is closing we have to act and people as individuals have to act responsibly we need to social distance we need to wear fit our face coverings if were in settings where we cant social distance particularly in these hot zones but in many of these states where cases are on the rise there is no mandatory order to wear masks in public and in many ways this is become a partisan issue well the Vice President attended an event sunday where the crowd seemed to mostly wear masks the president has not done the same and my understanding that the centers for Disease Control has recommended the use of mass but not the demand require that because they dont want to send the president and that their president should be example you know real men wear masks for the president s part his focus at least on twitter was elsewhere we tweeted this video to supporters jali white power. He appears to have deleted it before leaving the white house once again his weekend spent golfing by some estimates the number of cases that have been reported each day has more than doubled over the last 2 weeks and given the way this virus spreads that means the number is likely to jump dramatically in the days and weeks ahead political Haim Al Jazeera maryland. Brazil is the worlds 2nd war said country with more than 1300000 cases in over 57 fuzz and deaths 246000 infections were recorded in the last 7 days. In response 1000 crosses have been placed in front of the Brazilian Congress to honor those killed by covert 19 display is also a protest against the president jalal sonata has been widely criticized for dismissing the severity of the disease and showing indifference to the rising death toll on a sunday of m. P. s he has more from colombias capital bogota but that was the 1st serious demonstrations both online and in person that people who oppose president here both are not states that in brazil in brazils main cities but also across the world in 20 Different Countries in europe other countries in latin america they are saying that this is a way to try and bring more International Attention to the government to the presidency here both matter that they consider both to responsible in its response to the coronavirus pandemic in the country but also dangerous when it comes to brazilians democracy and thats because he was both sinatras presidency has been at the center of a number of scandals accusations of corruptions there are many of them and for the president. In congress to be impeached and so people are 1 2 saying that hes dangerous because many of his allies because of all thats been happening have been calling for an intervention by the military so these protests have been trying to do all d of that today while the numbers keep rising the coronavirus cases in the country well beyond now the main cities. Mississippi senators have voted to replace the state flag of the last in the nation display the confederate battle emblem the votes being carried by the state senate 37 to 14 after being passed by the house earlier many see the current design as racist for its links to slavery in the south a proposed new design is going to be voted on in november. Joining us live from new york gave this flag has been seen as an integral part of mississippis history what is the context to all of this leading up to this change. Thats right its a historic moment really when lawmakers in mississippi on sunday voted to get rid of this flag a flag thats been around for 126 years as part of the state of mississippi but they voted to get it out at this particular moment because of the recent black lives matter and Civil Rights Movement that has been sweeping over the country after the killing of george floyd in minnesota and so that is the context on why lawmakers were bringing up this contentious flag now theyve been talking about it for several years many people arguing for years that this flag needed to be changed because it did have this confederate battle emblem on it battle emblem that is often used by white nationalists and in the United States and and its seen as a symbol that does not fit in 2020 now and especially in a state of like mississippi where its over 35 percent of the population is black americans but there was some pushback too and thats why it took so long for this to come about this change there were some that argued lawmakers and others that argued that this flag was part of tradition and history and should not be changed nevertheless it was with this really historic vote in the senate 37 votes to 14 to remove this flag as you mentioned the last state flag in america that has the confederate battle emblem on it now it will go to the governor of mississippi who is expected to sign this into law and he said he would sign whatever that whatever the legislature agreed upon and then it will go to a 9 person panel that will come up with a new design for a new flag that will be voted on by the residents of mississippi coming in november lets listen to the new york bring this up to date on that vote to change the state fly missis. Forces loyal to libyan war have to say theyre deploying reinforcements to regions they hold in the center of the country this video from the self the Libyan National army is said to show fighters being sent to the regions of course and so the un recognized government of National Accord has pushed back after its forces from the capital tripoli on wednesday arab leaders called for a truce and peace talks between the warring sides Sudanese Security forces have arrested at least 122 people they say intended to fight as mercenaries in libya a spokesperson for sudans powerful Rapid Support forces says 72 of those arrested in darfur were from an armed group led by a notorious jungle weed leader john dewey fighters fought in darfur in the early to thousands there accused of killing and raping civilians i said but i want them at the door that they have not received information at the beginning of this month to a number of citizens in this area have been deceit in the cricket to work mercenaries in libya based on the information we form the joint Security Force and we sent them to various Darfur States we have been able to arrest this group which includes 122 men who use their part of saddams National Wealth and should not be used in this way in february we have arrested another group of 243 people who were created from various states to work as mercenaries in libya. Thousands of people im in marginal hands state of fled from their homes at the prospect of military raids the un says urgent measures are needed to save civilian lives villages were ordered to leave as the army prepared to launch an operation against the other khan army its a rebel group which wants more self rule for ethnic buddhists the order to evacuate has been called off after the u. K. Australia the u. S. And canada called for an end to the socalled Clearance Operations refugees and humanitarian groups say the operations are a cover for military crackdowns the military had used the term clearance operation in 2017 when they targeted their own hinge a Muslim Minority led to accusations of genocide chore when is the executive director of the Burma Human Rights Network he says raids are still taking place despite the assurances of state officials. What were hearing is that it is just you know the show that they call off but it is not true they have still conducting some operations a lot of operation on the ground and i contacted myself my team also contacted a lot of people on the ground there saying that they have been hearing the shelling hiring and firing and there are so many few locations the civilians have been detained to interrogate and berryman the interrogation. Torturing so they are facing torture because the rock and i think the kind they are bullies but they are still because they are supporting. An economy konami so they try to create fear and pressuring the population to give them the information where they are