Conflict foreign interference has reached unprecedented levels. Eat out to help c out the u. K. Offer is half price press trying to meals to kick start its economy. And im santa how much now have all the sporting commuting International Cricket makes its return the following a coronavirus break with the 1st test between angle in the west indies behind closed doors. The Prime Minister of ivory coast ahmed do go no coulibaly has died at the age of 61 the president says the nation is in mourning bali was taken to hospital after he fainted during a Cabinet Meeting he had returned to ivory coast last week after a prolonged stay in france for a horse exam well lets speak to Nicholas Hawker who is following developments from dakar in senegal for us so because what else do we know about the events that have surrounded the Prime Ministers this. Well it was announced just moments ago as you mentioned and president wants are described him as his little brother even his son thats how close he was to the current president and want to and just before he entered the Cabinet Meeting. Tweeted that he would be. Seeking short term political gains but long term gains for decades to come comes for ivorians really setting the tone to his return back to politics and his tone to his campaign and shortly after he tweeted he entered a Cabinet Meeting when suddenly he entered into fits of cough collapsed and laid later was pronounced dead now this is a big blow for the president because with this death comes a political crisis a political void the question is now who will replace coulibaly who was the chosen successor to want to or are expected to run in the next upcoming president ial election in october and whoever will come next will have to defeat the candidates which are only going to be a former president of ivory coast a heavyweight of the opposition and the young newcomer that was once a close ally of what. Sorow so the announcement of his death is very problematic for want to not only that is problematic for the stability of ivory coast we know that in the past president ial elections have has led to conflict on just conflict but civil war in 2011 the election between president wants and all culminated into a civil war that left 3000 people dead and what people in ivory coast want to see is not a repeat from the past they want to see a man that can bring stability and unite all ivorians and for the president that. Was the man that died today during the Cabinet Meeting barbara as you mentioned there is a potential risk for this to cause serious instability in the country and of course the news was made official not that long ago it happened a few hours ago what reaction has there been so far both political and also just from ordinary people. Well there is or shock from ordinary people because you know when when he was announced back in the country last thursday it was broadcast on National Television in ivory coast the return of the candidates of watch her i watch her him self greeting coulibaly after his medical treatment and friends he appeared and good shape he said that he stands next to the president that he is here to continue the policies of the president and lets remember that once you are with the way to the last moment to announce who would be his successor in march he announced it could be by the would be chosen candidate of the ruling party and when he made that announcement many people around him resign from their position they were shocked it wasnt something that United People members of his Political Party the challenge now is to find a candidate that will be able to fight against the going on and i mentioned. And the challenge also deal with the deep seated grievances that critics of ellison want to say have not been addressed during his time in power and although one or a has been able to bring back economic stability to ivory coast hes failed to critics to bring back the justice that so many people who were victims of torture of killings of rain during the civil war all those people who saw injustice will didnt see that jury want to read time so there are still grievances that need to be addressed and the main challenge that comes ahead in situations like this when there is a political president ial election coming up people in ivory coast are fearful or fearful that again there will be violence so thats the challenge is to find now for a watch or a candidate that can unite ivory coast following the death of Prime Minister could be. Very delicate few days and weeks ahead for ivory coast with the latest effort thank you. A record 60000 new coronavirus cases have been registered in the United States in a single day thats according to data from Johns Hopkins university the states of california and texas reported more than 10000 daily infections on tuesday and thats pushed the total number of confirmed cases to more than 3000000 the u. S. Has the highest death toll of any nation more than 130000 people have now died from covert 19 this fight that secretary of state might compel says the world is looking to the u. S. For guidance as a Global Leader in the fight against the pandemic well gabriel is on the joins us live now from new york gabriel having just read some of the statistics coming out of the u. S. It seems a bit perhaps difficult to comprehend exactly what might compare means when he says the world is looking to the u. S. For guidance so give us a little bit more detail on what exactly he was talking about. Yeah hes basically saying that the u. S. Is doing more testing than almost any other country around the world which the u. S. Is doing a lot of testing and has ramped up their testing quite a bit and in states like new york where im at in new jersey