about and in the meantime as. We reported within 48 hours for civilian has been killed and there are several injured and also there are a couple of villages the houses have been turned on by the shelling by the military activity and also we are also learning that. 111 month old baby was killed a few days ago so the military operation is continuing no matter how International Community is crying and talking about to stop this so this military operation is clearly breaching. You know. Provision measure the International Criminal court of justice has you know ordered them to stop all kind of activities that theyre going to suffer in your community in so theyre clearing breaching these orders. Still ahead a nonzero factional fight in the congolese government over the arrest of the Justice Minister putting the current president against supporters it was pretty saucer. Plus keeping it local border restrictions pushed turkeys tea producers to turn over a new leaf. Hello theres still a trench continuing through all central areas of china this time of year the my you from begins to nudge a bit further tools and often this is why we have seen in particular the heavy rains in Sichuan Province but just look at this some dramatic images cause as a landslide actually took place now amazingly the no injuries asshole despite these huge slabs of row that came down on the 69 people did have to be relocated to safer places but you can just see how winds but of course these floodwaters are and as we go through monday there is more of the same very likely in the 4 cars in particular some very heavy rain working its way across the n. S. A. Pushing across into the Korean Peninsula and eventually to say working its way into Western Areas of japan again this could be some very heavy rain and here is what it could lead to some flooding and some localized mudslides meanwhile into all central southern i was the china still those areas of heavy rain but a little bit more in the way of dry conditions now across into india the monsoon rains making very Good Progress this year but at the same time the downside again here is flooding said the fall north east of india state in particular as scenes of very heavy downpours and you can see here just how much it has inundated these buildings but also many of the villages the next few days the rains will stay across the northeast be whole states as well west bengal and all the while the rains continuing down the west down tools carola. But. From young idealist. To revolutionary thinkers. From political activism to incarceration in part one of a 2 part documentary soup aljazeera world explores the singleminded journey. Of the 1st leader of an independent bosnia herzegovina. As a bag of fish from prisoner to president on the jersey. Shore. Her for. Her. Youre watching aljazeera reminder of our top stories this hour across the world half a 1000000 people are now known to have died from corona virus and more than 10000000 have been infected a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the United States which is by far the worst hit country. In brazil protesters have been demonstrating against president jacques also now those handling the crisis theyve set out a 1000 crosses in the capital brazils the 2nd worst hit country in the world. Mississippi senators have voted to replace the state flag the last in the nation to display the confederate battle emblem many see the current design as racist for its links to slavery and south. 3 children are among at least 10 People Killed in shootings in chicago over the weekend and one year old boy was killed and his mother was injured after they were shot at or they were driving home from a long drive at the 10 Year Old Girl died after being hit by a stray bullet and a 17 year old was shot dead after an argument the citys mayor says shes tired of bullying children. The green party appears to have made major gains in frances local elections for president emanuel macros party has struggled its the 2nd round of polls for mares a municipal councillors which was delayed because of the coronavirus lock down elections being seen by many as a test of mockers reform policies and his handling of the outbreak but thats about the reports from powers. Victory for and go on a 2nd term as mayor of paris the socialist candidate who teamed up with the green party to run on an environmental platform for the city she promised to continue her drive to cut cars and pollution and help the french capitals economy recover from the covert crisis was that this was the list was that this was you know that youve chosen hope youve chosen unity chosen a post up 3 days i think today leaves no one behind either goes nearest rival conservative candidate fresh conceded defeat a former Justice Minister on the Nicholas Sarkozy sheet campaign to clean up the city and crack down on crime trailing behind was and the candidate for president emanuel macro centrist policy failed to convince voters to have a message about his unit i want to thank all prisons he swam against the tide to place their hope and confidence in os by voting for a list i take on board the result. The 2nd round of the local elections took place more than 3 months after the 1st it was delayed because of the coronavirus lock down the Health Crisis and likely factor in the historically low voter turnout many restrictions have been lifted in france which is why these elections can finally take place there are other of course special measures in the polling station mosques are mandatory social distancing has to be respected and everybody who works here is behind a prospect screen across france they would be games for the greens taking cities including lille but it was a crushing day for the president s party the fail to win any major seats micro created his republican the move party to help him win the presidency in 2017 but his struggle to expand it supporter base his party has suffered from the unpopularity of my coin self there was lots of trouble in the past 2 years and in the middle of a pandemic you dont expect a reward for the for the government certainly not in france where people are are criticizing a lot the power of the day local elections have little direct impact on the National Government and my crawl has played down their importance of the voting in northern france he looked relaxed nevertheless 2 years before the next president ial election his partys poor results offer some indication of how much confidence voters have in his leadership and as such will be difficult to completely ignore the aljazeera paris. Exit polls suggest polands president has won the most votes in the 1st round of the countrys election but andre due to hasnt picked up enough votes to prevent a run off poll next month so again your reports. It had been a tight race a battle of ideals pitted between populism and progress but a frustrated win for the man who. Occupied the role for the past by years andre do with tied his fate to the rightwing law and Justice Party and placed his bet on a deeply conservative often homophobic agenda still he attempted a positive spin on the outcome change will come to come did not target someone still great result is better by far than the one from 5 years ago with 10 other candidates thank you very much for your support but 1st dont foremost i would like to thank my compadre its for the turnout for this massive participation in the election but this was a campaign fought in extraordinary times deferred by the pandemic the vote was supposed to have taken place in may which would have put duty of comfortably ahead of his rivals instead the delay allowed his strongest rival. Ski to throw his hat in the ring a pro e. U. Centrist and the mayor of warsaw whose liberal views have at times put him at odds with the countrys influential Roman Catholic clerics. To consolidate his base invoked a nationalist programme condemning the countrys l g b t Rights Movement as a foreign ideol