the neighboring states the numbers have come way down but overall in the United States its a much much different story 35 states right now in the u. S. Currently are seeing their numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases increasing and theres only 3 states that see the numbers decreasing of the numbers that of the states that are hardest hit ill just give you a few anecdotes from each california the governor just said there that in the last 2 weeks the number of hospitals ations has gone up by over 40 percent in arizona theyre saying only 145 i. C. U. Beds are available left in the state in texas more than 10000 confirmed cases there on tuesday a record for the state for 24 hour period and in florida the epicenter of the core of Virus Outbreak in the u. S. Right now there are 42 hospitals that say they have no longer have any i. C. U. Beds available for patients anymore so you look at these numbers and they are not very good theyre trending in the wrong direction nevertheless as you mentioned secretary of state might pompei o says and claims that the u. S. Is a model for the rest of the world lets listen to a little bit more of what he had to say. Of course the u. S. Remains the world leader in the pandemic. Goes without saying. There are multiple dimensions that ive talked about each of them certainly the Vice President has forced talks about them as well but whether that is the technical scientific solutions. Both to how to stop the spread whether thats their appearance or vaccines the world turns its eyes to the best scientists and researchers and practitioners of the sciences that will ultimately bring resolutions probably its the United States that the world looks to well pompei was right no way i mean the u. S. Of course does have some of the best researchers and Health Officials and and Research Institutions in the world among a few other countries as well nevertheless critics are saying this certainly the u. S. Hasnt necessarily used them correctly given the sense that the country is facing this growing Coronavirus Crisis now that is growing in so many states and now youre hearing about trucking about reopening schools in the u. S. Trump and President Trump has been pushing to reopen schools as soon as possible nevertheless Many School Districts allow in the country are hesitant to do that many teachers around the world around the u. S. Say they dont want to go back to School Classrooms to teach until theyre guaranteed that its safe and right now there are very few indications that anyone can make that guarantee gabrielle is under with the latest on the situation in the u. S. Joining us from new york again thank you. Its going to serbia now where the president has caved in to demands of protesters reversing his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions aleksandr votes which says a weakened curfew cannot be implemented without a state of emergency being enforced thousands turned up for the 2nd day of protests in belgrade the spite the u. Turn try to reinforce measures after serbias highest single day death toll from covert 19 protesters say hes partly responsible for the spike accusing him of lifting measures in june to hold elections which he then won well dushan had seen eclipses live for us in belgrade so 1st of all im looking at the shot behind you dont seem to be a lot of people there but in general what are the protests looking like this evening. Is over barbara you know the show behind me in the streets are empty but the protests are very violent and we could say that the police was better prepared tonight than they were the last last night yesterday so they had a better tactics tonight so they sort of attacked the demonstrators there tried to disperse them around the National Assembly because most of the demonstrators a few 1000 the few 1000 of them gathered in front of the National Assembly and they forced them away to the surrounding streets so they made sort of a small pocket of all demonstrators are around the National Assembly thats making them easier to remove the demonstrators from the streets so most of the demonstrators went home and there is nobody on the streets but there is also still a group of demonstrators some i dont know 500 meters away from the National Assembly and in front of them is a huge amount of police who they dont know in some kind of a standoff they are the police. Strong units of Police Special and there is the curator of police of serbia john their merry regular Police Cavalry theyre all at that size for the last i dont know hour or so theyre having sort of small clashes some point the demonstrators would go towards the police then the police would respond to those clashes and thats the situation at this point but most of the demonstrators are now out of the series the police cleared Everything Everything started this afternoon at 6 pm when people started to gather around for the 2nd day in a row because of the measures that president voters wanted to impose for the following weekend so everything started that at that point for the a while hours everything was calm but then. Things started to escalate and there is still a last thing everybody thought for tonight because the police were sort of patient in the 1st hour of the closures that everything will be over of much faster than it was last night because last night the closures where the police did some i dont know about 3 am it looks like that this is also going to be a long night but it seems lloyd that the police is about to finish the job and it seems likely that this brought the lower it is coming through its still its weiland but its everything is coming to its end to show that cynical if youll be following developments for us there but for the moment thank you. And coming up on this news hour from london building of relations while building a wall of mexicos president meets donald trump at the white house where the u. S. Denies the release of a lebanese businessman charged with facing hezbollah is a prisoner swap and golf fans will have to wait an extra 12 months for one of the sports sports most beloved events details coming up in sports. The u. N. Secretary general and tony good ted ish says the conflict in libya has entered a new phase in a virtual session of the Security Council condemned foreign interference in the conflict saying it had breached unprecedented levels the u. N. Says more than 100 civilians were killed in libya between april and june with the tatars warning of more bloodshed in the city of syria the un recognized government to supported by turkey while warlord a half that is backed by russia egypt and the u. A. E. The cease fire talks are underway between turkey and russia. So a telephone conversation a negotiator the Prime Minister said ouch and the call i received from field marshal after i made a strong appeal for both to engage fully in ensuring that effective ceasefire and move swiftly in advancing the political process you know i think nations the African Union the league of arab states together know that you regional actors and organizations and the European Union will continue to work closely together support the people of libya as they seek to consolidate their Economic Security and political future that will test speaking their well diplomatic editor james bays as more now from the u. N. Headquarters in new york well i think youve got everyone publicly stating that its time for peace in libya the problem with this is theyve been publicly stating that for a very long time ago back to the beginning of the year and germany was the country that was the host for the conference on libya leaders from all Key Countries came to burgle in for that conference they all signed up to a communique and the uns plan and yet they went home and they continued many of them what they had been doing before and that i think is the problem germany now wanted to reboot this because it just happens to have the current presidency of the European Union and of the u. N. Security council it felt at this moment it was a good moment to try and push efforts towards police peace because we have had very important developments in the last few weeks and masses defeat in many ways for general haftar for over a year hed had his forces right near tripoli trying to take tripoli and with the help of turkey the government of National Accord the internationally recognized government has pushed general have to push his forces all the way back to sirte. Well libyas internationally backed government says its found the prison used by the have to have to torture opponents the discovery was made in the city of tire huna government leaders in tripoli are calling on the United Nations to investigate mass graves found near the prison and sort of torture victims were buried there by have terrorist forces. Human rights watch says the bodies of at least 180 men have been found in mass graves in working a fossil they were discovered near the northern town of jubal the government is investigating claims that its forces carried out the killings Government Troops have been battling a surge in attacks by armed groups in the region the violence has forced more than 700000 people from their homes since the beginning of 2019 well we can speak now to careen who is the west africa director for Human Rights Watch madame thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so aid in your report who do you think might be behind this well according to the 23 g. Bill residents from various different sectors with whom i spoke they firmly believe all of them that the vast majority of those that were founded on the streets and along the highways of people were killed by the Security Forces now they say this for a couple reasons number one because well at the epicenter of this conflict in the north its controlled by the army and also there is a curfew. Thats you know very strong curfew and people described how trucks were driving around and they heard the sound of gunfire in the following morning they didnt found these bodies so they couldnt think of any other explanation for armed groups feeling comfortable enough to be driving around in the middle of the town controlled by the army because of course the government has actually been battling a rebel groups for a while now and weve seen enormous displacement of people and obviously hundreds of civilians killed as well groups such as yourself have in the past asked the government to do more have you found that they just havent acted. Thats right this isnt the 1st time that we have made these kinds of allegations and other International Organizations and local organizations have also presented credible evidence also people described a number of those 180 minute good number who were last seen in the custody of the Security Forces which. Lends credibility to their involvement they have they systematically open investigations which of course we welcome but were concerned about the lack of progress into those investigations and you know that this could really reflect a lack of political will to get to the bottom of this well speaking of investigations the government has actually said its investigating the claims that its forces carried out these killings that were talking about now sa much hope do you hold out that we are going to get some kind of result of this investigation and that you know in your eyes it will be credible. Yes well it is you know a concern of